I notice that a few joke references to real world personalities appear in the Planescape material, such as a "Mill Boyers" who is obviously a pun on "Bill Moyers", etc... Do you ever incorporate real people into your game (disguised or not)? I'm thinking that Aleister Crowley or Anton LaVey would make great evil mages to have pop up on some poor unsuspecting PCs (or maybe as fiends... I imagine they'd move up the infernal ladder rather rapidly!)
Real people in Planescape, with a twist
Mon, 2007-07-02 18:44
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Real people in Planescape, with a twist
Thu, 2007-07-05 21:54
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Real people? Not so much, though I have freely stolen characters from fictional sources. (Hawk and Fisher [Simon R. Green's "haven" books] alternate between working the Hive and the Lower Ward as guards)
I did have Elvis in Sigil not too long ago, doing his planar "Ain't never gonna die" tour. (But was it Elvis or a golem in his image?)
Sat, 2007-07-07 17:17
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Elvis...
Hey baby, rock on...!
They fought a petitioner who escaped from the Grey Waste who was performing certain familiar ritualistic killings reminiscent of the White Chapel area of London circa 1898...
I decided that the seven lich rulers of Rigus should be modeled after seven of the most acclaimed (or believed) military minds ever to exist.
Szun Tsu
Alexander
Hitler (emphasis on believed)
Cortez
Ghengis Khan
Napoleon
Mao Tze Tung
A few opthers...