Literaria, plane of tales

[Vanima Del Ray]

Working on creating my own plane based off of folk lore, fairy tales, and literature. Any ideas would be most helpful please and thank you!

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The Plane of Tales.

Every time a bard scribes down another story, every time the wise man of the tribe recounts the story, and every time a new page is added to a tale, the Plane of Tales, or The Talewild, changes. As tales are forgotten, sections of the plane go into domancy. When the last copy of a tome is destroyed, a part of The Talewild is destroyed, the fabric of the Realm coming loose. When a tale is embellished, the Plane grows in size, and every time a new tail is created, a new Realm in the Talewild is created.

Creatures of the Talewild that have been noted by the few cutters that have been there from Sigil and are willing to spill the dark are -

Shaggy Dog
Chekovs Gun
Lovebeast
Talespinner
Machine of God

And there are much, much more.

[illyahr]

She meant, how would you make Little Red Riding Hood, Jack and the Beanstalk, etc, as D&D events in a custom 3.5 campaign setting.

[RazDelacroix]

Dark Sun Gnome has a great starting point to help ya. Speaking as a Planescape veteran, my suggestion is as thus.

Take what tales we all know and love/hate, and twist'em. Twist them with that added fun that comes from mashing D&D with old tales. But, we need examples yes? Well, here's an example encounter/tale that has been woven time and time again, and may appear before our hapless adventurers.


Your party escapes the Underdark through a ill-used portal, only to wind up in another cavern. Only this cavern is alit with the eerie glow of a forest of giant mushrooms. Traveling along a worn path, you come upon a choice between two tunnels, and there between them is a monstrously sized beast of fur and claws. It speaks a question with an elegance dissonant from it's form. "And where are you off to by your lonesome? Do you require, directions?"


Essentially Underdarky version of Red Riding Hood / Devil at the Crossroads. Stranger danger!

[Vanima Del Ray]

Dark Sun Gnome has a great starting point to help ya. Speaking as a Planescape veteran, my suggestion is as thus.

Take what tales we all know and love/hate, and twist'em. Twist them with that added fun that comes from mashing D&D with old tales. But, we need examples yes? Well, here's an example encounter/tale that has been woven time and time again, and may appear before our hapless adventurers.


Your party escapes the Underdark through a ill-used portal, only to wind up in another cavern. Only this cavern is alit with the eerie glow of a forest of giant mushrooms. Traveling along a worn path, you come upon a choice between two tunnels, and there between them is a monstrously sized beast of fur and claws. It speaks a question with an elegance dissonant from it's form. "And where are you off to by your lonesome? Do you require, directions?"


Essentially Underdarky version of Red Riding Hood / Devil at the Crossroads. Stranger danger!

Omg or a Cheshire bandersnatch wonderland thingy!!!!*trex arms*

[Debihuman]

She meant, how would you make Little Red Riding Hood, Jack and the Beanstalk, etc, as D&D events in a custom 3.5 campaign setting.

Red Riding Hood is an NPC and there are a ton of ways to stat her out depending on what level campaign/adventure you want. Ditto for Jack. The magic beans are wondrous items. The Big Bad Wolf could be an Anthropomorphic Wolf (as from Savage Species) or just an awakened wolf depending on how you want to use it.

Heck, if you watch ABC's Once Upon A Time, you can mine a ton of stuff from that.

The Plane of Tales.

Turning Chekov's Gun into a creature is kinda weird though. For those not familiar with the phrase it means that the dramatist shouldn't place a gun on stage unless it is intended to be used. Then, there's a Red Herring. I have no idea how you'd stat out a Deus Ex Machina as a creature though I've seen it as an overdeity here: https://www.dandwiki.com/wiki/Deus_E...a_(3.5e_Deity).

Debby