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A Walk Through the Planes – Sidestory: Path of the Planebreaker
SeanLast time we checked in on what Monte Cook, former Planescape designer and co-author of D&D‘s third edition, he’d published Beyond Endless Doorways. That was with his first publishing endeavor, Malhavoc Press, which he…
A Walk Through the Planes – Part 117: Exemplars of Evil
SeanWith third edition D&D quickly winding down, Wizards of the Coast was in a small bind. It still needed to release new books in order to, you know, make money, but at the same…
A Walk Through the Planes – Part 116: Monster Manual V
SeanAt this point, I suppose it would be disingenuous for me to feign surprise that I’m covering the last monster manual for third edition D&D, as writing these up feels like it’s become a…
A Walk Through the Planes – Part 115: Return of the Modrons
SeanRemember modrons? Sure you do, since you’re reading this column, and they were a huge part of Planescape, not to mention an important species that defined Mechanus as much as the devils do Hell.…
A Walk Through the Planes – Part 114: Expedition to the Demonweb Pits
SeanAt the very end of Dungeons & Dragons edition 3.5, Wizards of the Coast surprised the game’s fans with a series of large adventures that returned to old, favorite locations from the game’s history,…
A Walk Through the Planes – Part 113: Diplomacy
SeanWhile I’ve covered a fair number of planar adventures in Dungeon, the number that I’ve actually liked has been rather miniscule. The main cause for this, I suspect, is simply that most of what…
A Walk Through the Planes – Part 112: The Planes
SeanFor my purposes, it’s certainly handy that Paizo decided to title every issue of Dragon that they published, though sometimes those titles are a bit… uninspired. “The Planes” is issue #353 of the magazine…
A Walk Through the Planes – Part 110: Beyond the World Serpent Inn
SeanLike a lot of people, I was thrilled when Paizo decided that its campaign classics issue would be an annual tradition… though unfortunately, the company would only manage to print three of these total…
A Walk Through the Planes – Part 109: Fiendish Codex II: Tyrants of the Nine Hells
SeanI’m always entertained when multiple volumes of nominally the same series use massively different structures, and this pattern has long been a weird part of D&D. Planes of Law, Planes of Chaos, and Planes…
A Walk Through the Planes – Part 108: Dragon Magazine Goes “Elemental”
SeanThe last series of articles in our catchily titled “cavalcade of mediocre planar content from Paizo’s magazines at the end of 2006” comes from the “Elementals” issue of Dragon (#347, September 2006). This is…
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