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A Walk Through the Planes – Part 124: Mithrendain, Citadel of the Feywild
After last week’s surprisingly good read, I found myself wondering whether I’d been wrong about Fourth Edition’s lore all along. I mean, sure, piecing it together often feels like a scavenger hunt, but maybe…
A Walk Through the Planes – Part 123: Beleth, the Witch’s Viscount
One of the most frustrating things about how Fourth Edition treats its lore is that it assumes familiarity with the D&D mythology while at the same time it never tells you what’s actually canon…
A Walk Through the Planes – Part 122: Fourth Edition’s Core
Ever since people caught onto the fact that I’m not so keen about D&D‘s Fourth Edition, I’ve been asked why I feel so strongly about it. After all, the game has had many editions…
A Walk Through the Planes – Part 121: The Last Vestiges of Third Edition
While Elder Evils would’ve been a strong, worthy way for Dungeons & Dragons‘ Third Edition to come to an end, that wasn’t what came to pass. During the weird period of time between the…
A Walk Through the Planes – Part 120: Elder Evils
The final book for Third Edition D&D, or to be more accurate edition 3.5, was Robert J. Schwalb’s Elder Evils, a companion of sorts to Exemplars of Evil from a few months earlier. While…
A Walk Through the Planes – Part 119: Infernal Aristocracy
Once Wizards of the Coast snatched its magazine rights back from Paizo, Dragon in particular was in a weird place. Dungeon could stay an Edition 3.5-oriented rag, because Fourth Edition didn’t actually exist yet…
A Walk Through the Planes – Turn of Fortune’s Wheel
While Planescape had some of the best supplements, i.e. splatbooks, in the history of roleplaying games, its track record for actual adventures wasn’t nearly so hot. A lot of the lure of the setting…
A Walk Through the Planes: Morte’s Planar Parade
Morte’s Planar Parade is a strange release in that its precedents don’t really mesh well together. Second Edition’s Planescape had a lot of monsters, and what’s more, nearly all of them had a ton…
A Walk Through the Planes – Sigil and the Outlands
I realize that I’m skipping ahead wildly in the chronology of this series, but I’ve had enough people asking me to finally offer my thoughts about the new(-ish) Fifth Edition Planescape set that I’ve…
A Walk Through the Planes – Part 118: The Savage Tide
The last of Paizo’s original run of adventure paths for Dungeon Magazine arrived just as D&D‘s third edition was coming to a close. While there was still one remaining book and a handful of…
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