"Sigil is located at the *top* of an *infinitely tall* spire..." Wait, that's illegal.

@IdiotinGlans

3 жыл бұрын

exactly

@supercalifragic1551

3 жыл бұрын

Spatial anomaly. The tower's length gets infinitely compressed towards the center of the tower. If you were to try to climb up, you would never reach the top if you had infinite time to attempt it. The top makes just as much sense as having a bottom to begin with.

@brianroberts783

3 жыл бұрын

Technically not on top, but above the top. Which does nothing to help the problem.

@yaldabaoth2

3 жыл бұрын

Not only that but you can also see Sigil from anywhere in the infinitely large Outlands at the bottom of the spire. Even from the edge.

@CorvusSolitario

3 жыл бұрын

Trying to explain science in D&D 🤣

Ahh yes, The Plane of Detroit

@th3oryO

3 жыл бұрын

Can't have shit in Sigil

@d3vitron779

3 жыл бұрын

They stole the porch, that’s why there’s no front door

@MrJedimedic

3 жыл бұрын

Sigil: Become Human

@JCdental

3 жыл бұрын

@@MrJedimedic golem rights are burg rights

@himeraozaur9206

3 жыл бұрын

omg this comment is amazing the plane of detroit lmao

A place where the gith and mindflayers give each other the stare down.

3 жыл бұрын

And only the fear of The Lady keeps them in line.

@midnightgreen8319

3 жыл бұрын

Angels and Demons

@LordOfTheDreck

3 жыл бұрын

@@midnightgreen8319 zurücklegt 6

@vleedingrainboom3618

3 жыл бұрын

because looking away means you trust them

@Samm815

3 жыл бұрын

Lady of Pain: NO FIGHTING! X

Running a tourism agency in Sigil must be a hassle, and could be a campaign in itself

"YOU SHOULD NOT HAVE COME HERE, HUMAN. WHY DO YOU CROSS THROUGH MY DOMAIN?" "I was on my way to the kitchen for a snack and I got lost." *"YOU ENDED UP IN THE TWELFTH PLANE OF TORMENT ON YOUR WAY TO THE KITCHEN?!?"* "...I am not a clever man."

@notrod5341

3 жыл бұрын

My new backstory lol

Would actually love more planescape content, such a rich field to explore

@elidasilva5558

3 жыл бұрын

Me too.. anything D&D is great

@proximasilver8354

3 жыл бұрын

Was about to comment the same thing.

@StevenMichaelCunningham

3 жыл бұрын

I'm glad. The Lady of Coin desires it as such as well.

I remember Sigil from Planescape: Torment. Good times

@fullmetaltranshumanist8511

3 жыл бұрын

Oh dont remind me. :D

@darthbrooks4933

5 ай бұрын

What can change the nature of a man?

@VITAS874

4 ай бұрын

Anything can change nature of a man...

@diamondmetal3062

Ай бұрын

Updated my journal

I love the factions of Sigil so much. Despite being so "twisted", almost all the philosophies make a certain manner of sense to me. They don't feel as "cartoony" or "obvious plot device"-type as factions in typical rpg settings. I still have a soft spot for Dustmen because of Planescape Torment.

I love how each plane in the Outlands represents each part of the Character Alinement (Lawful, Chaotic, Good, Evil), and Sigil is in the center, representing True Netural.

@GrymmSoul

3 жыл бұрын

Might want to count the number of Outer Planes and then, the number of alignments.... For example: Gehenna- NE, Baator-LE, The Abyss-CE...... Gray Wastes-NEN, Canceri-LEN, Pandemonium-CEN...Acheron-LNE...Bytopia-CGN (etc) Many Outer Planes are aligned with two ethics and a morality instead of the standard one ethic/morality.

@elidasilva5558

3 жыл бұрын

@@GrymmSoul I meant to say that as well but It'd be too much to write down haha

i dont want this series to end. honestly you have years worth of content left.

Awwww man, I LOVE Sigil! Such an awesome setting. Also... "Updated my journal"

@luckylunaloops

3 жыл бұрын

I actually heard that.

You cannot comprehend the flare of panic that went through me when he pronounced "sigil" that way.

I'm a fan of both the SCP universe and DnD so it saddens me that the DnD ones don't seem to do as well as the SCP ones on your channel. But please still keep doing these, there are few others who can do DnD lore quite as immersive as you can!

