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<blockquote data-quote="Mercurius" data-source="post: 6231659" data-attributes="member: 59082"><p>Looks like Greyhawk is pulling away. </p><p></p><p>Anyhow, some of the comments above help clarify my thoughts about Planescape. I love the idea of it - I love the trope of the "crossroads of worlds" city, with numerous factions and a diversity of settings (planes) to play in. But I find the Planescape vibe off-putting. As I said earlier, it seems obviously created with the World of Darkness in mind, and some of the tonal qualities of Planescape that I don't like are similar to those I don't like in WoD, namely the "faux-goth" darkness-is-kewl thing which is exemplified by the Lady of Pain, who seems like a goth pre-teen magnified to divine power. I find myself reminded of the SNL skit, <em>Goth Talk.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em></em>I don't mind goths, it just isn't my thing. I'm not saying Planescape is goth, but it has tinges of it and related tones. In fact, its the same tones that turned me off of Sandman and Neil Gaiman in general, and the vinyl-clothing-and-white-dreadlocks-and-katanas-galore of the Matrix. </p><p></p><p>Then, on the other side, you have "berk" etc, which is a bit too campy for my liking. In between both - the gothish and the campy - you have a really cool setting that, on its own, would win out over Greyhawk for me. But its just too obfuscated.</p><p></p><p>Now if Everway had been a D&D setting, that would have gotten my vote. I liked its mystical, cosmopolitan feel, which is more mythic and universal, less dated (Planescape is very 90s).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mercurius, post: 6231659, member: 59082"] Looks like Greyhawk is pulling away. Anyhow, some of the comments above help clarify my thoughts about Planescape. I love the idea of it - I love the trope of the "crossroads of worlds" city, with numerous factions and a diversity of settings (planes) to play in. But I find the Planescape vibe off-putting. As I said earlier, it seems obviously created with the World of Darkness in mind, and some of the tonal qualities of Planescape that I don't like are similar to those I don't like in WoD, namely the "faux-goth" darkness-is-kewl thing which is exemplified by the Lady of Pain, who seems like a goth pre-teen magnified to divine power. I find myself reminded of the SNL skit, [I]Goth Talk. [/I]I don't mind goths, it just isn't my thing. I'm not saying Planescape is goth, but it has tinges of it and related tones. In fact, its the same tones that turned me off of Sandman and Neil Gaiman in general, and the vinyl-clothing-and-white-dreadlocks-and-katanas-galore of the Matrix. Then, on the other side, you have "berk" etc, which is a bit too campy for my liking. In between both - the gothish and the campy - you have a really cool setting that, on its own, would win out over Greyhawk for me. But its just too obfuscated. Now if Everway had been a D&D setting, that would have gotten my vote. I liked its mystical, cosmopolitan feel, which is more mythic and universal, less dated (Planescape is very 90s). [/QUOTE]
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