I would like to see more cities of the planes. The previous ones were awesome!! ( one in the astral, one in shadow ) I love using such exotic places in my campagin.
I would like to see more cities of the planes. The previous ones were awesome!! ( one in the astral, one in shadow ) I love using such exotic places in my campagin.
I'd second that. The city on the plane of shadow was REALLY cool!
I'll jump in on this one as well. There were a lot of interesting ideas in the shadow city.
Dan F.
Which planes have been dealt with, city wise?
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There've been only two installments of this irregular series.
The cities described were on the astral plane and the plane of shadow.
I wonder, if this will be continued at all, 'cause it was announced as a series back when J. Decker or M. Sernett were the editors of the magazine. Maybe Eric doesn't plan on continueing the concept, which would be sad because i always found this to be a great idea.
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I would like to see more cities of the planes. The previous ones were awesome!! ( one in the astral, one in shadow ) I love using such exotic places in my campagin.
No doubt! It would be exceedingly cool to have a few cities/waystations/encampments from various planes sprinkled around in Dragon! Good/Evil, Ordered/Chaotic, elemental/demi-elemental they would all be a wonderful addition.
How about a city on the plane of air in a never ending free fall?
The plane's still infinite right?
How about a city on the plane of air in a never ending free fall?
The plane's still infinite right?
I hope the PCs bring a barf bag for that one. :)
I'd like to see the City of Glass (from Manual of the Planes) updated to 3.5!!
Maybe a return to the Plane of Radiance is in order. They could highlight a city and add some new planar denizens.
Highlight... Radiance.... Pun intended?
I'm glad people liked "Shadows City". Unfortunately, I have not written any other articles about planar cities, though I would like to see another one appear in DRAGON (or perhaps DUNGEON).
The Githyanki city in limbo would be a pretty kick but city to detail. I'd love to see it.
Or how about, One of the Celestial Cities where the gods live, ya know?
The Githyanki city in limbo would be a pretty kick but city to detail. I'd love to see it.
Or how about, One of the Celestial Cities where the gods live, ya know?
I second the motion to put the Gith city in Limbo in the mag. That would be awesome!
WaterdhavianFlapjack
I'm glad people liked "Shadows City". Unfortunately, I have not written any other articles about planar cities, though I would like to see another one appear in DRAGON (or perhaps DUNGEON).
Yeah. I liked that too.
WaterdhavianFlapjack
The city of the planes articles are great. I'd love to see some gith (yanki or zerai) cities detailed, perhaps a modron factory, maybe a mercenary city in Acheron!
I'd like to see more planar articles period. Planar cities would be a great series for Dragon. Perhaps someone could write about the Mazeworks of the Dao on the Plane of Earth, or the Tower of Storms on the Plane of Positive Energy, or Bahamut's Palace of Tempests (it is the year of the dragon, after all).
I'm not asking for anything Planescapey (though I would love that), just some more Outer Planar and Outre Planar stuff.
Thank you.
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In my opinion it doesn't even have to be a whole city like the previous ones. I'd be happy with just an interesting detailed site. I'd like to see one of these prison strongholds the yugoloths have on Carceri or a slaadi outpost on Pandemonium or something like that... Or a waystation on the Astral where planar travellers meet to trade or gather information. I'd too love to see settlements by races like the dao, shadar-kai or the githzerai. Heck, there'd be endless possibilities for a series like that...
Cities are generally the demesne (excuse the pun) of Dungeon, who currently only runs them if there's an adjacent adventure. I liked the shadow city article on #322, and I'd definitely be interested in setting more cities in Dragon on occasion. I can see players interested in playing a character from that city, perhaps giving the perfect reason to play an unusual race or class - planetouched, psionics, incarnum, "Races of ..." splatbook races - without forcing the DM to populate his world's present and history with these races or classes to retain verisimilitude.
Dragon is read by DMs too, many of whom don't buy Dragon because they prefer to ad-lib or write their own adventures, or resent paying for what they enjoy creating themselves for free. With city articles, players and DMs might say, "I want to run a campaign there", "I want to play in an adventure set there", "It'd be a change from mediaeval fantasy", "I'd like to play a character from there", "I'd like to visit", and so on. Enough individual details will give a lot of people ideas and elements they can use.
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The article describing Balefire was inspired... I was just itching to see if made it into the Tome of Magic section of Shadow Magic (and it DID)!!!
I can't wait to set my next campaign there.
I think anyone that tackles a new Planar city should aim for the Inner Planes, either Air or Water.
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great article, keep them coming
It's tempting to pitch some other article ideas based on particular cities, either previously described, or newly created ones, but I suppose I'd worry about them facing competition from other extra-planar stuff in the magazine. As much as some of us might like the planes, myself included, there's only so much planar stuff that's likely to get printed versus more mundane articles, and they'll compete for page space with one another.
I'd prefer a 'loth or ancient baatorian article before something on the Floating City in Limbo, or Grenpoli in Baator, etc. But I won't be picky if it's well written, whatever it is (and Balefire was cool).
The article describing Balefire was inspired... I was just itching to see if made it into the Tome of Magic section of Shadow Magic (and it DID)!!!
!!!What page!?!
i've been considering pitching such an item, and posted a thread on ENWorld to gather some ideas. :) don't have a link handy though...
Yes, I agree; more planar cities; this seems to be a whole that most campaigns could use filling; sure their are some descriptions of many of the places ( I still use the old manual of the planes and those dieites ) but having some basic maps and a little more general filler on all these places to give a gm a good start would be great.
i've been considering pitching such an item, and posted a thread on ENWorld to gather some ideas. :) don't have a link handy though...
ah, there, went and dug it up: http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=180255
I'd read em.
Posting to remember link...
Since the thread has been necro'ed, can anyone tell me which Dragon issue had the Astral Plane city article mentioned in the OP?
Might be the Githyanki lich queen's city Tu'narath detailed in Dungeon 100 iirc
