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#1 soul_harverster Mar 20, 2006 15:37:33	I am looking for books that have information about the Outlands and the various Gate Towns? Does anybody have any suggestions?
#2 bob_the_efreet Mar 20, 2006 16:00:40	The main one you're looking for is A Player's Primer to the Outlands.
#3 soul_harverster Mar 20, 2006 16:05:50	Thanks(and I should have read the forums more carefully), but are there also any DM related books?
#4 zombiegleemax Mar 20, 2006 17:45:11	Well, the Planescape Campaign Setting covers a fair bit of the Outlands (though much of it gets repeated in the Primer). As for Gate Towns, it seems most of them show up in one of the adventures, with coverage ranging between a paragraph or two in some cases to entire chapters in others. If memory serves, 'Fires of Dis' and 'Harbinger House' might correspond the best to what you'd be looking for.
#5 soul_harverster Mar 20, 2006 17:54:28	Anybody knows an adventure that features Automaton?
#6 zombiegleemax Mar 20, 2006 18:02:22	There is one: the first adventure in the 'The Great Modron March' anthology is set there, though it makes relatively few notes on the town as such.
#7 kwint_pendick Mar 20, 2006 23:18:33	The Campaign Setting has the following info on Automata, although it is specific for that burg: Character. Just because it's not living, that doesn't mean a town's got no personality. Character's part the general alignment of the place, and part the nature of what happens there. Ruler. This tells a sod who's officially in charge - name, race, class, and level - and what that supposed chief is like to deal with. Be sure to check the next entry to find out who's really in charge. Behind the Throne. Just because a berk rules a town, it doesn't mean he's the only boss. Most times there's one or more other groups trying to pull the strings. A wise cutter takes time to find out who's really the high-up man in the local operation. Description. Here, the layout of the town's presented so that things said later'll make sense. Militia. Player characters seem to get messed up with the local authorities a lot. This entry tells who's in charge, what they've got to command, and just what kind of attitude they're likely to have in response to the mischief player characters are likely to cause. Services. This is the same as the entry for realms: a listing of places to go and things to buy that could be useful to a band of danger-loving toughs. Local News. Gossip's always useful, and a wise cutter keeps his ear to the ground. This entry gives some of the chant the locals are likely to know.
#8 zombiegleemax Apr 06, 2006 20:26:56	The Gate-towns and the Outlands(or Plane of Concordant Opposition, as I like to call it) are indeed little developed, even in "official" Planescape products. The Player`s Primer leaves alot to be desired, in my opinion, and I remember I had to build Tradegate almost completely from scratch when my campaign was based there many years ago. I guess most here has to be made from scratch by some enterprising individuals, I have given up any hope for an official supplement Still, the gate-town to Acheron was detailed in Lord of the Iron Fortress, and a few others are more or less detailed in other supplements too(like Fires of Dis, and even in Planescape:Torment) Anybody know if Raxivort, the god of xvarts, still has a realm on the Outlands?
#9 ripvanwormer Apr 07, 2006 0:04:30	The best official source on Automata is the Planescape Campaign Setting box. Here's my Automata page. Anybody know if Raxivort, the god of xvarts, still has a realm on the Outlands? Raxivort's realm was never in the Outlands. It was in Pandemonium. And yes, it's still there.
#10 zombiegleemax Apr 07, 2006 6:05:17	I thought he had a realm there, the earlier Greyhawk products seem to point to that...but I might be wrong Do you have any info about the other, less developed gate-towns too, Rip(or others)? Especially Glorium, Plague-mort, Tradegate and the Arborean one?
#11 ripvanwormer Apr 07, 2006 19:54:54	I thought he had a realm there, the earlier Greyhawk products seems to point to that...but I might be wrong "At last Raxivort sought a truce and departed for the wildly changing planes of Pandemonium, giving up the portion of the Abyssal Plane he had taken, but carrying off great spoils." - A Guide to the World of Greyhawk Fantasy Setting, page 75 (copyright 1983 by Gary Gygax). Do you have any info about the other, less developed gate-towns too, Rip(or others)? Especially Glorium, Plague-mort, Tradegate and the Arborean one? Yeah, somewhere. Browse around on my index page. There's a lot more, but I need to formally put it together.