@ayycorn762

3 жыл бұрын

Same

@RussianBearMafia

2 жыл бұрын

Boy oh boy would you like my campaign lol

Shame the D&D series is coming to an end love the videos. One of, if not the best lore channels around.

@Silver_Knight.

3 жыл бұрын

@ already do, subscribe to them.

@witcherjohn3440

3 жыл бұрын

Wait wizards is stopping dnd

@mythosinfinite6736

3 жыл бұрын

@@witcherjohn3440 I think he means The Exploring Series' specific coverage on DnD.

@witcherjohn3440

3 жыл бұрын

@@mythosinfinite6736 ohhh

Everyone loves cosmic horror, it was about time of cosmic comfy.

No one: DoomGuard: you know like entropy, man. It just like, is happening. It's all, like, going to heat death, and I am like so totally THERE for that man...

@tyrusdoraneko3125

3 жыл бұрын

About to start a 5e campaign in Sigil and now I am totally, like, gonna make the DoomGuard a bunch of miserable hippies, dude...

@TheZectorian

3 жыл бұрын

@@tyrusdoraneko3125 I love this. Like, do tell me how it goes, man...

Miles? That must be some weird fantasy measurement, like when they decided in Faerun, that a week is 10 days...

@GrymmSoul

3 жыл бұрын

A week is seven days; a Ride is ten.

@evan6338

3 жыл бұрын

Metric weeks as sometimes proposed would be 10 days.

@sevrono

3 жыл бұрын

@@evan6338 i cant imagine a metric time system working very well, even if we re-define the second

remember berk..here is the dark of it so no guff. your jink is always welcome. dont stare like a primer and if you see a lady wearing a crown of knives and a crying mask......turn around and walk the other way as quickly as possible.

From this I have learned that the Trancendent Order's goal is to obtain Ultra Instinct. To move without thinking, to have your mind and body seperated

@McDonaldWilliamT

3 жыл бұрын

You're not far off honestly, but it's really more like they're trying to obtain administrator level access to the universe.

Sigil is... an interesting realm. Why is it circular? Is it the ring, or crown, of some ancient god? Perhaps it is but a byproduct of connecting every plane to one dimension? Perhaps it was built by an ancient race of arcane masters, who built it as a place of travel, but left their handiwork unclaimed? A circular shape does allow easy access to all gates on the plane. The mysterious origin of sigil is fascinating to me.

This series makes me want to play *D AND D*

@williamhare4456

3 жыл бұрын

Warning. A DnD home game will be slower and more boring than you think.

@Dragonspassage

3 жыл бұрын

@@williamhare4456 have to disagree d&d is tons of fun.

@Dragonspassage

3 жыл бұрын

Then play friend its not hard to start.

@jordanvangesen2080

3 жыл бұрын

Enjoy the hobby! It is really easy to get into and most of the people are more than happy to teach you! You should! =D

@quotetherobot749

3 жыл бұрын

Or as my mother likes to call it, D. Andy

One form of punishment you forgot to mention with the Lady of Pain: Being put in her shadow. If her shadow engulfs you, you experience a horrendously, unimaginably horrific and painful death by flaying, with the experience of ten thousand blades dicing you to nothing. Of course, this can happen even not as a punishment, if someone makes the mistake of even just walking into the shadow without knowing its danger.

@McDonaldWilliamT

3 жыл бұрын

Let alone from a Meta perspective. The Lady is deliberately left un-statted. Because she is arguably the most powerful being in all of D&D and it's myriad settings.

@JackgarPrime

3 жыл бұрын

@@McDonaldWilliamT Yeah, the moment you stat something, players will find a way to kill it, no matter how powerful. And she should be an entity beyond any player's ability. The closest we ever saw to her having an actual issue was during Vecna Must Die, an event so impactful it created an entire new edition of the game.

@McDonaldWilliamT

3 жыл бұрын

@@JackgarPrime Right! Hell, remember that time The Lady One Shotted a god and his worshippers so hard they basically got retconned out of history?

@StevenMichaelCunningham

3 жыл бұрын

Actually any with intent to harm as cast upon with a grand illusion of exactly their intent to do so yet upon their self. Makes one wonder why certain horror is ever witnessed a such. Effectively they are given a virtual lesson of their willful ignorance. Her Serenity is incorruptible & chooses her stage accordingly. Never could one expect her to molest...lest we for-get 🤡

@Taricus

7 ай бұрын

@@JackgarPrime Do you mean "Die, Vecna! Die!"?

