New D&D Unearthed Arcana Hints At Planescape Setting's Return
The latest Unearthed Arcana article for Dungeons & Dragons is hinting that the Planescape campaign setting is returning to the game in the future. Planescape was a campaign setting introduced in the 2e/Advanced Dungeons & Dragons era, though most players may remember it for the classic and weird PC RPG Planescape Torment, which was ported to modern systems in 2019.
The D&D multiverse consists of many planes that are wrapped around each other, with mortals residing in the Prime Material Plane, which is surrounded by the elemental Inner Planes, and those are covered by the Outer Planes, which contain the different afterlives in D&D. Planescape was all about fleshing out the different planes and the societies that have sprung up around the points that connected the universe. The most famous location in Planescape is the city of Sigil, home to the all-powerful Lady of Pain. Sigil is often called the center of the multiverse (if such a thing can ever exist), and it's home to many factions and sects from all of the D&D campaign worlds, as well as agents from the heavens and hells.
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D&D is bringing back its Spelljammer campaign in August and Dragonlance at the end of 2022. It looks like another classic campaign setting is coming to Dungeons & Dragons 5e in the future, as the latest Unearthed Arcana article has playtesting material relating to Planescape. The new Unearthed Arcana is called "Wonders of the Multiverse" and it features a new race that is similar to the modrons and has a number of backgrounds relating to the planes. The most conspicuous of these is the Outlands Envoy Background Feat, which name drops the city of Sigil as a place where the character has
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