Role Playing
A Walk Through the Planes – Sidestory: Planar Bestiary
SeanI’m of two minds about the Planar Bestiary volume published by Monte Cook Games as a companion to their campaign setting Path of the Planebreaker. It’s filled with over 150 new monsters, most of…
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 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 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 – Side Story: Beyond Countless Doorways
SeanAfter Monte Cook left Wizards of the Coast, he soon founded Malhavoc Studios, which was an independent RPG design studio that nonetheless published works through the D20 imprint of White Wolf (the World of…
A Walk Through the Planes – Part 90: The Ebon Maw
SeanAs usual, Dragon featured a tie-in article for the Book of Exalted Deeds. However, “Holier Than Thou: Celestial Monster Classes, Part I” by Christopher Perkins doesn’t actually feature any lore. Rather, it’s just statistics…
A Walk Through the Planes – Part 89: Book of Exalted Deeds
Sean2003’s Book of Exalted Deeds is an answer to a question that no one asked. While playing a villainous D&D party remains rare, heroics and general acts of goodliness are for the most part…
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