Outer Planar High [Almost OT]

[Robbert Raets]

So, the Munchkin d20 PHB mentions stealing Evil's lunch money.

That got me thinking. What if all outsiders attended the same school? No matter the alignment, fiends and celestials, as well as slaadi and genies. If you take the first-level versions from Savage Species, a game like this could be a blast.

Comments?

 

[Mr Fidgit]

in term of a game, what would the PCs do? they couldn't exactly go around killing each other...

I Will Not Kill Fiends Until I Graduate
I Will Not Kill Fiends Until I Graduate
I Will Not Kill Fiends Until I Graduate
I Will Not Kill Fiends Until I Graduate

 

[Robbert Raets]

No, but, as said, could steal each other's lunch money.

There's also going to be class rivalries, proms/dances, cheerleader or sports team try-outs, tests and exams, gangs and peer pressure....

This gets better the more I think about it. Maybe there's something like this in Urban Arcana as well!

 

[Mr Fidgit]

No, but, as said, could steal each other's lunch money.

no self respecting celestial would ever steal lunch money!

This gets better the more I think about it. Maybe there's something like this in Urban Arcana as well!

or use Planescape - Sigil Public High School (?)

 

[Robbert Raets]

no self respecting celestial would ever steal lunch money!

Well, you'll just have to play a non-selfrespecting celestial, then

or use Planescape - Sigil Public High School (?)

Unfortunately, I started playing D&D a few months before Third Edition.... Don't have all them fancy campaign settings. (QWell, Birthright, but no-one wants to play it with me )

 

[bwgwl]

So, the Munchkin d20 PHB mentions stealing Evil's lunch money.

That got me thinking. What if all outsiders attended the same school? No matter the alignment, fiends and celestials, as well as slaadi and genies. If you take the first-level versions from Savage Species, a game like this could be a blast.

Comments?

sounds a lot like Illuminati University, probably the coolest (and most hilarious) setting ever written for GURPS.

where do conspirators go to learn how to plot and plan? where do overlords go to learn about world domination? where does one go to learn about magic or time travel? where do mad scientists learn weird science?

it's all on the curriculum at Illuminati University! and the school is an equal opportunity educator, excepting students from all walks of life and from any dimension that can reach the campus...

great book. every page will have you laughing out loud. not to mention it's illustrated throughout by Phil Foglio!

 

[Bjorn Doneerson]

And ya know who'd be the "cool kids" at Outer Planar High? Deities, man... That'd be awesome...

 

[Sixchan]

This SO needs to be a PbP game. We can just Rip off Harry Potter, and use the houses for Celestials/demons/daemons/devils. We can have an outer planar version of something that is nothing like quidditch (however its spelled), and play character that have to solve some sort of mystery within the school. We can even use the outcasts. You know, the Chaotic neutral devil, the depressed and cynical true neutral celestial, etc.

This could be so much fun!

 

[Robbert Raets]

Okay, Mr. Fidgit gave us an 'official' name, Sigil Public High School. Since it's located on the only real neutral ground on the Outer Planes, and the Prinicpal is very likely to be affiliated with the Lady, Sigil is the best location.

Ideas for teachers and classes?

 

[F5]

Tough Question...if all the Outsiders of the D&D multiverse go to the same school to teach them how to be Outsiders, who are the teachers? Deities? They could just impart the knowlege on their followers with an act of will, so there'd be no point. Fully-developed celestials? Maybe, but would they be able to put aside their crusades and Blood Wars long enough to teach the Jr. Outsiders anything? Probably not. They're not allowed in Sigil anyway, since they're direct servants of Powers, right? Powerful archmages would have better things to do, and they would really only be qualified to teach magic.

So, for teachers we would need NPCs with no special agendas, a broad base of skills and learning to teach, and they have to be permitted in Sigil...

The solution? Experts. Mid-level human experts. The promising young Pit Fiend that professor Wimbleton has in homeroom could eat him for breakfast outside of the school environment. But faced with detention, extra homework, and potential expulsion, the more powerful Outsiders are kept in line by their mortal teachers.

What do you think?