Man, the Lady of Pain really could be a SCP couldn't she? Mysterious and incredibly powerful. The closes thing to a containment protocol is Sigil itself. As long as she has the City of Door she won't go wander off. So the Foundation would do what they can to protect Sigil I guess.

@jvbrod

3 жыл бұрын

Alagadda already exist. Pretty much the same thing.

@elidasilva5558

3 жыл бұрын

So, Eulid class then haha

@tomkerruish2982

3 жыл бұрын

There is speculation that she is actually trapped in Sigil. Another name for it, besides The City of Doors, is The Cage, althoughthat is usually taken to refer to the inability to leave if you can't find/open an appropriate portal leading out.

@GreatgoatonFire

3 жыл бұрын

@@jvbrod Well to me Alagadda is much more malevolent than Sigil ever gets. But sure there are a lot of overlap. I'm not saying Sigil should be added to SCP "Canon or anything".

@GreatgoatonFire

3 жыл бұрын

@@elidasilva5558 Yeah, I guess that's about right.

I remember playing Planescape back when it came out. After several round sof adult beverages, we threw out ideas about what Sigil was. The one we agreed on was that Sigil is a previous universe that collapsed and this small portion was saved inside of a massive circle of protection. The Lady is the genius loci (spirit guardian) so has the magical power of an entire universe at it's disposal.

Sigil is my favorite official setting!! It's a shame more hasn't been done with it by WotC...

@supercalifragic1551

3 жыл бұрын

If WotC made it today, Lady of Pain would probably be an overweight black woman in a Battle Wheelchair.

@schwarzesonne6529

3 жыл бұрын

@@supercalifragic1551 diversitah

@Dream146

3 жыл бұрын

@@supercalifragic1551 grow up.

@schwarzesonne6529

3 жыл бұрын

@@Dream146 you must not have bought any of the newer books I forgive you for your mistake

@Taricus

7 ай бұрын

@@Dream146 They are referring to the fact that WotC is trying to cash in on equality and social progress. It's fake af and not sincere.

I am beside myself with glee that you made this. Planescape is my favorite setting and, as with everything you touch, you brought it to life in extraordinary fashion. Thank you and I hope this won't be your last foray into the planes.

Please put the Planescape setting into 5e Wizards I'm beggin youuuuu

@sergersgerhersh6594

3 жыл бұрын

Technically the setting does exist in 5 edition, same with Spelljammer. We just don't have an updated version of the settings.

@solusaldrain

3 жыл бұрын

No! You're getting Ravnica, and you're gonna like it.

@JackgarPrime

3 жыл бұрын

@@solusaldrain I mean I totally bought the Ravnica book, so...

@dragonballtalk8527

3 жыл бұрын

@@solusaldrain and theros

"We can excuse the fact that you slaughtered two Yuguoloths before you realized where you were, outsider, but you pronounced the name of our fair city 'Sijil,' not 'Sigil,' and there can be no excuse for that!" I am so glad you, unlike so many other KZreadrs, did not do this mistake.

@AskYoGirlY

3 жыл бұрын

a m

@SylasTheGreat

3 жыл бұрын

No he didn't...

@karcistvahlae1207

3 жыл бұрын

@@SylasTheGreat Yeah, I know. That's what I've said.

@SylasTheGreat

3 жыл бұрын

@@karcistvahlae1207 it's not though, I can literally read what you said

@karcistvahlae1207

3 жыл бұрын

@@SylasTheGreat Yes, please read it again: "I am so glad you, unlike so many other KZreadrs, did not do this mistake."

A whole city dedicated to the rock band The Doors. Imagine...

@Endymion766

3 жыл бұрын

The residents often see black doors and want to paint them red.

@wolcamophone4783

3 жыл бұрын

@@Endymion766 Wrong band but nice one.

@Wavemaninawe

3 жыл бұрын

@DoomedGenX Some say that there is a gateway hidden somewhere between the measures of 'Five To One'. But supposedly it can only be accessed, by singing the lyrics in reverse, while being accompanied on a West African 'kora', played by a Ukranian tele-marketer. But dont quote me on this.

@swedbp1

2 жыл бұрын

@@Endymion766 that's the Rolling Stones and they see a red door and want it painted black.

Ah, yes, the Lady of Pain, also known as three squirrels standing on one another inside of a magic robe with the top one wearing a magic mask, all of which the City of Doors was created to imprison.

