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ContentsIntroduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4<strong>Manual</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> <strong>Planes</strong> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4Chapter 1: Nature <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> <strong>Planes</strong> . . . . . . 5Introducing <strong>the</strong> <strong>Planes</strong> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6What Is a Plane? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6Planar Traits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7Chapter 2: Connecting <strong>the</strong> <strong>Planes</strong>. . . 15Planar Interaction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15The D&D Cosmology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16Building Your Own Cosmology . . . . . . . . . . 16Getting from Plane to Plane . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21Chapter 3: Characters and Magic . . . 23Monsters as Races . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23Prestige Classes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24Magic on <strong>the</strong> <strong>Planes</strong> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32New Spells. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33Chapter 4: The Material Plane . . . . . . 41Material Plane Traits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41Alternate Material <strong>Planes</strong>. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43Chapter 5: The Transitive <strong>Planes</strong> . . . . 45Moving among Transitive <strong>Planes</strong> . . . . . . . . . 45Astral Plane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47E<strong>the</strong>real Plane. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53Plane <strong>of</strong> Shadow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59Chapter 6: The Inner <strong>Planes</strong> . . . . . . . . 65Inner <strong>Planes</strong> Traits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65Inner <strong>Planes</strong> Links. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66Connecting Inner <strong>Planes</strong>. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66Inner <strong>Planes</strong> Inhabitants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66Elemental Plane <strong>of</strong> Air . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68Elemental Plane <strong>of</strong> Earth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70Elemental Plane <strong>of</strong> Fire . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74Elemental Plane <strong>of</strong> Water. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77Negative Energy Plane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80Positive Energy Plane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82Chapter 7: The Outer <strong>Planes</strong> . . . . . . . . 85Outer <strong>Planes</strong> Traits. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85Outer <strong>Planes</strong> Links . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86Traveling <strong>the</strong> Outer <strong>Planes</strong> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86Outer <strong>Planes</strong> Inhabitants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88Heroic Domains <strong>of</strong> Ysgard. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90Ever-Changing Chaos <strong>of</strong> Limbo. . . . . . . . . . 92Windswept Depths <strong>of</strong> Pandemonium. . . . . 96Infinite Layers <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Abyss. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99Tarterian Depths <strong>of</strong> Carceri. . . . . . . . . . . . . 104Gray Waste <strong>of</strong> Hades . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108Bleak Eternity <strong>of</strong> Gehenna . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111Nine Hells <strong>of</strong> Baator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115Infernal Battlefield <strong>of</strong> Acheron . . . . . . . . . 123Clockwork Nirvana <strong>of</strong> Mechanus . . . . . . . 126Peaceable Kingdoms <strong>of</strong> Arcadia . . . . . . . . . 130Seven Mounting Heavens <strong>of</strong> Celestia. . . . 132Twin Paradises <strong>of</strong> Bytopia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136Blessed Fields <strong>of</strong> Elysium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138Wilderness <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Beastlands . . . . . . . . . . . 141Olympian Glades <strong>of</strong> Arborea . . . . . . . . . . . 144Concordant Domain <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Outlands . . . . 147Outer Planar Encounter Tables. . . . . . . . . . 152Chapter 8: Demiplanes . . . . . . . . . . . . 153Demiplane Traits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153Demiplane Links . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153Random Demiplane Generator . . . . . . . . . 154Neth, <strong>the</strong> Plane that Lives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154The Observatorium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157Common Ground . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158Chapter 9: Monsters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159Astral Dreadnought. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159Bariaur . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161Celestial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162Demon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164Devil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166Energon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168Ephemera . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169Genie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172Githyanki. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174Githzerai . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176Inevitable. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 176Mercane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179Paraelemental . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180Yugoloth. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185Templates. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188Appendix: Variant <strong>Planes</strong>and Cosmologies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201Region <strong>of</strong> Dreams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201The Plane <strong>of</strong> Mirrors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204Spirit World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206Elemental Plane <strong>of</strong> Cold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206Elemental Plane <strong>of</strong> Wood. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207Temporal Energy Plane . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208Plane <strong>of</strong> Faerie . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210Far Realm. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211Myriad <strong>Planes</strong> Cosmology. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213Doppel Cosmology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215Orrery Cosmology. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217Winding Road Cosmology . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218Planar Anomalies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220Index and List <strong>of</strong> Tables . . . . . . . . . . . 222List <strong>of</strong> Maps and DiagramsD&D Cosmology Schematic Diagram . . . . . 7D&D Cosmology: The Great Wheel . . . . . . . 