I have recently picked up Green Ronin's Book of Fiends; a nicely put together piece of 3.5 work with superb artwork and lots of really useful fiendish encounters at all character party levels. The high quality of the content for me is partly attributed to the research into real world Occultism that the authors have undertaken (it has one scary looking Bibliography that would no doubt include the Necronomicon if it existed). The Abyssal section is fantastic, and the Baator section has some decent content that one can chop and change into Planescape as some of the Lords of the Nine are essentially the same, simply needing adjusting to take The Reckoning of Hell into account.
I am curious whether anybody utilizes any of the material on Gehenna and the daemons though. I was a little disappointed to find such a radical reimagining of this Plane, though I guess WotC own creative control over too much of the canon for them to have much to work with.
Nevertheless the idea of a Lower Plane focussed on the Seven Deadly Sins is pretty cool, and the content seems of high quality. So does anybody incorporate any of this material into Planescape, and if so which aspects?
I guess WotC own creative control over too much of the canon for them to have much to work with.
Bingo. The 'loths and related lore aren't SRD content.
If you remove the fluff about sins, some of the stuff ranges from salvagable to "works very well". Morning's Plague would be an excellent parasite/disease to be spread by having sexual contact with Yugoloths, and perfectly fits their preference for indirect assassination. Man, I just love the idea of fiendish candirus! *essentially what Morning's Plague is* It's deliciously adult content.