Planescape campaign setting 2e wizards of the coast. Planescape campaign setting rpgnet d20 rpg game index. Fit for some players that are new to rpgs in general. But like i said, im rather proud of this piece and while im not sure how much chatter ddi articles get here since i havent seen much of it here of late, literally any comments or questions im game for and just about begging for since ive. Im looking for an introductory adventure for the planescape setting that i could use to sell people on planescape. In this case, the dm intends to use the planescape campaign setting for. Torment is a fantasy role playing game that uses the advanced dungeon and dragons rules with. It won rpg of the year from multiple outlets for its unconventional story, bizarre characters, and amazing soundtrack. I can understand this despite having needed to convert my entire rpg collection to pdf over the years nothing like the physical. Detailed information about deities planar domains, their servants and connections, covering 20 seperate pantheons.
Its a coherent module with lots of interesting subtext to the story which could still manage to hold its own on nothing but the skeleton of its plot. Its a frps crossover module, a good way to get pcs from a material world especially the realms into planescape. The set consists of a player and dm guide, a monstrous supplement, a guide to the town of sigil and the outlands, four color maps, and a dm screen. Planescape campaign setting is the core boxed set for the planescape setting. Yeah, when they brought back dark sun for 4th, i had hoped they realized what a treasure trove they had in the back catalog. Sigil lifestyle expenses lifestyle expenses guide for 5e dnd tailored for sigil. A players guide to the planes, a 32page primer that introduces dms and players. The main adventure brings the characters into the plot slowly, but soon involves them in a epic storyline. Dead money, old world blues, lonesome road, and south park. D so none of the mechanical things, optional races, etc. Like material components, they were picturesque and entertaining, and could themselves be the subjects of adventures. It does a good job of introducing the dm and the players to the setting without bogging them down in complicated details. Now the endless horizons of planescape beckon to us, and beyond even that we.
Explore the planes, survive combat alongside a party of bizarre companions, and solve puzzles unlike any ever seen in the genre. Though i think our dm drew all his knowledge of the setting from planescape. Dms can run the scenarios in other settings as well. Drive thru rpg is now carrying 86 pdfs of classic tsr dungeons and dragons goodness. The set was designed by david zeb cook and published in 1994. Planescape is a setting published by tsr in 1994 for second edition dungeons and dragons. This book, a collection of new npcs for use in planescape and within sigil specificallyindeed, some of them cant even leave sigil was pretty formative for me when starting out with the setting. Im not sure how it will be published yet, still a workinprogress. See more ideas about dungeons and dragons, fantasy art and fantasy. Chris avellone started his career at interplays black isle studios division and worked on planescape. It was a futile effort but i learned quite a bit along the way. Still, i think itd be very easy to adapt to 5e and make for a smoother play experience, provided you dont.
Torment is generally regarded as the greatest computer rpg of all time. Click download or read online button to get monstrous compendium planescape book now. Here is the full pdf of the mind mine for you guys to explore. Unfortunately it is no longer downloadable, so i searched on the web to find an old copy at this url. Explore sigil, the city of doors, filled with portals to every layer of every plane. Dead gods 1997, by monte cook, is a deluxe adventure for planescape. Torment was released in 1999 to widespread critical acclaim. This blog will serve a purpose similar to my other online rpg database for mayfairs dc heroes game. Planescape campaign setting forgotten realms wiki fandom. Oh, and i shouldnt forget to mention that the pc game planescape. I played in a 5e planescape campaign and it was super fun. Further, i use a lot of planescapeesque stuff for planar elements in one of my current 3. But, wotc did give planewalker permission to update the planescape campaign setting to 33. Sigil was originally created for planescape as the settings home base.
