Urban Planescape - How the project ended up here

Ah, another fellow Australian. Welcome .

If you are willing, I'd like to hear more about your own efforts for a sci-fi/planar d20 RPG?

Whee! I think Slinky's from Australia too, which makes four of us that I can think of.

Hey, I'll probably be going to Australia to visit my aunt this fall. Visiting Sydney, Brisbane and the Gold Coast. Maybe catch some good sandstone rockclimbing in the Sydney area if I have time. Whereabouts are you folks?

ok, The Hired Gun RPG will soon be set up on a blog. My signiture will contain a link to said blog, when I've actually got it set up.

I want to publish Hired Gun at some point, which means I can't set it in the Great Wheel (dammit), but the cosmology I set up for it will be such that converting it into the Wheel won't be too hard.

ok, a few basics: the game is set in the Galaxy (suprise, suprise), which is dominated, but not completely controlled by, The Third Imperiad. No, this isn't the Imperium from Warhammer 40k, or the Empire from Star Wars. It isn't a dying, evil empire, but a vibrant, generally on the side of good (tho not always) polotical coalition (but it does have a tendancy to overreact just a tad...).

Magic exists, but very few people know about it, and most of the galaxy has the Impeded Magic trait.

The Planes also exist, but almost nobody knows about them either... Except for the Plane of Shadow, which is what starships enter to travel from system to system (what goes faster than light? darkness, coz it has to get out of the way), and the Astral Plane, which is the medium for interstella radio signals. nobody knows these planes are actually inhabited...

Psionics exists, and is known about on pretty much every planet in the galaxy. they, however, connot be used to enter other planes, except for short periods (teleportation is fine, astral caravan isn't)

Dragons existed once, and they founded the First Imperiad, but nobody has seen a dragon for more than 4000 years... (more about this on the blog)

the rules will be all d20 compatible, most of them coming straight off of SRDs.

now, you're asking: "what does this have to do with Planescape if the planes are almost impossible to access?", well here's the awswer...

The Imperiad is in trouble, it has a lot of enemies, and a new enemy is about to show its head...

War is Hell, and Hell is going to War
...with the Imperiad

the Devils have found a way to get large numbers of troops onto the material plane, and a subdued galaxy would be the perfect tool to help win the Blood War.

ok, fluff aside, these are a few cool things about HG...

it has a design team of four people (including myself), and a couple of assitant designers.

the game will include detailing on more than 60 races, some adapted from D&D, but most from the designer's imaginations.

The players will play as bounty hunters, mercinaries, traders, rogues, soldiers, psions, mages, detectives or anything else you can think of, trying to...
...save the Imperiad from its various enemies.
...destroy the corrupt edefice that is the so-called Imperiad.
...make a quick credit
...do their job.
...do whatever.

ok, thats all I can think of for now, keep an eye out for my blog link.

PS: no jedi under any circumstances, may the Farce be with you...
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ok, The Hired Gun RPG will soon be set up on a blog. My signiture will contain a link to said blog, when I've actually got it set up.

I want to publish Hired Gun at some point, which means I can't set it in the Great Wheel (dammit), but the cosmology I set up for it will be such that converting it into the Wheel won't be too hard.

ok, a few basics: the game is set in the Galaxy (suprise, suprise), which is dominated, but not completely controlled by, The Third Imperiad. No, this isn't the Imperium from Warhammer 40k, or the Empire from Star Wars. It isn't a dying, evil empire, but a vibrant, generally on the side of good (tho not always) polotical coalition (but it does have a tendancy to overreact just a tad...).

Magic exists, but very few people know about it, and most of the galaxy has the Impeded Magic trait.

The Planes also exist, but almost nobody knows about them either... Except for the Plane of Shadow, which is what starships enter to travel from system to system (what goes faster than light? darkness, coz it has to get out of the way), and the Astral Plane, which is the medium for interstella radio signals. nobody knows these planes are actually inhabited...

