[D&D-5e] Planescape Sigil: Around the Planes in 17 Months!

[Sageheart]

Game Name Planescape Sigil: Around the Planes in 17 Months!

Game System DnD 5e

Theme Planescape Exploration

Flavour Planescape, Solo and group adventures, downtime, exploration, politics, social, philosophy

Plot Summary Game Name and type Planescape Sigil: Around the Planes in 17 Months! 5e DnD Planescape. Application Deadline Application Review: Jan, 17th Application Deadline: Jan 24th Game (Ideally) Starts: Feb 1st 1-2/posts a week is my goal. Dungeon Master Sageheart Brief Description A 10th Level game, where players will travel around various Outer Planes to bring back items/essence that represent an aspect of that plane's true being before another adventurer party does. This must be accomplished before the Modron March ends in 17 months! Expect lots of social encounters, unusual exploration, and lots of side quests and personal quests. Ultimately the race is a backdrop to focus on players' personal quests. The game will be an equal apart Solo/Small Groups, and the full group. This game will use an alternate form of Rests so you are aware. Game Concept! The Pre-Race Report! Hey there Berks! It is time for the Modron March Grand Race! That is right, the fabled race is about the begin in only a few weeks! Early for that matter, but who can question the almighty forces of law, ain't that right Valgarth the Despoiler? "Yes! I recall the last one, it was hellfire to be sure! The SIgil Adventurer Union won, though with quite a few fatalities! It was quite the high once we all got a chance to watch the highlights at the Sensities Manor." "Didn't you cause one of those fatalities?" "Well I was just a Blood War General back then, not a judge!" "True, true. For those who don't know, let's give you a bit of a breakdown, shall we! The Wealthy patrons of Sigil, along with the Faction's approval, have hosted this event three times now, each 289 years that the Great Modron March occurs! It is a moment to gain prestige, wealth, and some hefty favors! Plus who can giev up an opportunity to explore the outer planes with their magnificence!" "And despair, bleakness, hatred, pain, entrapment... This list is getting me even more excited at the prospect for our new explorers." "Ah well, yes, don't get too excited. Anyway, after the difficulty of the first race, a set of rules have been made to make everything much easier. Before the march ends, each adventuring group sponsored must bring back the very essence of a plane the Mordon march through in no particular order. Now what is essence you say, well it's way more than just a rock or jar of dirt. Each judge will determine if your choice fulfills their requirements making it pretty subjective! Of course each judge is chosen for their knowledge of the plane in which they judge, and while their identities remain hidden in order to halt any bribery or blackmail, a innovative berk may just be able to figure out who they are. Now Seventeen planes is a lot of planes to explore, so ever since the second race we have been doing these very fun cards! Just get 5 in a row and you win! But whoever brings an essence back first gets to cross it off first, banning its use for every other group! And while there are only 17 planes in the outer planes, we have added the elemental planes, and four hidden domains! The Modron March takes seventeen month, so ample time to find and do what you wish! **Transmission from Sir Fredrick Milano and Former General Valgarth the Despoiler** Welcome to the Sigil Race Hello Everyone! Some of you may know me, to those who do not, I am Sageheart, or Sage for short. I have been excited to play a Sigil or Planescape game for quite some time now, going through an array of 2e modules and after a friend of mine on the site reached out to me for a game I decided to try something out. The game will be three to four PCs who are hired by a former adventurer via anA lawyer being played by Mairien, who will be an equal player with the rest of the group once the game begins. Feel free to have connections to her character associate of his. After this point the "goal" of the game will be to collect Five Planes in a row upon a randomly generated Bingo Card before another adventure group does. In order to do this, the group must go to a plane, and collect an item/person/thing that they believe represents that plane's essence. This is meant to be subjective, and overall I will be very open with the group about this. Examples from previous races will be offered. Overtime particular planes on the bingo card will be lost as other groups get them. This sill be mostly randomized, but there will be ways to learn where NPC groups are going via espionage, politics, social events, allies, etc. Ultimately though the plot is a backdrop to a game focused on unique personal quests and the growth of Sigil businesses/faction relations, etc. The plot is to bring the group of players together and to facilitate a situation where the PCs can explore a whole bunch of different planes of existence. The time limit is open ended to allow the group to take their time, as well as for me to bring in various 2e or other shorter modules into the game as we play. Basically side quests will be highlighted more then the main quest. Something Wild is one I have in mind, but I have access to many more. What I would like is to have each PC involved in their own personal side quests, and downtime will be used heavily. There will be a good amount of solo play, and I suspect the group to be divided at various points. Overall the PCs personal quests will be interwoven together in some capacity. In terms of style, I want to focus on the Sigil Factions and overall philosophical aspect of Planescape. Alignment is in play. I am used to running high level combat, but I believe due to PbP I will offer more non-combat encounters. I am a huge fan of social/politics. With that being said, I am searching for players who are invested in a game that is lead very much by their own personal desires/quests/goals, while still being able to work with a group of people and become a part of the world as a whole. There will be a lot of player agency and in many ways this will be a collective story building exercise. If This is something you are interested