Planescape Exploded city map of Sigil on Inkarnate

[Parmandur]

I had forgotten that the 3e Planar Handbook had Sigil in it.

The numbers I have in mind are from 2e, I'd guess from Guide to Sigil. I think that also had the population to a couple of millions. It was an in-character quote by some NPC, so non sure if they actually ever counted as "canon". But they are reasonably close to how I envision Sigil to be: ~100 sq miles, 3-4 millions people, so they stayed with me.

A carefully measured and known population and geography seem against the weird spirit of Sigil. "Lots" and "big and confusing" seem to me the way to go.

 

[briggart]

A carefully measured and known population and geography seem against the weird spirit of Sigil. "Lots" and "big and confusing" seem to me the way to go.

Go tell that to the Guvners!

 

[Weltenwanderer]

This is the second best map of Sigil I've seen so far. It only has one important flaw: as a map of an inwardly open hollow world torus, the map should be correspondingly longer because of the longer outer circle halfway between the two edges. The best map I know of solves this very nicely and is at the same time similarly detailed, but drawn by hand (A map to the fantastic city of Sigil).

The map of the Outlands is really great.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

One of the most disappointing things was when they said how big the city was and what it's population was. I'll just ignore 3e's Planar Handbook figure of 250,000 (which is smaller than my hometown, that's a small city) and it's assigned alignment for Sigil, because I think that's crap.

Which is why I like that the 5e version says that the size of Sigil is ambiguous and doesn't matter, and that travel times around the city are whatever you want it to be.

3E and 4E's takes on Sigil were INSANE in a bad way. Both of them seemed to very certain that they wanted to basically turn Sigil into the planar equivalent of a moderately-sized and insular Midwestern city, in population and in politics lol. I gotta believe the same axe-grinder was behind both takes. 2E and 5E's takes are more similar to each other than anything in-between.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

As I alluded to in another thread, Sigil takes at least some of it's inspiration from Victorian London. So a population of around 5 million would be appropriate.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

As I alluded to in another thread, Sigil takes at least some of it's inspiration from Victorian London. So a population of around 5 million would be appropriate.

Yes though I share @Parmandur's preference for the size and population of Sigil to remain extremely ambiguous/nebulous myself. But at least in the multiple millions.

 

[Chaltab]

What a clever way of mapping Sigil. Very nice.

 

[JConstantine]

Another vote for ambiguous population sizes. Sigil is the City of Doors; it has multiple people arriving and leaving, both deliberately and accidentally, every day. There's no way an accurate census could be taken no matter how much a given Faction wanted to.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

they also made an outlands map.

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I'll say this for Planescape: It took the completely boring Concordant Opposition (possibly the peak of High Gygaxian naming) and made it interesting and gamable, even if it didn't manage that with all the other planes to an equal degree.

("Aw, man, do we have to go to Bytopia? Can't we go adventure some place cool?")