Thank you! I myself prefer the name "Happy Hunting Grounds"!

Thank you so much for watching and commenting. I will add it to the list!

Ha! I really appreciate all of these comments! Thank you so much. I'll be honest, I've never heard the name Sigil pronounced outloud, so I was unaware of this! While I was reading Dragon magazine consistently as a subscriber during the 2E days, and collected quite a few products and worked on a 2E campaign setting that I eventually shifted to 3E, I didn't actually play a lot during the 2E era for a variety of reasons including having moved, started college and then career, losing my group, etc. So, I never actually played any Playscape (not even the video game Torment; I don't really play video games much). In terms of my prep, I write a few bullet points in a notebook and I do a bit more study on areas I'm perhaps not as familiar with. But, I don't write a script and what you hear on the videos is basically my thoughts off the cuff as I go through them. Editing only really happens if I make a mistake like forgetting something. But otherwise, you're hearing an improvisational chat. I kind of wanted to do it that way as I thought it might be more approachable and less formal than some other channels. I'd be interested to hear your thoughts on that and/or whether you'd prefer a more polished version. Thanks!

@@daddyrolleda1 My group has gone through a couple of periods where we are too busy with life to play, totally understand that. I personally REALLY like your off the cuff approach in your videos. Like you said, it's definitely more approachable and it feels like you are more interested in the material than if you were just reading a script. Keep it up, 1K subscribers is around the corner!!

@@thesonofdormammu5475 Your comments and support mean a lot to me. Thank you so much for taking the time to comment!

It was a favorite book of mine as a kid. I used to bring it to school to read, and my history teacher in 7th grade saw it and asked if she could photocopy some of the pages to use as reference when teaching about the gods of ancient cultures!

I've also not done much with the Planes, which is why I didn't pick up Manual of the Planes when it was first published. Thanks for watching and commenting!

Thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it! I put a lot of research into these two videos on the alignment/planes history.

@@daddyrolleda1 it shows!!

Seriously, I am so appreciative of your comments. I just realized that you've been watching and commenting on each video as you discover them, and that means a lot to me that you're taking the time to let me know. I'm so glad you're enjoying them!

I appreciate that so much! Thank you for taking time to let me know. That really made my day. Thank you for watching and commenting. I did put a ton of time into researching these and figuring out how to split them into 2 videos, etc. Cheers!

I really appreciate that! That's a really nice compliment. Thank you!

That's so funny - someone else pointed that out to me. I had never heard it pronounced before! I heard that Dave Cook made a mistake as he didn't know how the word was pronounced and so he used a hard "G" and it just kind of stuck. Thank you so much for watching and commenting, and also for your subscription! I really appreciate your support and hope you enjoy the other videos on here. Cheers!

Thank you so much for this detailed comment - I really appreciate it! I really should spend some more time exploring BECMI and its various differences. Since it's so close to B/X, I never acquired any of the BECMI sets when they came out. Much, much later, I got a PDF of the Rules Cyclopedia which as I'm sure you know is a one-book version of BECMI without the "Immortals" set. As a consequence, I'm not well-versed at all in the BECMI version of D&D cosmology.

Thank you so much for watching and commenting! I will add Planescape to the list! Cheers!

Planescape is one of my favorite settings, but none of my players are willing to take the time to truly enjoy it (picking up the vernacular, understanding how the planes work, etc). Every time we give it a go they don't do the research for their characters and it is basically them not picking up on hints/clues I'm dropping. Like if you are going to play a Githyanki you should probably know at least a little bit about the Astral Plane and the reason why they don't like Illithids. Oh well. Have you ever played Torment? One of the best PC RPG's I've ever played. Great story and good mechanics (basically Baldur's Gate in Planescape setting).

@@thesonofdormammu5475 Oh yes... Torment is my only real experience with Planescape. Gotta love Mort! heh :-)

I really appreciate you taking time to watching and comment to let me know! So glad you enjoyed it.

Ha! Yes, that was a "Freudian slip" of sorts! And yes, I don't own the book, but there is at least one campaign sourcebook for 5E that's based on stuff from Magic: The Gathering. I think it's for Ravnica. I only played 5E a few times and I stopped playing Magic decades ago but I try to also check out what's new at the game store in case it ever comes up! Thank you for watching and commenting!

Oh, wow that sounds like it would've been incredible! What a shame it's now lost. I'm sorry you put all that work into it but no longer have it. Thanks for sharing this, and also for watching and commenting!

