This challenge is courtesy of me, semiurge, and is the last of seven such challenges, meaning that I, semiurge, have won GLOGtober '22.
Click the button below to automatically generate a result from the tables, also below:
Special thanks to Spwack for the generator automator here: https://slightadjustments.blogspot.com/p/generator.html
This demiplane can be entered... (D6)
2. By being swept up in unnatural weather that occurs somewhere in the prime plane
3. Through a specific portal, under a trilithon or at the back of a wardrobe or wherever else it may be
4. With the aid of an artifact or set of artifacts, such as a puzzle-box that must be solved or a bottle that must be uncorked
5. By performing a particular ritual at a particular time
6. Only by particular people, or those accompanying them - for example paths that can only be found by a family linked to it, or one who literally or figuratively possesses their blood, or mini-Charons empowered to ferry people there
This demiplane's size... (D6)
1. Is puny, as these things go, comparable to an amphitheater
2. Could contain a sprawling manor
3. Is sufficient to hold a village and its surrounding fields
4. Is comparable to a metropolis
5. Is sufficient to hold a whole region
6. Is big enough to hold an entire country or small continent
This demiplane appears... (D)
1. To be entirely made from human body parts: rivers of blood, boulders of bone, waving fields of hair, and so on
2. As an enormous clockwork mechanism with uncertain inputs and outputs
3. As a 3-dimensional fractal stone maze
4. Covered in mirrors and tricks of the light. Within it, optical illusions are physical reality
5. As a baroque and overgrowing garden displaying plants and pollinators not seen in reality
6. As a house not built for proper human habitation - the doorways are too large, some furniture is on the ceiling, windows open to nowhere, and so on
7. As a spherical jungle centered around a miniature orange sun, trees growing on each other and secured together by vines and epiphytes
8. As an expanse of level sand, swirling in the wind into monuments and cyclopean structures before returning to formlessness
9. As a cavern lit by bioluminescent flora and fauna
10. As a bountiful tropical island enjoying perpetual sunshine
11. As a single gigantic tree growing out of a bank of mist
12. As intersections of great, glittering crystals surrounded by clouds of glowing neon gas, all shot through with lasers
13. As a cluster of icy spires carved from the top of a glacier by constant winds
14. As a junkyard of debris and detritus from everywhere and everywhen
15. As city streets perpetually at night in the middle of some festival - paper lanterns are the only dependable lighting, and stars of odd shapes and hues dance in the sky above
16. As an archipelago of flying islands linked by huge chains
17. To be entirely folded from origami, though the paper mimics the physical properties of what it resembles
18. As a trackless moor spotted with fog, tumuluses, and circles of standing stones
19. As a model solar system of tiny planets and stars
20. As a self-constructing and -consuming foundry where slag rains from the sky, is refined and worked into machine components, and then melted back for no discernible reason
The boundary of this demiplane... (D8)
1. Is an impenetrable wall
2. Is an endless fall into the void
3. Is a permeable membrane that drops those who push through back into the prime plane
4. Is the gradually-decreasing "resolution" of its reality - objects and physics reducing in complexity until it's a featureless grey expanse
5. Is itself - go far enough out and it loops back around in a mind-bending fashion
6. Is an environmental hazard, swarm of monsters, or similar danger that will eventually destroy anything that goes too far out
7. Is an invisible forcefield
8. Is the incomprehensible and primordial Sea of Chaos
This demiplane was created... (D)
1. By a lich / as a receptacle for their soul / from an afterlife emptied of the dead and dragged back to the mortal coil
2. By a night hag / as a bolthole beyond the reach of pursuing enemies / from a morass of captured dreams
3. By an archmage / as the magnum opus of their magic / from the ashes of a world destroyed during its own eschaton
4. By ancient elves / as a sanctuary from the entropy of the fallen universe / from a genetically-altered seed of the world-tree
5. By a demi-god / as a divine realm to house their nascent pantheon / from the corpse of a cosmic titan
6. By a cabal of sorcerer-scientists / as a vault to escape the universe's cycles of creation and destruction / from a bag of holding that grew in internal complexity as it aged
7. By an elder elemental / as a peerless work of art / from proto-matter dredged up from the deep ethereal
8. By a rogue angel / to experiment with the viability of different universal parameters / from the heart of an alien vampire that lurked in the void between planes, draining their vital essence