Philosophical calendar based on ken lipkas sigil calendar, cliff brannon has made a printable pdf version showing the days, months and special calendar days philcal. The planewalkers handbook is the essential manual for survival on the planes a players handbook for the planescape setting. A planescape tradeable card game was published under the title blood wars. Last rites is an isometric roleplaying game that takes place in tsrs planescape setting. This module is recommended by myself and the hopefully soontobebackonline planewalker community site. The adventure develops slowly, and is done in segments, so that the dm can run other adventures in between. Planescape campaign setting now available in pdf reddit. Way back in the time of the ancients 1994 planescape. These collections include various image, ebook and software archives. Torment game, western rpg, high fantasy, isometric rpg, mystery.
Product history tales from the infinite staircase 1998 is that rarest of beasts click here for more wizards of the coast. Contains a players guide outlining the themes and grand design of the setting and information relevant to planar character creation, a dms guide with more indepth information on each plane and its properties, a guide to sigil and the outlands, and a monstrous. Jul 25, 2015 i spent about a year converting planescape for 4th edition. Planescape introduced keys that opened gates to other dimensions. A oneshot that we could run with pregenerated characters. I hate to be that guy, but im not sure that present day wotc can pull off planescape or spelljammer. A full conversion of post faction war planescape to the dnd 3. Planescape is all about the power of belief so get them to tell you what they are most interested in like top 3 styles each and condense and then cater to that. It won rpg of the year from multiple outlets for its unconventional story, characters, and amazing soundtrack.
Now the endless horizons of planescape beckon to us, and beyond even that we see spearpoints and banners waving above the gathering armies of birthright. A boxed set describing the planescape multiverse, featuring descriptions of all of the planes, as well as the outlands and sigil. Planescape collectors guide morrus unofficial tabletop. The map of sigil, city of doors planescape rp nether. May 24, 2007 but, wotc did give planewalker permission to update the planescape campaign setting to 33.
Made some minor updates to a couple of sections, nothing really significant. I absolutely love the planescape setting, and have every product ever produced for it. It was responsible for introducing the tiefling, githzerai, bariaur and eventually. It uses the bioware forgotten realms engine with interplay artists supplying the planescape ambiance and feel. With the aid of a talking skull named morte, the nameless one escapes into the sigil, the. This 160page book, written for players and dungeon masters alike, builds on material from the planescape campaign setting boxed set, presenting new information crucial to anyone playing or. That all started in april with the planescape campaign setting 1994. Its designer was david zeb cook, and it is primarily based on. This page is a table of contents for my rpg blog, power score. It introduced the planescape setting and was highly praised by white wolf and pyramid magazines. It had to be a place that characters could come home to when they needed to. Dms guide to running 5e planescape and planar adventures. Torment, fallout 2, the icewind dale series, dark alliance, knights of the old republic ii, neverwinter nights 2, mask of the betrayer, alpha protocol, fallout.
It lists basic information about each location, wherever available, and is primarily intended to serve as a reference index rather than a substitute. These entries contain overviews of monster books and comprehensive looks at monsters, collecting the material from every edition in one place. There were planescape articles in dragon, dungeon and polyhedron magazines and planescape products were translated into at least three other languages. But, a certain someone sent me an email the other day with lots of useful advice, and interesting ideas on character buildup. Ive been in love with planescape for a long time but i was never able to get my. Planescape campaign setting also adds a lot of detail to these planes and even describes new paths between the planes, such as planar rivers and the world tree.
I spent about a year converting planescape for 4th edition. The adventures in the well of worlds work best in the planescape campaign setting, though. Ideally, im looking for an adventure that would satisfy the following criteria. As well as a line of thirty planescape branded rpg products, tsr released five novels, an extensive line of miniatures, a collectable card game and the torment computer game. Sigil, the city of doors much of the material that would become planescape was initially introduced in the supplement manual of the planes in 1987 by jeff grubb. One of the more famous aspects of the setting is the distinctive artwork of tony diterlizzi you can see some of his art in the gallery section of the article.
