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1d4chan>Zimriel: /* Chapter 5: The Crystal Roads of Deluer. */

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Chapter 5: The Crystal Roads of Deluer.

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	==Chapter 5: The Crystal Roads of Deluer.==		==Chapter 5: The Crystal Roads of Deluer.==
	It's a network of nexi spanning thin air. But it's considered an Elemental Earth plane: because the nexi are asteroids just ''stuffed'' with gems and minerals. A fat greedy xorn got here first so you're not easily going to steal much of it.		It's a network of nexi spanning thin air. But it's considered an Elemental Earth plane: because the nexi are asteroids just ''stuffed'' with gems and minerals. A fat greedy [[xorn]] got here first so you're not easily going to steal much of it.

	==Chapter 6: Dendri (Expansion 11).==		==Chapter 6: Dendri (Expansion 11).==

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	'''Beyond Countless Doorways''' is a splatbook for [[White Wolf]] under its Malhavoc / Sword and Sorcery Studios ~~d20~~ imprint. Two co-authors were [[Monte Cook]] and Colin McComb, with Ray Vallese as (co)editor (with Sue W Cook) and r k post drawing the cover. [[Wolfgang Baur]] also contributed. [[Bruce Cordell]] chipped in with some playtesting, among others you've likely heard of, like [[Erik Mona]]. This is [[Dungeons & Dragons]] 3rd edition compatible... and ''not 3.5''.		'''Beyond Countless Doorways''' is a [[d20 System]] splatbook for [[White Wolf]] under its Malhavoc / Sword and Sorcery Studios imprint. Two co-authors were [[Monte Cook]] and Colin McComb, with Ray Vallese as (co)editor (with Sue W Cook) and r k post drawing the cover. [[Wolfgang Baur]] also contributed. [[Bruce Cordell]] chipped in with some playtesting, among others you've likely heard of, like [[Erik Mona]]. This is [[Dungeons & Dragons]] 3rd edition compatible... and ''not 3.5''.

	''BCD'' is deeply indebted to [[Planescape]] and, indeed, the authors all billed it as "a Planescape reunion". Because the [[Wizards of the Coast]] exiles were and are all close friends, but not friends with WotC's legal department, this one has plenty of crossover with other S&S Studio work like the first two ''[[Creature Collection]]s'' and with [[Chris Pramas]]' work over at Green Ronin; but it tiptoes around copyrighted WotC content (which will become obvious - see #9 below). Where possible non-''[[Monster_Manual\|Manual]]'' legacy TSR beasties are laundered through [[Frog_God_Games\|Necromancer Games]]' ''[[Tome of Horrors]]''.		''BCD'' is deeply indebted to [[Planescape]] and, indeed, the authors all billed it as "a Planescape reunion". Because the [[Wizards of the Coast]] exiles were and are all close friends, but not friends with WotC's legal department, this one has plenty of crossover with other S&S Studio work like the first two ''[[Creature Collection]]s'' and with [[Chris Pramas]]' work over at Green Ronin; but it tiptoes around copyrighted WotC content (which will become obvious - see #9 below). Where possible non-''[[Monster_Manual\|Manual]]'' legacy TSR beasties are laundered through [[Frog_God_Games\|Necromancer Games]]' ''[[Tome of Horrors]]''.

	''BCD'' is, further, a followup to Monte Cook's ''[[Eldritch Might]]'' series, especially the third one concerning the high-magic Nexus. This led to some [[skub]] when the blurb touted "dozens of new monsters, NPCs, feats, and magic items", and readers counted only one new feat which was restricted to one plane, at that. But really, we're here for the fluff not for the crunch. As in ''BEM3'', the planes are on the Moorcock Multiverse model, not (say) on a Great Wheel of "alignment".		''BCD'' is, further, a followup to Monte Cook's ''[[Eldritch Might]]'' series, especially the third one concerning the high-magic Nexus. This led to some [[skub]] when the blurb touted "dozens of new monsters, NPCs, feats, and magic items", and readers counted only one new feat which was restricted to one plane, at that. But really, we're here for the fluff not for the crunch. As in ''BEM3'', the planes are on the [[Moorcock]] Multiverse model, not (say) on a [[Great Wheel]] of "[[alignment]]".

	The difference between "demiplane" and "planet" is not well explored here. Many of these sites are vanilla, with the physical laws we'd expect. Suppose we leave that to the philosophers.		The difference between "demiplane" and "planet" is not well explored here. Many of these sites are vanilla, with the physical laws we'd expect. Suppose we leave that to the philosophers.