Thanks for watching and commenting! I agree - there is so much fun opportunities for gaming in the planes, but when you read the entries (even back in the 1E days), there were very difficult to traverse. Clerics got totally nerfed by losing access to their higher level spells in most planes. I found it really interesting that in addition to changing so many of the mechanics of game play, 4E *also* changed the planes, for the first time in D&D history. I think you're right, it could've worked had they chosen to pursue it further.

Excellent! Welcome to the club! That was the last book I needed to complete my AD&D 1E Hardback collection, although I'd like a Sutherland III cover of the DMG, and I don't have (nor do I need/want) the revised orange-spine covers for the PHB, MM, or Legends & Lore. I got a Cthulhu Deities & Demigods (I had a later non-Cthulhu printing since the early 80's), Dragonlance Adventures and Greyhawk Adventures within the past ~1.5 years as well. Thank you for watching and commenting!

@@daddyrolleda1 for me the revised covers from 1985 are most coveted because I wasn't around when the originals were printed, so those are the ones I own. In fact, I still have most I got from Toys R Us back in the day. You are doing better than I am if your copy of D&D includes the Cthulhu mythos, I got a later copy.

@@Nexusofgeek That totally makes sense! I started a few years earlier than you, in 1981, so I "grew up" with the original covers. My original D&DG was the non-Cthulhu version, but at the beginning of the pandemic, after realizing I was saving money by not going to the comic book store each week, and not going out to eat or to the pub, I did some "retail therapy" and found a Cthulhu version online, as well as a really nice copy of "First Fantasy Campaign" by Arneson.

@@daddyrolleda1 yea I kinda did the same thing. I was still working then but more and more remotely

Thank you so much! I put a ton of time into researching these, which is partially why Part 2 was so long in coming. I appreciate the support, as always!

So true! But also in keeping consistent with many of Gary's other adventures (e.g., I'm running B2: Keep on the Borderlands for my daughter and her friends right now, and there is so much work I've put into making the Keep come alive!). Thank you so much for watching and commenting. I really appreciate it!

@@daddyrolleda1 The only other adventure I know that will send you to wacky off world places is the Observatory from Hot Springs Islands

Wow! That sounds like an AMAZING adventure! So creative! I really appreciate you sharing this story. I know there are many different styles of play, and I tend to focus more on a low-magic setting (similar to the one presented in Warhammer Fantasy) but it's fun to be reminded that even back at the dawn of the hobby, people were plane-hopping and playing in super creative campaigns like this!

Mace of St Cuthbert is an old school ADnD relic. Nice.

Gotta love Hastur the Unspeakable cartoon!

I was glad to finally get an original (it's 2nd printing, but still...) with the Cthulhu and Melnibonéan Mythos during the early lockdown days of the Pandemic. I'd had a 4th printing without those mythos dating back to 1983 or so and had always wanted an original one. I finally bit the bullet and got it!

Thank you so much for watching and commenting! I really appreciate it. As kids playing a mash-up of B/X and AD&D, we never really used the planes all that much. My main experience with them came decades later during a 3.5 one-shot in which I was playing a 20th Githyanki Psion and our party (all high-level evil types, pre-gens created by the DM) were plane-hopping around to try to start some kind of universal apocalypse or something like that. I forget the particulars but visiting the different planes was fun in that game. While I started with B/X and am back to running it now for my 13 year-old daughter and her friends, I think the most total time I've spent playing in terms of hours is 3E/3.5/Pathfinder1E. I started a 3E game in May 2001 because my co-workers wanted to learn about the game (we worked at an ad agency and our client was Wizards of the Coast). I started a game for them and that game is still running. But, when I wrap it up one day, I don't intend to ever run that system again. It's way too fiddly for me as a DM. I've only played 4E and 5E twice each (single sessions for both). I'm open to playing whatever, but personally wouldn't run them.

Thank you for watching and commenting! I don't believe the Concordant Opposition was mentioned (by name) prior to Deities & Demigods. The article on the planes by Gary Gygax in Dragon Magazine 8 doesn't name *any* of the outer planes - it just shows the diagram and numbers them but there's no list as to what the numbers mean. In the 1978 Player's Handbook, Gary lists all the Outer Planes by name and by their alignment, but he interestingly does not include a plane of pure Neutrality. So, by my understanding, I think it was Deities & Demigods where it's first mentioned.

My hunch about the initial absence of a true neutral plane is simply that it would occupy the same space on a chart as the inner planes do, and that this would be confusing. Later, we're respected as understanding that these are parallel universes, and we're then just given separate charts for inner and outer planes. :)

@@originaluddite I can see that! Makes sense!

Heresy and Haram are merely contrivances. All things can be conjoined.