Some of the factions have a more complicated entry process. You might have someone sponsor you to get in. Joining a Faction: It's usually simple and there is a fee. This event and declaration became known as the Great Upheaval.

The Lady of Pain forced a limit of no more than 15 factions operating in Sigil at the same time. History of the Factions: At one time, there were dozens of factions that were constantly bickering and brawling.

You could do an entire campaign of just focusing an adventure on each faction if you wanted to. There are so many to keep track of! I suggest just focusing on the ones your players like to start with and slowly expand when it feels like everyone is familiar with the ones introduced so far. Using these factions in a campaign can feel overwhelming. In theory, a hero can rise up in the ranks from namer to factotum to factor to factol.

Dragon Magazine 414: Character Themes: Sensates, Ciphers and Xaositectsĥe Faction Rules: If you want to use these factions for 5e, don't forget to check out the faction and renown rules in the DMG page 21.

Dragon Magazine 370: Riven Justice: The Mercykillers.

Dragon Magazine 287: Fractious Factions.

Dragon Magazine 213: This has a wealth of great information on each faction.

This article uses material from these sources:

Then I'll talk about the changes to the factions following the events of the Faction War adventure and scattered things from subsequent editions.

First, I'll list them as they are in the Planescape boxed set. Worse, I tried to find a simple faction list on google, and I couldn't. There are a million of them and each one has a name and a nickname that are used interchangeably. One of the hardest things for me to get my head around when I first started working on my Planescape campaigns was the factions.

Blade and soul faction war