Advanced Dungeons & Dragons
A Walk Through the Planes – Part 27: Lords of the Nine
One of those things about Planescape that has grown to bug me is that for the first year or so of its releases the setting can feel a bit like a draft. While some…
A Walk Through the Planes – Part 26: Monstrous Compendium Planescape Appendix II
I’m of two minds about the unwieldy-named Monstrous Compendium Planescape Appendix II, a somewhat foundational book for the setting that nonetheless remains a bit neglected, or perhaps maligned. The first Appendix, as I noted…
A Walk Through the Planes – Part 7.25: Twilight’s Last Gleaming
One of the questions that Planescape served to answer was what exactly should a multidimensional, planar adventure look like? Before the setting came about there were a handful of examples, some good, some bad.…
A Walk Through the Planes – Part 24: Lords of Chaos
Probably the most obscure piece of Planescape lore1 from the setting’s 90s heyday is an article from issue 221 of Dragon Magazine titled “The Dragon’s Bestiary: Lords of Chaos.” Maybe it’s the terribleness of…
A Walk Through the Planes – Part 23: Harbinger House
Since Planescape is from that proto-internet world of the 90s and most of the content from then has either disappeared or been thankfully pushed to the bottom of Google’s trash bin, it can be…
A Walk Through the Planes – Part 22: The Factol’s Manifesto
While In the Cage delivered enough new material to feel essential, its overall package was still weirdly lacking. However, Its counterpart, The Factol’s Manifesto, released just a month later, is an expansive release that…
A Walk Through the Planes – Part 7.5: Secrets of the Lamp
It’s time for another blast from the pre-Planescape past, though we’re not headed back as far as we’ve gone sometimes. Secrets of the Lamp is a kinda awkward supplement in that it came out…
A Walk Through the Planes – Part 21: In the Cage: A Guide to Sigil
This is going to sound a little bit pathetic, but I’m proud that it took until now for me to completely scrap one of these blogs and start again from scratch. It’s been a whole…
A Walk Through the Planes – Part 20: A Player’s Primer to the Outlands
Boxed sets haven’t been a part of D&D for a very long time, presumably for a good reason. I have fond memories of seeing dozens of them produced during the late-80s and 90s heyday…
A Walk Through the Planes – Part 2.5: Monster Manual II
I mentioned not too long ago that I planned on returning to the Monster Manual II at some point, and given how weirdly foundational it is to the planes I figured it makes more…
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