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Fortress Celestia is a homebrew Dungeons and Dragons 3.5 setting created by Frodo Goofball Co TV as an Affectionate Parody of the setting, Planescape.^[1]

Part of the concept was posted D&D Wiki here.

Tropes used in Fortress Celestia include:

Setting

After the End: The gods managed to screw up an entire multiverse. Only 8 planes of existance are currently known to have survived.
Character Alignment
- Enemy Civil War, Evil Versus Evil, Order Versus Chaos, The Good, the Bad, and The Evil: The Backstory. Chaotic Evil and Lawful Evil planes faught each other. Order defeated chaos, but at the price of thoroughly tainting itself with corruption. The celestial high command's overall strategy is to get them fighting again.
Fantasy Kitchen Sink Well, it IS a parody of Dungeons and Dragons.
Heaven and Hell: some of the planes are, or were literal Heavens and Hells
- Circles of Hell: There are a lot of these....
- Fluffy Cloud Heaven: a Subversion. Fluffy white clouds are more likely to be home to monsters, Sky Pirates, or hailstones than people with wings, though it has been known to happen.
- Fire and Brimstone Hell / Ironic Hell: played straight some places, and subverted in others.
- A Hell of a Time: If you're a Complete Monster, a Nightmare Fetishist, or a Card-Carrying Villain with Fiction 500, look no further.
I Don't Like the Sound of That Place, because pretty much all the place names are Meaningful Names.
Punk Punk, just because.
Scenery Porn, because:
- Scenery Gorn: The whole multiverse is a patchwork kluge, and the landscape still bears the scars. Even in Heaven, there's places like "The Isles of Battle". And let's face it, huge lava - filled chasms, gigantic wierd - shaped mountains, and for some, macabre scenes on an epic scale, are actually pretty cool.
- Areas where more pleasant things flourish tend to look like Arcadia, Crystal Spires and Togas, the Ghibli Hills, or The Sky Is an Ocean.

The planes of existance currently known to have survived the cataclism are:

The Barrens of Evil: A former Lawful Evil Hell, then known as 'The Nine', now it has become The Empire, gobbling up smaller hells. Surface conditions vary from Fire and Brimstone Hell to Grim Up North to Mordor (What did you expect with a name like 'The Barrens of Evil'?). However, it can also be A Hell of a Time. For most of the inhabitants, however, it's Desert Punk with Magitek... and Demons.
The Broken Machine: A former Lawful Neutral Heaven, now a Vestigial Empire and Lawful Stupid Hell. A Clock Punk Cloudcuckooland Crapsack World filled with Obstructive Bureaucrats.
The Celestial Courts: A Lawful Neutral / True Neutral Heaven and headquaters of The Multiverse's Celestial Bureaucracy. Also contains Tailor Made Prisons for criminal gods and serves as Hell for literal lost souls. While prisoners and slaves live in unpleasant surroundings, for the Planar Lords it's a world of Magitek Steampunk Crystal Spires and Togas.
The Chaos Plane: A Chaotic Neutral / Cloudcuckoolander Heaven. Here, The Sky Is an Ocean... an ocean of Cloudcuckoolander imagination gone wild. Both celestial and fiendish armies and Planar Lords have tried to conquer it. Most of them were never seen from again.
The Plane of Elemental Substances: A Hammerspace that serves as the source of Elemental Baggage. The inhabitants are predominantly Elemental Embodiments who tend towards being True Neutral or Above Good and Evil.
Fortress Celestia: Formerly, a Lawful Good Heaven, now a dystopian federation resisting The Barrens of Evil... Fortress Celestia is a 'beseiged castle the size of five universes' and includes everything from Arcadian paradises, to peaceful wilderness, to Ocean Punk Anti-Hero Island Bases.
The Plane of Ideological Conflict:: A former True Neutral Heaven, now a war-torn Hell. It plays The Kingdom to the the Barrens' empire and the Fortress' federation.
The Transit Plane: an endless open void Hammerspace providing passage between other planes, complete with Sky Punk Magitek Vehicles, Sky Pirates, etc.

↑ Has nothing to do with the winged ruler of ponies from My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic. Just as Twilight2000 has nothing to do with Twilight, the names are just coincidence.

