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"Bullets were falling like rain. And I was getting soaked." -Jack Hammer McStoneface in It Always Rains, Chapter 8 If you turn left at Dead Berk Boulevard, step backwards into the first alleyway you see, and successfully whistle ...

Article - The Great Hippo - 2008-07-04 20:03 - 2 comments - 0 attachments

I thought up of Sergeant Glarr as a NPC with which to introduce new-characters, mostly Primes (though not necessary) to Sigil and show that stereotypes like half-orcs being emotional savages don't really always apply on the Planes. Clueless charac ...

Article - Jenx - 2011-12-02 17:10 - 2 comments - 0 attachments

Since the DDI Jubilex article is of interest here, a short summary about it. Like other articles it describes his history and lore, themes for his followers and minions, and a write-up for Darkness Given Hunger. It has nothing on the Alkilith in ...

Forum Topic - Kobold Avenger - 2011-03-21 09:39 - 4 comments - 0 attachments

"Even I can't make Thingol laugh. I've tried. But I can make Thingol feel , and that's a damn sight more than any of you poseurs have ever done." -- Maltheniir, tiefling bard Ah, Maltheniir. Born with the voice, he was. Someone or ...

Article - Zimrazim - 2011-02-23 17:32 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Being a description of a gnome native to the Bottomless Deep, his craft, and the bloods and/or addle-coved sods in his company. Comdo Corkstopper (Pl/ ♂ gnome/ Exp 10/ Frat. of Order/ NG) says he was born in the City of Glass and lat ...

Article - Pinch of Salt - 2010-11-01 02:17 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

One of the things I like about Planescape is that with many of the fantasy character archetypes and philosophies, it's easy to twist them and turn them on their head yet have them still make sense. So one can make a real paradox of a character, y ...

Forum Topic - Surreal Personae - 2010-07-29 13:50 - 8 comments - 0 attachments

Generally, I would turn down a brain as insipid and uninspiring as yours. In your case, I’ll make an exception. --Uliusshuk, illithid performance-eater "Uliusshuk? (That’s ooh-lee-oos-SHOOHK. Note the pronunciation, berk.) He’s a mind ...

Article - Zimrazim - 2008-07-07 12:09 - 5 comments - 0 attachments

"Oh, my home is unimportant, a boring little demiplane where little of import happens. Not at all like the elemental purity of the Inner Planes or the infinite variety of the Prime's Crystal Spheres. Have you ever noticed how the spheres of the P ...

Article - Loki De Carabas - 2010-08-13 09:12 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Born from an illicit liason between his half Archon mother and a Tiefling father, Speaker of Balance has felt the pull of two worlds since his birth. He knows little of his family as he was left on the doorstep of an obscure monastery in Limbo sho ...

Article - Loki De Carabas - 2010-08-12 23:33 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Sparks cascaded like falling meteors onto the floating pathfinder crystal. Rysse gritted her teeth and hissed a barbed curse. The tiefling pulled herself up from under the command console to inspect the damage. A long shard of heated metal lay emb ...

Article - CrimsonLotus - 2010-07-22 18:39 - 0 comments - 0 attachments