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A Walk Through the Planes – Part 106: Monster Manual IV & More Planar Dragons
For whatever random reason, the end of third edition D&D featured an awful lot of planar content. At the same time, much of this content wasn’t terribly good or memorable. As a result of…
A Walk Through the Planes – Part 104: Tome of Magic (Third Edition)
By 2006, D&D‘s third edition had been out for more than half a decade, and as such Wizards of the Coast was experimenting with ways of pushing the boundaries of their system. Really, the…
A Walk Through the Planes – Part ?: Demonomicon of Iggwilv
This is going to be a weird write-up because it’s not focused on a single, short work of writing, but rather a whole series of articles published in Dragon, Dungeon, and even the pseudo-publication…
A Walk Through the Planes – Part 103: Dead Factions
When I wrote about Matthew Sernett’s planar-focused editorial from Dragon issue #321, I was disappointed by his hatred for the game’s established cosmology and saw it as a sign of things to come with…
A Walk Through the Planes – Part 100: Lords of Madness & Enter the Far Realm
As of 2005, Wizards of the Coast still didn’t seem to know what to do with the Far Realm. More than anywhere else, it both was and wasn’t part of the game’s core cosmology,…
A Walk Through the Planes – Part 99: Diaboli
While third edition’s Dragon and Dungeon magazines featured planar content more frequently than they did earlier in the publications’ histories, it remained a relatively rare event. Even rarer, though, was the decision for these…
A Walk Through the Planes – Part 97: Darkness
One of the larger changes third edition made to D&D‘s cosmology was transforming the Plane of Shadows from a demiplane into a transitive plane coterminous with the Prime. And while this would make you…
A Walk Through the Planes – Part 96: Planar Adventure
I knew something was up with the “Planar Adventure” issue of Dragon (#321, July 2004) from its first page of actual content. Editor-in-chief Matthew Sernett’s editorial “Pass the Ketchup” focuses on his love-hate relationship…
A Walk Through the Planes – Part 94: The Exiled Factions
While we’ve had quite a bit of planar material since the end of Planescape and AD&D‘s second edition, “The Exiled Factions” is only the second release that I’d consider a conscious continuation of that…
A Walk Through the Planes – Part 92: Ghost Elves of the Ethereal
One thing D&D has always been far, far too interested in is adding new types of elves to the game. Admittedly, there is a ton of variation within mythological elves, but still, that’s nothing…
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