in, please keep reading! Character and Application Rules. Application Building Rules: Please include the following in your application. Name: Age: Class/subclass: Alignment: Faction: You are well established in your faction already. We are using the 2e/3e factions as listed before Faction War. I prefer no doubles, but it would not be the end of the world. Background: Each PC must have been in Sigil long enough to be comfortable with plane hopping and factions. RPG Sample: Allies/Rivals: Include three NPCs connected to your character. One should be an enemy and/or rival. They do not have to live in Sigil, and one should be attached to your faction. These can be hidden or unhidden. Connection to Other PCs can be done here too, and is promoted. Plane: Let me know a particular plane you are interested in travelling to. I will do my best to incentivize it in the game! Of course the group picks where to go more than me. Secret Agenda: A Secrets of some sort, it can be attached to your NPC, Faction, or Personal Goal. It does not need to be devastating in nature, but something that can be fun in game either plotwise, roleplaying wise, or the like. Lastly and most important, PERSONAL GOAL: This can be something as easy as opening a business, or as complicated as owning a castle in the Abyss. It can be outlandish that it is unachievable, such as stopping the Blood War, and you won't complete that but it can have great in game possibilities to promote that idea. This is where the majority of the plot will live, and ideally we will weave them together with other players over time (either you all together or various connections I will develop throughout the game through NPCs, Faction disagreements, other adventuring groups, etc.). Character Building Rules: All characters will be 10th level, all official books, wealth by level (price for magic items will be offered at gameplay.) We will be doing a 27 Point Buy System. No need to make sheets at the moment. One free feat at first level. Some spells will have longer durations due to the house rules, this will be determined at gameplay. Short Rest players have a bit of an advantage with the resting rules. House Rules and Background Information:   Sir Elias Windgrace, PC Patron A man of some renown, Windgrace is from a Material Plane long since lost to history. With enough Resiling in him, the man might tell some of the stories from his homeland, usually focusing on the knighthood he was once a part of. Most of the time though he would rather talk about his own adventures travelling around the planes. Still, he has enough pride to keep the sir from his knighthood. As an elf nearing his 800 year, there are quite a bit of stories and histories he can speak in length about and enjoys to! Many find it fascinating to learn he was a Paladin since he seems much more comfortable and fluent in the high society of wine, intellectualism, and the great epics and stories of the time. Any Paladin or Holy warrior could with some observation realize he had broken his oath at some point. Whatever that path may have been. It is a subject he will not speak about, though it does not anger him when mentioned. He discards the query as one about customs too complicated to explain. Age is starting to show though, physically he cannot move far without pain or tiredness. His pride will not allow him to be carried or to use magic and so he tends to stay within his manor grounds, hosting gatherings rather than being the scene elsewhere. His mental mind is very sharp still, and quite a few scholars call on him to learn about what he had experienced in the world. While his age would have forced him into retirement, he did that nearly a hundred and change years before. Chant is that an ancient enemy of his, some say a former power, has it out for him and Sigil provides him safety. His own heavily armed guards and magical wards speak to a man who is aware he needs protection constantly despite his own magical skill (for his skill with the blade has deteriorated greatly with age). When asked he usually has an off handed joke or moves into a long winded story about why that ultimately tells nothing of the sort. If pushed this does become a sore subject. Faction Connections: Despite many factions hoping to have him join, he has remained factionless. This does not mean he is not involved in factions, there are quite a few he enjoys pleasurable relationships with. He is very close with three factions. Sensites are the ones he host the most, and while many of his closest companions have cards with the faction, he finds most of them annoying. He likes the idea of preserving memories, and their hall of memories is one of the few places he will make a painful journey to. The Fraternity of Order he finds very tasteful. Perhaps it comes from his Paladin background, or it could be other things. He greatly enjoys engaging with this group and it is the one Faction he has debated joining once in his former "middle years". He greatly enjoys the conversations with these academics and there is usually a few of them constantly by his manor. It is not odd he chose one of them to build this party. The chaosmen. This is the most unusual one considering his strong agreement with the Fraternity of Order. He loves interacting with these people. Chant is that he agrees with them, but who knows with this versatile creature. While they tend to show up after his Order friends leave, he has a habit of drinking heavily with them late into the night at least once a month. There is a personal comfort there many find strange or downright problematic. Those of the order say his mind is waning with these actions, but yet again he is a common contact for academic research on certain subjects. On that same note he will never outright condemn them. In fact he tends to defend them often against the fact it hurts his good will. Why be a Sponsor: Windgrace has been alive and in Sigil for the last two races. He still finds himself annoyed he couldn't have been alive for the first one. He has been an active participate in both of them. The first one he attended, during his younger years, he led an adventuring band known as the Andorra Eight, named after a city from their homeland. During the course of their adventure, they were constantly considered the