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At what point does the Lady get "called in"?

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Submitted by Clockworkdeity on Sat, 08/21/2010 - 08:39
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From what I've read on the setting the Lady's reputation keeps a lot of the extreme-minded planars in check while they're in her city, but what about the many crazy creatures out there that don't give a freck? With the potential size of the setting there has to be plenty of multiverse creatures that skitter through the various portals into Sigil on a daily basis and cause trouble, heedless of their own well being. Does our serenity bother with each and every one of them or does she want until the city is burning to intervene?

Another Harbinger House question

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Submitted by Anime Fan on Wed, 08/04/2010 - 19:25
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According to "Harbinger House", the Lady can't locate the problem in the city because the Focrux blocks Her from seeing inside the House. As a result, the Dabus wander around confused performing meaningless tasks. My question is, how long has this situation been in effect? According to the same adventure, the Focrux provides the House with all its powers, including the ban on scrying inside and the House being bigger on the inside than the outside. The Planiary (sic), a minuature version of the Focrux, is also the only key that will open the House's various portals.

Thinking of starting a planescape campaign (Input needed)

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Submitted by Clockworkdeity on Tue, 08/03/2010 - 21:53
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Hey everyone! I'm about to wrap up a long running Rogue Trader campaign and have been thinking of tackling planescape as my next project.

The current idea I have is a powerful benevolent wizard once saved part of a prime civilization from being destroyed. He took one of the large towns and shrunk it down, placing it in a 6" glass bauble which years later would come to rest on his coffee table in his home in Sigil.

Bejeweled Sigil - A Setting within a Setting

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Submitted by TheSky on Sat, 07/31/2010 - 15:50
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Hello everyone, I hope the title wasn't intimidating, I really only have the beginnings of an idea, I'm going to be making it up as I type.

Perspectives from Steampunk Sigil: of Airships and Air Genasi (Part I)

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Submitted by CrimsonLotus on Tue, 07/20/2010 - 16:13
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Sparks cascaded like falling meteors onto the floating pathfinder crystal. Rysse gritted her teeth and hissed a barbed curse. The tiefling pulled herself up from under the command console to inspect the damage. A long shard of heated metal lay embedded in the oscillating containment field. Nothing too serious if solved quickly. Rysse wiped her oil-stained hands on her dark leather jerkin. Everything was slippery. She had been busy maintaining the joints of the planar sextant fitted to the pathfinder crystal and the last thing she needed was a fire inside the navigation room.

Ideas or info on two barely-mentioned Sigil locations?

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Submitted by Anime Fan on Thu, 07/15/2010 - 22:15
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There's a diagram in "In the Cage" that shows commonly-known and used portals and their destinations. It mentions two locations that as far as I know are only mentioned there: the Public Baths in The Lady's Ward, and the Duergar Foundry in the Lower Ward. Since the Public Baths are in The Lady's Ward, who gets to use them - only the Golden Lords? Or could they be located in the Temple District, where the common people are allowed to gather? Of perhaps more interest is the Duergar Foundry - what are they making there? Weapons? (Since Duergar are evil, I presume it can't be good...)

On the history of Planar Common

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Submitted by ripvanwormer on Thu, 07/08/2010 - 01:24
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(note that in the following essay, I'm making a lot of things up - I'm not attempting to stick to what is known in canon)

The issue here is Planar Common, the dominant language in the City of Doors and other human-dominated planewalker communities on the planes. Where did it come from?

The Planewalker's Handbook (page 101) said that Planar Common descends from the Prime Common tongue, brought to the planes by prime explorers. In fact, it says "the earliest planar settlers from the Prime," which suggests that this couldn't possibly be the modern Common Tongue of Toril or Oerth or Krynn.

How long would it take to walk from one end of Sigil to another?

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Submitted by Anime Fan on Wed, 07/07/2010 - 20:25
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If a body started on one side of Sigil and walked at a normal pace in a straight line (assuming he could ignore obstacles like buildings), how long would it take him to get back to where he started? (I'm thinking lengthwise travel here, not towards the edge of the Torus where he'd fall off!) How many miles would he have traveled?

O.k., now let's suppose he went the OTHER way, starting at one edge of the Torus (say, right at the end of Suicide Alley), and travelled to the other edge (stopping right before he would fall off). NOW how many miles has he gone?

How big is Sigil compared to real-world cities?

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Submitted by Anime Fan on Wed, 07/07/2010 - 20:15
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Compared to real-life cities like New York, San Francisco, etc... how does Sigil compare in size? I mean, if you could lay the city out flat like a normal city, how much land would it cover?

Zebra Girl

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Submitted by ripvanwormer on Tue, 07/06/2010 - 21:39
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Ellyllonville in the webcomic Zebra Girl is a delightfully Sigil-like planar city.

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