#dead book

Eleventh drawing of Inktober! The prompt was Book(s) and the extra was "drinking a hot beverage".

@willgrahamgenderenvy

You can tell just from the name – The Eternal Boundary – that Planescape’s first adventure is aiming for heady stuff. What you get is, well, a bar, a citadel, a bit old mausoleum and some city slums. But that’s OK! When the infinite multiverse spreads out before you, maybe a bit of restraint is in order. The adventure is rated for levels one through three, after all.

The Eternal Boundary is all about the stage dressing, gussying up your basic D&D module with the flash and flare of the planes. The graveyard isn’t just a graveyard, is the Mortuary of Sigil, where death is dealt with on a grander scale than anywhere else in the cosmos. The citadel isn’t some tower on a hill, it’s a fortress surrounded by a molten sea on the Elemental Plane of fire. It’s the names – Green Marvent, the Dancing Man, the Isle of Black Trees – and the way people talk about things – crazy folks are barmies, jink is coin and finding your name in the dead book, well, that is self-explanatory – and the casual way everyone shifts from one reality to the next that makes Planescape special. Like the factions, it’s about ideas, and approach. The Eternal Boundary is the perfect introduction.