Planescape Factions Quick Reference Sheet

I've been running a high level 5e game in Planescape, and converting a number of the old adventures. Many of the adventures are great, but they tend towards being very hard to run for a number of reasons:

• The adventures are old, and adventure design has improved a lot in the intervening years.
• Planescape is a complicated setting. It mashed together pieces from multiple other settings, plus it has all of its own complicated lore. 
• The narrative design of Planescape adventures is usually rooted in the social interaction pillar of Dungeons & Dragons. I like an adventure to explore multiple pillars of gameplay, so I tend to try to find ways to shoehorn in combat encounters. 
• On top of all that, I am running at tier 3 and 4, and these adventures really seem to have tier 2, maybe 3, in mind. That's a good thing for making the adventure accessible to more players, but it makes it even harder to convert them. 

As I have been doing my conversions, Sean McGovern's Guide to Planescape Factions has been an invaluable tool. So I have taken his work and condensed it down to the table below that DMs can use for a quick reference. You can also get a printable PDF of the table. 

With the release of the 5e campaign setting right around the corner, I'm going to be posting some of my conversions in the future. 

Faction Name	Nickname	Headquarters	Philosophy	Leader	Allies	Enemies
Athar	The Lost	Shattered Temple	There are no gods, just powerful mortals. We want to discover the secrets of reality.	Factol Terrance	The Believers of the Source	Organized religions
Believers of the Source	Godsmen	The Great Foundary	Everyone is tested and reincarnated until they become a supreme being. Once everyone has ascended, the multiverse will end.	Factol Ambar Vergrove	Athar, Doomguard	Black Cabal, Dustmen
The Bleak Cabal	Blearkers	The Gatehouse (insane asylum)	The multiverse is without meaning.	Factol Lhar	Doomguard, Dustmen, Revolutionary League, Xaositects	Fraternity of Order, Harmonium, Mercykillers
The Doomguard	Doomguard	None	Universe is decaying and no one should meddle with that process	Factor Pentar	Bleak Cabal, Godsmen, Dustmen	Fraternity of Order, Harmonium
The Dustmen	The Dead	The Mortuary	Everyone is dead, some more than others. Undead have attained purity - they have purged themselves of all passion and sense.	Factol Skall	Bleak Cabal, The Fated	The Sign of One, Society of Sensation
The Fated	Takers	Hall of Records	You have to take what you want in life through hard work and by whatever means necessary.	Factol Duke Rowan Darkwood	Free League, Mercykillers	Harmonium
Fraternity of Order	Guvners	City courts	Learning laws of multiverse will give you ultimate power	Factol Hashkar	Mercykillers, Harmonium	Xaositects, Harmonium
The Free League	Indeps	The Grand Bazaar	They insist that they are not a faction. They stay out of things and watch each others backs. Many of them are merchants.	No factol, but 3 leaders: Bria Romay, Lethea and Lesander		Harmonium
Harmonium	Hardheads	City Barracks	If everyone follows our rules, there will be peace.	Factol Sarin	Guvners, Mercykillers	Indeps, Revolutionary League, Xaositects
Mercykillers	Red Death	The Prison	Justice must be carried out. Perfection is the goal of the multiverse.	Factol Nilesia	Harmonium, Guvners, Doomguard, Mercykillers	Signers, Sensates, Anarchists
Revolutionary League	Anarchists	None	Other factions are corrupt and need to be brought down. Then the truth will be revealed.	None technically. Beringe is closest	Doomguard, Xaositects	Harmonium, Guvners
Sign of the One	Signers	Hall of Speakers	One person is the center of the multiverse, possibly you. Everyone else is a figment of that person’s imagination.	Factol Darius	Sensates	Harmonium, Bleak Cabal
Society of Sensation	Sensates	Civic Festhall	To experience everything is to learn the secrets of the multiverse	Factol Erin Darkflame Montgomery	Signers, Guvners, Indeps	Doomguard
Transcendent Order	Ciphers	Great Gymnasium	Be impulsive and follow instincts to be one with the multiverse	Factol Rhys
The Xaositects	Chaosmen	Center of the Hive Ward	The multiverse is chaos. There is no order or pattern to anything.	Factol Karan	Doomguard, Bleak Cabal	Harmonium, Guvners