would be winners as they worked fast and efficiently. Unfortunately something dark happened within the Gray Wastes, and they lost two of their members in combat with a coven of hags. Soon later in their attempt to free the land, they ended up taking a portal into the Abyss, where one of them lost their identity to the River Stix. At this point the adventuring party broke up, with some quitting the mission to attempt to regain their friend's memories, while Windgrace and his former lover Ishama attempted to complete the race themselves. Unfortunately they were unable to complete the task in time. The Second time, Despite Windgrace's older age, he was dedicated to attempting to complete this mission. Teaming up with Ishama once again, they had a group prepared and set off as soon as the March began. After receiving the essence of both the Abyss and Limbo, Windgrace suddenly decided it was time for him to retire. This shocked the adventuring world, and caused a huge strain in his friendship with Ishama. It was here that he became a recluse, and it is still unknown why he was forced to remain in Sigil. Now that it is happening again, and he is still alive, he is desperate to have this race be won under his name. While he cannot adventure himself, he is employing a group to do it for him.   Essences are meant to be very subjective and vague. Ultimately each judge of each plane is the one to determine this. I am excited to see the experimental ways players go about this, but just to give you an idea. Arcadia: A holy book of Code of Conduct taken from a Paladin order of that land. The Grey Wastes: Weeds from the bottom of the River Stix, Anything from a yugoloths' fortress. Mechanius: A modron was given once, a piece of gear used by their legal courts, or perhaps a fully fleshed and filled out form of legal residency in the plane. Beastlands: A petitioner animal coming willingly, the memory saved in a Sensite orb of a great hunt or even being the prey of such a hunt. Abyss: The whip used by demons to move the armies forward, or Blood War Battleplans. Hell: A Devil Contract, any item of value given freely by a Devil. Open to many more ideas.   DISCLAIMER: We can alter these if they do not work as well during gameplay. They are meant to make exploration more dangerous, and to promote downtime and creating safe spaces for rest. A Pit Stop: This is a one hour rest of light activities where PCs can spend up to 3 HD on any combination of two things: -They can spend them as normal for a roll (reroll ones) to regain that amount of HP -They can expend one to three HD to regain a spell of that level. For example they can use 1 HD to regain 1 level One Spell, or 2 HD to regain 1 level Two Spell, or 3 HD to regain 1 level Three Spell. - they can mix and match: example one, using 1HD to gain health, and 2 HD to gain a Second Level Spell. Example two, using 1 HD to gain a Level One Spell, and 2 HD to gain a Level Two Spell. - They can never gain a spell slot over their max spell slots of that level. A Short Rest: A 8 hour rest of sleep. This Follows the PHD rules of A Short Rest, with one exception, that a PC/NPC/Big Baddie can use the ability of a Pit Stop for Spell Slots using HD. There is no limit of HD used, but remember you only regain HD in a Long Rest. A Long Rest: 1d4+3 Days will equal a long rest. It allows for the full abilities of a Long Rest. During this time PCs do not need to be confined home or sleeping. They can do research, handle business, sneak around, and do anything else that is not "heavy lifting" or combat. I want this time to be used to explore characters, follow leads, build personal plot lines and ways to make money. Do note with things like sneaking, it could easily lead to combat which ends the Long Rest. So be wary. I also expect to fast forward this time if need be, we do not need to play out each day, I want time to pass and allow various choices the PC to make to mature. It also can make extended trips into the planes more dangerous, or force one to find places to camp and stay for longer moments. There are Two Ways to reduce this time of a long rest. -One: Hiring a Witch-Doctor/Priest/Doctor for one day of healing allows you to reduce it by another day. Ex: 3 days with a doctor and one day without, lowers the time to 4 days if a long rest was a full 7 days. This will cost 10GP per a day. A PC with the Medicine skill can pass a check each day to take the place of the Doctor DC 15 and using a charge of their Healing Kit. Any day doing this is lost for activities outside of the location of rest (home, hotel, etc.), if a PC assists they also are confined to the locale. -Two: Being Confined to a Hospital can reduce the Time to 2 days. The PC must pay the rate of the location, and can do nothing besides read and talk to whoever visits during this time. The rate changes depending on location, it will not be insanely expensive but think 100s of Gold. All Hospitals in Sigil are owned by a few Factions [TBD, not every faction] so be wary about pissing them all off. I think three factions will each own a hospital but I am uncertain about that. To reduce the cost of hospital visits, there are three ways, One is to build your own hospital in the land you can buy or gain from other means. Obliviously expensive at first, but cheaper and easier to deal with later. Can also bring money in if you open it to the public. Two, becoming a faction member allows you reduced prices. The higher you rise it could become free. Do keep in mind, you can only ever be part of one faction. This reduction does not help other PCs, only members of that faction, though I am certain particular circumstances may change that for a moment. Three, saving or becoming close with groups on other planes could open up hospitals on outer planes for free or reduced fees. Considering that Sigil is the City of Doors, this could be a good alternative. At the same time while tolls are illegal, whoever owns the portal does control access legally, which may be annoying. PCs can gain access to portals themselves as the game continues. This also could include travel time if the hospital is not near the portal, so I expect this to not be used often but very valuable for adventures in particular places or if you all mess up with every healing faction.

