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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Trickstergod" data-source="post: 3427936" data-attributes="member: 10825">Of course, that's always been one of my beefs with Planescape - the fact that the vast majority of planars are going to be nitwits as well. I've always used New York City as an analogy to Sigil. New York is one of the more cosmopolitan meeting points for much of the world. It has the UN, a sizable amount of different cultures, draws in quite the number of tourists I'd imagine and all around serves as a decent enough Sigil analogy in my opinion. And just how worldly and well-educated does anyone think the average New Yorker is in comparison to someone from any other city or town? Or, for that matter, anyone traveling into the city itself from another part of the world? There was that brief nod to planar's occasionally being dumb with the "Who's Elminster?" comment but, otherwise, it was a bit lacking. I figure the average citizen of Sigil is about as well-traveled and well-educated as the average New Yorker is. Which is to say that they likely know a good deal about their own city but that the average Sigil citizen is about as knowledgeable about the Elemental Plane of Fire in comparison to a prime as the average New Yorker is knowledgeable about Brazil in comparison to someone from Punxsutawney. Now, depending on how common one wants to make portals that randomly deposit primes to Sigil, the knowledge of the average prime there will vary. But I generally figure that just randomly stumbling upon a portal to the planes is rare, so most primes in Sigil are semi-educated about the planes because they went there deliberately. And so,on average, make the typical citizen of Sigil look clueless. Anyway. Just a bit of a gripe. When I run Planescape, I tend to be all-inclusive with settings (albeit with that caveat in mind). When I run other settings, I may or may not include Sigil. If I do, the Planescape setting definitely takes a backseat to the main setting - it has to mold itself to the setting I'm using.</blockquote>

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