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	[[File:BCD cover.jpg\|thumb]]		[[File:BCD cover.jpg\|thumb]]
	'''Beyond Countless Doorways''' is a splatbook for [[White Wolf]] under its Malhavoc / Sword and Sorcery Studios d20 imprint. Two co-authors were [[Monte Cook]] and Colin McComb, with Ray Vallese as (co)editor (with Sue W Cook) and r k post drawing the cover. [[Wolfgang Baur]] also contributed. [[Bruce Cordell]] chipped in with some playtesting, among others you've likely heard of, like ~~Eric~~ Mona. This is [[Dungeons & Dragons]] 3rd edition compatible... and ''not 3.5''.		'''Beyond Countless Doorways''' is a splatbook for [[White Wolf]] under its Malhavoc / Sword and Sorcery Studios d20 imprint. Two co-authors were [[Monte Cook]] and Colin McComb, with Ray Vallese as (co)editor (with Sue W Cook) and r k post drawing the cover. [[Wolfgang Baur]] also contributed. [[Bruce Cordell]] chipped in with some playtesting, among others you've likely heard of, like [[Erik Mona]]. This is [[Dungeons & Dragons]] 3rd edition compatible... and ''not 3.5''.

	''BCD'' is deeply indebted to [[Planescape]] and, indeed, the authors all billed it as "a Planescape reunion". Because the [[Wizards of the Coast]] exiles were and are all close friends, but not friends with WotC's legal department, this one has plenty of crossover with other S&S Studio work like the first two ''[[Creature Collection]]s'' and with [[Chris Pramas]]' work over at Green Ronin; but it tiptoes around copyrighted WotC content (which will become obvious - see #9 below). Where possible non-''[[Monster_Manual\|Manual]]'' legacy TSR beasties are laundered through [[Frog_God_Games\|Necromancer Games]]' ''[[Tome of Horrors]]''.		''BCD'' is deeply indebted to [[Planescape]] and, indeed, the authors all billed it as "a Planescape reunion". Because the [[Wizards of the Coast]] exiles were and are all close friends, but not friends with WotC's legal department, this one has plenty of crossover with other S&S Studio work like the first two ''[[Creature Collection]]s'' and with [[Chris Pramas]]' work over at Green Ronin; but it tiptoes around copyrighted WotC content (which will become obvious - see #9 below). Where possible non-''[[Monster_Manual\|Manual]]'' legacy TSR beasties are laundered through [[Frog_God_Games\|Necromancer Games]]' ''[[Tome of Horrors]]''.

1d4chan>Zimriel: /* Chapter 16: Tevaeral, Magic’s Last Stand. */

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Chapter 16: Tevaeral, Magic’s Last Stand.

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	==Chapter 16: Tevaeral, Magic’s Last Stand.==		==Chapter 16: Tevaeral, Magic’s Last Stand.==
	Here is where Monte has stashed his Book Of Eldritch Might artifact - almost the ''lowest''-magic plane in this collection. This plane is perhaps inspired by Averoigne at the end of [[X2: Castle Amber]]: magic is possible, but illegal. Magic is also moribund because there's only one dragon left there. A Manichaean cult is rooting out the last vestiges. It comes to conjunction to [[Ptolus\|Praemal]], which the text then has to fudge because oops, some beta-reader noticed that it's a prison plane that's not supposed to do that. Vallese, man... do your job.		Here is where Monte has stashed his Book Of Eldritch Might artifact - almost the ''lowest''-magic plane in this collection. This plane is perhaps inspired by Averoigne at the end of [[X2: Castle Amber]]: magic is possible, but illegal. Magic is also moribund because there's only one dragon left there. A Manichaean cult is rooting out the last vestiges. It comes to conjunction with [[Ptolus\|Praemal]], which the text then has to fudge because oops, some beta-reader noticed that Praemal's a prison plane that's not supposed to do that. Vallese, man... do your job.

	==Chapter 17: Venomheart, Haven of the Sleep Pirates.==		==Chapter 17: Venomheart, Haven of the Sleep Pirates.==

1d4chan>Zimriel: /* Chapter 13: Palpatur. */

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Chapter 13: Palpatur.

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	==Chapter 13: Palpatur.==		==Chapter 13: Palpatur.==
	Cronenberg Gaia became a battleground in the [[Blood War]] - Malmargus v. Hell-Well - and is now picking up the pieces. Strangely it was already peopled by [[tieflings]] hinting that this wasn't the first rodeo. This hosts the book's one Feat - moulding the "bioleche", the planet's living blood - and also features fiendish weapons of war, which you may add to those in [[Hellbound: The Blood War]].		Cronenberg Gaia became a battleground in the [[Blood War\|Not Blood War]] - Malmargus v. Hell-Well - and is now picking up the pieces. Strangely it was already peopled by [[tieflings]] hinting that this wasn't the first rodeo. This hosts the book's one Feat - moulding the "bioleche", the planet's living blood - and also features fiendish weapons of war, which you - lawyers willing - may add to those in [[Hellbound: The Blood War]].

