SIGIL, the city of Doors

Your adventuring days are over, and you've retired to a small farmstead in the countryside,

where you no longer have to worry about dragons, liches, drow, or even cobalds.

As you go about your day, you decide to hunt for some game in the wilderness,

and after taking down a

deer, you begin hauling your prize back home. As you pass through the trees, you start to hum an old

familiar tune your mother taught you, and suddenly there's a blinding flash. When your vision returns,

you find yourself in an alley in a bustling city, as all manner of creatures walk through a market in front of you.

Looking to the sky, you see more of the city somehow looming above you.

As you'll soon discover, you've passed through one of the countless portals leading to the city of Sigel,

and it seems that your adventuring days aren't quite over yet.

Sigel is the principal location in the Plainscape setting, a central hub that connects to practically

every other plane of existence, functioning as the ultimate melting pot of different species and cultures.

While the Plainscape setting as a whole can feature an unlimited amount of adventures spanning

across a great number of different planes, Sigel itself could also be the host to an entire

campaign.

I previously touched upon all of the different planes in a previous video, but for this one

I want to take a closer look at the City of Doors, and its unique features and factions.

Planescape was first introduced in 1994, with the release of the Plainscape campaign setting,

written by David Zeb Cook for A.D. 2nd Edition.

The idea was to make a complete campaign setting accessible to low-level players that was distinct from any other campaign setting.

It's largely an expansion of ideas from the original manual of the plains, and while the book

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