[Planescape] 1001 Random Planar Events

[Signer]

I'm planning out a new campaign that actually has my PCs interested. Overall, it will be a Planescape campaign with the PCs (probably all planars) based in Sigil. I'm using the 3e cosmology (so Plane of Shadows and no paraelemental planes) but am keeping Sigil in pre-Faction War state (so all 15 factions are still kicking.

What I'm trying to do now is to come up with as many events as possible. I want the planes to seem alive, so I want to be able to have rumors and news about events that the PCs may never be interested in, just to give the campaign some color. I'm looking for anything from plane shaking (The dark is the Hardheads are moving a bunch of weapons to Arborea. Maybe their serious about crusading against the Formians!) to trivial (Hallaway's has a sale on pseudonatural chipmunk stew!).

Anything is welcome!

 

[Krug]

I'm not that familiar with the Planescape setting, but my suggestions:

1. A race of sentient, LG Kobolds.

2. The Great Flumph!

 

[fusangite]

That request is a little more open-ended than I can handle. So, instead of answering it directly, let me recommend a few old pieces of pop culture that will help to inspire you:

1. Episode #40 (series finale) of Twin Peaks
2. Fire Walk With Me (the Twin Peaks prequel movie)
3. Warrior's Gate (from the 1980 season of Dr. Who) and Logopolis (from the same season, show)
4. The Tom Waits songs Black Wings and Singapore (for the Sigil parts)

Hope this helps.

 

[The Great Sage]

5 Rabbits are breeding in plague proportions, you can't walk down the street without stepping on one.

6 There is painter who makes his paintings move...in ways best left to the imagination.

 

[Ruined]

Always a good source of material, if you haven't seen them before, are the issues of S.I.G.I.S. that can be found at mimir.net. They have lots of 'newsworthy' events that go on within the Cage and without. for example:

7. A smaller cube from Acheron somehow breaks loose from the plane and crashes into another locale. Possibilities include neighboring planes, such as Baator, Mechanus, or the Outlands.

I'll glance through my old PS notes and see if there's anything cool you could use. Best of luck with your game!!

 

[Crinos]

here are some

8: a large extraplanar slug materializes in mechanus and begins eating a cog. it is eventually driven off by formian guard but there is now several bite marks in the cog.

9: A mischevious demigod is using a crystal stolen from ysgard to paint graffiti on the grey wastes. sploches of bright rainbow color that last for days are painful to locals and cause them no end of trouble.

10: A large upper planar carnival orchestrated by a group of guardinal and lillend is traveling the upper and neutral planes. Anyone is invited to attend, even fiends (as long as they behave.)

 

[guedo79]

11. The owner of Parts & Pieces has been kidnapping people at night and selling there parts off.

12. The Lady plans to expand sigil into the outlands. Which is why the Rilmani population is growing.

13. The Chaosmen are planning a something huge to topple the hardheads.

14. A Dragon is said to be hiding somewhere in the hive.

 

[guedo79]

15. A gang of Cranium Rats have taken over the city courts and are causing chaos.

 

[gunter uxbridge]

16. Take inspiration from the song "Its Raining Men," a Homer Simpson favorite!

 

[rkanodia]

15. A gang of Cranium Rats have taken over the city courts

17. ... and the twist is that they're running the justice system much more efficiently than the Guvners do! The Guvners could be unable to get rid of the rats themselves (and thus get the PCs involved) because of the immense difficulty of the paperwork required to clear anybody to do anything about such an unusual situation.

18. The Sensates are holding a wine judging, or an illusioncraft contest, or something similar.

19. The same body keeps showing up at the Mortuary (with apologies to Planescape: Torment).

20. The Godsmen are kicking off a recruiting drive with seminars on various crafts, possibly giving away unusual/exotic items.

21. A Modron causes big problems in Mechanus by putting in gears of the wrong specification, and each time it is replaced, the replacement Modron does the same thing.