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  1. Shemeska

    Shemeska's Planescape Storyhour - (Updated 27July2025)

    Harishek - time/probability manipulation The Chronicler - interacted with quite a bit, but never in combat. He seemed to have a pretty crazy foresight ability though it was more a case of calculating possible futures and acting accordingly to make them happen more so than time manipulation like...
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    Shemeska's Planescape Storyhour - (Updated 27July2025)

    All of them have previously appeared in stories* of their own or in the storyhour (and they'll show up again), with the exception being Chorazin. He/She/It hasn't appeared yet other then being mentioned by name. *all of which were hosted on Planewalker
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    Shemeska's Planescape Storyhour - (Updated 27July2025)

    1) If stats apply for them / if the PCs might interact with them in the context of rolling for initiative yes. It might be ridiculously dumb for them to do so, but if they so choose to attempt to sucker punch an archfiend, I'll have numbers for that archfiend. 2) It depends on the creature in...
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    Shemeska's Planescape Storyhour - (Updated 27July2025)

    Colcook frowned inwardly as he adjusted the mirror. It wasn’t heavy, but he’d been holding it up for more than two hours. Frankly, despite his supreme talents –in his opinion, wasted on Sigil at times– it was impossible to hold it at the precise angle necessary for someone moving about when you...
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    D&D 5E (2014) 5e Tieflings and Dragonborn

    Wow, you seem to really not like aasimar :uhoh: Ok then. Sample bias obviously, but I've seen roughly an equivalent number of aasimar and tiefling characters played in Pathfinder Society. And I'm not sure that "symmetry" has much of anything to do with including both tieflings and aasimars...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Mike Mearls did an interview for Escapist Magazine and reveals PHB classes, races, and much more

    No, Tiamat is very well known in the Realms. However she has never been imprisoned in Hell/Baator, so I'm not sure where that came from. Edit: Just to clarify. Tiamat has dwelled in the 9 Hells, with her domain at the gate between Avernus and Dis, but she has never been imprisoned or kept there...
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    Shemeska's Planescape Storyhour - (Updated 27July2025)

    She hasn't fallen far (NG to N). It'll be a while before she realizes it herself, and how she finds out is amusing. None of my players trust -any- fiend at this point. :D And the next update is written. Will be posted on Saturday.
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    D&D 5E (2014) 5e Tieflings and Dragonborn

    The difference between the 2e and 3e tieflings and the 4e "tieflings" is so radically divergent that I'll be honest, I don't really see the 4e as being the same race except in name. While I'm not completely averse to the 4e creatures sticking around as a possible subtype, IMO it would be a...
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    Shemeska's Planescape Storyhour - (Updated 27July2025)

    The obsidian dagger was the one used on the tiere/gautiere deity, while the +5 Returning Dagger of Unholy Power was just something that Leobtav had tucked into his belt. The BoVD was released relatively in the timeframe of this particular campaign arc, so while much of the "vile evil" I found a...
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    Shemeska's Planescape Storyhour - (Updated 27July2025)

    Devoid of its imprisoned god, the Cathedral of the Chained God and the surrounding domain continued along an inevitable death spiral towards something between implosion and dissolution. By the time it vanished into the trackless hinterlands vistas of the Outlands, the party was miles away...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Things that probably won't happen, but man would it be cool if they did!

    5e Planescape (using the Great Wheel, true to the original setting) 5e Planescape with me freelancing on the project (I would do just about anything to do this)
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    D&D 4E The Best of 4e's Fluff

    Fwiw, Lolth being a fallen goddess of fate and the weaver motif have been a detailed part of her lore since 2e, it isn't new to 4e. While I'm not a big fan of the edition's embedded fluff insomuch as it overwrote prior material, the approach used in the two Monster Vault books for presenting...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Archsuccubi

    I'm not sure that it would be wise to reinvent the succubus a second time. It didn't exactly go over well last time they tried to change things with three editions of development, especially when some fiends changed to opposite alignment, some monsters radically changed appearance and back...
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    D&D 5E (2014) How much 5e do you plan to get?

    Too early for me to say. There's nothing at this point that's a hard limit to keep me from eventually picking it up casually (how they handle the radical 4e changes to tieflings, eladrin, and other planar concepts is something that will really determine any future interest). But at the moment, I...
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    Shemeska's Planescape Storyhour - (Updated 27July2025)

    You'll find out. :) We'll also be seeing almost all of those that you named again in the future - only Yethmiil Kal'suth doesn't show up again. Alashra the Dream Reaver - overtly female rather than the standard genderless appearance of most of her kindred. Exceptionally elongated, withered...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Archsuccubi

    Though I think it's important to note that balors, pit fiends, and various other fiends aren't male only, not by any means. In Hell/Baator there have been a number of named female pit fiends, including among the Dark 8. Among devils, it's only erinyes/brachina that are mono-gendered as a caste...
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    D&D 5E (2014) Archsuccubi

    A correction here. 4e did not originate those 'arse kicking' changes to erinyes, 3.5 did. The 1e/2e/3e erinyes were more overtly returned to their 'furies' mythological roots in 3.5, and the 3.5 created brachina were developed as a subtype of erinyes less focused on ass kicking than on...
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    Shemeska's Planescape Storyhour - (Updated 27July2025)

    Do you want me to definitively answer that question? It's relevant and very spoilery. I'll happily confirm at a bare minimum that 'The Dreamer and the Fiend' does take place within the continuity of this Storyhour (and Storyhour 2). Additionally, the line in Storyhour 2's opening post, spoken...
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    Shemeska's Planescape Storyhour - (Updated 27July2025)

    I ended up scrapping the draft that I had in progress for the Architect which had lingered for several years on my desktop, and just in the past year I came up with a concept for his entry that I'm genuinely proud of. Sometime this year I should finish it. It's one of those too good to pass up...
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