Still, swirling ideas for a new planescape campaign, and so, a question to the audience. Dnd planescape, shemeska s planescape storyhour dnethack offers a new playable race, incantifiers properties. I originally began writing up this 3e planescape campaign more than ten years ago, and. I bought planescape on gog for its acclaimed story and played something like an hour. Call it a very creepy early valentines day gift of fiction. She will of course publically decry the presence of the stone. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. And theres the sortakinda book fire and dust, but thats already covered by your first link. Dead gods builds on story elements first explored in the planescape adventure anthology the great modron march, though that product is not required to use this. These creatures, myth to some, nightmare to others, were a chaotic race of fundemental powers. For what its worth, i elaborated on the two of them in a pair of stories i. That book focuses on pathfinders ne fiends, which are quite distinct from planescape s yugoloths in many ways, but occasionally youll find a thematic parallel with an idea or two from here. Theyre mainly notable because one of the freelancers for wotc known primarily for planescape stuff is a huge furry whose waifu is shemeska. So far, the main character and plot setup do seem interesting, but the very old rpg tropes and visuals are hard to get through in 2014 for me at least.
From both story hours which your characterization of yugoloths i borrowed for my old planescape campaign which my players loved to hate. The page was torn and the rest of the book was missing except for a single bit of marginalia, thoughts halfconsidered and not up to being formally penned in the main body of the text. Trying to track down the authors of battletech 3000. I thought i had read somewhere that shemeska is actually a male. The story in the computer game was mature, sophisticated, complex and intruiging. Or better said, did you specify that they stay dead or that they can come back if they are. Links to planescape blogs, actual play podcasts, wikis, books, minis. Please choose a satisfying and delicious index page to put it on. Surcease and dolor are incredible, and theyre very planescapeey in a. The stone in fact has an insidious enchantment that would worm its way into the mind of whomever views it, so that shemeska could find them at a later date. Sigil if were going to reissue our original issue one, we should update it and spruce it up with some more content first. A device of wonder and charm, the antique mirror was something that spoke to her, something far beyond its prosaic appearance. This campaign ran from somewhere in the mid 1990s to around 2001 or so. You show, not tell when it comes to story telling, and this is doubly true for a visual.
Shemeshka the marauder can be this, especially when visiting the portal jammer, but she and every other fiend in the story have proven that they can. Polariums purpose differs depending on where the story is set but has a huge influence over the lives and loves of the characters. I swear game feels like it was originally going to be a book but then the writers suddenly thought this woul d be a great game and shoehorned it into a game with little to no effort. The fog and haze of sigil made that light a sallow, sickly mockery of the light he was used to. Shemeska 2 points 3 points 4 points 7 months ago just things ive written in print. Id consider also mentioning shemeskas story hours and anything else.
Planescape campaign setting by david zeb cook, pages of pain by troy denning, blood hostages by j. This game is optimized for tablets and not recommended for phones with screen sizes under 7 inches. Its set up pretty much explicitly for campaign logs which i call story hours because of this. Every arcanaloth, be they in gehenna or not, had mental access to a shared pool of knowledge built into the. Shemeshka made an appearance in that book, as well as in the. Just wanted to say thanks for shemeska s story hour and the rest of your twisted work. Prior to the faction war about 5 years before the current time she was. Dnd planescape, shemeska s planescape storyhour incantifiers may be neutral or chaotic, and may be of any role a human of those alignments could be any role except samurai and knights.
Torment fans have enjoyed exploring the strange and dangerous city of sigil and surrounding planes. For the contribution history and old versions of the redirected article, please see. But then again ray vallese had a typo back in a 2e book that listed her as. Planescape creatures who had two named npcs, some minor lore and one adventure in 2e. Then theres also the fan comics planescape survival guide and planescape metamorphosis.
Im writing them as i feel inspired, and i have the time. Hope things are well, rereading the first story hour thread till the story. They begin the game with over 900 energy, and use their energy total in place of their nutrition total. Well, the obvious place to look is the story hour section of the enworld forums. They regain energy and some hp by draining magic items, and must otherwise regain hp. This is partly to buy me time while i read and absorb the staircase adventures. Shemeskas planescape storyhour updated 21feb2019 morrus. Shemmys planescape storyhour updated 429 planewalker. Shemeskas story hour by todd stewart longrunning fanfiction set in. Im still working on it, and the last update had me playing with akin talking about his past or at least dancing around actually giving an answer to his particular status or not as a yugoloth. Sea to sky online romance novels paranormal romance.