[Sageheart]

Originally Posted by Mairien

[RossN]

Oh very interesting!

How much familiarity with Planescape would a player need to have? I think I have the old 2e book somewhere but I'm very, very far from an expert ad have no play experience.

[Sageheart]

Originally Posted by RossN

Oh very interesting!

How much familiarity with Planescape would a player need to have? I think I have the old 2e book somewhere but I'm very, very far from an expert ad have no play experience.

Some knowledge would be helpful, this game will be heavy influenced by the various factions. Most of the 2e books are currently legally free online at Internet Archive so they are able to be seen there and even downloaded.

I do not mind bringing in people with more minimal starter knowledge at all. In particular learning about the planes would be fine to do in game, or alongside your comrades. The hard part would be the factions. If you would like I can send you some primers on them I have used in the past.

But yes, I do not need you to be an expert, just enough knowledge to get by and expect to learn more as we play!

[Mhoram]

This seems really fun. My first 3.5 adventure was set in Sigil and went to pretty high levels. I’ll try to bake up a character concept.

[Sageheart]

Originally Posted by Mhoram

This seems really fun. My first 3.5 adventure was set in Sigil and went to pretty high levels. I’ll try to bake up a character concept.

Welcome! I am a huge fan of 3.5e and was debating running this in that format since I prefer it. I felt 5e may bring in more players here though. I have been on a Sigil frenzy these days of research and reading old material.

[Azathool]

