Planescape The New Planescape Adventure Sounds Awfully Familiar

[ersatzphil]

To quote a recent blogpost from RPGBot:

The designers didn’t want to spoil the adventure too much, did share some details. A talking skull from previous Planescape content named “Mort” appears repeatedly. The adventure starts with players awakening in a morgue. The multiverse is a heavy theme throughout. Players are functionally immortal; reappearing as a different version of themselves upon death following specific rules which we didn’t have time to explore. The adventure runs from level 3 to 10, then takes a jump up to level 17 for the climax of the adventure.

I have to admit, I never guessed they would just take the plot of "Planescape: Torment" and write it up as a 5e adventure.

 

[Mort]

To quote a recent blogpost from RPGBot:

I have to admit, I never guessed they would just take the plot of "Planescape: Torment" and write it up as a 5e adventure.

To be fair, they could do worse. That was an awesome game.

 

[Scribe]

To quote a recent blogpost from RPGBot:

I have to admit, I never guessed they would just take the plot of "Planescape: Torment" and write it up as a 5e adventure.

I refuse to accept this as fact. It's too blatant.

 

[Parmandur]

To quote a recent blogpost from RPGBot:

I have to admit, I never guessed they would just take the plot of "Planescape: Torment" and write it up as a 5e adventure.

I mean, why not? Itches moat iconic thing from the Setting.

 

[ersatzphil]

I mean, why not? Itches moat iconic thing from the Setting.

I mean, on one hand PS:T is an incredible game - a personal all time favorite, and a great source of locations and NPCs. On the other hand, I’ve already played it through.

Several times.

 

[W'rkncacnter]

bro...

 

[dave2008]

I guess it is good that I've never played it then!

 

[Divine2021]

If done right, this could be super super cool.

 

[humble minion]

It'd be cool if the new adventure touches on a few lore pieces from Torment.

It'd be unbelievably lazy and creatively bankrupt to just straight-up nick the plot for the adventure from a two-decade-old computer game.

(I haven't even really PLAYED Torment, i found the UI utterly incomprehensible and died repeatedly without getting out of the Mortuary because I couldn't control my character in combat worth a damn.)

 

[Parmandur]

I mean, on one hand PS:T is an incredible game - a personal all time favorite, and a great source of locations and NPCs. On the other hand, I’ve already played it through.

Several times.

I would suppose that the details will vary considerably.