8Shapes <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> <strong>Planes</strong> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11Planar Relationships . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17A Simple Cosmology: The Omniverse . . . . 20Astral Color Pools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48E<strong>the</strong>real Curtains . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57The Plane <strong>of</strong> Shadowand Alternate Cosmologies . . . . . . . . . . . . 62Three-Dimensional Models<strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Inner <strong>Planes</strong> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67The Outer <strong>Planes</strong> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87Ysgard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92Limbo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95Pandemonium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98Abyss. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102Carceri . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107Hades . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110Gehenna. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112The Nine Hells. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120Acheron . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125Mechanus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129Arcadia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131Celestia. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134Bytopia . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137Elysium . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140Beastlands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143Arborea. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146Outlands . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150Region <strong>of</strong> Dreams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203Myriad <strong>Planes</strong> Cosmology. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215List <strong>of</strong> SidebarsCombat in Three Dimensions . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9Time along <strong>the</strong> Great Wheel . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10Layered <strong>Planes</strong> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11Switching Cosmologiesin Midstream . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18Raising <strong>the</strong> Curtain: RevealingYour Cosmology. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19Portal Keys. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21New Item: Dimensional Sextant . . . . . . . . . . . 22Random Planar Destinations. . . . . . . . . . . . . 37Divine Spellcasting andAlternate Material <strong>Planes</strong> . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44Characters in Motion: How it Feelson <strong>the</strong> Transitive <strong>Planes</strong> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46Option: Morphing <strong>the</strong> Astral . . . . . . . . . . . . 47Option: A Channeled Astral Plane . . . . . . . 50Astral Carrack . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52Option: The Deep E<strong>the</strong>real . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55Option: Without <strong>the</strong> E<strong>the</strong>real. . . . . . . . . . . . 55Option: Multiple E<strong>the</strong>reals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58New Item: E<strong>the</strong>real Tapestry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59An Alternative Cosmologyfor <strong>the</strong> Transitive <strong>Planes</strong>. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60Option: Without <strong>the</strong> Plane <strong>of</strong> Shadow . . . . 62Option: Shadows <strong>of</strong> O<strong>the</strong>r <strong>Planes</strong> . . . . . . . . 63Variant: Shadowdancers and<strong>the</strong> Plane <strong>of</strong> Shadow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64Option: Without <strong>the</strong> Inner <strong>Planes</strong>. . . . . . . . 67Digging Your Way Out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72Option: The Pan<strong>the</strong>on thatMorphs Toge<strong>the</strong>r . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89Option: Without <strong>the</strong> Outer <strong>Planes</strong> . . . . . . . 90The Blood War . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90Option: Ysgard as a Material World . . . . . . . 91What Can I Do with Controlled Limbo? . . . 94Option: Limbo, <strong>the</strong> Edge <strong>of</strong> Reality . . . . . . . 95Slaad Lords . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96Windstorms on Pandemonium . . . . . . . . . . 97The Ships <strong>of</strong> Chaos . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100Random Abyssal Layers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101The Return <strong>of</strong> Orcus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103Sinmaker’s Surprise. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106The Grays. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109Gray Wasting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110The Crawling City . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113Acidic Snow . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114The Dark Eight. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116Lord <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> First: Bel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117Lord <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Second:Dispater <strong>the</strong> Archduke. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117Tiamat, <strong>the</strong> Chromatic Dragon. . . . . . . . . . 118Lord <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Third:Mammon <strong>the</strong> Viscount . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119Lords <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Fourth: Lady Fiernaand Archduke Belial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119Lord <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Fifth: Prince Levistus . . . . . . . 121Lord <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Sixth: The Hag Countess . . . . 121Lord <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Seventh:Baalzebul <strong>the</strong> Archduke. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122Lord <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Eighth: Mephistopheles . . . . . 122Lord <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Ninth: Asmodeus, King<strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Nine Hells. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123The Orc–Goblin War among <strong>the</strong> Cubes . . 124Resisting Preservation on Thuldanin . . . . 126Surviving an Ocanthus Bladestorm. . . . . . 126The Storm Kings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131Bahamut, <strong>the</strong> Platinum Dragon . . . . . . . . . 133Option: Gnomes Alone on Bytopia . . . . . . 137Ehlonna, Deity <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Woodlands . . . . . . . 143Option: More Deities in Arvandor . . . . . . 146Option: The Nastily Neutral Outlands . . . 148Dream Travel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202Lucid Dreaming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203How to Get to <strong>the</strong> Plane <strong>of</strong> Mirrors. . . . . . 205Nastier Faerie Traits. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211More Accessible Faerie. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211Modifying E<strong>the</strong>real Access Spells . . . . . . . 215Variant: Stronger Elemental Ascendancy . . 218TABLE OFCONTENTS3

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