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  1. Shemeska

    Shemeska's Planescape Storyhour - (Updated 27July2025)

    In an instant their world had become agony. Suspended in acid eating away at their flesh and drowning at the same time, only a moment later did the corrosive liquid begin to boil, compounding the hell which Taba had prepared for each and every would-be pursuer. Arms flailed and legs kicked...
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    D&D 5E (2014) 5e's new gender policy - is it attracting new players?

    Except that it does appear to be the case, much to the lament of certain schools of sociology. The notion that somehow, in the absence of any empirical evidence to show it, that sexuality is a product of social interactions is a throwback to a century or more ago. It's the same unproven and...
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    D&D 5E (2014) 5e's new gender policy - is it attracting new players?

    Unless you alter the underlying way in which biology and the brain structures responsible for sexual orientation work, yes, it would still be the standard if religious morals vanished. That's not a value judgement whatsoever, it's just the (incredibly complex) science underlying the issue.
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    D&D 5E (2014) 5e's new gender policy - is it attracting new players?

    I appreciated seeing 5e make some moves towards inclusivity, but IMO WotC is still catching up with where the industry has been going for years now in that regard. I'd like to see the inclusivity push reflected in modules and sourcebook material, otherwise it risks being somewhere between...
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    Shemeska's Planescape Storyhour - (Updated 27July2025)

    “F*ck!” Florian screamed as Clueless’s lifeless body fell to the ground like a beheaded rag doll discarded by a yeth hound. Cackling in her moment of gory success, the nightingale that was Taba burst forth from the branches of its elm tree bower and rocketed across the meadow. In the confusion...
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    Shemeska's Planescape Storyhour - (Updated 27July2025)

    It varied slightly depending on what plane they encountered Taba on (same for any of the major archfiends). The PCs were at that point in or around level 15? Maybe slightly higher. Taba was CR 20 something, with some amount of plot armor given to the PCs so they'd have an encounter, realize the...
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    Shemeska's Planescape Storyhour - (Updated 27July2025)

    Three rounds followed by a death attack are the sweetest three rounds in a GM's life. :D
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    Shemeska's Planescape Storyhour - (Updated 27July2025)

    A few moments of confusion passed swiftly and Tristol teleported them all up to Alex’s level, relieved to at least find someone not wishing them dismemberment, eternal slavery, or swift death. As odd as it might seem to find an apparently friendly face in the depths of Baator, the fact that the...
  9. Shemeska

    Shemeska's Planescape Storyhour - (Updated 27July2025)

    Already in there, but he isn't aware of it. Two more plot arcs for that. I have this all outlined, no worries. :) Because God knows there's so much that I'd never be able to keep it all straight unless I'd done that outline years prior when I started writing this (nearly a decade ago at this...
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    Shemeska's Planescape Storyhour - (Updated 27July2025)

    I'll have another update in not too short a time, given that I'm working on it right now. I split this into two posts just based on the length I was at versus good points for dramatic pause. This is, if I recall, the first time we've seen the General really mentioned much since the original...
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    Shemeska's Planescape Storyhour - (Updated 27July2025)

    Taba cackled with delight as she reared up on the spiked, metallic insect legs newly sprouted from her body. As she laughed, a half dozen other mouths formed across her morphic flesh like physical echoes to express the same blasphemous exclamation. “Scream in the name of Lord of the Crawling...
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    Planescape Planescape

    I'd love to work on the setting again, even in a small way. I'll be sure to make my silence conspicuous if that ever happens.
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    [UPDATED] WotC To Close Forums - Including D&D and M:tG (aka "Welcome New Forum Members to EN World!

    I was rooming with WizO_Clueless at the time, so I heard in passing about some of the folks trying to make the best of the situation, and some of the drama as well. I still have nightmares about that eye-bleeding green color scheme though. *shiver*
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    D&D 5E (2014) So did that employee ever return from his Jury Duty?

    Or go for the 2e reference and use Judge Gabberslug from Planescape :D
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    D&D 5E (2014) Whimsy in your game?

    There's a time and a place for humor and whimsy in a campaign. There's also a line at which point it just comes across as out of place, poorly conceived, and gauche. You can do it right (Pathfinder goblins for instance), but comedy in D&D often very much overdoes it and does it in places where...
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    D&D 5E (2014) The Mutliverse and Time

    Time didn't flow on the Astral, or at least the negative effects of time (though they retroactively caught up with you if you left the plane without magical protection to stop it). But time outside of the Astral was still marching on at its own pace regardless.
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    Unearthed Arcana Crawford On Lots Of Stuff! Release Tempo, Video Games, OGL, Conventions, Unearthed Arcana, 2018, Tia

    Planescape did its level best to try to keep Tiamat and Takhisis distinct from one another. Without going back and looking specifically, I'm pretty sure that 'On Hallowed Ground' and 'Planes of Law' both make it clear that while mortals have confused them for one another, they're different...
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    Are Drow considered "Fey".....? Why or why not?

    I wouldn't place a ton of trust in the FR wiki unless the wiki itself sources information to a published book. There was an image of a Pathfinder astradaemon in place for around a year and a half being used as the sample illustration for a baernaloth before it was changed. On top of that, the FR...
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