D&D General How Do You Feel About Sigil?

[Older Beholder]

I love Sigil. I ran a few adventures there in 3E (converted The eternal boundary and some adventures from the Well of Worlds)

It is heavily tied to the Factions, this is a positive or negative based on how much you want to use the factions. Not that you couldn't run a campaign in Sigil without them. I just like the way they each have a function and a headquarters in the city.

Mostly I liked how inspirational the setting was... even to this day I still have ideas based on it, for example a couple of weeks ago I had an idea for an alternate Sigil that's built on a giant chandelier, here's a sketch of the idea...

 

[mrpopstar]

I think you can also hear Sigil pronounced by the mimir on one of the tracks of the audio CD included in the Player's Primer to the Outlands boxed set.

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

Isn't Zijil the multiplanar cosmopolis where the spellcaster version of Rick & Morty live a lot of adventures in the new crossover? Oh, haven't it published yet? Ups! Sorry for the spoiler! If some agent of the Time-Variance-Authority asks about me, you haven't met no time-traveler. Oh it is nothing about to worry, only some litle misundestanding.

I guess the crossover Magic: the Gathering and Forgotten Realms are working very well, and then the next may be Ravenloft and Planescape.

They know we will notice if some future UA shows something linked to "Planar Handbook". If they says nothing it may be because they are working in the redesign of the complete D&D cosmology. Even some planes could be totally rebooted to allow adventures for low level characters, for example the fire elemental plane, or adding "hollow air bubles" to the water elemental plane, with sun or star within because the local flora needs sun.

 

[jayoungr]

How do you feel about Sigil? Have you DM'd a game that featured it, or been a player in a game where Sigil was featured?

I played in a years-long game that was based in Sigil, with expeditions to other worlds, and I enjoyed it.

When the time came to make a sequel, though, we collectively created our own new city to be the hub: a place called Shell Beach (yes, Dark City reference) that's influenced by the Hollow Earth (from HEX) and the junk planet from Thor: Ragnarok.

Both are fun.

 

[Staffan]

Isn't Zijil the multiplanar cosmopolis where the spellcaster version of Rick & Morty live a lot of adventures in the new crossover? Oh, haven't it published yet? Ups! Sorry for the spoiler! If some agent of the Time-Variance-Authority asks about me, you haven't met no time-traveler. Oh it is nothing about to worry, only some litle misundestanding.

"Alright, this next test may involve trace amounts of time travel. So, word of advice: If you meet yourself on the testing track, don't make eye contact. Lab boys tell me that'll wipe out time. Entirely. Forward and backward! So do both of yourselves a favor and just let that handsome devil go about his business."

 

[Argyle King]

I imagine it was/is cool for the people who have experience with it.

The very limited exposure I've had to it has given me the shallowly-informed perception that it's D&D Deep Space 9, if Commander Sisko was replaced with a DMPC dominatrix with extreme views on border patrol.

I can imagine how that could be interesting campaign. Though, I don't have enough knowledge of the city or the source material to have a good grasp on what a D&D game based around Sigil is like.

 

[Ovinomancer]

I don't see the Lady of Pain as particularly active. The most likely way you are to meet her is to go on a dabus slaughtering spree. She extremely rarely engages with the governance of the city, and then only when it's "balance" is directly threatened.

My personal game canon for the Lady is that Sigil is a literal cage -- it's a prison that holds things that have committed crimes against existence. The Lady is the Warden. He job is to make sure Sigil stays in balance because that's the only way the prison holds. She refuses to be worshipped because that could make her a god, and that would remove her ability to be the Warden. She's a proto-god, who's entire authority and portfolio is the Cage, and isn't diluted by needing to support worshippers. She excludes other gods because they're new and don't have need to know about what's trapped in the Cage. She tolerates people living there because they're not interacting with the Prison part -- they're on the "surface" and don't engage the actual workings. The dabus are her staff and maintain the prison proper.

This puts the Lady in a place where directly opposing her is essentially siding with things that are considered to be massive threats to existence.

 

[Malmuria]

Sih-gill, like the gill of a fish.

There was actually a little blurb in one of the PS books where some Harmonium arrested a Clueless not for murdering a bunch of fiends but for saying sih-jill.

I love planescape. I refuse to pronounce sigil in this way. (supposedly, that pronunciation emerged as a joke because one of the writers didn't know how to pronounce the word "sigil" correctly)

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

Sigil is lie the Mos Eisley cantina, full of strange beings. It is also a piece of Babylon 5 and the Federation station of Deep Space 9

Sigil is perfect for an action-live production because it doesn't need a lot of filming in outdoor. All new ideas could be added into Planescape easily.

I wonder about a "mockery-clone" of Sigil as a dread domain in the Ravenloft. Maybe this was created as a secondary effect when Vecna tried that in last 2nd Ed module Die Vecna Die.

The Outlands could be the "planar frontier" with demiplanes created by the Celtic pantheon (and Hungarian one as "friendly neighbour"), offering a potential to create stories about conflicts with the groups of the faction war.

 

[Vaalingrade]

It's a game, you should feel free to write around it.

Given how much of a 90's metaplot uber-character she is, I fully expect her to turn toward the DM and say 'No'.