Azathool's Application - Complete "Seeking Cosmic Insight Across the Planes." Concept Scribe and master of knowledge, historian and seeker of lore on the portals. Image Created with DALL-E 3 Name: Professor Hieronymous Glyph II(D&DB Sheet) Age: 289 Class/Subclass: L9 Wizard (Scribes) / L1 Cleric (Knowledge) Race: Autognome (Spelljammer) (1,2&5: Created in his father's image to carry on his legacy. Win the Modron March Grand RaceAutognome History) Alignment: Lawful NeutralLN Faction: Who Consume Magic and Its SecretsIncanterium Background Background: Planescape: You spent a significant amount of time somewhere influenced by intense planar forces or a portal to another plane of existence, such as one of the gate-towns in the Outlands. You’re accustomed to experiences that would leave others reeling in terror or enraptured by otherworldly beauty, and you’re as comfortable dealing with Celestials and Fiends as you are with the vendors in town (who might be one and the same).Gate Warden | Feature: Living in a gate-town or a similar location steeped you in planar energy. You gain the Scion of the Outer Planes feat. In addition, you know where to find free, modest lodging and food in the community you grew up in.Planar Infusion (Planescape)(This counts as my "free" Feat, as the background comes with one.)   Hieronymous was born, if being "brought to sentience" can be said to be born, 289 years ago, but whether to the day, week or month would be hard to know. The fleshy Hieronymous Glyph, the already ancient Rock Gnome Artificer had been a member of the Fraternity of Order, one of the losing teams to the Sigil Adventurer Union. Already 450 years old he knew he would not live to see the next Modron march, but using his skill and magic within Sigil a "child" was created, a mechanical duplicate, Hieronymous Glyph the Second, to carry on the legacy and win the contest. But of course, when you create a child they seek their own destiny, and the second of his name went his own way, keeping with the "family tradition" of magic, but in a different direction, one of lore and knowledge of the very plane it was created in and of the portals that were the aortae of Sigil. Hieronymous Glyph II studiously studied and has recently gained acceptance as a Namer to the Incanterium faction, his lineage and skills apparently acceptable to the aged Incantifers in the newly appeared Tower Sorcerous. Some wonder why he was accepted given the secrecy of the ancient wizards given most Incantifiers are obnoxious self-centred wizards. Maybe there was something more to accepting Hieronymous than even he knows? Being a Gate Warden, Hieronymous's has seen many portals but has entered few. His earlier years being dedicated to research he was more interested in finding and studying them, but now with the competition on hand that is about to change. Hieronymous of course knew the great day approached for the March as he had known for over two centuries, and as most others caught unawares at the early date. For him it was one amongst many dates and events, but as the day approached, he unaccountably found himself attracted to its lure… the lure of the Modron March Grand Race. And so he found himself in the home of Sir Elias Windgrace, his knowledge of history, lore and especially the portals being something someone for once might need. Role-Playing Sample   Hieronymous knew why others gave him the look they always did. A smile, undercut by a frown of annoyance. But it was his job after all to to ask the questions, as if questions were not asked, how would you know the answers? What, Were, When, Which, Who, and the most dreaded of them all. Why. Some even called him "Why" behind his back, but even as they said it they also acknowledged that Hieronymous was one of the most skilled Lore Seekers, Scribes and Portal Wardens in the whole realm, it's just they didn’t think to ask… he was after all a book worm. "Why only five planes? Can't we do all seventeen?" He had asked Ishama the same question at least a dozen times, he knew the answer, but then, he wasn't nicknamed "Why" for no reason. Hearing no answer, Hieronymous plowed on… "When do we start? Who is coming? What are their names?" "Thirty-five days, don’t know, and if I don’t know who, I certainly don’t know their names… and indeed even if you will be one of those names, especially if you keep on asking questions!" Hieronymous was not the most articulate creature, but he was not stupid and decided to go somewhere else for now… and ask someone else if they knew. Allies/Rivals Rival(s) : Members of the Believers of the Source. They knew Hieronymous's origin and think his creation is sacriledge. Allie(s) : Members of the Fraternity of Order. Hieronymous's might have been accepted to the faction had he been a little less annoying with the "W" questions. Rival : Single PC/NPC TBD. Ally : Yselda. Let me know a particular plane you are interested in travelling toPlane: All of them of course! Secret Agenda: Secret for the DM. Personal Goal Hieronymous is not quite sure why, but he has suddenly become very interested in winning the competition… something niggling deep in his mind. And to do so that means he needs to know more, more magic, more lore, more on the portals. He will take it upon himself to transcribe every spell he can, record every important event, and ask every W question he can to the utter distraction of those around him.

OOC Yup, I know you said not to build a character sheet, but it's how I do applications, it helps me to see in my mind what the character looks like technically, who it is, what it can do, what its future might be. Part of my process. If accepted the details are transcribed to whichever system the DM prefers, be that the 5E RPGX sheets or something else, so the "effort" is on me.

[Mhoram]

