Planescape General and Q&A
Discuss Planescape and the Great Wheel here, whether the original AD&D 2e version, the 3.X version, the 4e version (yes, it exists in 4e, down to the baernaloths, the yugoloths, the Heart of Darkness, Maeldur et Kavurik, Tenebrous, Pelion, and the Last Word all being canon as of Dragon #417), the 5e version, or your own original blend.
I am exceedingly well-lanned on Planescape canon under a holistic blend of 2e, 3.X, and sometimes even 4e lore. If you have any questions at all about the setting's lore, feel free to ask, and I will give you direct quotes and citations from as many primary sources as I can, unlike afroakuma. I will note when something is open to GM interpretation, and explicitly note whenever I give merely my own personal interpretation.
>Basic setting summary: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planescape
>Comprehensive Planescape reference index: http://www.rilmani.org/psIndex.txt
>Planewalker.com planar encyclopedia: http://mimir.planewalker.com/encyclopedia/plane
>Canonfire.com planar encyclopedia: http://canonfire.com/wiki/index.php?title=Outer_Planes
>Rilmani.org planar encyclopedia (contains unmarked fanon, so beware): http://www.rilmani.org/timaresh/Outer_Planes
>List of all the multiverse's gods (contains all gods mentioned in D&D products, but also has plenty of speculation and fanon for mythological deities and for powers with few details on them): http://mimir.planewalker.com/forum/list-dead-gods#comment-58090
Old threads with previous questions and comprehensive answers:
https://archive.4plebs.org/tg/search/text/%22comprehensive%20planescape%22/
>>44377658
What are the most important books for playing Planescape in 2e?
>>44380278
Ironically, the core Planescape Campaign Setting boxed set is not particularly vital to playing or running Planescape. If anything, it is rather unpolished and unrefined.
The single most important book for Planescape 2e is the "Planewalker's Handbook." It is the most up-to-date summary of the entire setting, useful for both players and GMs, and everyone who intends on using the setting should read through it as much as possible.
Following up from that, you will want "In the Cage: A Guide to Sigil," "Factol's Manifesto," and "Uncaged: Faces of Sigil" for running the City of Doors.
"Planes of Law," "Planes of Chaos," "Planes of Conflict," and "A Player's Primer to the Outlands" will acquaint you with the Outer Planes.
"Inner Planes," "Guide to the Astral Plane," and "Guide to the Ethereal Plane" should cover the remaining planes.
Those are the primary books you will want. If you wish to emphasize fiends and the Blood War, you should also download "Faces of Evil: The Fiends" and "Hellbound: The Blood War." Likewise, if gods and other divinities are supposed to be a focus, "On Hallowed Ground" should serve you well.
>>44380413
Thanks, i already have the boxed set and planeswalkers handbook, just wondering which ones I should go for next, that's incredibly useful.
Who /excited/ here?
>>44377429Dantioch dies. The last chapter is the Tyranids seeing the pharos signal.
>>44377429
Cautiously optimistic. But the HH Series has been very hit and miss recently, and honestly more miss then hit.
Now, is there a DL or Torrent link for this somewhere?
>>44377429
Me, but for unrelated reasons.
How overpowered is Callidus polymorphine? Can it turn them into an alien or non-humanoid?
Are the c'tan phase blades actually derived from c'tan weapons or are they reverse engineered from necron tech? And if so, why wasn't it condemned as xenotech?
Can you play a Callidus in any of the FFG 40K RPGs?
>>44376449
In Ian Watson's book, (not sure how cannon that is, seeing it was trying to advance 40k's plot) one of the calliduses recieved a cutting-edge surgery, so she could turn into a genestealer. She became unable to turn into anything else, which hit her hard. However before that she could took the form of an Eldar, so I am guessing any humanoid goes, as long as it doesn't diverge in mass (read: no marines)
>>44377053
She couldn't make the upper claw arms, she had to impersonate a damaged one with just the human lower set.
There's an old john blanche picture of her in the original printing of Inquisitor, but I can't find it.
>>44376449
One attempts to kill Shadowsun impersonating an Ethereal. She figures out that something is wrong because "he" doesn't have the scent or presence.
What does it feel like when someone casts raise dead on you?
>>44375822
Like dying, but you get better instead of worse at the end.
>>44375822
Holy god aided raise dead or necromancy raise dead?
cleric spell: Feels like sitting next to a warm fireplace sipping a cup of hot cacoa in a warm blanket as you get an corporeal body.
Necromancy: Wherever you are, in hell as a worm or your gods heaven, it feels like your body is being raped.
