I was wondering if the World Serpent Inn is ever referred to by any other name or given an alternate flavor. I like the idea of an infinite but constantly shifting set of areas and passages to other realities or displaced chunks thereof, but I prefer to keep this concept and the World Serpent separate in an upcoming campaign. I also realize the superficial similarity of the Inn to Sigil, but the City of Doors wouldn't work well in this campaign. Finally, if anyone has any ideas about the World Serpent archetype, I would greatly appreciate them.
Alternative World Serpent Inn
Sat, 2008-01-12 17:35
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Alternative World Serpent Inn
Sat, 2008-01-12 19:31
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Alternative World Serpent Inn
Ah, thanks a lot!
I also had another idea as I showered: since the World Serpent Inn (or whatever analogue one uses) travels to various localities and often picks up chunks of reality attached to its own reality obliquely, I thought it might be the very same Mak Thuum Nghatha as one poster on the Wizards board detailed (essentially a Far Realm parasite that reproduces by virtue of parasitized multiverses and whose "skin" is formed from the remains of these multiverses). The demiplanar chunks of reality may form this skin.
Also, I was quite enthralled by an idea that you (rip) had concerning viral demiplanes. I was wondering how one might incorporate that into a WS Inn setting (assuming isolation from a multiverse).
Thanks so much and have a wonderful day!
There's the Nexus in the adventure Where Chaos Reigns and the Way-Back Inn in Tales of Blackmoor. Both are essentially the same thing: inns that contain portals to other times and worlds. Neither has a lot in the way of flavor (but then, the World Serpent Inn wasn't connected at all to the World Serpent until 2007—if you just reference Tales of the Outer Planes and the Manual of the Planes web enhancement, the only connection between the inn and the World Serpent archetype is the name).