	==Chapter 14: Sleeping God’s Soul.==		==Chapter 14: Sleeping God’s Soul.==

1d4chan>Zimriel: /* Chapter 10: The Maze. */

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Chapter 10: The Maze.

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	==Chapter 10: The Maze.==		==Chapter 10: The Maze.==
	It's adventurer carnival. Ladies! Gentlemen! Step right up and try your luck in any of these planewalking tunnels, you might win a treasure. Turns out that it's all run by demons. Sadly there's no map but there ''is'' an illustration taken from an angle. Maybe with some mathematics you could reverse-engineer a map from that. Except that Eric Lofgren drew the illo, maintaining his oil-painting affectation as to make it all super blurry.		It's adventurer carnival. Ladies! Gentlemen! Step right up and try your luck in any of these planewalking tunnels, you might win a treasure. Turns out that it's all run by demons. Can be read as a style-parody of ''[[Q1: Queen of the Demonweb Pits]]''. Sadly there's no map but there ''is'' an illustration taken from an angle. Maybe with some mathematics you could reverse-engineer a map from that. Except that Eric Lofgren drew the illo, maintaining his oil-painting affectation as to make it all super blurry.

	==Chapter 11: Mountains of the Five Winds.==		==Chapter 11: Mountains of the Five Winds.==

1d4chan>Zimriel: /* Chapter 2: Avidarel, The Sundered Star. */

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Chapter 2: Avidarel, The Sundered Star.

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	==Chapter 2: Avidarel, The Sundered Star.==		==Chapter 2: Avidarel, The Sundered Star.==
	Dead sun, [[Nightshade]]s roaming its corpse, and a magical mafia staking out an abandoned tower. Not without hope for rebirth, though.		Dead sun, [[Nightshade]]s roaming its corpse, and a magical mafia staking out an abandoned tower. Not without hope for rebirth, though. It comes into conjunction with the Wheels of Sostear, an imagining of the [[xill]] home-plane.

	==Chapter 3: Carrigmoor.==		==Chapter 3: Carrigmoor.==

1d4chan>Zimriel: /* Outtakes */

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Outtakes

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	In ''Game Trade Magazine'' 55 (September 2004), Monte Cook posted a world that didn't make the cut for this book: '''Xiun'''. ''BCD'' did give us a summary: physical attacks don't work on Xiun. Not even magical weapons, except for Tlorei Sticks. Spells and psi will work, however. So Xiun is the un-Violet. And if you don't have magic, you're getting [[rape]]d. It's Monte paradise!!		In ''Game Trade Magazine'' 55 (September 2004), Monte Cook posted a world that didn't make the cut for this book: '''Xiun'''. ''BCD'' did give us a summary: physical attacks don't work on Xiun. Not even magical weapons, except for Tlorei Sticks. Spells and psi will work, however. So Xiun is the un-Violet. And if you don't have magic, you're getting [[rape]]d. It's Monte paradise!!

	The [[Arcana Unearthed\|Diamond Throne]] setting, as "Serran", here links to Deluer and Kin-Li'in. Several other locales host ''Arcana Unearthed'' / ''Legacy of the Dragon'' monsters, ''e.g.'' the Helminth and the Quickling Faen. Obviously that setting already got its own writeup.		The [[Arcana Unearthed\|Diamond Throne]] setting, as "Serran", here links to Deluer and Kin-Li'in. Several other locales host ''Arcana Unearthed'' / ''Legacy of the Dragon'' monsters, ''e.g.'' the Helminth and the Quickling [[Faen]]. Obviously that setting already got its own writeup.

	Further, there's a theory of Conjunction mooted in the introduction; but that theory isn't propagated through the planes here. We're often left asking, what's the difference between a "conjunction" and accessibility through permanent portals. Carrigmoor has such portals to several planes. So does Dendri (which admittedly was the worst-edited chapter). Those links are not considered conjunctional. To illustrate actual conjunction, Monte (back then) offered a free PDF "True Conjunction With Karlectash". Here, an energy-plane hostile to life conjoins a standard vanilla plane, with ''[[Elder Evils]]'' apocalyptic results.		Further, there's a theory of Conjunction mooted in the introduction; but that theory isn't propagated through the planes here. We're often left asking, what's the difference between a "conjunction" and accessibility through permanent portals. Carrigmoor has such portals to several planes. So does Dendri (which admittedly was the worst-edited chapter). Those links are not considered conjunctional. To illustrate actual conjunction, Monte (back then) offered a free PDF "True Conjunction With Karlectash". Here, an energy-plane hostile to life conjoins a standard vanilla plane, with ''[[Elder Evils]]'' apocalyptic results.

1d4chan>Zimriel at 18:06, 31 January 2021

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