Sigil NPC list, Venues list and Map downloads

[Ambrus]

You promised!

Uh oh... Honestly, since I posted the last few updates and didn't receive any replies, I kind of figured that others might have lost interest in my ongoing efforts. Since I felt that I was only working for myself, I have to admit that I kind of slackened off following the holidays. Now I realize that I was mistaken and will endeavor to pick up the pace again. Thanks for the kick in the butt.

You know, one thing that would ease up on my game-prep commitments (and thereby give me more time to work on the map) would be if someone *cough cough* Oryan *cough cough* would be kind enough to put together PH2 affiliations for the two Sects selected by PCs in my group; the Ring Givers & Guardians.

Speaking of Oryan...

Is that the book where the primes enter Sigil and meet a blue skinned Tiefling that begins speaking the chant?

No, that'd be Finder's Bane.

I don't own the Tactical Manual and I'm shy a few of the cards from the set.

It's alright, I managed to get a hold of a copy and so have indexed (with the help of a good magnifying glass!) all Blood War cards. I'm certain you could easily get the money you're looking for if you were to sell your card collection on ebay though. I'm certain you must have some of the rare cards amongst your 1600.

 

[Oryan77]

You know, one thing that would ease up on my game-prep commitments (and thereby give me more time to work on the map) would be if someone *cough cough* Oryan *cough cough* would be kind enough to put together PH2 affiliations for the two Sects selected by PCs in my group; the Ring Givers & Guardians.

Haha, man, now you want post-faction war affiliations?! I probably won't be able to help out there. I'm still running a pre-faction war campaign and haven't needed to create any new affiliations.

I keep forgetting about the affiliations though. I have 2 new PCs in my group that need affiliations for pre-faction war factions that I still haven't finished updating.

 

[Ambrus]

Haha, man, now you want post-faction war affiliations?!

I'm also running a pre-faction-war campaign; both the Ring-Givers and Guardians existed as Sects long before the war.

S'okay. Now I at least have someone I can point to as the reason my map-work is lagging behind when Defier comes a-calling.

 

[Oryan77]

I'm also running a pre-faction-war campaign; both the Ring-Givers and Guardians existed as Sects long before the war.

Yeah but you actually have players that want to join them pre-faction wars? What, the other factions aren't enough for them

S'okay. Now I at least have someone I can point to as the reason my map-work is lagging behind when Defier comes a-calling.

That's ok, I've been blaming you for months as the reason my players don't have a fully updated Sigil map j/k

 

[Mathew_Freeman]

Just wanted to drop in and say what a staggering amount of work this looks to have been!

Congratulations on it!

 

[Ambrus]

Just wanted to drop in and say what a staggering amount of work this looks to have been! Congratulations on it!

Thank you kindly Tallarn.

Having taken Defier's inquiry about my progress on the map to heart, I've jumped back into illustrating iconic Sigil buildings. Here are a few Hive Ward favorites from the Torment video game. Starting at the top and going clockwise they are: the Office of Vermin and Disease Control, the Temple of Aoskar, the Smoldering Corpse Bar complex, Arlo's Flophouse, the Gathering Dust Bar, Old Mebbeth's Hut and the Styx Oarsman (in keeping with the new floor-plan presented in Expedition to the Demonweb Pits).

 

[Defier]

Hail Ambrus! Glad to see that you don't give up your Sigil's map effort.
The buildings from Torment are just perfect, in fact they help to recognize them directly on the map without the necessity to consult the legend. From my part I'm revising always that I can your NPC and Locations lists while reading the old planescape stuff. Until now, no mistakes hehehe.

The next thing to bring Sigil alive is to do a complete planar list of officials portals from/to Sigil. What do you think if we and any other who might want to join start to make this effort? In fact I am already start it, the problem (for other english planewalkers at least) is that the thing is in portuguese, but I could give the "coordinates" from the portals in the books that I had "scanned"for the portals. That done the complete portals list could even be indexed in your map with a symbol and number, in a kind of "DM version only". What do you think of the idea?
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Defier.

 

[Ambrus]

Heh. I'm glad to hear that you haven't yet found any mistakes in my work Defier. I'd love to hear about any that you might find though, so keep up the good work!

As I see it, such a list of "official" portals would be kind of piecemeal, incomplete and of little consistent use to DMs. Portals appear, disappear and shift at the whims of the Lady of Pain; that is, wherever and for however long the DM wants them to be there. Also consider the events in the Faction War scenario for instance; all stable portals in Sigil got rearranged! An "official" list would therefore be of some limited utility, I'd think.

Although I applaud your effort to index all portals (and would be curious to see your list) I decided long ago not to bother with such a thing myself. Since I'd have to start rereading all of the myriad sources to try and find all such "official" portals, I have to admit the idea doesn't appeal to me overmuch. You're welcome to continue to do so yourself however, but I've got enough on my plate for the moment.

Speaking of which; a few new additions. Clockwise from the top they are: the Brothel of Slaking Intellectual Lusts, Sharegrave's Guildhouse, Ku'atraas' Warehouse and Fell's Tattoo Parlor.

 

[Ruined]

The images look great Ambrus. Glad to see you're still keeping up with this effort.

I was curious, are you adding any non-canon material? I know there's all sorts of ancient stuff out there and there's the matter of an unending workload, but the great one that came to mind was the material from the Mimir. It may not be official, but the writeups from Brix's Guide to Sigil were phenomenal (as was most of the info on that site).

http://mimir.net/brix/index.shtml

 

[Ambrus]

I'm afraid not, no. My self-appointed mandate has always been to only include canon material in my indexing work. Though many might debate which material qualifies as canonical, I take it to mean anything directly produced by TSR, Wizards of the Coast, or another company who is/was officially licensed to produce Planescape material. So that excludes pretty much all fan-created material including stuff on the Planewalker or Mimir sites as well as my very own stuff.

Certainly some of the fan-created stuff is awesome, but one has to draw the line somewhere after all. For the sake of completeness, my mandate also means that I have to unfortunately add in some "cannon" material which isn't particularly great. *cough* Blood Wars Trilogy *cough cough*

With well over 1,000 NPCs and 300 venues, it's not as if we're exactly starving for more venues after all.