Reimagining Planescape

Episode 156 Streamed Live Tuesday September 12, 2023

Mental Illness as badge of Honor
https://dotesports.com/dnd/news/first-canonically-autistic-dnd-character-arrives-in-the-book-of-many-things

Main Topic: Planescape Reimagined

The Great Wheel Cosmology: https://srd.dndtools.org/srd/environment/planesDescriptionsAndCosmology.html

Randy’s Big IDEA: The prime (Prime Plane) is prime real estate throughout the Multiverse and all the other planes want it. Why? It is the only plane that is not dedicated to a single idea or alignment. It has desirable resource (its residents) and it is not primarily dedicated to a single idea or alignment.

Sigil:
City of Doors is run by a Great Council of Dominant representatives of non-deity level leaders from the planes of the multiverse

They are in a constant political dance called the Kreigstanz in an attempt to outmaneuver each other. This keeps them from mounting a full assault on the prime material plane. Of course, many of these powerful individuals will do a little ‘invading” secretly or sometimes not so secretly from time to time.

Lady of Pain: head of the table- a powerful entity who can keep out powerful immortal creatures due to the nature of the City of Doors. She has a seemingly endless horde of warriors called Dabus who do not speak, but only act. They might be constructs or a race of mute beings, no one knows for sure because as they die their bodies dissipate into nothing or meld into the streets of Sigil.

The Factions: these could be human/PC race led organizations that attempt to win favors from the Great Council, the Lady of Pain, or perhaps to just keep an eye on the dealings of these planar entities who would wish to dominate the Prime Material Plane.

The PORTALS: These exist as the only way to access Sigil and only the Lady and Dabus have control to their access at least officially.

Joe’s Big IDEA:
Skip Sigil and keep the focus on the PCs’ homeworld as much as possible.

- PCs’ home world has occasional invaders from the wider multiverse, maybe other prime worlds
- Invasion forces vary in strength
- Forces are after a valuable resource (make one up lazy!)
- May be a single force, maybe multiple
- May be independent forces, maybe coordinated
- Can easily be used to springboard a campaign
- Can be used as a one shot “Stop The Invaders” adventure
-- get to ground zero
-- battle to penetrate a stronghold
-- find and eliminate the leader/close portal (not necessarily connected)

Squishing Gaming Myths: D&D is NOT a GOOD TTRPG.
It is just the most popular.
It doesn’t represent magic well.
Levels are dumb and skills are where it’s at.
It is just an adventure game, no roleplaying support.
It doesn’t work past level 6/10/12
It is too complicated.

Report from Big Geek Land
Big Geek Con: September 22-23, 2023, at the Four Points Hotel in Saginaw, MI. “Do Not try that at a Small Con!”
We got some good help working on the non-gaming stuff.
Tickets sold day of show: $40 whether you come Friday(22nd) or Saturday(23rd).

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