Planescape | 16 Gate Town Deep Dive | D&D

[@andrewparsons2391]

took me awhile to realize that several of these towns are mirrors of each other, based on plane/alignment, who are also mirrors- Torch (Chaotic Neutral Evil) and Tradegate (Neutral Lawful Good)- broken merchant town ruled by personal greed/ rich merchant town ruled by mutual beneficial enlightened self-interest Hopeless (Neutral Evil) and Ecstacy (Neutral good)- you go down to gate and get coated in foul magic tar/ you go up to gate and get coated in glowing magic quicksilver Rigus (Lawful Neutral Evil) and Glorium (Chaotic Good Neutral)- strictly regulated military camp for impersonal soldiers/ free-spirited brawling town for warriors out for personal glory

[@videogollumer]

Torch is Gehenna's Gate Town; Curst is Carceri's.

[@SwiftNimblefoot]

Nice parallels, indeed, it was probably done on purspose.

[@Craig_Tucker48]

I was always curious why a planescape setting book didn’t have a focus on the planes, but I see it is because it focuses on the gate towns, and I love that even more! The planes are kind of ineffable and these towns are like toe dip into them which foreshadows it’s plane if the players ever get in

[@RevocerGM]

Great to see the passion here. I hope the Planescape setting gets the revitilisation from players and dms that it deserves!

[@StonedPriest]

The gate town of Ecstasy is ruled over by The Day Man, and the Night Man 😂

[@justiceraminarman]

aaahhh-AHHH-ahhhh!

[@adamvolk7905]

Masters of karate and friendship for everyone…

[@joeyelmer8549]

You must pay the troll toll.

[@laithamekir5778]

You could build your own portals that jumps editions planes and have a whole 100 level campaign. Eventually bringing them back to the edition they like most and that would determine their big bad evil guy and his stat block 😉 real adventures in the multiverse. Just something ive been working on for a couple months now and I personally love how it allows you to let your platers choose the edition they loved most and tries out everything.

[@AzureSomething]

11:34 "Do you get to the Cloud District very often?"

[@mke3053]

Last modron march vibes. Planescape is great.

[@Hey-Its-Dingo]

PCs enter Sylvania: *Cheers theme song starts playing*

[@briancorvello3620]

Making your way in this world today takes everything you've got, Getting a break from all your worries sure would help a lot... Wouldn't you like to get away... Sometimes you want to go Where everybody knows your name And they're always glad you came You want to be where you can see Troubles are all the same You want to be where everybody knows Your name...

[@NetoD20]

I feel like it would be very appropriate to create an Adventure Time-style cartoon based on the Outlands instead of the Land of Ooo

[@MCEvans66]

Outlands gate towns = EPCOT world showcase

[@PyrotechNick77]

Port DisneySea and WestCOT are definitely lost gate towns

[@kurtoogle4576]

Sounds like a lot of fun!

[@rodneygriffin7666]

Outer planes are cool but, what about the inner planes, the ethereal and well known demi-planes? Seems like we need another Manual Of The Planes Book.

[@davidhershberger7899]

Sweet!

[@koshetz]

This video dropped just in time (i just read DM manual for first time and gate towns seemed to be very interesting concept)

[@setelliott9683]

Ohh! Spire... now I'm putting 2 and 2 together with the other stuff I have watched. Got it.

[@arvetis]

Pleynth? Yizz-gard? Folks, I think we've found the patient zero of "Siggul."

[@skindancer36]

How to describe the Outlands, Disney-style.

[@nLinggod]

Everyone in Bedlam should learn sign language

[@nathanpfirman625]

Question. Could a part of a plane cosmically realign into the outlands to make a gate town or would it have to join the closer to neutral plane. Also do we now how many gate towns their have been?

[@Smrt927]

It's there hooks in Ribcage to connect it with a Descent Into Avernus module? Would it be somewhere on the "bottom" of the map the players get from Candlekeep (contra-Dis)?

[@Wyrmshield]

I was hoping there would be too, but I don't think DiA mentions the outlands much if at all. There definitely would be a portal to outlands somewhere in Avernus though since all planar travel to or from the nine hells must take place in Avernus by order of Asmodeus

[@rainbowmothraleo]

I'm kinda disappointed that Ribcage isn't a tiefling town now

[@Hey-Its-Dingo]

It still could be. As they've always said "Your table is your universe" if you want to keep it a Tiefling town, just do that, you're allowed.

[@SwiftNimblefoot]

Hmmm, you can visit Curst? I wonder if Trias is still there... Wasn't Vhailor also stored there?

[@aahchoo1]

"Shopping with paladins" in Excelsior?? Is this Suburblifescape??

[@kissgg666]

Well, the gate-towns of the upper planes did not become more exciting in 29 years.

[@81Earthangel]

Bedlam sounds very similar to Beijing. Spitting at each others feet - check, very noisy - check,…

[@CleoPinto4317]

ok everybody, all aboard the plane train

[@nicholase82]

Honestly why doesn't more of these towns crossover already.

[@kc2086]

One of the other recent videos mentioned that each town has some contrasting element that's kept around to prevent that. Like a really disorganized office in Mechanus.

[@llewelynshingler2173]

​@@kc2086Indeed, Ribcage has a strict limit on the number of Devils allowed inside.

[@TenositSergeich]

Tradegate is where the Merkhants lair! Greed is bad

[@MrFlashpoint1978]

Does he mean pl-in-ths, not pl-ine-ths? Is Sigil not the hub of the planes, but the hub of mispronunciations?

[@1970joedub]

lol. Don’t you mean “Sigg-uhhL”?

[@TheDanielMoose]

i thought there were 4 furnaces , 1 was dead though

[@ScottFernandezscooter313]

Ribcage's ruler a former student of the city of Grenpoli's Political School?

[@VandalAudi]

If there were 9 alignments, why are there 16 alignment planes?

[@mindstormmaster]

Plyyyynthes

[@kevinm3428]

I’m not sure modern players will grasp the concepts of Planescape since they don’t like, or use, Alignment.

[@davescrams]

My sense is that modern players are fine with alignment as a planar concept. The concerns I've heard are focused on feeling constrained by alignment as a proxy for personality.

[@Hey-Its-Dingo]

People who have never even played D&D are still making alignment memes, so it's FAR from a lost concept to modern players.

[@hellnugget]

Mispronouncing Automata over and over again.

[@1970joedub]

Why mispronounce the word “sigil” though?

[@thatmckenzie]

It was created as Sigil (hard g) and published that way in 1994. He isn't mispronouncing it, unlike "plinth."