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Message: <blockquote data-quote="wingsandsword" data-source="post: 4853669" data-attributes="member: 14159">How I would list Planescape in this fashion:1. The Great Wheel.  Planescape is the "Great Wheel" Cosmology of the 1e and 2e Core books and 1e and 3e Manual of the Planes fleshed out into an entire setting instead of just being a place for high-level side quests.2. Powers.  Also known as Gods/Goddesses, they are all out here, pretty much all the fantasy and mythological deities are present, and they are pretty close.  A divine realm could be right down the road.  Their followers, servants, and offspring are everywhere. 3.  Sigil.  The City of Doors, at the center of the multiverse, accessible only by portal, where pretty much everyone from everywhere can meet in relative neutrality, ruled over by the nigh-omnipotent Lady of Pain and administered by Factions.  No Gods Allowed.  4. Factions.  Large societies devoted to a philosophy or ideal: Law, Knowledge, Death, Entropy, Self-Reliance, Intuition, Reincarnation, Chaos, Sensation, Atheism, Nihilism, Anarchy, Independence, ect. they are the major political bodies of the Planes, and they provide most of the civil services in Sigil.5. Belief is Power.  On the Outer Planes, belief creates reality.  Get enough people believing something strongly enough and it can become true, at least locally.  6. Portals.  You can go anywhere, if you have the right key. Portals connect the various planes with each other and Sigil.  7. The Lady of Pain.  Nigh-omnipotent, reclusive, enigmatic, and wrathful woman clad in robes with her head covered in a crown of blades.  She rules Sigil, and her greatest laws are that Powers can't enter and she not be worshiped as a deity herself.  Those that defy her are banished to The Mazes or just plain flayed.8. Law & Chaos.  The Ethical axis of alignment is just as important as good vs. evil, maybe even moreso.  The Blood War pits fiends against each other in titanic conflicts, chaotic factions face off against lawful ones regularly in political as well as more overt clashes.9. Unlikely allies, unlikely adversaries.  It's possible for PC's to have allies that are fiends, and antagonists that are celestials.  Seeing a Devil and an Archon drinking together in a tavern in Sigil isn't unheard of, and having a Harmonium Paladin as a persistent pain-in-the-neck to the PCs is quite plausible.10. Philosophy and Exploration.  The setting is a lot more than dungeon crawls and linear adventures.  Exploration of the planes, exploration of yourself, and exploration of what is reality is a big deal.11. Patterns and Cycles.  The multiverse has odd cycles and patterns, that are oddly predictable (and in some ways oddly unpredictable).  Things happen in threes, things happen in cycles, but then there is the odd flicker of chaos in order, or surreal order in chaos.12. Crossovers and Kitchen Sink.  Since the Planes are shared by most D&D worlds, it's possible for pretty much anything from any D&D book to show up eventually, even if it's rare.  Very few things just plain don't fit at all.</blockquote>

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