Planescape Game AND The Magnificent 2nd Return of dave_o!

[dave_o]

Hi.

So, right, life grabbed me by the softies again and I've spent the past months homeless at times, completely wrapped up in various art projects at other times, and just basicially both a mess and wildly creative. Only recently have I been settled enough to actually, A) start renting property again, and B) actually get to my computer on a regular basis. I'm home!

Been playing a ton of WoW (World of Warcraft), very fun, and very addcictive. Now, though, I wanna run another D&D game. I've got a nice group of pals to run, and that's all squared away, but I thought I'd delve into this vast maw of ideas for, some, well, ideas.

I've entitled the game The Metagnostic Comet in homage to Sephulchrave's magnificent tales of Wyre which consumed my reading for quite some time. The Metagnostic Comet being, in this circumstance, a plane-sailing ship equipped for air, water, and planar travel. This particular ship is owned by a partiuclarly well-off Godsman named Jaochim Reft, currently Reincarnated as an elf, but born a dwarf. This, obviously, poses a problem, especially because Mr. Reft believes that the way to ascend the multiverse is to be as dwarfly as possible, his reasoning being that all returns to the earth, and dwarves are the race most closly associated with said earth.

Yeah, it's not the best reasoning but it's my damn game and it's a good excuse for an elf to wear a beard held on with soverign glue.

Most of the characters aren't very concrete yet. I think someone's playing an Aasimar of Sharess, and there's another Godsman in the mix. In specific, however, is Ryou, a holdover from my weird west game (D&D set in 1800s US, AKA, the Weird West but not Deadlands), formerly named Kado. Kado was a vigilante fighting against Chinese immigrant abuse, and was Chinese himself, which in that game, meant elven. However, Kado was shoved into the Grand Canyon, a huge planar rift in that America, and while the body died when it hit the bottom, the soul kept falling -- right into the infant body of a Fey'ri, shunting that soul somewhere else. So there was Kado, an adult soul trapped in the slowly aging infant body of a Fey'ri.

Went a little nuts, yes.

So, gimmie ideas about where and how this game should go, or just welcome me back. As far as crunchy bits, this game is 7th level, anything goes, meaning you can trade levels in for templates, ECL races, whatever. Standard wealth, all that jazz.

 

[Soel]

Very interesting!

How about having the pcs sail into Carceri to retrive the Strands of Chronos, made from the eyelashes of the titan himself (purported to allow non-linear sight.) They must deal with one of Chronos' sons, a stillborn behemoth named Sate, who hungers for his father's love and acceptance, having crawled out of his rotting mother's womb...

Just some ideas...

 

[dave_o]

Very interesting!

How about having the pcs sail into Carceri to retrive the Strands of Chronos, made from the eyelashes of the titan himself (purported to allow non-linear sight.) They must deal with one of Chronos' sons, a stillborn behemoth named Sate, who hungers for his father's love and acceptance, having crawled out of his rotting mother's womb...

Just some ideas...

You might be my new favorite poster, and that's a tough title to win from Kamakaze Midget.

Seriously, boffo idea. Let's elaborate more on this non-linear sight ideal, though. We could go with True Seeing, if we're nice, or if you're a Rat Bastard DM (TM) like me, you can make this non-linear sight mean non-Euclidian geometry and make people see more than True Sight, all the way into the Far Realm, which is why Chronos tore out his eyes in this partricular multiverse. Of course, the PCs have no idea about this...

 

[dave_o]

Bump for the "I'm going to work" crew.

 

[der_kluge]

Bump for the "I'm going to work" crew.

You do realize it's Saturday, right?

I ran a Planescape game where the PCs had to figure out who stole all the monkeys from the Beastlands. Turns out, Shakespeare had them in the Astral plane, and gave each of them a typewriter to hack out his next greatest masterwork.

 

[dave_o]

You do realize it's Saturday, right?

I ran a Planescape game where the PCs had to figure out who stole all the monkeys from the Beastlands. Turns out, Shakespeare had them in the Astral plane, and gave each of them a typewriter to hack out his next greatest masterwork.

Hey man, I have to work on Saturdays. And I'm gonna use that idea, just as something tertiary that the PCs can possibly follow up (if they even notice).

 

[Soel]

Thanx, Dave o

Methinks I have a bit of the Rat Bastard in me...

Right on about the Strands. Chronos could see myriad possibilities, and with this, everything lost its salience. The Strands also are rumored to have caught some of those very things that Chronos had seen, and held them, as like a speck of light, burned into one's vision.

Having seen the furthest and all, Chronos does little more than touch his own body, to remind himself of the tactile feelings that feel much less than his timeless mind remembers. The resulting detritus forming 3' long serpent-like flying creatures. The remnants of his temple, now called by Carcerians, the Wormshallows.

And of course, the pcs would have to do some pretty deep digging just to find some of these tidbits out. If they are indeed real, that is...

 

[Psychotic Jim]

There's a few possibilities of further exploration posed here. I should point you to Malhavoc Press's (Monte Cook's D20 company) Beyond Countless Doorways for inspirations on different planes of exploration. It details another flying ship and its crew that are special in that they have the ability to steal dreams and nights of sleep from their foes and put these into a bottle, commidity form. This crew and its ship could serve as competition for the PCs.

What caused Kado's soul to "keep falling" and wind up in the body of a fey'rri in a reality completely incompatible with his old one on Earth? Was it some weird otherly dimensional Old One quickly doing some spring cleaning in order to prepare for incoming guests and Kado's soul just got lost in the trash? Was it a result of acts in Ryou's previous life as Kado the Chinese-protecting vigilante (since many Chinese incorporate Buddhism into their belief systems)? What if Ryou experienced amnesia of his former life but slowly, over the course of the campaign, regained his memory, through dreams or other things.

The Sharress cleric could be caught in a struggle between Shar to reclaim Sharress as a part of her and Sharress to remain independent. What if the Egyptian pantheon wants her back as Bast? A three-way power struggle for the fate of a goddess.