Help with Campaign ideas

I think I heard that in Eternal Boundry you get from a crypt or the like on the Material plane through a portal of the Dustmen faction to Sigil.

In my campaign my players were stranded on a remote isle with a githyanki hatchery. There they discovered a portal to the Astral plane and from there they will (hopefully) find their way to Sigil.

Maybe you could tell us what (if you have one) bigger plot your campaign is going to have?

You may want to look through Kytos' Hooks for some ideas. It can be found under "Features" on the left hand side of the site's home page.

-Ophelia

My advice would be to take one of the higher level hooks and reduce the power of any implied combats.

One of the things about Sigil, which I've always attempted to stress to my players, is that levels are not nearly so important as a quick wit and the ability to think on one's feet.

Because nothing in Sigil is likely to be what it seems, people tend to be a little less eager to resort to violence, when other solutions present themselves.

As a gm it is important for you to keep that in mind. Also, consider that not every conflict need be settled with fists. Many powerful creatures might still be interested in settling disputes by the use of "peripheral" skills. (For example, I recently had an encounter in which the party was challenged by a Slaad to a game of words. [riddles, anagrams, etc]) Of course, the fallout of such a contest might still be the loser's life - though more than likely the cost won't be so easily paid. (In the above example, the Slaad bet information the party desperately needed against the players' ability to communicate - just imagine how difficult life would have been for them, had they lost!)

The Planewalker Guild maybe.
The Touts Guild.
Also depending on the direction of your plot - Harys Hatchis (he's just a good guy), Jeremo the Natterer (Ring-Giver beliefs), Rhys (the Cadence told her so).

Most *emphatically* not Cirily - but she may make a good bad guy for you.

Definitely the Touts. You'll want to look up Kylie, or someone who works for her. She's a great chick, very helpful. The help's not free - she's gotta keep her runners living in some semblance of a decent building - but she's pretty straight with people.

'AkumaDaimyo' wrote:

I had an idea for a new monster too. The cranium cat. Basically someone decided to create a creature suited to hunting and killing cranium rats and used magic and some other means to create cranium cats which hunt and kill cranium rats. Cranium cats will be good alinged and usually helpfull and make great pets if you don't mind a cat that can telepathically tell you it wants Meow Mix.

What's the backstory for them? Cranium rats were created by the illithid god Illsensine to be eyes, ears, and occasionally hands throughout the planes... who made the cats and why?

One should never forget the Indeps, either. If there is one guild most likely to sympathise and lend a hand to primes, it is they.

As to adventures, you might also want to remember everything in the planes is grand. It would, to me at least, feel like one were cheating their players if they got stuck in a standard, inconsquential low level adventure.

Something I did when first looking at PS as a setting was to go through their monstrous manuals and design adventure hooks around many of the creatures there. Nearly any monster can provide some inspiration in the "Habitat" or "Ecology" sections of their writeup.

As for the other issue - I can't personally see the point in running a PS game that wasn't roleplaying intensive. One can fight monsters for treasure in any setting, but Planescape - with its themes of belief and philosophy - offers an unparelleled opportunity for roleplaying. But then, I'm biased in that my players may easily go a month or more between combat encounters. (remember, too, that encounters can be made dangerous and exciting without combat.)

You're talking about the god Aoskar. He doesn't have a lot of canon information dedicated to him, simply because he is actualyl dead - but the encyclopedia should give you the basic information you're looking for.

As for plots to overthrow the lady - I don't have the details on it, but you may want to check out the module Harbinger House. That module has a plot along those lines in it.