About...
…the Guide
The Guide was started in year 5022 CAC as a series of small, (mostly) hand-produced pamphlets sold for a few silvers each at a handful of ports, and has quickly grown to be a wholly remarkable tome, possibly the most remarkable tome ever to be published by a halfling (although some may disagree).
It is also a highly successful one – more popular than the Idiot’s Guide to Running a Magic Shop, better selling than Fifty More Things to do in Subjective Gravity, and more controversial than Balyx Balator’s trilogy of metaphysical blockbusters: Where the Gods Went Wrong, Infernus: Fairy-tale or Fiction?, and The Lie of Alignment.
In many of the more relaxed civilizations on the Outer Koronin Rim of ATU-space, the Guide has already supplanted the great Encyclopedia of the University Eternal as the standard repository of all knowledge and wisdom, for though it is perpetually incomplete and has many omissions and apocrypha, it scores over the more established work in two important respects:
First, it is slightly cheaper[1]; and secondly it has the words Feare Naught! inscribed in large friendly letters on its cover.
…the Planar Vagabond
One day, while trying to evade some rather unscrupulous characters, a halfling named Drogo Wanderfoot stepped into a glowing portal and found himself in the Astral Plane. Since then, he’s passed through dozens of ports, and is believed to have visited 43 different planes, including the 4 accessible elemental planes (although some insist he’s visited all 6). Not bad for a little fella from a broken home on a backwater world.
He can usually be found drinking at the seediest dive in a port, gambling for his soul in a back alley on some distant plane, sailing on the astral currents, or possibly even working on the next issue of this guide.
…the Site
This site is maintained by a group of web gnomes under the employ of the Planar Vagabond, who sends them his papers and pamphlets which they, in turn, translate from Common and rewrite as web pages.
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Given that the University famously demands a child as payment for a copy of their weighty tomes, this may not be that surprising after all. ↩︎