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Message: <blockquote data-quote="hawkeyefan" data-source="post: 6858393" data-attributes="member: 6785785">Wow, I get the exact opposite feeling about Planescape. I think it was designed to open the planes up to characters of all levels, with Sigil and the Outlands as a kind of home base. And although I agree that as the setting as presented, the factions are all very important, I find it very easy to dial back their presence so that they are very similar to the faction type organizations of other settings, like the Red Wizards or the Harpers or the Scarlet Brotherhood. I honestly feel like there are too many for the players to ever truly keep track of, and the majority of published material seemed to really focus on only a handful of Factions. I don't require my PCs to join a faction, and I don't make everyone in Sigil a member of one. Instead they're just organizations that my PCs need to deal with from time to time..whether as a source of employment, or as rivals of some sort, or as outright enemies. I find that works much better all around. The idea that every single person in Sigil was a faction member always seemed ridiculous to me...so I ditched it and I feel things are better for that change.Well...this is round 5....you missed your chance a couple of rounds ago! But don't feel bad...your vote would not have saved the Realms. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />Some were. The Faction War was one of the last things published for the line, and it made some pretty drastic changes to the situation in Sigil. There was going to be a follow up from what I've heard, and that would have restored some kind of status quo...but they ended the product line before that follow up was made. I used some of the concepts in my game, but not too many. But even if you used the adventure exactly as written, there would still be Factions in Sigil. A few were disbanded, and one or two fractured into more than one, and another one or two new ones formed.I forget the exact details because I changed so much, I'm sure someone can correct me...but that was the gist of it.</blockquote>

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