Advanced Dungeons & Dragons
A Walk Through the Planes – Part 60: Gifts from Below
In the 135th issue of Polyhedron (April 1999), Erik Mona wrote a three-page article titled “Gifts from Below” that covered three magical items gifted from demons that might be used in a campaign. All…
A Walk Through the Planes – Part 59: The Manxome Foe
We’re back to dealing with some of the more obscure parts of official Planescape lore, as “Manxome foe” was originally released as part of the Adventurer’s Guild line of modules for the RPGA (Role…
A Walk Through the Planes – Part 58: Deep Trouble in Telthin
The first planar release of 1999, “Deep Trouble in Telthin,” is a good example of the difference between Planescape content and planar content. Published in issue #72 of Dungeon, in January/February (at this point…
A Walk Through the Planes – Part 57: The Inner Planes
The Inner Planes by Monte Cook “with William W. Connors”1 was the final full, official Planescape book ever released. That isn’t to say it was the end of the line for the setting, not…
A Walk Through the Planes – Part 56: Planar Pestilence
Diseases in D&D have never worked great. It’s difficult to balance them, and then there’s the fact that most competent priests can cure them without much effort. As a result, I can probably count…
A Walk Through the Planes – Part 55: Faction War
At the time of its release, Monte Cook and Ray Vallese’s Faction War was the most controversial work Planescape had ever published. This would not change, and over the years it grew somewhat infamous…
A Walk Through the Planes – Part 69: Die Vecna Die!
In honor of the fourth season of Stranger Things‘ conclusion, we’re going to take a small jump ahead in our chronology to look at Die Vecna Die!, the module that ended not just the…
A Walk Through the Planes – Part 54: The Illithiad & Dawn of the Overmind
It may seem like I only cover releases by Bruce Cordell and Monte Cook lately, but that’s just because of how big of a role they had in 1998’s planar releases. Cordell in particular…
A Walk Through the Planes – Part 53: A Paladin in Hell
A lot of the 1998-2000, pre-third edition AD&D releases feel a bit sloppier than what we’ve been used to. It’s hard to gauge exactly what was going on behind the scenes, but I have…
A Walk Through the Planes – An Interview with Ed Bonny
Despite never working for TSR or Wizards of the Coast, Ed Bonny was a repeated contributor to the Planescape series. His articles frequently focused on updating first edition AD&D to fit with Planescape’s setting,…
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