Content seems good so far but the quality of the print on demand copy is quite bad. I still wanted it because I got the of rest of Planes of X trilogy. Readable but the maps are sadly very blurry.

The book itself is fine but a little more effort could have been put into making the cover look more professional.

The content of the 2nd edition Planescape books themself is ecellent, so this review will be purely about how the reproduced books look, both in print and PDF.

In short, this is passable, but there are pretty annoying problems. Most glaringly, print quality is very light. This makes some of the text very hard to read, given that Planescape books are filled with yellowish/brown extra text. Quotes from denizens of the planes, headers of each section... On some pages the ink gets so light that even the text that is supposed to be black turns blue/grey, and at those points the yellow extra text is almost invisible. Monstrous Supplement in particular has some bits that are very hard to read. At times this unreadablity is due to print problems, but at others it's due to scans simply being too lightened. The pages really could use re-leveling to make the text clearer, and darks darker.

Lesser problem is the bleeds. Often the art is supposed to cover the whole page has white borders around it, not reaching the edges of the print area. Of course this preferrable to text going over the edge of the print space way into the bleed, but it makes the presentation seem sloppy at points.

Others have already mentioned the maps at the end of the book, with the way they're being done is that you get both zoomed out picture of front and back of each poster, and then several zoomed in pictures that make the details easier to see and text actually readable. But personally I really don't see any more sensible way of handling them in this format, short of actually doing proper full-size prints of then. And at that point you might as well be asking for all the books in the box to be properly separated.

So how would I improve this release? The first obvious thing to do would be to relevel black and white in every page. It might seem like large task, but would tremendously improve the readability. To improve presentation, one would have to do some adjustment of the scans, both resizing them to uniformly fit the pages, are on same height (just by looking at page numbers you can see that there's signifigant shifting within each individual book included) and adjusting art elements so that they properly begin in the bleed area, so that there's no awkward white borders around the pages. If all of these are solved, I'll gladly buy the book again. If that happens, please make Premium Print an option. In hypothetical perfect world the package would have all of the five books seperated and the maps would be printed properly, but I doubt we'll ever get anything like that.

while the content is excellent, the print is very hard to read in some sections. either due to a poor scan or bad printing. unfortunately I only found out aa month after receiving the book

Very useful set for Planscape campaign. Dosn't cover everything but that would need an infinate publication. The graphic presentation is difficult to read in some places, particularly in the monster sheets.<br><br><b>QUALITY</b>: Very Good<br><br><b>VALUE</b>: Satisfied<br>

This box set has detailed information on the planes that are more or less neutral in alignment with respect to law and chaos. The Beastlands, Bytopia, Elysium are the neutral Upper Planes and Carceri, Gehenna, and the Gray Waste are the neutral Lower Planes. This box set gives extensive information about each of these planes and does a good job of explaining how they interact with the rest of the Outer Planes. These planes are essential the battlegrounds for influence between the greater forces of the Planescape multiverse. The eternal Blood War between the demons and devils, for instance, is waged primarily on the Gray Waste. An adventure booklet is also included to give GMs an idea of the type of adventures that might bring players to these planes. A nice assortment of maps are also included in this excellant scan. Like all of the Planescape books, the pages were originally printed on a strangely tinted paper so the scan, while easily readable, might be difficult to print out (though I haven't tried it). If you're going to get this box set, you really should get the Planes of Law and Planes of Chaos sets as well. They're all unique in their own right, but the Outer Planes are so interrelated that it really helps to have enough information to get the entire picture of the multivers. Besides, as cheap as these downloads are, it's not like you'll have to break the bank to get them.<br><br><b>LIKED</b>: Well written and brilliantly concieved, like most products in the Planescape setting. <br><br><b>DISLIKED</b>: The information on the planes is divided into two books, one for the Lower Planes and one for the Upper. While the start of each book is bookmarked, the entries for the individual planes are not so you have to scroll through the entire booklets to find the plane you want. On the plus side, there are only 3 planes for each book so it's just a minor inconvenience.<br><br><b>QUALITY</b>: Excellent<br><br><b>VALUE</b>: Very Satisfied<br>

This was a very well done. It covers Elysium, Carcerri, Bytopia, Beastlands, Grey Waste, and Gehenna, and is all excellently written. If you're going to adventure in any of these planes, this supplement will be invaluable. Only criticism is that with this download the maps are all chopped up into about 9 separate pieces each, so in order to be able to really use them you'll have to either copy and paste to some sort of drawing program or print it all out and then stick them together like a puzzle. Not hard, but kind of annoying (and the 2nd option would consume a heck of a lot of ink).