Reviewer: Brian K. Eason from Atlanta, GA United States

Beyond your wildest (plane of) Dreams.
Excepting the reasonably priced three core books (Player's Handbook, Dungeon Master's Guide and Monster Manual), I have been rather critical of WOTC's high prices for medium level product. No more.
The Manual of the Planes is everything promised and more.
This hardback contains:
*Detailed descriptions of the Planes of the traditional D&D cosmology
*Rules for constructing your own Cosmology
*Denizens of the Planes
*Rules for creating Outsider PCs
*Templates for creating Planer creatures (beyond celestial and Fiends)
*Four EXCELLENT Prestige classes
And a LOT more.
Gone on the insultingly vapid Modrons... now we have Axiomatic (read: Perfect) creatures and the Inevitables (Robotic Creatures of law seeking justic)...
Slaad Mutations are fully deatiled...
The book just keeps getting better
And the artwork is amazing.
If you were a fan of Planescape, here is your 3rd edition jumping off point...
And for those of you that we Spelljammer fans... check out the Mercane... and grin.