Comments on: DM Chronicles, Session 14: You Wanted Planescape? You Got It!

By: ChattyDM

ChattyDM — Sun, 24 Aug 2008 20:48:29 +0000

LOL! Nice one Andy… yeah I handwaved that one a bit!

By: Andy

Andy — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 14:24:49 +0000

LOL… Sorry… I just read your article and…

‘They landed on a granite pedestal’

Must have hurt - couldn’t it have been a fluffy mat?

I work with Granite and if you have an accident (which i tend not to), I have seen ‘em in my years!

Then it can be very painful!

lol…

Take care,

Andy

By: ChattyDM

ChattyDM — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 17:13:42 +0000

Alex: I’ll have a look tonight… Phase Spiders are surprisingly nasty little critters.

Dave: Feel free to steal… and let me know about it!

Greenvesper: That’s the whole idea behind my baseline plot… (and the last Trope post I wrote) how does one roleplay an adventure during an apocalypse?

Bronz: Welcome to the blog! Unless I’m mistaken, D&D 3e broke a few of the conventions of 2e’s Planescape, namely that the Ethereal plane is now coterminous with absolutely everything (and not just Material + Inner planes).

Regardless, that encounter was taken directly out of the published adventure (Expedition to the Demonweb Pits) which was written by someone who’s well known to put fluff ahead of crunch (you should see the Cambion template… it’s horrendous!)… he isn’t my Nemesis for nothing….

By: Bronz

Bronz — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 16:57:12 +0000

I’m just curious if fluff overcomes crunch a lot in your game? I only ask this because of a few things in this post, mainly though that if you are using the Great Wheel, the Ethereal Plane is not co-existent with the Abyss and is not reachable from there except by Plane Shift or other plane travelling means.

The typical spells that do that, like blink and a phase spider’s ability, don’t work on the Abyss.

By: Greenvesper

Greenvesper — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 16:07:45 +0000

There is something morbidly fascinating about an entire world getting snatched away to the abyss (or to some other nasty plane). That might be a great way to end my 3.5 campaign with a bang before 4th edition comes out.
And it also sounds like a great start to a post apocalyptic campaign later.

By: Dave T. Game

Dave T. Game — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 15:21:51 +0000

OK, so I’m totally stealing “Law & Order: Special Modrons Unit” then.

By: Alex Schröder

Alex Schröder — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 13:02:12 +0000

One character was killed in January by secondary damage from a random encounter with a phase spider.

By: ChattyDM

ChattyDM — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 10:50:31 +0000

I don’t know how much I’ll delve into the Mechanus angle… this might occur off camera after the campaign concludes. But I do like the possibility it represents.

…now Cixi and her pals have more pressing matters. Like surviving Zelatar.

By: Dave T. Game

Dave T. Game — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 03:56:04 +0000

“The Challenge Rating of special monsters like phase spiders means nothing for a party not equipped to deal with it.”

Yup, and conversely, the CR of monsters means nothing when the party is over-equipped to deal with them!

I really like the sound of the party having to deal with Mechanus for some major multiplanar law-breakage. Court room drama meets Planescape!

And the cliffhanger ending sounds great too.