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  1. Shemeska

    Shemeska's Planescape Storyhour - (Updated 27July2025)

    Well, they're likely to make your skin crawl in this next update which will be mildly NSFW.
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    Shemeska's Planescape Storyhour - (Updated 27July2025)

    The plot is complex and this story has been going on for... I've actually lost track of how many pages in Word it comes out to at this point. But the storyhour here has been going on for over a decade, so there's that. My players ended up making a giant flowchart to connect everything (and...
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    Shemeska's Planescape Storyhour - (Updated 27July2025)

    “A dead woman?” Clueless raised an eyebrow as he looked down at his friend, most recently a corpse himself. The immediate and breathless description didn’t provide enough details to actually answer who’d actually killed him. The fact that they’d managed the deed however was beyond troubling...
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    Shemeska's Planescape Storyhour - (Updated 27July2025)

    That the fire was something other than an accident -a stray ember carried on the wind, or the collapse of a shelf holding a candle- was immediately obvious as Fyrehowl pulled upon the heavy brass handle of the building’s front pair of doors. A single pull fueled by urgent worry should have...
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    Harassment At PaizoCon 2017

    Not to my knowledge no. The hardcover 'Book of the Damned' is not listed among the PFS additional resources. Additionally you can't play evil characters in PFS, and I cannot fathom a non-evil character performing Folca's obedience and thus gaining any of the associated mechanical boons. So no...
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    Harassment At PaizoCon 2017

    As the author of the material in question let me just state that while I did not create Folca originally (I don't know who on staff created them to add to the appendix in the back of BotD 3 which I wrote the entirety of) I was contracted the write the flavor text for all of the daemonic...
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    Shemeska's Planescape Storyhour - (Updated 27July2025)

    And since I apparently have some jackass who copy and pasted the first entry of my storyhour on their Facebook page and claimed it as their own work, just saying here that I, Todd Stewart, am the author of this work of fiction.
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    Shemeska's Planescape Storyhour - (Updated 27July2025)

    **** The soft and intimately regular hum of distant, tectonic clockwork ran through the fingertips of Factol Nacius Garabutos of the Fraternity of Order as she placed a book back in its proper, organized location and then braced herself on the wall as she descended a ladder and back to her...
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    Shemeska's Planescape Storyhour - (Updated 27July2025)

    I'll try to have one by early next week. I'm back in school full time (going for a PharmD) and I've got an exam on Friday and another on Monday so rather preoccupied. I will say however that the next few updates will be particularly plot heavy, and they'll also show that there are no Mary Sues...
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    Arch-Villains in your game?

    Likewise. Whenever I run her, she's always had her claws in myriad schemes or at least been aware of them, but her only loyalty has always been utter and complete selfish self-interest.
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    Arch-Villains in your game?

    Oh the Marauder was a villain in both of my 3.x campaigns, but not so much of an arch-villain than a second-tier villain and perpetual pain in the ass to the PCs.
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    Arch-Villains in your game?

    My first campaign I used the Oinoloth as the primary villain (with a coterie of other unique yugoloths and baernaloths as looming threats with their own goals and aims). My second campaign used a mad former factol of the Bleak Cabal as the initial antagonist, with another figure manipulating...
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    D&D 5E (2014) D&D Promises to Make the Game More Queer

    I'm genuinely glad to see WotC finally catching up with the rest of the industry here. They're a big company and having them finally on board with this approach is a damn good thing to see. A more accepting, diverse, and inclusive game world will appeal to and attract an ever more diverse player...
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    Congratulations to the 2017 Gen Con EN World RPG Award Winners!

    My assumption is that with the judges placing virtually no Paizo products in the voting categories that a majority of Pathfinder-centric players simply didn't vote. I might be wrong, but that was my immediate take.
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    D&D 5E (2014) Map of the Great Wheel Cosmology

    The Isle of Black Trees showed up in 2e's 'The Eternal Boundary', though little more than a name drop. It got a tiny bit of detail in 3e (in the same article that featured the Clockwork Gap). :)
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    D&D 5E (2014) Map of the Great Wheel Cosmology

    There's a number of Demiplanes missing. The Isle of Black Trees for instance and the Clockwork Gap. That said, this is absolutely gorgeous and you're an awesome person for having made and shared this. I wish that they'd used something like this for 5e rather than trying to retain chucks of 4e's...
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    Shemeska's Planescape Storyhour - (Updated 27July2025)

    The climb back down the face of Karsus’s petrified corpse was slow and daunting, significantly more difficult than the initial climb up from the ground. Making the trek even more difficult was the dour mood that blanketed the group, reflected in their expressions and the utter lack of...
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    Shemeska's Planescape Storyhour - (Updated 27July2025)

    Thank you so much! You flatter me! I've really enjoyed writing it, and I really wish that at some point I could get my original Planescape group back together for a game, though that was when we were all in college and we've since dispersed about the country. Life, jobs, etc. As for the 2nd...
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    Paizocon News: Demon Lords, Adventure Paths, and Ultimate Wilderness

    We got to add a bunch of stuff. I can't tell you what that stuff is, but trust me when I say that you'll like this book. :)
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