A Walk Through the Planes
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A Walk Through the Planes – Sidestory: Path of the Planebreaker
Last 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…
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A Walk Through the Planes – Part 117: Exemplars of Evil
With 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…
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A Walk Through the Planes – Part 116: Monster Manual V
At 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…
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A Walk Through the Planes – Part 115: Return of the Modrons
Remember modrons? Sure you do, since you’re reading this column, and they were a huge part of Planescape, not to mention an important species that defined Mechanus as much as the devils do Hell.…
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A Walk Through the Planes – Part 114: Expedition to the Demonweb Pits
At the very end of Dungeons & Dragons edition 3.5, Wizards of the Coast surprised the game’s fans with a series of large adventures that returned to old, favorite locations from the game’s history,…
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A Walk Through the Planes – Part 113: Diplomacy
While 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…
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A Walk Through the Planes – Part 112: The Planes
For 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…
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A Walk Through the Planes – Part 111: Cormyr: Tearing of the Weave
It’s not that adventuring in the Plane of Shadows is inherently dull, it’s just that as of the end of third edition no one has figured out how to make it interesting yet. At…
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A Walk Through the Planes – Part 110: Beyond the World Serpent Inn
Like a lot of people, I was thrilled when Paizo decided that its campaign classics issue would be an annual tradition… though unfortunately, the company would only manage to print three of these total…
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A Walk Through the Planes – Part ???: Monster Ecologies
Starting with the second edition of AD&D, I’ve been pretty thorough in covering practically every planar-related article that’s graced the pages of Dragon, Dungeon, and even Polyhedron magazines. Yes, there were a few peripheral…
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