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Lady of Pain

A Walk Through the Planes Index

When I first began this series, I had no idea how long it would run until I ran out of interest. Turns out that it’s a nice distraction during my day job, and at this point it’s been more than six months of more-or-less steady essays, with no end in sight. That being said, given the sheer number of these pieces and that I occasionally find myself stumbling upon older works I inadvertently (or, on occasion, intentionally) skipped means that keeping track of what’s been published has become a little bit of a mess.

Well, no longer. I’m going to try my best to keep this index up-to-date, organized chronologically by release rather than when I wrote about them for the sake of my OCD.

Chapter I: Pre-Planescape
Part 0 – Introduction
Part .5 – 1976 – Stephen Marsh and the Strategic Review
Part 1 – 1977 – Gary Gygax’s Goofy Proposition
Part 2 – 1977-1980 – Dungeons & Dragons Gets Advanced
Part 2.5 – 1983 – Monster Manual II
Part 3 – 1979-1986 – Dragon Magazine
Part 4 – 1987 – Manual of the Planes (First Edition)
Part 5 – 1988 – Tales of the Outer Planes
Part 6 – 1988 – The Throne of Bloodstone
Part 6.25 – 1990 – Voidjammers!
Part 6.5 – 1990/1992 – Legends & Lore/Monster Mythology
Part 7 – 1991 – MC 8 Monstrous Compendium Outer Planes Appendix
Part 7.25 – 1992 – Twilight’s Last Gleaming
Part 7.325 – 1993 – Into the Silver Realm
Part 7.5 – 1993 – Secrets of the Lamp

Chapter II: The Planescape Era
Part 8 – 1994 – The Plane Truth
Part 9 – 1994 – Planescape Campaign Setting
Part 10 – 1994 – The Eternal Boundary
Part 11 – 1994 – Planescape Monstrous Compendium Appendix
Part 12 – 1994 – Planes of Chaos
Part 13 – 1994 – Well of Worlds
Part 14 – 1994 – The Analects of Sigil
Part 15 – 1994 – In the Abyss
Part 16 – 1994 – The Deva Spark
Part 17 – 1995 – Prospecting the Planes in Dragon Magazine
Part 18 – 1995 – Planes of Law
Part 19 – 1995 – Fires of Dis
Part 20 – 1995 – A Player’s Primer to the Outlands
Part 21 – 1995 – In the Cage: A Guide to Sigil
Part 22 – 1995 – The Factol’s Manifesto
Part 23 – 1995 – Harbinger House
Part 24 – 1995 – Lords of Chaos
Part 25 – 1995 – Umbra
Part 26 – 1995 – Monstrous Compendium Planescape Appendix II
Part 26.5 – 1995 – The Nightmare Lands
Part 27 – 1995 – Lords of the Nine
Part 28 – 1995 – Planes of Conflict
Part 29 – 1996 – Something Wild
Part 30 – 1996 – Uncaged: Faces of Sigil
Part 31 – 1996 – Hellbound: The Blood War
Part 32 – 1996 – Nemesis
Part 32.5 – 1996 – The Rod of Seven Parts
Part 33 – 1996 – The Planewalker’s Handbook
Part 34 – 1996 – Fiendish Fortresses
Part 35 – 1996 – On Hallowed Ground
Part 36 – 1996 – A Guide to the Astral Plane
Part 37 – 1996 – The Gates of Firestorm Peak
Part 38 – 1996 – Doors to the Unknown
Part 39 – 1996 – A Handful of Keys
Part 40 – 1997 – Faces of Evil: The Fiends
Part 41 – 1997 – Mysteries of the Dead Gods
Part 42 – 1997 – The Great Modron March
Part 43 – 1997 – Modron Magic
Part 44 – 1997 – Dead Gods
Part 45 – 1997 – Pox of the Planes
Part 46 – 1997 – The Day of Grace
Part 47 – 1998 – Desteriers of the Planes
Part 48 – 1998 – The Prize of Erackinor
Part 49 – 1998 – Monstrous Compendium Planescape Appendix III
Part 50 – 1998 – For Duty & Deity
Part 51 – 1998 – Tales from the Infinite Staircase
Part 51.5 – 1998 – Dungeon Builder’s Guidebook & Return to the Tomb of Horrors
Part 52 – 1998 – A Guide to the Ethereal Plane
Part 53 – 1998 – A Paladin in Hell
Part 54 – 1998 – The Illithiad & Dawn of the Overmind
Part 55 – 1998 – Faction War
Part 56 – 1998 – Planar Pestilence
Part 57 – 1998 – The Inner Planes
Part 58 – 1999 – Deep Trouble in Telthin
Part 59 – 1999 – The Manxome Foe
Part 60 – 1999 – Gifts from Below
Part 61 – 1999 – Spawns of Tiamat, Children of Bahamut
Part 62 – 1999 – Creatures of Torment
Part 63 – 1999 – Of Sigil and the Sea
Part 64 – 1999 – Warriors of Heaven
Part 65 – 1999 – Guide to Hell
Part 66 – 1999 – Planescape: Torment
Part 67 – 2000 – Vortex of Madness
Part 68 – 2000 – The Planar Armory
Part 69 – 2000 – Die Vecna Die!

