Oryan77
Adventurer
That was the entire point/style of the PS line. Like Piratecat, I found reading Planescape "rules" a hell of a lot more fun and entertaining than slogging through the mind-numbing dribble in all of my 2e & 3.5 rulebooks. I found it really cool when I'm reading a monster's ecology and I'm being told about the creature first hand by a Planewalker or Greybeard. It's extremely boring to read my 3.5 monster manual entries. But that's just what I found entertaining. I learn better in a classroom when the teacher is energetic & has the gift of gab than I do when the teacher is just giving a scripted lecture.I haven't read a lot of Planescape books, but the cant drives me crazy. I remember one Planescape splat (IIRC it was a Planes of Chaos) that used the cant throughout the text, including in the rules and DM information. It's one thing to have a sidebar or whatever with some NPC talking in character. It's another thing to have to parse through a bunch of "bonebox" "deadbook" and "berk" to get tot he part of the text you'll use in play.
I wonder if the use of cant bothers people because they are not familiar with the word and are unsure of its meaning? I can see that dislike if you have to look up the word to figure out what the hell the author is saying. I know the meanings, so it is no less annoying to me than when I'm reading the forums and people are saying, "cool, awesome, dude, dork, nerd, geek, she's hot, or rad"....rad....why don't people say rad anymore?
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