Planescape WOTC teasing planescape.com

[tuxgeo]

This countdown timer is set awfully close to April 1, i.e. April Fool's Day.

Could they already have planned their April Fool's Day gag based on the "Pina Colada Song" by Rupert Holmes?

[B]I've got to meet you by tomorrow noon, and cut through all this red tape
At a bar called O'Malley's, where we'll [U]plan[/U] our [U]escape[/U][/B]

 

[Vampyr3]

I agree with everyeone.. this has nothing to do with WOTC other then the IP.. Beamdog is coming out with
Planescape: Torment EE

WOOT! WOOT!

 

[FitzTheRuke]

This is definitely PSTEE, but there's plenty of evidence to suggest that Midway and/or Dust could ALSO feature Planescape.

That actually would be a good way to introduce the other D&D Worlds.

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[pukunui]

... but there's plenty of evidence to suggest that Midway and/or Dust could ALSO feature Planescape.

Evidence or wishful thinking?

 

[FitzTheRuke]

Evidence or wishful thinking?

I would call it evidence, only in that it is what I think based on things I have seen, and I have no stake in it either way. I would be interested in whatever they did (depending on how it was done).

For example, I barely remember what Planescape is like. I hardly remember it fondly. Until convinced otherwise (by things I have read) I would have assumed that Dust was Dark Sun.

At any rate, I have no "wishfull thinking" so I doubt it is that.

Why, do you think (or wish) otherwise?

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[i_dont_meta]

It seems likely that TftYP is meant to be a short-term stop-gap to give sufficient time to introduce the Next Big Thing--why else use a bi-annual Adventure book updating old Adventures? Answer: it's quick and easy and can be done with minimal R&D. Big Autumn release seems obvious now...


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[Enevhar Aldarion]

If this ends up being nothing more than about an update to the PC game, then WotC and their social media person/team was stupid to repost the tweet so quickly onto their Twitter and Facebook feeds. If they had waited a day or two to do that, then people would not be going nuts thinking 5E Planescape was coming out this year.

 

[Mistwell]

If this ends up being nothing more than about an update to the PC game, then WotC and their social media person/team was stupid to repost the tweet so quickly onto their Twitter and Facebook feeds. If they had waited a day or two to do that, then people would not be going nuts thinking 5E Planescape was coming out this year.

Uh, What? If it ends up being Torment revised, that would not be a "nothing more than" event, it would be a BIG deal. Why would it be stupid for WOTC to promote one of their most well regarded video games ever being revamped? It will probably sell more copies than a 5e Planescape book (and I am a fan of Planescape and 5e). I think you're speaking from a lack of information on PC games by calling them stupid for promoting this.

 

[Remathilis]

Evidence or wishful thinking?

If I may indulge in a little of both...

We've been speaking of "Midway" as a PHB 2 type product; or a Big Book of Crunch. WotC doesn't produce those anymore. They produce hybrid products that tell stories along with giving DM and PC info. Volo's Guide is a great example, 1/3rd lore, 1/3rd PC stuff (races), 1/3rd DM stuff (monsters). Even the latest module, a series of unconnected adventures of D&D's past, has been couched in a framing device of "stories heard in Faerun's most famous bar".

Perhaps Midway is a Guide to the D&D Multiverse, with Sigil/Planescape as the framing device?

WotC has a few worlds that deserve some love, but maybe wouldn't warrant their own campaign guide. I could easily see a couple pages discussing Oerth, Athas, Eberron, Krynn, and Sigil itself (some general lore, a map, etc). Using Sigil as a framing device, you can have a planeswalker recall what he knows of each place since he visited them, creating an "in universe" description. Then, you add some needed crunch to run these worlds (Kender, draconians, artificers, mystics, warforged, shifters, changlings, kalashtar, etc) as your "crunch" portion.

Advantages:
* Good intro to the worlds beyond Faerun without taking the focus off the Realms
* Much needed crunch to run said worlds
* Might lead into opening the settings to DMsGuild

Disadvantages:
* Most of the UA stuff hasn't been very setting specific; not sure how you fit the new ranger or most of the new subclasses into world-specific desgin
* the multiversal setting would limit its use in AL play (unless the AL doesn't mind kender and warforged in Faerun).
* The only evidence for this is artificer (and to a lesser extent, mystic).

 

[jayoungr]

Hoping it's something related to the Planescape we know and not a complete reboot using the MTG Planeshift stuff they have been putting out (Which is my hunch).

From what we've heard, the Planeshift conversion documents are a hobby project for one of their employees, so I wouldn't assume they'll lead to any major releases.

Plan escape is different enough that I think WotC would be wise to have a longer rollout an hype buildup, especially considering that 5e (allegedly) has attracted a new cohort of younger fans for whom Planescape is something of yore that old Gen Xers talk about wistfully, like record stores, the Matrix, and Jean Grey. In fact, on this same line of argument, Planescape may be too 90s to have appeal today...hopefully they'd adapt to better suit the cultural zeitgeist.

Wait, when you say it's "too 90s," do you mean the videogame or the tabletop game (setting)? You're sort of talking about both in the quoted paragraph.