Which is your favorite Hell?

[nopantsyet]

This is not a poll; this is me scavenging for idea. I'm constructing a planar Hell for my campaign, and I'm not sure what direction to go. I've got Manual of the Planes and Beyond Countless Doorways, and I'm inclined towards the version of Hell in BCD, but I wanted to find out whether there were other good Hell concepts out there. What Hell do you prefer and what about it makes it your own favorite Hell?

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[edbonny]

You will find some fantastic landscape stuff in Fires of Dis, a Planescape adventure, and in the Planescape boxset, Planes of Law.

- Ed

 

[mythusmage]

Hell Is...

trying to play Toon using Powers and Perils.

 

[Sejs]

Sepulchrave's.

 

[Jolly Giant]

I'm quite partial to Dante's classic nine-level version. The more terrible sins you've comitted, the further down you end up. According to him, the 9th level holds only one damned soul; that of Judas Iskariot. Encased in ice; frozen but awake for all eternity, and utterly aware of the enormity of his crime...

You'll have to come up with somebody else to occupy the 9th level for your campaign setting (presumeably), but finding nothing but that block of ice with its one doomed soul would still make a great end to campaign through Hell!

 

[mythusmage]

That would be the traitors' circle. One which holds all those who betrayed one who trusted them explicitly. With the ur-traitor, Lucifer at the very center.

Judas Iscariot's claim to fame is that he is one of two who are getting chewed on by Satan himself. The other being Brutus, betrayer of Gaius Julius Caesar.

 

[Tarrasque Wrangler]

Jolly Giant and Mythusmage: Cassius is getting gnawed on too. He and Brutus are in there feet-first, while Judas went in head-first for extra pain.

 

[Nuclear Platypus]

The Hell of Being Cut to Pieces. The Chinese have a lot of hells.

There's also the Hell of Boiling Oil. Just kidding. It's really a sign that says "Keep Out".

 

[Keeper of Secrets]

My favorite Hell is my own private one that I have placed myself in.

 

[MrFilthyIke]

The Hell of Being Cut to Pieces. The Chinese have a lot of hells.

There's also the Hell of Boiling Oil. Just kidding. It's really a sign that says "Keep Out".