Planestuck OOC thread and Peanut Gallery

This is the OOC welcome post for Planestuck, my IC series here on the boards intended to let everyone on the Internet have a shot at a desultory game of Planescape, at least occasionally.

By letting them GM me.

Here's the deal. I've dropped an initial post with an opening scene. In this thread, not that one, everyone is invited to suggest events that Abaris might be encountering. This could be short setups ("Avalanche!", "The innkeeper is actually the guy you're there to meet," "When you look up, you're staring down a dozen arrow shafts.") that I can take and run with. If you want to write up a more complex plot or encounter ("there's a secret door in the back. It leads to a tomb complex. You'll find the following traps. . . a ghost, who needs to be laid to rest by. . . and a trapped demon in the ring, who will say anything to be let out."), feel free. A cool scenario will get serious consideration from me, and bragging rights for you. If you would like to send me a longer encounter but don't want to ruin a surprise for the rest of the audience, pm it to me here on planewalker's message system!

A few notes:

1.) Please don't post in the Planestuck IC thread. I have no way to enforce this except your honor, and maybe Clueless' godlike mod powers if she's so inclined. You can subscribe with the button at the bottom of the first post.

2.) You're GMing the world, not playing me. Likewise, I'll do my best to respect your apparent wishes for your NPC personalities, but please bear in mind that they may develop away from your initial picture.

3.) Hopefully, I will eventually be getting enough suggestions that I can't take everyone's. I'm also dropping a thread in the SJGames forums I frequent, since I know there are some Planescape fans over there. I may have Sekrit Plot Plans that a particular suggestion won't work with, so please don't feel bad if I'm not choosing something.

4.) I'm a GM too, and there are crucial story elements that Abaris is going to have to deal with one way or another: again, hopefully in a way that eventually surprises me, with the input from everyone else.

5.) There's plenty of backstory that I didn't touch in the initial post. Some of it can be filled in by the audience, some I have awaiting an appropriate scene.

6.) I have a day job, so don't expect a post every day. I'll try to get at least one or two out a week, on a Saturday if I haven't.

7.) I haven't actually read Homestuck, so any references will go right over my head.

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Setting and character:

Pretty close to default Planescape, pre-Faction War, I'm thinking post-Modron March. Your narrative assumptions for monsters, treasure, etc. should broadly be SRD and the major 2e and 3e supplements.

Tone is heroic drama (kind of like an RPG. ;^) ). He shouldn't come out of this experience unscathed, and there will be grim times and desperate measures, but we'll hopefully also have time for comedic interludes and noble ideals.

Story-driven narration; set me a challenge and I won't do anything too impossible for dice, but don't expect to see any rolls, except maybe as a joke. I will probably post a goof up at least once.

Level-wise, Abaris is starting as a 1st-level human druid of somewhat advanced age. As you can see from the description, he was once much higher level and got seriously level-drained. He thus possesses equipment equivalent to much more wealth than a 1st-level character normally would. That will probably get fleshed out over the first few chapters; I promise not to use it as an infinite pool of magic tricks.

Abaris has access to spells from the Spell Compendium and equipment from many of the major supplements, such as Complete Divine and Arcane, and possesses the Spontaneous Healer feat from Complete Divine. (His other is Blind-Fight.)

For flavor, I expect Abaris will be using a number of incantations, including those drawn from my own list here on the boards as well as some I make up to fit legendary or historical accounts of druids, such as reading omens in entrails of an animal sacrifice.