Mhoram’s Application "…Now THAT would be the greatest adventure of all" Concept Easy-going Feywild Hobgoblin Monk/Ranger. Name: Spector O’Roarke Age: ??? Class/subclass: L7 Monk (Astral Self) / L3 Ranger (Feywild Wanderer) Race: Hobgoblin (MMoM Fey version) Alignment: Chaotic NeutralCN Faction: Transcendent OrderCiphers Plane: The Feywild: he wants to take something precious and beautiful from the Unseelie Lordling that banished him from the wilds. Something embodying beauty, grace, longing and spite. Background Background: Feylost Spector was born from a human woman who came to the Feywild as a cosort to a Fey Lord. Gestating in the wild, the magic of the place marked him causing him to be born a a Fey Hobgolin (MMoM variant). Neither of his parents took an interest in his upbringing so he became a brawler living with the autumn wildfae, hunting and tracking, tussling and making meses. War came to his lands when a powerful Djinni Druid invaded with a small army of Fire Elementals looking for treasure and thralls. He enlisted in the Winter Court militia and was trained in formal Unseelie martial techniques, mastering additional weapons and learning to draw on his innate fae magic. After the war he left military service whose discipline suited him poorly, but he was also no longer suited for the juvenile frolic and mayhem of his childhood. In time he apprenticed himself to a sapient shambling mound who taught him the arts of true discipline and combat. He mastered a secretive hard martial art style ‘Prakriti’ (the Pure Way or Nature’s Way depending on disputed translations) a technique that taught him to summon and channel plantlike extensions from his body. Years ago later, after getting into trouble with a fey lordling resulting in inadvisably winning a duel, some friends helped him flee to Sigil where he’s laid down roots. His training in martial arts drew him to the Great Gymnasium and shortly after into the Transcendent Order. He pays the bills by joining adventurers looking for a support brawler. He’s easy going and takes an interest in people pretty easily so he’s well liked, but he never lays down roots with anyone, preferring to return to the solitude of his small rooms and his favorite homey cafe (Leaves of the Vine) at the edge of the Market Ward. Allies/Rivals Ally: Barbed Black Razorvine . Awakened Shrub of Razorvine. Proprietor of "Leaves of the Vine"a tea shop and cafe grown from Razorvine at the edge of the Market Ward. Barbed Black was abandoned years ago and discovered its calling when it found it could psychically cultivate ideas and feelings into plants. In time it grew a shop which is Spector's home away from the Feywild. Spector is very protective of Barbed Black's teahouse and regards Barbed Black as a trusted being to reality check him in moments of confusion. Barbed Black in turn worries about Spector that he spends too much time on his own and doesn't form meaningful friendships with humanoids. Ally: Brass Ring of Destiny A medium sized bronze-colored Rilmani with a mobius strip head floating above a trilaterally symmetrical body. Soft spoken and pompous, they are a regular of Leaves of the Vine is a favorite confident of Spector. They debate aesthetics and swap stories of journeys in the outlands. Brass Ring claims that Leaves of the Vine is the only place in the explored planes where the IDEA of coffee has been successfully distilled, making it possible for inorganic life to partake of its blessings. The frequency with which twitchy modrons and other constructs arrive for take-away supports this premise. Spector doesn't know that Brass Ring has only been a regular since he's started coming. Rival: Pavana Sul (the south wind) is a blended fire and air female air genasi and fellow member of the Transcendent Order. She's also the only other trained practitioner of Prakriti martial arts he's met since coming to the Outlands. Despite his best efforts they simply CANNOT get along. Pravana is self aggrandizing where Spector is self-effacing. Pravana is quick to judge where Spector takes his time to form opinions. And as much as he doesn’t like to admit it, he still has problems with fire elementals. Role-Playing Sample   Spector sipped his venomous froghemoth brew while the sorcerer and barbarian across the table squabbled quietly over a small pile of loot from their recent raid on a Githyanki flesh bazaar. Twins, children of the Wizard Portio the Distant, allegedly sharing a single soul but apparently not able to share a coffee in peace. He smiled through numb lips and shook his head softly. He wouldn’t sign up with these two again. A crash of mugs at the counter drew Spector’s attention. An iridescent black Yugoloth in purple robes and a dripping five foot high green mass of sticky ooze were facing each other with hostility while the viney proprietor, Barbed Black twitched a few spiny limbs in frustration. It's sharp psychic voice rippled out: *PEACE IN MY SHOP. Or I will summon a Dabus.* The faceless fiend with a high purple collar ignored the hosts’ imprecation and raised a long-fingered arm to release a line of blue sparking lightning into the inflated mass of plasm of resentment, illuminating it and singing the razor vine back wall of the shop which peeled away in pain. Instead of burning, the green figure exploded and where each of the pieces landed a smaller figure grew up, vibrating with plasmic fury. They began smashing nearby tables and mugs transforming them into improvised weapons. Spector was now standing behind the tall robed figure. A shimmering mass of vines had emerged silently from behind his cloak and tapped the fiend on his smooth shoulders. “Friend. I think perhaps it’s time for you to leave.” The Yugoloth turned on him wordlessly in a spasm of violence, an explosion of force, a spiral of spectral blades a thrashing mass of darkness. Spector ducked, weaved, battered away the sorcerous constructs and as the hungry tide of darkness sucked at his feet, his spiritual tentacles lifted the creature ten feet off the floor and pressed his faceless head into the razor vile ceiling until his ichorous blood dripped onto the floor. The spell faded and the creature’s arms lifted in surrender. Viney arms tossed him absently out the door. Spector looked over at the scrambling array of small oozes ineffectually massing their improvised weapons, shook his head. “And you, Garivon, pull yourself together.” Personal Project   The martial art known as Prakriti is sometimes translated as 'The Pure Way', 'Nature's Way', or 'The First Way'. Legend tells that a celestial embodiment of the Astral Sea brought the art in crystalline form to six chosen sages of the inner planes, one from each of the elemental planes and one from the Fey Realm and another from the Shadowlands. The sages each took disciples and they travelled the inner planes proving their arts to be unsurpassed. The sages used the crystals that held their astral wisdom to create a pagoda deep in the astral sea where they could meditate undisturbed, expanding their wisdom without the corrupting influence of the world. The disciples of Prakriti travelled the inners proving their power and wisdom and they made enemies. An aboleth known as Auxaumbra set in motion a plan to destroy the order and consume their astral wisdom. During the festival of renewal when the discples returned to the the Astral Pagoda, his agents struck. Death and disharmony rent the temple and the masters died sealing it against the invaders. The crystalline wisdoms were carried away by survivors and hidden throughout the planes lest Auxaumbra consume their power and wisdom. Spector learned that Pravana Sul believes the legend are true and is seeking to reclaim the crystals of wisdom and reopen the temple as its new grandmaster. That would be intolerable. He's decided he's got to do it first. But he doesn't know where to start yet. Secret Agenda   Spector doesn't have a secret agenda but Brass Ring has an agenda around him. Brass Ring believes that Spector is fated to take some action or inaction that could mark the fate of the Outlands for uncountable years. To this end he's being secretly cultivated, his feelings toyed with, his experiences shaped and being moved into position to unknowingly fulfill a series of prophecies that will mark him as the Chosen Champion of the Outlands in some trial yet to come.