>>44375822
Well, like they said, it depends entirely on the spell used.
Going with general Raise Dead and sort of average for these sorts of spells...
Have you ever just gotten to sleep after a long day and after maybe an hour of sleep, someone wakes you up and you have to get up an out of bed?
That horrible groggy feeling? Multiply that by about a hundred.
So the I got an itch to run another one of these games.
Rules as usual: first option to get three vote is a-go. if 30-45 mins have passed and there's no consensus, the option with the most votes is picked.
Sometimes, aside from the "normal" options, I'll call for a vote for cultural stuff and things like that, completely separate from the primary vote.
Anyway, let's get started!
Harpies damn son
>>44374900
Sorry mobile phone fuck it up
>>44374888
It's Christmas so clearly we need to be elves that live in the tundraand are ruled by one really fat dwarf
Tell me /tg/, how to I go from casual Kitchen Magic with a bunch of old cards to playing in one of these formats I've heard you talk about?
I know the basic rules of the game, but I don't know that many terms for common card effects, if that helps at all.
1) decide what format(s) you want to play
2) find what decks are applicable for said formats
3) play them until you get good
>>44374080
But what formats are there, and how are they different?
>>44374117
http://magic.wizards.com/en/game-info/gameplay/rules-and-formats/formats
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>>44373938
I miss MkI
>>44374272
y tho
Not "Cryxmas" for shame OP
How does torturing people save the DEldar from Slaanesh, exactly? I don't see why Slaanesh would care if they make other people suffer or why doing so would have any effect on their soul. Is there any kind of reasoning to this or is it just to give them an excuse for being so edgy?
>>44373396
Simple. Dark Eldar feed off intense emotions like psychic vampires. Since they're snobby and vicious, they only care about inflicting intense pain. Slaanesh drains them, and they drain mon'keigh etc. and each other faster.
>>44373396
Head cannon for this behavior is that because they were cloistered away for the psychic scream slannesh gave off, they are basically doomed to commit the same hedonistic acts that gave him power. This makes them both subservient to his values, but at the same time they hate his guts because if they don't, there are real repercussions.
I like to envision pain as the ultimate climax of these actions. After some literal experimenting the DEldar found pain, both personal and vicariously experienced, was the top of the rung to restore the soul juice, so to speak.
This also explains why Haemonculi are so favored amongst the powerful of commoragh, because they are basically a living barber shop of pain.
>>44373396
Slaanesh slowly sucks out their souls and they top their souls up by absorbing intense emotions from other beings. It turns out pain and suffering is the fastet and most efficent way to do this because 40k.
What would you like to see happen in 40k fluff wise? No retcons, just future development.
Mine:
>I want to see the tau get mulched in a war of attrition with pic related at least once. Because fuck the tau.
>>44371026
Tau get fucked.
DKoK won't do anything to Tau, Tau have already fought to a stalemate against unending IG in Damocles.
>>44371042
A man can dream, anon
>>44371078
Ignore namefagging I'm drunk and on phone
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>MTG Focus - Ep 39 - Inside A Leak ft Helene Bergeot
What do you think? We get one of the suspended guys version.
he sounds retarded, he was beligerent as fuck with Wizards and somehow, couldn't recall where he got the info from.
you don't fuck with the marketing side of a company, you simply don't,t hey will shit on you as hard as they can.
also when shit like this happens, if you say "Attorney" shit is OVER, your account will be banned/suspended and they won't say shit to you beyond their legal department.
I don't really know what to think. The guy kinda sounds sincere but he when full I NEED A LAWYER! GIVE ME MY CALL! So I don't feel much sympathy for him, he should have cooperate right away.
post your favourite dice
i wanna see some cute dice from other peoplei think i tried posting this a month or two ago but it died
>>44369521
I really like the look of speckled Chessex dice. Unfortunately, recent revelations point to the fact that their balance may be questionable, which leaves me contemplating what to do next. Game Science is expensive, has a limited selection at this point, and their dice tend to look and feel cheap. I've heard that translucent dice are a safer bet, as imperfections would tend to be obvious, so I may just go with Chessex translucents. Anyway, pic is most of my dice, though there are actually a decent number missing (pic is out of date and didn't include some odds and ends even at the time).
>>44370038
>and their dice tend to look and feel cheap
what? how?
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You are Brianna la Croix, unexpected adopted parent of a dead girl, and you're about to have the most serious talk of her life or death with her.
But no fucking pressure, right?
