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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lancelot" data-source="post: 7017999" data-attributes="member: 30022">There are a variety of realms and pantheons based in the Outlands. I'd suggest a short arc (2-4 sessions) based in one of these locations, to give them a feel for the incredible variety available in the multiverse. My personal choice would be Tir Na Og, the realm of the Celtic pantheon. Here are some potential sources for ideas...* The Chronicles of Prydain young adult book series (Book of Three, Black Cauldron, etc)* Slaine the Barbarian comic series, from 2000 AD* "Celtic Pantheon" or "Celtic Legends", from Wikipedia* Brave animated movie, from Pixar* Any of the following Dungeon magazines from TSR (#21 Cauldron of Plenty, #37 White Boar of Kilfray, #60 Iasc, #73 Quoitine Quest)...or just pick absolutely any module you have access to, and modify it to add some classic Celtic elements. What sorts of things am I talking about? Well...* Wicked witches and mischievous fey* Braggart heroes with a disdain for armor or helmets, who paint their skin with woad (blue dye) and charge headlong into battle* Magical cauldrons which bring the dead back to life* Druidic followers of the Earth Mother, who conduct sacred rituals involving mistletoe... and human sacrifice* Magical torcs (neck rings) with charms of protection or shape-changing* Unusual weapons such as the gae bulg (or gae bolga; a spear with many barbs) or the tathlum (a sling stone or flail that is either made of concrete, or the skull of a long-dead foe)...and so forth. Given your characters are originally from a homebrew campaign, they likely will not be familiar with Celtic mythology. This gives the location a strange, other-worldly aura. It also allows you to play a short campaign arc where they are coming to grips that anything can happen in Planescape. I'd personally ramp up the "gonzo" to 11. Have them actually meet some legendary figures from Celtic mythology, or even the avatars of a couple of gods!When you feel they've got a handle on the fact that Planescape involves big themes and big players, you can move them on to some other location - Sigil, or Baator, or Olympus, or whatever strikes your fancy.If Celtic doesn't appeal to you, there are a number of other realms that are based in the Outlands. All of the following deities make their homes in the Outlands, according to official Planescape lore: Thoth (Egyptian), the Norns (Norse), Yen-Wang-Yeh (Chinese), Tvashtri (Indian) and more. Another idea would be to have the party act as messengers between some of these realms, exposing them to massive cultural changes... and a huge variety of potential encounters... in only a couple of sessions."Whoa! We were simply asked to deliver a torc for a woman called Brigit... and over the last three days, we've fought viking berserkers, crossed a desert river filled with were-crocodiles, and now we've befriended some kind of weird dog-lion that calls itself a "foo". What the heck is this place?!?"</blockquote>

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