Cities of the Planes

[BOZ]

Sigil is probably the biggest, most notable one. You've also got the classic City of Brass, also rather popularly known. The githyanki have major cities on the Astral Plane. A number of Abyssal cities are detailed in FC1.

What other major cities of the planes are there, and where are they detailed?

 

[Psion]

Are you looking strictly for 3e references? There's the city of glass, detailed in the post-PS 2e Vortex of Madness. And, of course, there are dozens of outer planar cities detail in Planescape itself.

 

[Shemeska]

Off the top of my head:

All the gatetowns, some larger than others.

Grenpoli - the 'City of Diplomacy' in Baator

Jangling Hiter - Kyton capital city / home to most of their kind

Center - trade city located at the triple tangent point of the three Glooms of the Gray Waste

Portent - city in Gehenna in which overt violence is turned upon the perpetrator

Corpus - city in the Waste

Khin-Oin - yes it's a tower, but it's larger than virtually any city on the planes with the sole exception of Malsheem

Death of Innocence - city in the Waste that's a bit of a safe area from the Grays

Nimicri - living moon/trade city that floats above Gehenna. Most of the inhabitants of the city are exuded and controlled by the city itself. Occasionally it devours visitors who can add to its collection of residents once it devours them and gains their skills and memories, etc.

Release-From-Care - Guardinal city located near the portal from Ecstasy

Grandfather Oak - city in Arborea that sprawls along the base and branches of a single massive tree

The Pinwheel - stable spot of earth in limbo, touched by a branch of Yggdrasil

The Floating City - religious capital of the githzerai of Limbo (home of Zaerith Menyar Ag Gith)
Shrak'kat'lor - military capital of the githzerai of Limbo

The Citadel of Ice and Steel - Djinn capital city in Elemental Air
The Great Dismal Delve - primary region of Dao occupation, a bit spread out to call a city however
City of Brass
City of Glass
The Citadel of 10000 Pearls - Marid capital city

The Fortress of Life - small, shielded keep in Positive energy
Deathheart - big spherical city in Negative Energy, overrun with undead
Fortress of the Soul - primary residence of the Dustmen faction outside of Sigil

Gnome's Home - small pocket of quasielemental mineral that floats within paraelemental ooze, contains a small population of gnomish miners who have secured and adapted to their new environment

The Hidden City - small human floating city in paraelemental smoke, warded from detection and from the atmosphere, Ehkahk is hunting for the place with little luck

The Eye - village atop a small hunk of elemental earth floating in a storm-free spot in quasielemental lightning. Shows blatant signs of having been constructed by a very powerful spellcaster.

The Kingdom of the Blind - refugee/exile kingdom contained within a drifting mineral geode tumbling through quasielemental radiance. Ruled by a tiefling whose spirit was infused into a golem.

The Refuge of Color - only natural solid ground in quasielemental radiance. The 'city' is home to flocks of Varisoh, and the enigmatic, god-like King Black and Queen White (hawk headed 10ft tall humanoids of unknown origin)

Adrift - city built in a 1 mile wide ring in quasielemental steam. The hollow point of the ring is filled with the massive, drifting statues of the city's founders

The Quasielemental Doomguard fortress-cities:
The Crumbling Citadel (ash)
Citadel Sealt (salt)
Citadel Alluvius (dust)
Citadel Exhalus (vacuum)

Citadel Cavitius - former deific domain of Vecna, before that a former stronghold of the Doomguard. Current status questionable since Vecna's temporary stint in Ravenloft, and subsequent return. Most likely abandoned to the (quasi)elements, potentially reclaimed by the Doomguard splinter sect in that (quasi)plane.

 

[Shemeska]

There are many more, but I don't have ready access to all of my Planescape books at the moment.

See: Planes of Chaos/Law/Conflict; Hellbound; Faces of Evil; Dead Gods; Tales of the Infinite Staircase; each of them has at least a handful to dozens of specific cities detailed or just by name.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

There's also that Plane of Shadows city detailed in Dragon.

 

[Nightfall]

Whiz,

There's a couple, not just in Dragon though. I think Tome of Magic has one as well.

 

[Pramas]

There's the city of glass, detailed in the post-PS 2e Vortex of Glass.

The book the City of Glass appeared in was the Vortex of Madness.

 

[Nightfall]

Chris,

That a 2nd edition product or what?

(Btw I loved Beyond the Towers. How many more Bleeding Edge modules you guys doing?)

 

[Pramas]

That a 2nd edition product or what? ?)

Yes, Vortex of Madness was a late era second edition product (1999 I think). When I was writing it, the title was Planar Sites and it was a sequel to City Sites, Castle Sites, and Country Sites.

(Btw I loved Beyond the Towers. How many more Bleeding Edge modules you guys doing?)

Oh, plenty. The third one (Dirge of the Damned) is going to print this week and the fourth one (A Dreadful Dawn) should be out early next year. You can find out more about those here: http://www.greenronin.com/catalog.php?cat_id=18

We'll be announcing more titles for the line in the next couple of months.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

You know, Vortex of Madness makes a lot more sense now that I see it as a ____ Sites series that had a plot added to tie it all together. I love the demiplane full of broken steampunk toys.