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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…
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…
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…
A Walk Through the Planes – Part 109: Fiendish Codex II: Tyrants of the Nine Hells
I’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
After 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
As 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
2003’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…
A Walk Through the Planes – Part 87: The Lich-Queen’s Beloved
In the context of today’s direct competition between Wizards of the Coast and Paizo, it can be weird to remember just how linked the two companies once were. Not only was Paizo made up…
A Walk Through the Planes – Part 86: Humor & Hellspawn
Just a month from our last planar Dragon article, we already have another pair to check out in issue #306 (April 2003), the “Humor & Hellspawn” issue. Not that either of these articles have…
A Walk Through the Planes – Part 85: Cities of the Planes: N’Gati
As of third edition D&D, the Astral Plane was the only truly unique location of the multiverse in terms of time and space. Ok, maybe some demiplanes had their own weird business going on,…
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