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| name        = Planescape Nights
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| logo_caption = "Why would we want to go to the same place all the time?"
| logo_caption = "What can change the nature of a nerd?"
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| status      = Active
| status      = Ended
| genre        = Planescape
| genre        = Planescape
| system      = Hackmaster
| system      = Hackmaster
| began        = {{start date|2015|12|16}}
| began        = {{start date|2015|12|16}}
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| ended        = {{start date|2016|07|13}}
| time_active  = {{age in years, months, weeks and days|month = 12 |day = 16 |year = 2015}}
| time_active  = 7 months
| game_master  = [[User:Benjamin|Benjamin]]
| game_master  = [[User:Sage|Sage]]
| players      = [[User:Andrew|Andrew]], [[User:Jeremy|Jeremy]], [[User:Luke|Luke]], [[User:Rob|Rob]]
| players      = [[User:Andrew|Andrew]], [[User:Jamie|Jamie]], [[User:Luke|Luke]], [[User:Rob|Rob]]
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''Planescape Nights'' - The Planescape campaign setting with Hackmaster 4th ed bolted onto it. GMed by [[User:Benjamin|Benjamin]].
''Planescape Nights'' - The Planescape campaign setting with Hackmaster 4th ed bolted onto it. GMed by [[User:Sage|Sage]].


Our players wander the Planes in search of adventure, treasure, or to fulfill their own private ambitions.  
Our players wander the Planes in search of adventure, treasure, or to fulfill their own private ambitions.  
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== Characters ==
== Characters ==
* [[Grodd]] - [[User:Andrew|Andrew]]
* [[Grodd]] - [[User:Andrew|Andrew]]
* [[Hikari]] - [[User:Jeremy|Jeremy]]
** [[Steve]] - Protege
* [[Hikari]] - [[User:Jamie|Jamie]]
* [[Jaxson]] - [[User:Luke|Luke]]
* [[Jaxson]] - [[User:Luke|Luke]]
** [[Zevine]] - Protege
** [[Zevine]] - Protege
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[[File:Ingress_folly.jpg|thumb|left|It is good to be cautious of unknown portals.]]
[[File:Ingress_folly.jpg|thumb|left|It is good to be cautious of unknown portals.]]
* The current year is 3440. This is not extremely important, but someone asked. Time can be weird on the planes.
* The current year is 3440. This is not extremely important, but someone asked. Time can be weird on the planes.
* Refer to [[User:Benjamin#House_Rules|Benjamin's house rules]], especially [[Benjamin's Hackmaster House Rules]]. Some of the 3.5 rules will also apply under Hackmaster as well (especially the section on The Planes, this is the Planescape setting after all).
* Refer to [[User:Sage#House_Rules|Sage's house rules]], especially [[Sage's Hackmaster House Rules]]. Some of the 3.5 rules will also apply under Hackmaster as well (especially the section on The Planes, this is the Planescape setting after all).
* I reserve the right to change the rules basically whenever, but I promise it will be for good reasons, and to account properly for any changes this makes to the mechanical operation of anyone's character.
* I reserve the right to change the rules basically whenever, but I promise it will be for good reasons, and to account properly for any changes this makes to the mechanical operation of anyone's character.


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* Priestess Nahira - Githzerai priestess and seer met in the Wandering Temple of Celestian.
* Priestess Nahira - Githzerai priestess and seer met in the Wandering Temple of Celestian.
* Norendal - Dwarf/Planetouched Ranger, mentor to Hikari. He is often found wandering the Outlands between Tradegate and Faunel, or making journeys into Bytopia or the Beastlands from these Gate-towns.
* Norendal - Dwarf/Planetouched Ranger, mentor to Hikari. He is often found wandering the Outlands between Tradegate and Faunel, or making journeys into Bytopia or the Beastlands from these Gate-towns.
* Ko'nahn the Barbarian - Barbarian found in the Cobalt Forest on Datha after accidentally falling through a portal. After a friendly fist-fight, Grodd took him to the now stabilized portal, and he returned to The Beastlands.


== Special Items ==
== Special Items ==
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Main:
Main:
* Take Joran on a tour of Ezethae.
* Find and punish the army which marched through Ezethae and Fairmond and attacked their people.
** Word is that the horde has marched west of Fairmond, into the Sunburnt Sea.


Side:
Side:
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** A solid lead on the (fake?) hidden riches of Lady Winfrith.
** A solid lead on the (fake?) hidden riches of Lady Winfrith.
** A copy, preferably the original, of Vaeril's ''Structure of Sigil''.
** A copy, preferably the original, of Vaeril's ''Structure of Sigil''.
 
* The party located a site of historical, religious, and magical significance on Datha: The Shrine of Saint Dabius. Here is interred the evil sorcerer Marin the Faceless, defeated and sealed by Dabius, a figure of note in the mythic history of the church of Ajahn.
Marby:
* Collect samples from the Cobalt Forest and return them to Tabi in Silvermist.


=== Completed! ===
=== Completed! ===
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* Return to the Elf outside the crypt and give him closure on the invasion of his wife's burial site.
* Return to the Elf outside the crypt and give him closure on the invasion of his wife's burial site.
* Find a way for the Datha folk to return to their home plane. (with Joran's assistance)
* Find a way for the Datha folk to return to their home plane. (with Joran's assistance)
* Take Joran on a tour of Ezethae.
* Assist the Realm of Ezethea.
** The royal family +servants has been cured and are all recovering.
** Abbot Norry directed the peasant farmers of the midlands of the country to return the farmlands and work with the monastery to ready the village and fields for planting season.
** Rector Aldis has headed up an effort to beef up the guards/soldiers of Ezethae.


Hikari:
Hikari:
* Return the portal device to Joran in the Civic Festhall.
* Return the portal device to Joran in the Civic Festhall.
** Find a way to return home.
** Find a way to return home.
* Track down whoever cut down trees from the Wise Oaks Grove.
** Abbot Norry mentioned he purchased the wood from merchants operating out of Fairmond.
Marby:
* Collect samples from the Cobalt Forest and return them to Tabi in Silvermist.


== The Story So Far ==
== The Story So Far ==