Planescape Tony DiTerlizzi interviewed at The Cheracter Sheet.

[darjr]

 

[darjr]

He talks about the Baskin Lord of the Rings! Cool.

 

[darjr]

Oh wow. Back in the TSR days The writing for Planescape was delayed and so he said he was going to just do final art! They were worried until they got the first art. He was creating the art as finals!

 

[dave2008]

Interesting. Tony said TSR management was focused on Birthright and they assumed it would be a big success. Therefore, management basically ignored / left alone the planescape team and let them experiment and do whatever they wanted.

 

[dave2008]

Tony also said the Lady's mask that was the logo was a physical object made by the D&D art team (and her design existed before he got involved)

This one:

 

[dave2008]

Tony also pitched the idea that became Spiderwick to TSR in the mid 90s, but they rejected it. Very interesting interview

 

[dave2008]

Final note (I think): WotC talked to Tony for several years about Planescape coming back and different roles he could take. They said they wanted him involved as much as he wanted to be. However, he basically only had time to do the DM's screen and help with general art direction (he designed the font?) on the new books.

 

[darjr]

Final note (I think): WotC talk to Tony for several years about Planescape coming back and different roles he could take. They said they wanted him involved as much as he wanted to be. However, he basically only had time to do the DM's screen and help with general art direction (he designed the font?) on the new books.

yea it’s nice to get the real reason there wasn’t more.

 

[Uni-the-Unicorn!]

Very fun interview, thank you for sharing!