Psionics exists, and is known about on pretty much every planet in the galaxy. they, however, connot be used to enter other planes, except for short periods (teleportation is fine, astral caravan isn't)

Dragons existed once, and they founded the First Imperiad, but nobody has seen a dragon for more than 4000 years... (more about this on the blog)

the rules will be all d20 compatible, most of them coming straight off of SRDs.

now, you're asking: "what does this have to do with Planescape if the planes are almost impossible to access?", well here's the awswer...

The Imperiad is in trouble, it has a lot of enemies, and a new enemy is about to show its head...

War is Hell, and Hell is going to War
...with the Imperiad

the Devils have found a way to get large numbers of troops onto the material plane, and a subdued galaxy would be the perfect tool to help win the Blood War.

ok, fluff aside, these are a few cool things about HG...

it has a design team of four people (including myself), and a couple of assitant designers.

the game will include detailing on more than 60 races, some adapted from D&D, but most from the designer's imaginations.

The players will play as bounty hunters, mercinaries, traders, rogues, soldiers, psions, mages, detectives or anything else you can think of, trying to...
...save the Imperiad from its various enemies.
...destroy the corrupt edefice that is the so-called Imperiad.
...make a quick credit
...do their job.
...do whatever.

ok, thats all I can think of for now, keep an eye out for my blog link.

PS: no jedi under any circumstances, may the Farce be with you...
PPS: sorry this post is so long

Seriously though, this sounds particularly interesting. And sixty races :shock:. I thought having 25+ races for my homebrew was enough... Are they all completely detailed? Any new races of your own creation?

hello, me again, sorry for clogging up this Topic, but I have just one last thing to say about Hired Gun before I shut up...

the name Hired Gun is being changed because it isn't quite Si-Fi enough.
the game is now called Speed of Dark (SoD, lol).

the address of the blog is also being changed

I now promise not to say anything more on this subject (unless asked)

yes, it is active, but it doesn't have anything interesting on it yet

if you want me to explain a particular subject on the site, go there and leave a comment

Try the little 'www' button under Interloper's sig.

...is the title of a book by Neil Gaiman ( the Sandman ) which places dieties like Odin, Thoth, Morrigan and others in a modern, real-world setting. It was the inspiration for an "in the works" project of mine called "Modern Gods" (basically 'Dieties & Demigods' for d20 Modern) I would seriously recommend this book to anyone interested in translating the mystical world to the mundane world.

I'm a new subscriber, so let me just say "hello" to everyone and a hearty "thank you" for all the great ideas posted on the forum.

The old Urban Planescape forum I assume you mean?

For my part, it's so good to see Evil Sandwich, Persephone, et al here at Planewalker!
Some time back, I found this old forum called The Urban Planes Project and all the amazing ideas there sparked an idea. It didn't take long for the idea to grow into a full-fledged campaign-in-the-works!
And then the UPP went down...'twas a dark day...
The campaign idea continued to grow, however, and I am happy to report that just last Sunday was the inaugural game in my new Urban Planes campaign! (and the really fun part for me is that they don't know where they're headed. cue evil laughter)
And now that I see all of you coming to PW, and bringing (undoubtedly!) your planar geniuses with you, well it's a little like a family reunion... a slightly dysfunctional little family where everyone talked about a radioactive Hades, the sewers of Erebus, and what would happen to Logos when some obscure Shadow-prime developed quantum computers!
Well, hell, I just wanted to say that it's good to see you all here! And I look forward to contributing some of my own ideas as well!
Take care all!

Hello!

Been lurking for some time now. I think the Urban Planescape project is great! The best thing that could have happened to D20 Modern ( which in itself is a good game). But information seems so fragmented. What are your collective plans for the UP project? Will it ever be placed in one place?

Probably i'm forcing someone to be redundant , because this has probably been discussed already. But I'm very interested in the turn out of this project.

FAQ thread created, add thine postages to it as needed.