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Sample file MANUAL OF THE PLANES Jeff Grubb, Bruce R. Cordell, David Noonan ADDITIONAL DESIGN ART DIRECTOR Andy Collins, Monte Cook, Steve Dawn Murin Miller, Rich Redman, Sean K Reynolds, Jennifer Clarke Wilkes, Skip Williams, COVER ILLUSTRATION James Wyatt Arnie Swekel EDITORS INTERIOR ILLUSTRATIONS David Noonan, Jennifer Clarke Wilkes Matt Cavotta, Monte Moore, Wayne Reynolds, Darrell Riche, CREATIVE DIRECTOR David Roach, Arnie Swekel Ed Stark GRAPHIC DESIGNERS PROJECT MANAGER Sherry Floyd, Dawn Murin Justin Ziran CARTOGRAPHER PRODUCTION MANAGER Chas DeLong Todd Gamble BUSINESS MANAGER TYPESETTING Anthony Valterra Erin Dorries Playtesters: Jason Carl, Michele Carter, Andy Collins, Monte Cook, Bruce Cordell, Cameron Curtis, Jesse Decker, David Eckelberry, Cory J. Herndon, Gwendolyn FM Kestrel, Toby Latin, Will McDermott, Rich Redman, Thomas M. Reid, Steve Schubert, Chris Thomason, Jennifer Clarke Wilkes, Penny Williams, Skip Williams. Resources: This book is built from the bones of giants. From the initial planar visions of Gary Gygax and Dave Sutherland, through Jeff Grubb’s original, almost-talmudic Manual of the Planes, with its contributions by Roger Moore and Ed Greenwood, to the vibrant Planescape work of David Cook, Colin McComb, Michele Carter, and Monte Cook, the planes have been an ever-evolving cosmology. Other resources for this work include the new Forgotten Realms® Campaign Setting by Ed Greenwood, Skip Williams, Sean K Reynolds, and Rob Heinsoo; Dragon® Magazine #272 "The King and Queen of Dragons" by Skip Williams; Guide to the Ethereal Plane by Bruce R. Cordell, Psionics Handbook by Bruce R. Cordell; Tangents by Bruce R. Cordell; Tome and Blood by Bruce R. Cordell and Skip Williams. Based on the original Dungeons & Dragons® rules created by E. Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson, and the new Dungeons & Dragons game designed by Jonathan Tweet, Monte Cook, Skip Williams, Richard Baker, and Peter Adkison. 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Visit our website at www.wizards.com/dnd The Observatorium. 157 Switching Cosmologies Common Ground . 158 in Midstream . 18 Contents Raising the Curtain: Revealing Chapter 9: Monsters . 159 Your Cosmology. 19 Introduction . 4 Astral Dreadnought. 159 Portal Keys. 21 Manual of the Planes . 4 Bariaur . 161 New Item: Dimensional Sextant . 22 Celestial . 162 Random Planar Destinations. 37 Chapter 1: Nature of the Planes . 5 Demon . 164 Divine Spellcasting and Introducing the Planes . 6 Devil . 166 Alternate Material Planes . 44 What Is a Plane? . 6 Energon . 168 Characters in Motion: How it Feels Planar Traits. 7 Ephemera . 169 on the Transitive Planes . 46 Genie . 172 Option: Morphing the Astral . 47 Chapter 2: Connecting the Planes. 15 Githyanki. 174 Option: A Channeled Astral Plane . 50 CONTENTS Planar Interaction . 15 Githzerai . 176 Astral Carrack. 52 TABLE OF The D&D Cosmology . 16 Inevitable. 176 Option: The Deep Ethereal . 55 Building Your Own Cosmology . 16 Mercane . 179 Option: Without the Ethereal. 55 Getting from Plane to Plane . 21 Paraelemental . 180 Option: Multiple Ethereals . 58 Yugoloth. 185 New Item: Ethereal Tapestry . 59 Chapter 3: Characters and Magic . 23 Templates. 188 An Alternative Cosmology Monsters as Races . 23 for the Transitive Planes. 60 Prestige Classes . 24 Appendix: Variant Planes Option: Without the Plane of Shadow . 62 Magic on the Planes . 32 and Cosmologies . 201 Option: Shadows of Other Planes . 63 New Spells. 33 Region of Dreams . 201 Variant: Shadowdancers and The Plane of Mirrors. 204 the Plane of Shadow . 64 Chapter 4: The Material Plane . 41 Spirit World . 206 Option: Without the Inner Planes. 67 Material Plane Traits . 41 Elemental Plane of Cold . 206 Digging Your Way Out . 72 Alternate Material Planes. 43 Elemental Plane of Wood. 207 Option: The Pantheon that Temporal Energy Plane . 208 Morphs Together . 89 Chapter 5: The Transitive Planes . 45 Plane of Faerie . 210 Option: Without the Outer Planes . 90 Moving among Transitive Planes . 45 Far Realm. 211 The Blood War . 90 Astral Plane . 47 Myriad Planes Cosmology. 213 Option: Ysgard as a Material World. 91 Ethereal Plane. 53 Doppel Cosmology . 215 What Can I Do with Controlled Limbo? . 94 Plane of Shadow. 59 Orrery Cosmology. 217 Option: Limbo, the Edge of Reality. 95 Winding Road Cosmology . 218 Slaad Lords . 96 Chapter 6: The Inner Planes . 65 Planar Anomalies. 220 Windstorms on Pandemonium . 97 Inner Planes Traits. 65 The Ships of Chaos . 100 Inner Planes Links. 66 Index and List of Tables . 222 Random Abyssal Layers . 101 Connecting Inner Planes. 66 The Return of Orcus. 103 Inner Planes Inhabitants . 66 List of Maps and Diagrams Sinmaker’s Surprise. 106 Elemental Plane of Air . 68 D&D Cosmology Schematic Diagram . 7 The Grays. 109 Elemental Plane of Earth . 70 D&D Cosmology: The Great Wheel . 8 Gray Wasting . 110 Elemental Plane of Fire . 74 Shapes of the Planes . 11 The Crawling City. 113 Elemental Plane of Water. 77 Planar Relationships . 17 Acidic Snow . 114 Negative Energy Plane . 80 A Simple Cosmology: The Omniverse . 20 The Dark Eight. 116 Positive Energy Plane . 82 Astral Color Pools . 48 Lord of the First: Bel . 117 Ethereal Curtains. 57 Lord of the Second: Chapter 7: The Outer Planes . 85 The Plane of Shadow Dispater the Archduke. 117 Outer Planes Traits. 85 and Alternate Cosmologies. 62 Tiamat, the Chromatic Dragon. 118 Outer Planes Links . 86 Three-Dimensional Models Lord of the Third: Traveling the Outer Planes . 86 of the Inner Planes . 67 Mammon the Viscount . 119 Outer Planes Inhabitants . 88 The Outer Planes . 87 Lords of the Fourth: Lady Fierna Heroic Domains of Ysgard. 90 Ysgard . 92 and Archduke Belial. 119 Ever-Changing Chaos of Limbo. 92 Limbo . 95 Lord of the Fifth: Prince Levistus . 121 Windswept Depths of Pandemonium. 96 Pandemonium . 98 Lord of the Sixth: The Hag Countess . 121 Infinite Layers of the Abyss. 99 Abyss. 102 Lord of the Seventh: Tarterian Depths of Carceri. 104 Carceri . ..