This demiplane is currently... (D)
1. Used precisely as its creator intended
2. Used by a successor of its creator who believes wholeheartedly in their mission yet has corrupted it unintentionally
3. A conflict-ridden march halfway between two planes
4. A trading hub of the multi-verse
5. An ultra-secure prison for planar dissidents
6. A cove used by inter-planar smugglers
7. A testing ground for things to risky to keep in reality proper
8. A haven for outcasts and pariahs
9. The clubhouse of an urchin gang, who are the only ones who remember how to access it
10. Being feuded over by a collection of cults, each of which wishes to secure the place as a sacred site for their patron
11. Inhabited by a feral tribe, the descendants of refugees from a fallen civilization who believe they are the last people left anywhere
12. Being used as a base camp by a band of cosmic explorers
13. The top-secret hideout of an insurgent group
14. An exotic destination for wealthy and esoterically-inclined tourists
15. The nesting ground of an eldritch species which migrates between dimensions
16. Being studied by a team of reality-archaeologists
17. Being picked over by scavengers
18. Being used as a dead-drop location by inter-planar spies, unbeknownst to them monitored by secret police agents
19. An uninhabited wasteland
20. The fief of a petty tyrant
A quirk of this demiplane is... (D)
1. That at its core is an orb that sustains the whole place - destroy the orb, and the demiplane will collapse soon after
2. That time flows at a different rate within it relative to the wider universe
3. That its current ruler is tied into it like the Fisher King. If they're injured their injury will be reflected on the demiplane, and while the demiplane thrives so will they. The ruler can be usurped and replaced by some esoteric means.
4. That generations of creatures born within it are rapidly adapted to its environment
5. That if anyone within its bounds dies, they are soon after reborn from a gelatinous egg ensconced within it
6. That it's populated by semi-solid holograms programmed to enact archetypal roles - the fool, the good king, the treacherous vizier, and so on. Getting them to break their programming has an equal chance of making them fizzle out, go violently mad, or awakening them to true sapience
7. That it possesses its own genius locus, its own animating intelligence
8. That its geography is non-Euclidean - its twists and turns seem impossible without understanding this
9. That recordings of it beyond plain memory swiftly fade away - ink on pages runs, carvings in stone wear away in record time
10. That all who sleep within it share the same dream
11. That all visitors to it have its sigil marked on their body, and may randomly find a door they open leads right back to it
12. That those within it choose the direction its gravity drags them in
13. That its matter is infused with the power of its creation, and can be harvested as components in potions and magic items
14. That if you spend too much time inside it, it becomes addictive
15. That magic is more stable within, and miscasts are impossible
16. That its unique microfauna cause all first-time visitors to become sick until their immune systems acclimate
17. That its size and boundaries are unstable, and shift irregularly
18. That once entered, one must pass a trial within it before being able to leave
19. That it's cut off from the wider web of fate - destinies, dooms, and prophecies won't follow you here
20. It's in the slow process of colliding with another demiplane. Roll up another one and combine haphazardly.
I like the result it gave me:
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The place is metropolis size; it is a metropolis, an expanse of city streets perpetually at night, now in the middle of festival – paper lanterns are the only dependable lighting, and stars of odd shapes and hues dance in the sky above.
At the horizon the permeable membrane that drops those who push through back into the prime plane: the caul of stillborn cosmic giant killed by a lich long time ago, made into a sanctuary to escape the universe's cycles of creation and destruction. The place of paradox of existence, not fully dead, not fully alive.
After the end of the festival the scavengers come, patient and ever-hungry, come like a tide to pick up refuse and remnants. Braving their ring to reach the entrance again is the only way to leave.
This is a great all-purpose demiplane generator. I'm not sure what differentiates a plane and demiplane, but either way, I could see myself using this in a variety of ways, with a little tweaking could easily be a springboard for a lot of the kinds of stuff I like. They have just enough hooks to give you something to work with, but are also loose enough that they can be tweaked easily for a lot of purposes, that's a hard balance.
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