Baator planescape fantasy map, fantasy concept art. Apr 07, 2016 a setting like planescape also works much better with collaboration. Unfortunately, the ww system has some in my opinion very severe faults, when it comes to handling actions. The well of worlds is the answer to every bashers pleas for introducing gamers to the planes. The following resources add value and are easy to drop into any planescape campaign. Im going to be dming a planescape campaign for 34 friends. Torment fans have enjoyed the oftenstrange and alwaysdangerous city of sigil and surrounding planes through the nameless ones eyes. Way back in the time of the ancients 1994 planescape amazed players with fantastic art and nigh infinite possibilities. Welcome to the planes, denizens of the planes, factions of the planes. Links to planescape blogs, actual play podcasts, wikis, books, minis. Sometimes the problem is the geography of the planes. The second big change from manual of the planes to planescape was the inclusion of that new home base. Monstrous compendium planescape download ebook pdf, epub. It is the single best dnd book i have ever read and will make any gm immediately want to run planescape, if only to have the chance to roleplay some of these npcs.
In the outer planes, a holy sword can be a fiends best friend, especially when the owner wants it backsneaking into the second layer of foul baator aint easy, but with a little help from the right highup men, it can be done. Torment fans have enjoyed exploring the strange and dangerous city of sigil and surrounding planes through the. I dont own any of the 2nd edition planescape stuff, but obviously planescape influenced 3. How does planescape need to be adjusted to work with 3. The set consists of a player and dm guide, a guide to the town of sigil and the outlands, a monstrous supplement, four color maps, and a dm screen. Its also relatively editionfree and could easily be dropped into a 2e or 3. An amnesiac simply known as the nameless one wakes up in a massive catacomb, heavily scarred and tattooed with mysterious inscriptions. Theres also a lessdetailed version for players to use philcalplayers. The setting centers around exploring an original multiverse cosmology. Dont try to go off and design some epic campaignfake novel and then run your characters through it. Dead gods builds on story elements first explored in the planescape adventure anthology the great modron march, though that product is not required to use this one. Id recommend for duty and deity, you cant beat the price. Played a ton back in 2nd edition and some early 3rd ed.
These were published in the late 70s and early 80s and. As its name suggests, the setting crosses and comprises the numerous planes of existence, encompassing an entire cosmology called the great wheel, as originally developed in the original 1987 manual of the planes by jeff grubb. It contains 742 entries, but let us focus on the 107 that have 4 or 5 stars, meaning a good amount of data is available for the dm to flesh out the npc, including most. About genre rpg rating rated t for animated blood, suggestive themes, violencesummary planescape. We currently host various large scale collections amounting to hundreds of thousands of files. Dead gods is an incredible adventure for the planescape setting.
In my opinion, the planescape setting is not the best for a storyteller system conversion. This particular guide focuses on the planescape campaign setting, which was supported from 1994 to 1998. Chapter1 introduction this is an introduction to the planescape campaign setting, including information about the ps3e project, the history and themes of planescape, and a description of the cosmology itself. Course, exactly who the right highup men are can give a basher pause, so its often best not to ask. Wizardly magic works differently on the alignment planes. Additionally, if you want to continue beyond these short modules, i strongly recommend doors to the unknown.
The trove is a nonprofit website dedicated towards content archival and longterm preservation of rpgs. Although the idea of using the game engine of a horror rpg for planescape is really great. Review of planescape campaign setting rpgnet rpg game index. The more you know about your chosen rule set, the better. There used to be an npc list compiled from all official planescape material, hosted on. Click here for the dice, camera, action index page. Whenever a wizard summons a demon or devil, that creature must come from somewhere. A crossover product meant to be usable with the forgotten realms, this is a great introduction to planescape for players unfamiliar with the setting.
The best source ist probably the postfactionwar campaign setting pdf from. Got all the 5th edition stuff and absolutely love it. The trove is the biggest open directory of rpg pdfs on the internet. It will have both npcs and monsters from a variety of published sources always with appropriate citations and these will be indexed, on the. While out of print, planescape is available as an esd pdf download for purchase on tsrs web store. And, of course, presiding over it all is the grand and legendary forgotten realms. According to steve winter in 30 years of adventure. New ideas and rules for priest characters on the planes, tips on creating, visiting and surviving divine realms, comprehensive appendices listing gods by pantheon and portfolio, maps.
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