Stealing Azathoths’ formatting. Man that’s some good formatting.

Updated with a personal project (reestablishing astral temple before rival can)

[Sageheart]

@Azathool: I had not expected someone to pick a minor faction. That is totally alright! I enjoy being surprised! Gives me something to think about.

[penbeast0]

Oozy Mama Name: Yenni Age: 30 Class/subclass: Fathomless Warlock/Aberrant Mind Sorcerer Alignment: CH/G Faction: Sign of One Personal Goal: Somehow to reconcile my two lives. My home life with my partner, Still, and my offshoots, Ebb and Flo, is the center of my life. Yet, whenever I am there, my heart and mind turns outward to the dark space between the stars and the whispers from the void. And yet, whenever I sign on to go out into the black again, all I can think of is returning home.   Well, as a plasmoid, appearance is extremely variable. I do have a fondness for dramatic colors and occasional jewelry. At the last event I went to, I went as deep indigo with shining lit jewels in a pattern representative of the constellation Orion. My magic tends to be much lower variance than most though. All of my spells, other than a few personal protection ones, lean heavily on pseudopods (arms of hadar, agonizing blast, tentacle of the deep) or tendrils of energy. It's the way we plasmoids think. I could never wrap my head around balls of fire or other elemental attacks at anything other than the most basic level.   Sailor: Space Feature: Ships Passage Trait: I often get lost in my own thoughts, becoming oblivious to my surroundings Trait: Having found my special someone I have no interest in others. Ideal: People deserve to be treated with dignity and respect. Bond: I will always come home to my family. Flaw: In space (or at night), I can get distracted by the siren call of the void.   My main ally and life partner is Still and of course our offshoots, Ebb and Flow. Still and I met in school. Still is a lot smarter than I am, courses/spells/work was always a soft reach for her/him/them. On the other hand, I was always better at actually using what we had learned and improvising, Still can be a bit by the screen . . . and by a bit, I mean it's like being partnered with a supercomputer. When school ended, I got my spacer's license, Still became an administrator, a judge, and a member of the coordinating council. I went out into the black, Still stayed home and when we budded, Still became the main caretaker. Ebb takes after Still in discipline and focus, Flor is more social and flowing. They will both be two soon, and I will be away. I miss all three of them and think about them all the time, but it can be overwhelming having all three of them around. I never really had rivals; I've always gotten along with everyone but some things happened in my past that have left others distrustful or resentful of me. The main incident, of course, is when I was on the Whirl of Stars, an spell jammer in the Donnerites region of near space. The ship lost contact, no records were ever found, just me, the lone survivor, floating untethered in the Belt. The experts say that I may have cannibalized parts of myself, including those for short and medium term memory, to survive. I have no memory of what happened to the Whirl, how I ended up in space, or much of the time before that. Lots of speculation of course; especially among the connections of the missing crew. It was a Hadozee chartered ship, they tried suing me unsuccessfully, and some in the tribe may have sworn oaths of vengeance. Someone had to be blamed and I was the only target. So, I guess they would be rivals or enemies. I try to avoid Hadozee now. One thing that came out of the experience though was Ting-a-ting. Ting is my, mmm, fixer. There's not really a common word equivalent for the job. Ting-a-ting helps people work through and adjust to problems. Part engineer, part doctor, part therapist, part friend, Ting is probably the being I'm closest to outside my family. Ting's an automaton of course, but fully independent consciousness, not a group mind or anything. Ting also meets with my family group, but I probably use the services more than all the other combined. We have been waving each other regularly even when I'm out in the black. Ting is the best listener in the universe, got their ELIZA certification and everything.   Gods, which plane would I want to visit? Well, all of them, ok, except a few of the nastier hells. But really, if there was just one, it would be lost Heliopolis, destroyed in the Spell Plague. I've always heard it was like the Elysium for beauty and peace, but with more structure. The Pharaohnic Gods brought light with their sun chariot, life with the River of Isis. The dichotomy created peace, or so I've heard. Of course, it is gone now but traces of it must still remain, blown onto other planes or fractured into crystalline structures floating in the void. And the stories I could bring back to my family!     Some samples of existing RPGX games: https://www.rpgcrossing.com/showthread.php?t=225788 https://www.rpgcrossing.com/showthread.php?t=227108 As the spellhammer crossed the planes, Yenni stared into the between. There was something there, an consciousness or pattern that called to her. The nothingness contained infinite potential, the potential of a universe of my own creation, like something from the Signer services that I have attended all my life without really believing. But now, it seems real, possible, coming into being there in front of me. In the beginning was the word and the word spoke in the darkness, blaring forth in a cacophony of . . . Yenni's attention was rudely wrenched from her reverie as she realized that the noise around her was real. The boarding alarms were sounding, something was attaching to the ship. Initiative 3-1=2 (DEX of 8)Everyone else had moved to deal with the problem. What was wrong with her? Was this how the "Whirl" had ended? Trying to catch up, she moved toward where the others were exciting. Yenni quickly Twinned Haste spelltwinned energy pseudopods for her melee compartriots and moved to see the problem. The spelljammer was being swarmed by arboreals, Hadozee type creatures but with big eyes and smaller limbs. She Bonus action Tentacle of the deep, to hit 1d20+9=18, damage 1d8=2 cold and movement reduced by 10'created a psuedopod to try to smack one away from the most vulnerable areas of the ship, the fragile antennae that brought sensory information into the main navigation system. She stayed in the doorway, needing the protection against being noticed and attacked by the other arboreals; that and she didn't want to fall off the ship with her clumsiness . . . again.   https://www.rpgcrossing.com/profiler/view.php?id=93779   I've been hanging around here for several years. I post quickly and consistently, if not brilliantly or in great length, and have never quit an active game. I know little of the whole Planescape construct. The only things I've read have been a guide to the Spelljammer races and the planes for doing this, none of the books or modules. The only things I've played that connect are the old rpg "Planescape: Torment" many many years ago and a current run through the Modron Maze here on RPGX. So, please correct me or point where I should be looking to learn enough to keep up my end of the adventure if I'm picked.

