Manual of the planes jeff grubb6/26/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Heady stuff to an eleven year-old!Īs the years wore on, AD&D's planes acquired a little more solidity, starting with 1980's Queen of the Demonweb Pits, which gave us a glimpse into what a layer of the Abyss might be like (answer: a lot weirder than I expected it would be). To say I was "enraptured" might be a bit strong, but there's no question that Gary Gygax's glorious-mad, which married AD&D's alignment system to a cosmology straight out of de Camp and Pratt. Though it provides very little information – it's mostly just a listing of the twenty-five inner and outer planes – I spent untold hours reading and re-reading it as a young person, not to mention staring with awe at Figure 1, which offered a visual representation of the interrelations of all these weird places. One of my favorite parts of the AD&D Players Handbook has always been Appendix IV: The Known Planes of Existence. ![]()
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