Published Planescape Books

What I think of as the "default" Planescape setting, and the one that I use as the basis for my version of Planescape (in which games I run are set), is Planescape encompassing the TSR products published in that line up through Faction War and The Inner Planes. To my mind, the default setting is pre-Faction War, as that adventure shakes things up in Sigil pretty seriously, and I'd rather take advantage of all the material written for the era before that shakeup.

Everything in the line is out of print. Good luck finding them! You can still sometimes find them in used racks in gaming stores, and in online auctions. Much of the line is also available for purchase in PDF format from RPGnow. I've got the good fortune of having real print copies for most of the line, so I haven't purchased any of theses PDFs; as such, I can't speak for their quality. The prices look good, though!

Although there isn't a purely clean division one can make, I divide the Planescape books I've got as follows:

• Boxed Sets and General Books

• Books about Planes

• Books about Sigil

• Books about Monsters

• Adventures

• Novels and Fiction

There are a couple of possibly Planescape related books which were published outside the Planescape line which I don't have; from what I've heard, Wizards of the Coast was trying to distance itself from the Planescape setting as it had been presented while that line was alive. Still, doubtless some of the material in these books will be useful for the somebody using Planescape more as I see it (though perhaps one wouldn't use it all directly as is– though when does one ever do that with a gaming product?). These books would include A Guide to Hell and Warriors of Heaven. Perhaps someday I will get my hands on them, and write about them here.

Over at planewalker.com they are creating "Official" Planescape works to go with D&D/3e. They have been given the rights to develop the Planescape world. They plan both to extend Planescape (and continue the "plot" in a post-Faction War Sigil), as well as produce conversions to the latest edition of D&D. I look forward to seeing what works they produce. If I like them, I will review them here, and I will (assuming I make enough headway through the existing stuff) try to get them added into the Index.