"siggol"

@tanuki01

3 жыл бұрын

I’m gonna scream

@Justadonkey

3 жыл бұрын

i cant watch anymore its driving me crazy

@FirstnameLastname-xt1rr

3 жыл бұрын

@@lolly9804 When talking about magic sigils, that's true- but sadly, Sigil the city is pronounced Siggle

@ded2thaworld963

3 жыл бұрын

😂 I laughed every time he said it

@peterdunlop7691

3 жыл бұрын

That’s how the plane is pronounced.

Ran a two year campaign in the Planescape setting during the 3.5 days. It was some of the best fun in any campaign we've ever had. I can't wait for the pandemic to die down so I can bring my current group into Sigil for planar shenanigans redux.

I always thought it was pronounced “Sidgil” rather than “Siggle”... hold on... yup, the hard “G” is canon.

@sgshaday

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah I know. It does sound so very dumb. The City of Seagul almost lol.

@EzraM5

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah I was thrown off by that too. I was thinking it was named like a type of rune or symbol, or something.

@ssjabelincoln4208

3 жыл бұрын

Came to the comments for this, i hate Siggle haha

@Ender7j

3 жыл бұрын

I played with the setting when it was originally released and am only just now learning this...wow

@MrJedimedic

3 жыл бұрын

@@Ender7j I really think I would have remembered if it was called “Siggle” in Planescape: Torment. I played that game like 5 times to try different paths.

"Infinitly long tower, at the top of which..." Holup

@McDonaldWilliamT

3 жыл бұрын

Get used to it if you ever play Planescape. The Outer Planes give no fucks and are full of spatial anomalies like that.

@reverieWithRupam

3 жыл бұрын

@@McDonaldWilliamT what's that? Sounds interesting

@McDonaldWilliamT

3 жыл бұрын

@@reverieWithRupam Planescape is the overall setting, the 'universe' if you will. As for the Outer Planes, basically the Outer Planes are a series of 'alignment' based planes. That is, each one is the embodiment of a specific moral coda. Example, the Plane of Lawful Good is also known as The Seven Mounting Heavens of Celestia. It's a massive mountain rising out of a sea that is infinitely deep and consists entirely of Holy Water.

You know damn well that city has some bomb ass food

Love Sigil, keep up the great work man.

This makes me want 5e Planescape even more

"What can change the nature of a man?..."

@gargoyles9999

3 жыл бұрын

A miserable little pile of secrets

@lordnul1708

3 жыл бұрын

The Deck of Many Things via The Balance.

@barrythompson7336

3 жыл бұрын

Regret

@narev6569

3 жыл бұрын

@@barrythompson7336 Ravel Puzzlewell

@McDonaldWilliamT

3 жыл бұрын

Anything. It depends on the person.

Thank you for taking me on a tour of Sigil. It was one of my favourite environments in dungeon & dragons when I was a kid.

I'll give ye the dark of things for a bit o jink, cutter.

@chainsawsubtlety9828

3 жыл бұрын

Yer just rattlin' yer bone box. I tumbled to the dark o' things on me own. Now, sod off, ya berk.

Ahhh, Sigil, the centre of the multiverse and one of my favorite cities in D&D.

"What can change the nature of a man?"

@Sara3346

3 жыл бұрын

I know this is a rhetorical reference but, the terrifying thing is that the first answer that comes to my mind is ""anything in sufficient quantity.""

@barrythompson7336

3 жыл бұрын

@@Sara3346 It was the main question in Planescape the video game. The answer is "Regret".

@McDonaldWilliamT

3 жыл бұрын

@@barrythompson7336 'Your' answer is. As Ravel said, it changes from person to person. Even The Nameless One gave different answers to that question in his different incarnations.

@Vyktym76

3 жыл бұрын

Pie, always pie.

“Thall shalt not fuck with the Lady of Pain!”

@donwebber9071

3 жыл бұрын

well.one did. and we heard what she did to him

Thank you so much for this video this was all I wanted from this series

I'm so excited you made a video of sigil, I was hoping you would someday!

Love your channel and style of narration. Much love my dude.

Sigil sounds like an amazing location for a game setting!

I thank you for introducing me to the original Ravnica. Now time to read deeply into the Planescape Campaign Setting and updating the Factions to the Honor System.

Sigil is literally the coolest place in the multiverse but almost no players will ever get to see it outside of planescape torment

Planescape Torment. The only game I ever played that lets you literally convince the last boss to give up and let you win because you are so smart and wise.

