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Message: <blockquote data-quote="erikscottdebie" data-source="post: 5562633" data-attributes="member: 90159">I welcome questions and the opportunity to talk about a project I enjoyed and am very proud of. I don't know which of us could be considered the lead designer on this--it was actually a really collaborative team project--but I do know that I wrote a LOT of it. So we'll see. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> Caveat: I can only speak for myself, mind, and if anything comes up that Matt or Andy are better placed to answer, I might have to defer to them or just shrug and call it a mystery. A little of both.  Though the concept of multifarious factions was definitely part of the project from the beginning, Sigil was never directly mentioned in our planning sessions. However, I am a big Planescape fan from back in the day, so I can safely say it was part of my inspiration.  (I was also relatively fresh off work on the Plane Above book, so I was definitely thinking on a planar scale. In the game, a planar traveler might well think of Gloomwrought as "shadow Sigil"--though Gloomwrought has its own rules and perils that Sigil doesn't, which can spell doom for an unwary traveler.) My main concept/vision of Gloomwrought combines Sigil, Dark City (keepers, anyone?), and the "London by Night" talked about above, with a little bit of Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere thrown in for good measure.  Cheers</blockquote>

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