Chapter III: Third Edition
Part 70 – 2001 – The Harrowing
Part 71 – 2001 – Calm Amid the Storm
Part 72 – 2001 – Manual of the Planes (Third Edition)
Part 73 – 2001 – Manual of the Planes Web Supplements
Part 74 – 2001 – Out of This World
Part 75 – 2002 – Lord of the Iron Fortress
Part 76 – 2002 – Bastion of Broken Souls
Part 77 – 2002 – Interlopers of Ruun-Khazai
Part 78 – 2002 – Epic Level Handbook
Part 79 – 2002 – Dragon Does Epic
Part 80 – 2002 – Monster Manual II (Third Edition)
Part 81 – 2002 – Book of Vile Darkness
Part 82 – 2002 – Hellish Fangs on Abyssal Wings
Part 83 – 2002 – The Jackal’s Revenge
Part 84 – 2003 – Fiend Folio (Third Edition)
Part 85 – 2003 – Cities of the Planes: N’Gati
Part 86 – 2003 – Humor & Hellspawn

Chapter III.V: Edition 3.5
Part 87 – 2003 – The Lich-Queen’s Beloved
Part 88 – 2003/2004 – Astral Encounters
Part 89 – 2003 – Book of Exalted Deeds
Part 90 – 2003 – The Ebon Maw
Part 91 – 2003 – Miniatures Handbook
Part 92 – 2003 – Ghost Elves of the Ethereal
Part 93 – 2003 – The Draconomicon
Part 94 – 2004 – The Exiled Factions
Part 94.5 – 2004 – The Iron Satyr
Part 95 – 2004 – Planar Handbook
Part 96 – 2004 – Planar Adventure
Part 97 – 2004 – Darkness
Part 98 – 2004 – Monster Manual III
Part 99 – 2005 – Diaboli
Part 100 – 2005 – Lords of Madness & Enter the Far Realm
Part 101 – 2005 – Quicksilver Hourglass
Part 102 – 2005 – The Shackled City
Part 103 – 2006 – Dead Factions
Part 104 – 2006 – Tome of Magic: Pact, Shadow and Truename Magic
Part 105 – 2006 – Fiendish Codex I: Hordes of the Abyss
Part 106 – 2006 – Monster Manual IV & More Planar Dragons
Part 107 – 2006 – Dungeons & Dullness
Part 108 – 2006 – Dungeon Goes “Elemental”
Part 109 – 2006 – Fiendish Codex II: Tyrants of the Nine Hells
Part 110 – 2007 – Beyond the World Serpent Inn
Part 111 – 2007 – Cormyr: Tearing of the Weave
Part 112 – 2007 – The Planes
Part 113 – 2007 – Diplomacy
Part 114 – 2007 – Expedition to the Demonweb Pits
Part 115 – 2007 – Return of the Modrons
Part 116 – 2007 – Monster Manual V
Part 117 – 2007 – Exemplars of Evil
Part 118 – 2006/2007 – The Savage Tide
Part 119 – 2007 – Infernal Aristocracy
Part 120 – 2008 – Elder Evils
Part 121 – 2008 – The Last Vestiges of Third Edition

Chapter IV: Fourth Edition and the Nadir of the Planes
Part 122 – 2008 – Fourth Edition’s Core
Part 123 – 2008 – Beleth, the Witch’s Viscount
Part 124 – 2008 – Mithrendain, Citadel of the Feywild
Part 125 – 2008 – Pyramid of Shadows
Part 126 – 2008 – The Shadow Rift of Umbraforge
Part 127 – 2008 – Draconomicon I: Chromatic Dragons
Part 128 – 2008 – Manual of the Planes (Fourth Edition)

Part V: Fifth Edition and the Return of the Great Wheel
Sigil and the Outlands
Morte’s Planar Parade
Turn of Fortune’s Wheel

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Part ? – The Demonomicon of Iggwilv
Part ??? – Monster Ecologies

Side stories:
An Interview with Jamie LaFountain about the Monstrous Compendium Outer Planes Appendix
An Interview with Monte Cook, Ray Vallese, and Colin McComb
An Interview with Ed Bonny
The “Lost” Planescape Modules and an Interview with William James Cuffe
The Lost Modules: Heirs of Elemental Evil
The Unity of Rings
Beyond Countless Doorways
Path of the Planebreaker
Planar Bestiary
Planar Character Options
An Interview with Sean K. Reynolds