Born nameless in a tank, they try and make her into a weapon, but she chooses defiance. Im pretty sure i wont be using all of the scenarios in that book, as a. Shemeshkas planescape storyhour characters tv tropes. Most of the content we have for issue one is sigilfocused, so we should probably focus in on that as a theme.
Awesome stories, great ideas, ones that just retain their awesomeosity regardless of the passage of time. Long ago, before the first humans saw the light of prime suns, the fey were a single race. I was one of the players in the battletech 3000 game my character was lebeau, and i was the one who maintained the web site way back when. Shemeska has, as mentioned, been around since planescape during 2nd edition. The discussion was closed on 16 april 2016 with a consensus to merge. Whether hes truly faking it or not, nobody knows, but he still remains by far, the most courteous and approachable of yugoloths, a race regarded as greedy and amoral merchants at worst and chessmaster orchestrators of the blood war at best. Dead gods also features a monstrous compendium entry for a brandnew fiend, fullcolor illustrations to bring scenes alive for players, and a poster sheet of maps for the dungeon master. I can particularly recommend wulf ratbane finished, spyscribe, piratecat, sepulchrave, and sagiro, but. Torment still stands tall as a landmark masterpiece that can continue to age gracefully, now on your.
Stewart began his career with paizo in 2007 with articles for dragon magazine. Vulgarid has been legit framed for this thing, but hes such a jerk that the group had a hard time believing it. Discover delightful childrens books with prime book box, a subscription that delivers new books every 1, 2, or 3. It can be found here and here when six strangers are summoned to an abandoned inn in the city of doors, none of them realize that they are being thrown into a journey that will change the planes themselves. It won rpg of the year from multiple outlets for its unconventional story, characters, and amazing soundtrack. Story time just got better with prime book box, a subscription that delivers editorially handpicked childrens books every 1, 2, or 3 months at 40% off list. Shemeshkas plane scape storyhour is the story of a planescape campaign gamemastered and written by todd stewart.
As a reader of this story hour from the beginning i really appreciate all you have written over the long years. Shemeshka and akin are fascinating planescape npcs. Going off of uncaged, she appears to mostly be interested in greater powerwealthstatus, but its also hinted that she may have other goals as well notably, her protection of kylie. Since its, you know, been like 3 years since that book was published, this. Lazarius ibn shartalan, the architect, 1st of the demented she was seven years old when she found it. Torment was released in 1999 to widespread critical acclaim. Though its worth saying that pretty much anything planar that ive written for pathfinder is heavily inspired and informed by planescape. Eternitys doorstep in the negative energy plane, the entities worshipped by devourers, so much deep cut protean lore, everything about the oinodaemon, tegresin the laughing fiend and the prison of the laughing fiend, the lethe wall in galisemni. The fog and haze of sigil made that light a sallow, sickly mockery of the light he was used to experiencing upon ysgard and many of the other planes. The character development and nonlinear play allows for some fun roleplaying. Keep in mind that im plugging out anywhere from 1530 pages of storyhour material each week, so anything else is on top of that.
Faces of sigil shemeska theposter picked up the name and the typo when planescape was shut down by wotc and the setting was going to be. Although the comic from hellbound is nice, i actually like this one better. Shemmys planescape storyhour updated 429 toras of andros sat at his desk, away from the thin light that current waxed through the window into his room. If youve got stories of your own, feel free to share, as well. Shem is shemeska the marauder, another famous planescape npc that the group has. A cheerful and apparently goodnatured male arcanoloth who runs a magic item shop known as the friendly fiend.
The book is bad, and far worse than the original computer game. Story hour shemeska s planescape storyhour updated 21feb2019. He has since been assigned to the campaign settings planar. A guide to sigil and got herself a full entry in uncaged. If you can get your hands on the planescape books, specifically planes of conflict, that has some info.
I should point out that the characters name is technically shemeshka, not shemeska. Todd stewart is an roleplaying game author known for his knowledge of the planescape setting, and for his contributions to the planewalker online community. Through their minds the keeper riffled, browsing through their surface thoughts to collect the contents of their mental delving. In planescape, for instance, the infinite universe that contains the world of toril forgotten realms is just one plane in an infinite multiverse.
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