Advanced Dungeons & Dragons
A Walk Through the Planes – Part 51.5: Dungeon Builder’s Guidebook & Return to the Tomb of Horrors
Remember how I mentioned that A Guide to the Ethereal Plane had a whole list of sources for its material at the beginning of the book? Well, a thorough and logical person would’ve gone…
A Walk Through the Planes – Part 52: A Guide to the Ethereal Plane
More than any other Planescape book, A Guide to the Ethereal Plane, by Bruce Cordell, is a mess. I don’t mean that word as a pejorative, though, but rather as a descriptive term attempting…
A Walk Through the Planes – Part 51: Tales from the Infinite Staircase
If I correctly remember an interview from years ago with Dan Harmon, the famous (infamous?) creator of Community and co-creator of Rick and Morty, this is how he described the difference between his work…
A Walk Through the Planes – Part 50: For Duty & Deity
As part of late-era TSR’s “we have no idea what what the hell is working so let’s try everything” approach to design and releases, May 1998 saw the simultaneous publication of both For Duty…
A Walk Through the Planes – Part 49: Monstrous Compendium Planescape Appendix III
It came as a surprise to me when Monte Cook responded about which release he was disappointed with by answering that it was the Planescape Monstrous Compendium Appendix III. “Basically, I had just a…
A Walk Through the Planes – Part 48: The Prize of Erackinor
I wasn’t completely sure I should cover this brief section of an article in this series, but decided that in a half-hearted gesture towards thoroughness we should at least mention the “Prize of Erackinor.”…
A Walk Through the Planes – Part 47: Destriers of the Planes
One of the many circumstantial blessings of the short-lived Planescape setting is that as much as I’ve ragged on Bill Slaviscek’s contributions in the past, even his adventures read professionally. Due to the editorial…
A Walk Through the Planes – Part 46: The Day of Grace
Meant as a very, very tenuous tie-in with the forthcoming Planescape Monstrous Compendium Appendix III, “Day of Grace” is a one-page short story from Monte Cook set around Sigil’s New Year’s Day Celebration. It…
A Walk Through the Planes – Part 45: Pox of the Planes
Already we’re back at Dragon Magazine‘s annual issue (missing half a year of releases due to bankruptcy will do that), with another contribution by Ed Bonny, one of the more obscure Planescape authors but…
A Walk Through the Planes – Part 44: Dead Gods
In 2004, Dungeon Magazine, now under different management but still heavily involved with the D&D license and largely made up from ex-TSR employees, published a list of “The 30 Greatest D&D Adventures of All…
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