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A Walk Through the Planes – Part 37: The Gates of Firestorm Peak
So much of what would become planar canon originated with the foundations laid in the 70s and 80s by Gary Gygax, Jeff Grubb, and Ed Greenwood, such that it’s particularly weird to have a…
A Walk Through the Planes – Part 36: A Guide to the Astral Plane
One of the few disappointments of Monte Cook’s A Guide to the Astral Plane is that it makes you wish the entirety of the planes was given such a lush, luxurious treatment. I love…
A Walk Through the Planes – Part 32.5: The Rod of Seven Parts
I know it seems like I must’ve forgotten this adventure (and one more 1996 release that I haven’t covered yet, The Gates of Firestorm Peak, but that’s just because it didn’t come out until…
A Walk Through the Planes – Part 7.375: Into the Silver Realm
I’ve been doing my best to be as thorough as possible in documenting every remotely major release that TSR/WotC published with information about the planes1, but I must admit that despite the already-insane length…
A Walk Through the Planes – Part 35: On Hallowed Ground
A few months back when I covered Legends & Lore and Monster Mythology, it was in preparation for reading On Hallowed Ground. I was curious as to how much this newer work added to…
A Walk Through the Planes – Part 34: Fiendish Fortresses
One of the unfortunate facts about mid-90s Dragon Magazine was that it was a house organ, existing primarily to support TSR, and as a result many of its articles are largely a form of…
A Walk Through the Planes – Part 33: The Planewalker’s Handbook
Planescape wasn’t introduced until 1994, but the amount of material published for the setting during its first couple of years is immense, almost unfathomable by D&D’s publishing schedule as of 2021. At this point…
A Walk Through the Planes – Part 32: Nemesis
Chris Perkins’ “Umbra,” despite its flaws, was one of the more novel Planescape adventures ever officially released. Its driving engine was the enthusiasm of fan-fiction, and while it stumbled with its actual prose and…
A Walk Through the Planes – Part 31: Hellbound: The Blood War
The final boxed set for Planescape, and one of the last real boxed sets for all of D&D/AD&D1, Hellbound: The Blood War sits in an odd position. During 1996 and 1997, TSR seemed particularly…
A Walk Through the Planes – Part 30: Uncaged: Faces of Sigil
One of the ironies about Planescape is that while nominally it’s all about the planes, its coverage of them isn’t what the setting’s actually best at. All of those boxed sets about the outer…
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