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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shemeska" data-source="post: 3680261" data-attributes="member: 11697">Union suffers terribly because it tried to be Sigil, without Sigil's quirks, complexities, and depth. That comparison along destroys the place, but even if without the comparison to the City of Doors, it comes off as boring and contrived. The entire city as described apparently exists in a vacuum, because none of the major planar power groups or factions are mentioned, even when their presence would be relevant, yet a number of EPIC organizations with levels out the wazoo spring up out of nowhere, some of them with far too many parallels to some of those planar factions, etc. Suplindh comes off as a parody of A'kin, and all said and done, the 15th level fishmonger in Union turns any attempts at respect into something rather different.The city is worth salvaging however, but it needs to be overhauled in a major way, and it needs to have the rest of the multiverse incorporated into it when appropriate in terms of religious groups, factions, sects, people like the Planar Trade Consortium, etc. Union needs a reason to exist, and a reason why it hasn't been oblitered by a god or overrun by an army of fiends. Suggest perhaps that the Mercanes who nominaly run the city might have actually found it there already, and perhaps Union is indeed much older than the mercane's would have anyone believe. If so, who made it, and more importantly, why might it have been abandoned for the mercanes to find (or was it ever abandoned in the first place?). Perhaps a group of great wyrms are the true powers in the city, or the city might be a pacified version of Neth or Nimicri controlled by the mercane by whatever means, etc.But as presented, Union had none of that, it just had ludicrous levels and a feeling like it was a setting turned up to 11. Without the development that it never received, I've only used it once in my planar campaigns, and only then as a running joke (a Union Sentinel who bore a disturbing resemblance to Hulk Hogan was, briefly, involved in a gladiatorial match in Sigil, before the Mercykillers' great wyrm rust dragon Choirosis ate him).And at times, I've been mean.</blockquote>

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