[Azathool]

Originally Posted by Mhoram

[...] Stealing Azathoths’ formatting. Man that’s some good formatting.

No problem, copying with attribution is one of the highest forms of praise, without attribution is plagiarism. I try different formats here and there, not to overwhelm with walls of text.

Originally Posted by Sageheart

@Azathool: I had not expected someone to pick a minor faction. That is totally alright! I enjoy being surprised! Gives me something to think about.

It had to be Law/lawful/order, but given the Benefactor is already "in" with the main faction I decided to go minor. Hope that is ok.

@DM, confirm that if we pick a background that includes a Feat, that counts as the free feat.

@DM, can you expand on our starting gold. I expect to pre-spend all mine copying spells @ 50gp/level.

[Sageheart]

Originally Posted by Azathool

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It had to be Law/lawful/order, but given the Benefactor is already "in" with the main faction I decided to go minor. Hope that is ok.

@DM, confirm that if we pick a background that includes a Feat, that counts as the free feat.

@DM, can you expand on our starting gold. I expect to pre-spend all mine copying spells @ 50gp/level.

I would have been fine with double, or tying yourself to the Patron, but this is also a cool idea. I like the thought of expanding on the minor factions as well.

On background feat, that would count for the free feat. I just want every player to have one feat at first level.

Wealth by level in PHB I believe should have a chart. I can look it up outside of work. I have a spreadsheet for magic items which makes them somewhat pricey. There will be ways to get ones through adventures and loot.

[Sageheart]

Originally Posted by Azathool

ok, for L10 it's 16,563 gp.

Let's just round to 17,000

But I dont need a sheet till after I accept people.

[Sageheart]

This reddit post has the link to the excel sheet I will be using for starting prices for items. As the game continues the prices will change based upon where you are and connections to the seller. But for those of you who want it now, there it is.

Cheers all! Happy to see people interested so soon. I know this game concept is fairly open ended on purpose.

[Double or Nothing]

Very interested!

I'm working on my application and have some questions.

Background: Each PC must have been in Sigil long enough to be comfortable with plane hopping and factions.

This is for our character's backstory? Or is for the Background character creation option?

RPG Sample:

Should we post an example of our roleplaying from another campaign, write something original, etc.?