>>44367911
"Cherry, helping you means you've got to use ghost powers. And that means talking about you being dead. Are you sure you're ready for that?"
The little gap-toothed ghost flits in a misty jolt to a chair; she rests her chin in her hand, dejectedly. "I don't wanna be dead."
You sit down and set your book on the table. "Sweetie, nobody wants to be dead. But you are dead and no one can bring you back. Honestly...honestly, Cherry, you don't even really want to persist as a ghost."
"It's not /fair/!" the little girl yells.
> Welcome to existence, Cherry
> No, it's not. It's not fair to babies that die when they're born, either. Or to your mother.
> Comfort her
AND
> Vox leaks demon worldbuilding
> Vox leaks background information on an MC not chosen
>>44368052
>> No, it's not. It's not fair to babies that die when they're born, either. Or to your mother.
>> Vox leaks demon worldbuilding
>I can't imagine it was very fair for the demons, either
>>44368052
> No, it's not. It's not fair to babies that die when they're born, either. Or to your mother.
> Vox leaks demon worldbuilding
A Visit From Logan Grimnar
'Twas the night before Solstice, when all 'cross the front
Not a soldier was stirring, not even a grunt;
Spent store-crates were stacked 'neath the light of the moon
With the hope that The Emp'ror would send supplies soon
The troopers were hunkered down, snug in their bunks
All dreaming of orks blown to meaty, wet chunks
And the captain and I had just knelt for a prayer
In the hopes the next battle might some of us spare
When out past our trench there arose such a sound
I grabbed for my gun and jumped up with a bound
Away to the peep-hole I rushed with a jolt
jumped up on the fire-step and chambered a bolt.
The fires on the wreckage strewn 'cross no-man's land
Lit up the night sky for as far as it spanned.
When what do my wondering eyes fast resolve
But an ancient grav-sled, drawn by great Thunderwolves.
With a hulking old driver, white haired with a scar,
I knew in a flash: it was Logan Grimnar!
More rapid than las-bolts his war-beasts they came,
And he roared and he cursed and he called them by name:
"Now Tyrnak, now Fenrir, now Mjollnir and Jotun"
"On Gungnir, on Frostfang, on Uller and Wotun".
"Bring death to the xenos! Bring blood to this night!"
"Now charge, now ride on - we will put them to flight!"
Like an avalanche set by a century's snow-fall,
They crashed into the ork camp and broke through them all.
Firing wrist-mounted bolters as onwards he flew,
scatt'ring orks like shell casings - so many they slew!
Like lightning they struck, the whole camp was aflame,
Breaking through they rushed on, 'til to our lines they came.
I lost sight for a sec, then as I looked around
Right into our trench leapt Grimnar with a bound.
He was dress'd all in fur, from his head to his toes
And his wolf-pelts were red from the blood of his foes.
The trenchboards shook as he stalked down the track
And he looked like a wolf on the hunt with his pack.
His eyes - deep inside, there a twinkle I saw
T'was a bloodlust so fierce that I fell back in awe
The Old Wolf's grizzled mouth flickered as he drew near
The trace of a smile - I had no need to fear
Though he loomed like a nightmare from old soldiers myths
It was not death like that which he brought out forthwith
From beneath his great cloak he withdrew a large sack.
Which he opened at once - I was taken aback
There were bolters and lasguns and meltas and more
I had never seen such a collection before
From the seemingly bottomless sack he pulled out
Enough weapons to put a whole army to route
He spoke not a word but went straight to his work
Fill'd all the supply crates, then turn'd with a jerk
And laying a finger aside his great nose
He gave me a nod and then from the trench rose
Then he sprung to his sleigh, to his team gave a howl
And away they all flew; hunters back on the prowl
And that was the last seen by this commissar
Of the wonderous force known as Logan Grimnar
But I did hear him roar, ere he drove out of sight —
HAPPY SOLSTICE TO ALL, AND TO ALL A GOOD FIGHT!
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>>44360980
First for Ahriman
>>44360980
Who's the chibi ultramarine next to the Mechanicus supposed to be?
>>44361106
Solar Auxilia?
Too small to be a marine, so I assume it's a normal human in void armour?
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Just online or paper too?
God I hope this is true.
Also, I'm guessing that, if it is, the rest of the Legenday Land Cycle from Legends, as well as the rest of the Pitch Cycle from Alliances, will be Rares in here as well.
>>44353093
>Just online or paper too?
Yeah considering you have a chance to get wastelands out of any Gatewatch pack. Sounds like a MTGO only thing.
Which is good for those people I guess.
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