r/planescape

I'm currently 6 fighter 5 mage, just made it to the trash warrens. I want to play as Mage through most of the game, and make it to level 20 Mage before end-game, but with *just enough* extra hit points and thaco that when I'm out of spells I still function decently in combat. I don't mind if Morte and Vhailor outperform me in combat, but being useless in melee isn't fun for me. What level Fighter should I stop at to reach this goal?

I'm thinking of playing Planescape: Torment. I know a bit about the theme, and I'm really drawn to the lore, but it can be intentionally ambiguous at times. The original crime of The Nameless One, the one that caused the planes to die and the gods to hate him, the one that condemned him to fight in the Blood War and pushed him to seek immortality to escape that fate, is one of the biggest mysteries. I've read that the game hints at some possibilities, but I'm wondering, what theories do you have on this topic?

After killing Trias and coming back to Sigil, I was a bit disappointed to find out there isn't much to do there anymore.

I finally found the guy who could help Ingress, but that's about it. In one of my earlier posts, there was a comment about that, which I wanted to reply to. But the user was already deleted, so they wouldn't get a notification. Lots of deleted users, even though these posts aren't that old. What's up with that?

Anyway, I went on to search for the Fortress of Regrets in the Mortuary. I walked through these rooms for around two hours like an idiot until I went to the wiki, where I couldn't find any info about how to find it. So I closed the game and tried again a few days later. Who thought it was a good game mechanic to have these portals completely invisible and without any hints in the game??? I think someone mentioned that Modron follower could scan for them, but I don't have him and it's been a major annoyance on two separate occasions now.

Anyway, when I finally found it, there was some interesting dialogue. At the Fortress of Regrets, meeting Deionarra is an emotional moment, even though I don't fully understand the backstory.

But then – oh my god. Running around trying to avoid the shadows to activate the cannons works a bit until the last one. Around a dozen shadows are blocking the narrow stairs to it. It is impossible to maneuver through. Trying to pull them and move them back from the stairs is equally impossible. So I finally found out there is a difficulty slider that I set to the easiest setting and then tried to pull and fight them one by one to free up the stairs. But even then I fiddled around unsuccesfully with the bullshit combat for around an hour without achieving anything.

At this point I don't have the nerve to continue playing, which is a shame. There were many cool lore moments that I enjoyed greatly. But the last few weeks it's overshadowed by hours of insufferable stumbling around and impossible combat.

And there are many parts of the game where I think I should have seen more. It's most likely a combination of things not being there and me just thinking it would be cool, me missing out on content that's there and quests with different paths that would be nice to revisit in another playthrough.

But sadly I don't have any nerves to go back to this game for the time being.

I like the factions in Sigil; I think they bring the city to life. I don't like it when factions disappear, collapse, or are exiled, so I'm not a big fan of the Faction War lore. I'm currently researching the factions Sigil has had and need help figuring out if I've missed any important ones or if they're worth remembering. For now, this is the list I have:

- Athar

- Believers of the Source

- Bleak Cabal

- Doomguard

- Dustmen (Renamed Heralds of Dust, but I prefer the old name)

- Fated

- Fraternity of Order

- Free League

- Harmonium

- Mercykillers

- Revolutionary League

- Sign of One

- Society of Sensation

- Transcendent Order

- Xaositects

- Ring Givers

- Incanterium

- Mind's Eye (This is a fusion of Believers of the Source and Sign of One; I'm still not sure whether to keep them together) or separate, for the moment I'm leaning more towards the latter)

- Hands of Havoc (Possible merger between Revolutionary League and Xaositects, or maybe just Xaositects with another name, I'm in the same situation as before)

Out of interest, I looked up the alignments of certain characters according to the internal game data of Planescape Tornment today. First, I wanted to know Ravel's alignment, as I assumed she would fall somewhere within the evil spectrum; however, I wasn't sure if she would be lawful evil, neutral evil, or chaotic evil. So, I checked and found out that Ravel is actually just neutral. Afterward, I did the same for the other bosses, Trias and the Transcendent One, and both are also neutral.

I thought about it, and it does make sense for Trias and the Transcendent One at least, since Trias is a machiavellian and the "Transcendent One" is driven solely by an absolute instinct for survival. But I would still categorize Ravel as clearly evil.

What do you think? Were the alignments of the bosses left neutral as placeholders by the developers, or were they chosen deliberately with a specific justification?

I kissed a hag and I liked it

The taste of her rotten ChapStick

I kissed a hag just to try it

I hope Annah don't mind it

It felt so wrong, it felt so right

Don't mean I'm in love tonight

I kissed a hag and I liked it

No, I don't even know my name

It doesn't matter

You're my experimental game

Just human nature

It's not what good incarnations do

Not how they should behave

My head gets so confused

Hard to obey

Hello there everyone!!

I am adapting Planescape Torment for a 5e campaign!!
I am using the game as a skeleton for the campaign, with all the amazing and important stuff being part of the campaign! (Excluding some fetch quests 🤪)

Has anyone here done that? If so, do you have any advice and do’s and dont’s ? 🤙🏼🤙🏼

I'm a DM running 5th edition planescape in terms of mechanics, but I'm keeping the lore from 2nd edition. (It's in my opinion better) The Lady of Pain is gone due to an Eldritch horror from the far realm the party doesn't know about yet. Therefore sigil is being bombed and is in ruins. What is the party to do now that the whole universe knows the Lady of Pain is gone?