I love your content. I will litterally watch ANYTHING you put out. Quality 100

One of my favorite locations from my favorite DnD setting.

Wish the volgun uploaded this often, gotta love the explorer

I’d like to see you address the affects of each plane on spells, clerical power as they travel away from their Powers home plane, and the affects on magic items with pluses. This was always the most difficult to keep straight, and record keep, in campaign’s that I’ve run. Great video!

I was just listening to the whole Exploring DnD series in a double shift last night. Nice.

Oh shit you do D&D too! Awesome! I am so happy I subscirbed! Stay clear of the Lady of Pain! DEFIERS IS WHERE IT'S AT!

More DnD please, your narration is greatly appreciated.

My character: Ah, im so glad i never have to worry about drow anymore. *looks in a mirror...screams*

If I wasn't playing a game right now, I'd watch this. It'll have to wait. I look forward to seeing how well it related to my ongoing 5e Planescape Roll20 game.

I ran a campaign which heavily featured Sigil, it is so cool.

More of these dnd lore videos please!

Please make more of this.

Literally one second in, and I was like is he going to say 'siggle' the whole time lol

How interesting, i've just started playing the ancient game known as planescape torment. I say ancient because as young adult these old computer games don't seem to appeal as much to my peers, but it does hold up a bit since it is different from most games i've played. So far it's been a surprisingly charming experience.

This leans heavily into most of the widely accepted philosophies and fallacies. The most notable is the skeptics, and close to the end it leans close to the sensory fallacy. I’m all for it as the factions seem to be the extremes of philosophical ideologies, and fallacies.

The factions are very much like Ravnica’s guilds, which itself is a sort of city of doors too.

I wish ur D&D videos didnt end. Their very good

Whenever I’m joining into a campaign where the main plot are things like demon incursions or anything else similar to one realm tearing open portals and basically invade a realm by smashing their realm into the invasion target, my go to character is a Planeswalker Ranger (the coolest ranger subclass in my opinion) from an order who is basically part of basically a multiversal guardian force whose one purpose is to prevent discord in realmspace and prevent realms blessing into and taking over one another should rifts form, and my character is a member, either a unfortunate rookie or experienced veteran dependent on level joined. And this order is of course located in Sigil, as there’s quick and easy access to any realm in trouble.

Great video!

Man I loveeee his way of story telling

Gonna miss this series, just seems we've barely scratched the surface

Why yes, I think I will sit down and drink some tea while you transport me to a new world.

this seems like the inspiration for vivec city in morrowind

3 жыл бұрын

Similar, but on a much grander scale.

@-divinetragedy

3 жыл бұрын

@ yeah certainly i mean we're talking abt the difference between a city with practically no end and a fairly large terrestrial city

I actually shivered at the fact this being actually manages to full scale stop gods to go into the city.

So happy to have some Planescape exposure out there, great video!

My very first campaign was a homebrew my brother wrote involving sigil It was awesome

thanks bro, cool video

I love the D&D videos!

Yesss. My days of 2e and Planescape: Torment

Would love to see the Exploring Series make some D and D playthrough

currently building adventure that will have one chapter in Sigil, hopefully this video will help me :)

I really hope you do more exploring dnd videos, i just found these yesterday, and I'm done, and i want more

another upload Yay!

The BBEG in one of my games operates from one of the Lady's punishment mazes.

Made me think of planescape torment, god I loved that game

What! an original Dnd video, how pleasant.

keep it up with these dnd videos

Kind of reminds me of Ravnica that there are different factions and the like in one city, but very different in everything else about it.

Planescape's always intrigued me as a setting!

I have the PlaneScape set since it's original release... And have barely scratched some parts of it. Add ALL of the campaigns ever played in the planes and you'll still have barely scratched the surface.

Loving the D&D lore 👍

I'd love more D&D videos, here's hoping 🤞

Good video! 👍

Thanks! I much prefer these 3PM releases rather than 3AM.

Interesting, thanks

Supposedly Planescape was also made in response to White Wolf's Vampire: the Masquerade

Awesome!

Updated my journal.

Friggen love Sigil. Also, do one on Numanera!

Man, just imagine a Sigil brothel

@jeffumbach

3 жыл бұрын

One exists for the slaking of intellectual lusts.

@McDonaldWilliamT

3 жыл бұрын

Run by a chaste succubus no less.