Fraternity Row
(circa 1st edition)
(The following list comprises the major fraternities circa the college's early days. If any of them appear in the present day, they'll pop up here eventually).
Alpha Sigma Sigma ("Look! Over there!"): The darkest, most terrible organization on campus, ASS is the assassin's fraterni... wait. Wait, ASS? Holy crap, it's been, what, forty years, and we're just noticing this? Oh man...
(Bushi Fraternity): Are you kidding me? There are no fraternities for poor people. Ick.
Delta Ampersand Delta ("D And D! Ungh!"): This, followed by beer cans crushed against your head. This is the only frat that had a maximum grade point average. If your grades ever rose above a B-, you were out, buster. Great keggers, though.
Delta Delta Gamma ("The Demigod Squad"): DDG was the early Cleric fraternity. Membership was open to anyone who wanted to pledge, at least in theory. The god you worshipped wasn't important; in fact, it had no bearing whatsoever on your holy abilities, or your admission into the club. "These were not nice people. My Dad was a DDG pledge, and the hazing? He was took into a field blindfolded, and left with a zombie. No prob, right? Turn undead? Except the zombie... it... it was grampa! *sob*" --Jozan, senior Human Cleric
Fochlucan Mac-Fuirmidh Doss: Oh, don't even get me started on the Bard fraternity. So, like you had to major in Fighter, okay? Then double major as a Thief starting in your sophomore year, plus you had to pick up some Druid classes, and believe me, that's not easy. So, after that, you have to pledge for, but not make, at least three other frats, then you take the number 9 bus to the Market Ward. You have to buy six pairs of curly-toe shoes, get your hair done by someone who has taken at least 9 but no more than 16 levels of barber, and spin around six times and spit on the floor before leaving the building. Talk to a baker and ask forgiveness for something you didn't do, and spend at least a summer bicycling across Flaeness. Knock six times in a steady rhythm, the password is "Psionics are optional" and roll percentile dice. You may actually make the fraternity four years out of grad school...
Hei Hei Hei: The fraternity for Sohei. Even new pledges are allowed to select a beer bong, which will become his beer bong of choice. Whenever using this beer bong, the Sohei can drink one more beer than normal before becoming piss drunk, and can produce a belch so pure as to make others swoon with awe. They think. Bunch of drunken asshats.
Holly Holly Mistletoe ("Initiates of the Party Circle"): I suppose it sounds sort of odd that the Druid Frat would be among the hardest partiers, but really? This was an aggressive group. Only twelve members were allowed to have letter jackets, and if you wanted one, you had to defeat the one before you in mortal combat. And let's not even talk about those deer antlers the president wore.
Mu Upsilon Mu ("Thaumaturgical Society"): MU is the Magic-User fraternity. It's very elite. Humans and Elves only. Ha ha! Like a dwarf can manipulate the preternatural forces! Look at those stubby fingers. Kiss our pale Elven behinds, dwarf!
Mu Illusory Mu ("Mu II! Better than you!"): Since MU wouldn't let gnomes in, they formed their own fraternity, open to gnome illusionists, and any humans who decided to go into illusion...ing... For the most part, MU considers MUII to be a false front for something that doesn't exist. Of course, that's what they think about gnomes in general.
(Ninja fraternity): Sigil Prep's oldest ninja program was only offered as a minor, and students had to sign a non-disclosure agreement, requiring them to deny they were enrolled in the program. Sigil Prep, in fact, denied they had such a major. As a result, there was not a fraternity for ninjas. There was, however, Ninja Drama Club. The goal was to end the semester with a full performance of Richard the Third in period dress... without being seen!
Pi Alpha Lambda ("The Holy Avengers"): The Paladin fraternity? Forget it. First, you have to score average or better on a standardized Intelligence test. And you have to score above average on a standardized Strength test, well above average on a standardized Wisdom test, roughly averaged on a standardized Constitution test. Plus, you need to break the curve on a standardized Charisma test. If, after pledge week, you collapse, that's okay. There's no Dexterity requirepment.
Pseudo Pendragon Chivalry ("Good ol' PPC"): Lo! And 'pon this fine kingdom of Sigil Prep didst come the Fraternity of PPC. 'Twas a fine fraternity, noble and true, and didst the stars shine upon it when did its doors first open. Alas, twas fated that one day it would fall, but for one brief shining moment... oh, did they have the most marvelous keggers...
Raven's Guild ("--"): The Raven's Guild started as a fraternity (rather than a simple campus club) for Thieves. It was much more secretive in those days. You were initiated only by invitation, and some students were in the frat for upwards of a month before they knew about it.
Flying Raven's Guild: A natural off-shoot of the Raven's Guild, this sub-fraternity was famous for its gymnastics skill and daring. Unfortunately, the entire frat was killed in a tragic trapeze accident.
Samurai Iota Mu ("Sam I M"): The Samurai fraternity has one of the harshest rush weeks of all. Their hazing isn't any worse than any other frat, really, but for the pledges having to commit ritual suicide if they don't get accepted.
(Shukenja fraternity): A number of Shukenja students attempted to form a fraternity some years back, but the vow of poverty kept them from paying dues...
Strider Strider Strider ("The Striders"): Triple Stri hazing: First, you're taken out into the woods. Far out, well beyond civilization (well beyond Sigil, obviously). With no food, no gear except a handaxe and a flint stone. You've been drenched in meat renderings, so you're pretty much all the predators are attracted to. If things go well, it's raining, and isn't likely to let up. You have no map, no indication which way the nearest village might be. And you have to find your way out before tomorrow's classes start. Oh, wait, you wanted a hazing example. That's how they party.
upsilon gamma gamma ("UGG!"): Barbarian fraternity! You join, we not hit with club!
Whacka Whacka Whacka: The Kensai fraternity, pretty much your usual frat boy stuff. All night duals, weekend warfare, hardcore battles with the sister sorority. And when you graduate, you have sword brothers for the rest of your life.
Wu Jen Fraternity: The Wu Jen fraternity, unlike others listed above with no name, is unnamed not because the fraternity didn't get on the ground, but because among the many, many things the wu jen give up for the sake of spiritual purity ("taboos"), they are not allowed to give cute names to things.
Wu Tang ("Masters of the All-Nighter"): The Monk fraternity. You ever see that troubador show, "Revenge of the Nerds?" Yeah, these guys always seemed real mousy and meditative, and D&D would come by and burn dog dooky on their porch, or paint their windows black or something. Very surprised when the Wu Tangs popped up out of lotus position and started with the face-punching.
The Yakuza: This was actually the crime syndicate of Kara-Tur, which posed as a fraternity on campus for a while. Artemis Entreri was having none of it. If there's going to be scholarship fraud going on around here, it sure wasn't going to the Kara-Turans.
Zeta Zeta KaBoom: And then in SP 87, the Tinker Gnome fraternity moved in. And one week later, that was the end of fraternity row. To this day, parts of Weis Road are still being repaired...