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Message: <blockquote data-quote="gamerprinter" data-source="post: 5384042" data-attributes="member: 50895">Location, location, location... really as a homebrew it was located as a coastal city at the foot of a coastal range only accessable by sea on a prime material plane location. But does that really work (it worked for our homebrew), but it might better serve to be in a more exotic place.I don't really want a Sigil, or other kind of demiplane. Could be on the astral plane? How about the moon? How does the moon fit in D&D cosmology - I don't really know?I haven't settled at a best location yet... I'll know it when I see it, but no inspirations just yet.However, what the city looks like, I have some ideas. I am inspired by a more exotic and grander version of Constantinople and Samarkand. I see minaretted mosques, sky piercing gothic cathedrals, a great frequency of temples, walled mansions, keeps and castles, as well as the grand fortress of the city's lord surrounded by parks. This would be a megapolis perhaps upwards to 100,000 people.Beyond that I need a best location to put it in, to best adapt to whatever choice that becomes. I had considered the possibility of the prison preceeding the existence of the city. Interesting backstory idea, I'll have to think on that a bit.I want to use a word I invented as name for another thread... Diabalestae, which links devils with city defensive siege machines, so having devils making diabolical defense works sounds appropriate. These would be collosal sized balistae and anti-siege machines. I'm sure I could come up with more ideas, but that one's for starters.One thought, if on a prime material world, is this is an ancient comet strike location that have created some sort of rift inciting time anamolies, and rare metal/gem deposits.Combining a comet strike from within the D&D cosmology suggests to me, a piece of an outerplane 'broke' from it's source into the astral plane, randomly entering a color pool to this particular world and causing a world shattering castrophe, however that was ages ago. At this location is where the prison and city exists due to anamolies and deposits still remaining as needed resources and environment to accomodate the extra-planar nature of it.I had already surmised that many outer planar beings do not rely on gold as a measure of wealth, thus exotic payments of boons, magic items, slaves, gemstones bearing a being's soul, and other exotica, in addition to more normal treasure items would be available as payments for bounties.Any more ideas are welcome - though I say I'm developing this myself, contributors are always welcome, and I've no problem giving credit for those who do, should this go to publication.GP</blockquote>

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