Planewalker Party Planning

With a Planescape game, the party don’t have to be exactly philosophically aligned, but at the very least they shouldn’t be completely philosophically opposed. For me though, that kind of thing can wait until after everyone’s decided on a race and class at least. Sure, we may tell stories with this game, but it is, at heart, still a game.

Chris has played and run a lot of D&D before but never played a wizard, and it was finally the time. He saw that Githyanki made mechanically strong (and narratively interesting) wizards, so he picked Githyanki. “Githyanki? Aren’t they kind of the bad guys?” Fuck you.  You can *not* be a Githyanki wizard in any other game that exists. So ya boi’s a conjurer in a breastplate.

Andres is the only player who’s played Planescape: Torment, and had found an online supplement of 5e Planescape races. He likes the look of a Rogue Modron, so that’s who he is. A modron. We decided on monodrone rather than quadrone aesthetically. (They’re cuter.) He fancied a bard, so he’s a bard. He rolled godawful stats so he’s on pointbuy, replacing the Modron’s +1 in CON with a +1 in CHA to get 16 CHA. He’s three foot wide and weighs 500 pounds. That’ll be fun.

Alex didn’t know what to play, but when I told him he could be an Artificer, and the Armourer UA subclass was on the table, his mind was made up. He loves prepared casters like the Cleric, so a heavily armoured arcane version of that was right up his street. As for being a gnome, well, he just kind of fancied it. Gnomes make good artificers.

As for Factions, Chris was set on the Fraternity of Order (Guvners) as soon as he laid eyes on them. After some reading, Alex liked the Harmonium. There was some wonder if Andres would become a Mercykiller to complete the party being The Trifecta of Law. Andres fancied being a Sensate Modron though: a construct who had broken free from monotony and now wished to experience anything and everything his former lawful life had forbade. Sounded good to us.

So that was the party!

12-Bar: Rogue Modron Bard, Society of Sensation;

M’narr Katznaa’i, Githyanki Wizard, Fraternity of Order;

Ragados Truetemper, Gnome Artificer, Harmonium.

Two sort-of healers, one sort-of tank, and a shit-ton of spellcasting. Bring it on, dickwads. What could possibly go wrong

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