[1] Has nothing to do with the winged ruler of ponies from My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic. Just as Twilight2000 has nothing to do with Twilight, the names are just coincidence.

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-Fortress Celestia is a homebrew ''[[Dungeons and Dragons]]'' 3.5 setting created by [[Tropers/Frodo Goofball Co TV|Frodo Goofball Co TV]] as an [[Affectionate Parody]] of the setting, ''[[Planescape]]''.<ref> Has nothing to do with the winged ruler of ponies from [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (Animation)|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]. Just as Twilight2000 has nothing to do with [[Twilight]], the names are just coincidence. </ref>
+''[[Fortress Celestia]]'' is a homebrew ''[[Dungeons and Dragons]]'' 3.5 setting created by Frodo Goofball Co TV as an [[Affectionate Parody]] of the setting, ''[[Planescape]]''.<ref>Has nothing to do with the winged ruler of ponies from [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]. Just as Twilight2000 has nothing to do with [[Twilight]], the names are just coincidence.</ref>
 Part of the concept was posted [http://www.dandwiki.com/wiki/Main_Page D&D Wiki] [http://www.dandwiki.com/wiki/Fortress_Celestia_(DnD_Campaign_Setting) here].
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-=== Setting: ===
+== Setting ==
 * [[After the End]]: The gods managed to screw up an entire ''[[The Multiverse|multiverse]]''. Only 8 planes of existance are currently known to have survived.
 * [[Character Alignment]]
-** [[Enemy Civil War]], [[Evil Versus Evil]], [[Order Versus Chaos]], [[The Good, The Bad, And The Evil]]: The [[Backstory]]. [[Chaotic Evil]] and [[Lawful Evil]] planes faught each other. Order defeated chaos, but at the price of thoroughly tainting itself with corruption.  {{spoiler|The celestial high command's overall strategy is to get them fighting again.}}
+** [[Enemy Civil War]], [[Evil Versus Evil]], [[Order Versus Chaos]], [[The Good, the Bad, and The Evil]]: The [[Backstory]]. [[Chaotic Evil]] and [[Lawful Evil]] planes faught each other. Order defeated chaos, but at the price of thoroughly tainting itself with corruption.  {{spoiler|The celestial high command's overall strategy is to get them fighting again.}}
 * [[Fantasy Kitchen Sink]] Well, it IS a parody of [[Dungeons and Dragons]].
-* [[Heaven]] and [[Hell]]: some of the planes are, or ''were'' literal [[Heaven|Heavens]] and [[Hell|Hells]]
+* [[Heaven]] and [[Hell]]: some of the planes are, or ''were'' literal [[Heaven]]s and [[Hell]]s
 ** [[Circles of Hell]]: There are a ''lot'' of these....
 ** [[Fluffy Cloud Heaven]]: a [[Subversion]]. Fluffy white clouds are more likely to be home to monsters, [[Sky Pirates]], or hailstones than people with wings, though it has been known to happen.
 ** [[Fire and Brimstone Hell]] / [[Ironic Hell]]: played straight some places, and subverted in others.
-** [[A Hell of a Time]]: If you're a [[Complete Monster]], a [[Nightmare Fetishist]], or a [[Card-Carrying Villain]] with [[Impossibly Cool Wealth]], look no further.
+** [[A Hell of a Time]]: If you're a [[Complete Monster]], a [[Nightmare Fetishist]], or a [[Card-Carrying Villain]] with [[Fiction 500]], look no further.
-* [[I Don't Like the Sound of That Place]], because pretty much ''all'' the place names are [[Meaningful Name|Meaningful Names]].
+* [[I Don't Like the Sound of That Place]], because pretty much ''all'' the place names are [[Meaningful Name]]s.
 * [[Punk Punk]], just because.
 * [[Scenery Porn]], because:
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 The planes of existance currently known to have survived the cataclism are:
 * '''The Barrens of Evil:''' A former [[Lawful Evil]] [[Hell]], then known as 'The Nine', now it has become [[The Empire]], [[Food Chain of Evil|gobbling up smaller hells]]. Surface conditions vary from [[Fire and Brimstone Hell]] to [[Grim Up North]] to [[Mordor]] (What did you expect with a name like 'The Barrens of Evil'?). However, it can also be [[A Hell of a Time]]. For most of the inhabitants, however, it's [[Desert Punk]] with [[Magitek]]... and [[Our Demons Are Different|Demons]].
-* '''The Broken Machine:''' A former [[Lawful Neutral]] [[Heaven]], now a [[Vestigial Empire]] and [[Lawful Stupid]] [[Hell]]. A [[Punk Punk|Clock Punk]] [[Cloudcuckooland]] [[Crapsack World]] filled with [[Obstructive Bureaucrat|Obstructive Bureaucrats]].
+* '''The Broken Machine:''' A former [[Lawful Neutral]] [[Heaven]], now a [[Vestigial Empire]] and [[Lawful Stupid]] [[Hell]]. A [[Punk Punk|Clock Punk]] [[Cloudcuckooland]] [[Crapsack World]] filled with [[Obstructive Bureaucrat]]s.
 * '''The Celestial Courts:''' A [[Lawful Neutral]] / [[True Neutral]] [[Heaven]] and headquaters of [[The Multiverse]]'s [[Celestial Bureaucracy]]. Also contains [[Tailor-Made Prison|Tailor Made Prisons]] for criminal gods and serves as [[Hell]] for literal lost souls. While prisoners and slaves live in unpleasant surroundings, for the [[Physical God|Planar Lords]] it's a world of [[Magitek]] [[Steampunk]] [[Crystal Spires and Togas]].
 * '''The Chaos Plane:''' A [[Chaotic Neutral]] / [[Cloudcuckoolander]] [[Heaven]]. Here, [[The Sky Is an Ocean]]... an ocean of [[Cloudcuckoolander]] imagination gone wild. Both celestial and fiendish armies and [[Physical God|Planar Lords]] have tried to conquer it. Most of them were never seen from again.
-* '''The Plane of Elemental Substances:''' A [[Hammerspace]] that serves as the source of [[Elemental Baggage]]. The inhabitants are predominantly [[Elemental Embodiment|Elemental Embodiments]] who tend towards being [[True Neutral]] or [[Above Good and Evil]].
+* '''The Plane of Elemental Substances:''' A [[Hammerspace]] that serves as the source of [[Elemental Baggage]]. The inhabitants are predominantly [[Elemental Embodiment]]s who tend towards being [[True Neutral]] or [[Above Good and Evil]].
-* '''Fortress Celestia:''' Formerly, a [[Lawful Good]] [[Heaven]], now a [[Dystopia|dystopian]] [[The Federation|federation]] resisting The Barrens of Evil... Fortress Celestia is a 'beseiged castle the size of five universes' and includes everything from [[Arcadia|Arcadian]] paradises, to [[Ghibli Hills|peaceful wilderness]], to [[Ocean Punk]] [[Anti-Hero]] [[Island Base|Island Bases]].
+* '''Fortress Celestia:''' Formerly, a [[Lawful Good]] [[Heaven]], now a [[dystopia]]n [[The Federation|federation]] resisting The Barrens of Evil... Fortress Celestia is a 'beseiged castle the size of five universes' and includes everything from [[Arcadia]]n paradises, to [[Ghibli Hills|peaceful wilderness]], to [[Ocean Punk]] [[Anti-Hero]] [[Island Base]]s.
 * '''The Plane of Ideological Conflict:''': A former [[True Neutral]] [[Heaven]], now a war-torn [[Hell]]. It plays [[The Kingdom]] to the the Barrens' [[The Empire|empire]] and the Fortress' [[The Federation|federation]].
-* '''The Transit Plane:''' an endless [[The Sky Is an Ocean|open void]] [[Hammerspace]] providing passage between other planes, complete with [[Ocean Punk|Sky Punk]] [[Magitek]] Vehicles, [[Sky Pirate|Sky Pirates]], etc.
+* '''The Transit Plane:''' an endless [[The Sky Is an Ocean|open void]] [[Hammerspace]] providing passage between other planes, complete with [[Ocean Punk|Sky Punk]] [[Magitek]] Vehicles, [[Sky Pirate]]s, etc.
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+[[Category:Tabletop Games of the 2000s]]