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One thing that I do sort of miss that FW changed was that the factions controlled elements of civic society. The change to "guilds" maintains some of this, but the idea that Planescape was a world in which the courts were the courts because there was an organization philosophically devoted to...

I think the Radiant Citadel civilizations are specifically designed to be modular. I do kind of like that, since it's not giving me the vibe of "Here is this Fantasy Analogue to All of Japan" or whatever, it's "Here's what this particular place is like," and then you can slam your own creations...

I think that the impact of a factol's loss isn't so significant, and while FW had the factions officially disband, there's little reason to say that they didn't basically reband almost immediately ("she said abandon your faction or die, but she didn't say for how long...?") For me, the return...

How it works in D&D, RAW, today is that a poisonous snake who bites you pierces you and poisons you when it does so. Which is why when you summon one and tell it to attack a skeleton, it's less effective than hitting it with your hammer - the skeleton isn't affected by poison and takes more...

IMO, Faction War isn't bad as background lore. It sucked to be a fan of Planescape and to have the setting broken like that and then oops there comes 3e. So quietly undoing most of its effects (maybe mentioning them in the history of the city or some of the factions) makes the most sense to me...

Yeah, that tail could definitely be a cat tail, and the dress and jewelry and expression feel a lot more "pampered cat" then "wordless acetic" :ROFLMAO:

There is some zany in Planescape, but zany usually has a mirror, too. Like, the Xaositects were played for laughs a lot of times (LOL SO RANDOM), but were also unpredictable hedonistic thugs. Xanxost had a similar vibe - so funny and unpredictable and OH GOD HE'S EATING MY FACE THIS HAS TAKEN A...

This is such a treasure trove. We've got weird faces leering out of everything, and spikes everywhere, which is As It Should Be. First person on the left might be Rhys of the Ciphers. The tail and the big ears resemble the 2e art a lot. The redhead here is art from the "Outsider" entry (aka...

I have always been someone who plays that damage is an injury, however light. If a snake poisons you, it's not poisoning you because it hit your Grit or your Luck or your Stamina or your Plot Armor or or your Skill whatever, it bit you, it hurt, and now you have poison in your blood and a wound...

For me, I just don't see at as necessary. There's room for all sorts of planes. And, I think it's very in character for Planescape to take the idea that there's really no limit to the kinds of planes that might be out there. I mean, this is a game where Neth exists. Go wild. But the specific...

I find it works just fine & dandy if you're doing something kind of episodic or if your campaign can tolerate blocks of downtime. If you are using it with a WotC adventure, something episodic like your Keys from the Golden Vault or Journeys through the Radiant Citadel or Candlekeep Mysteries...

Here's some of my wishlist. And it is, appropriately, three things. Factions. I want my PC to be able to join factions and to have the beliefs of those factions impact my gameplay. I'd be OK with a system like Peity representing my adherence to the faction. I could also imagine a system where I...

I don't think the goal is to ape combat. If I zoom out a bit and think about Interaction in general as a mode of play, it's distinct from Combat, just like Exploration is. When I'm in Interaction mode, the stakes aren't life-and-death, but typically more related to my character's personality...

Goofy fun is an important element of D&D and I'm happy to see goofy fun as a big element in these reviews. It's a nice way to set it apart from its more Epic Fantasy counterparts. It's not the Witcher, it's not Game of Thrones, it's got a sense of humor about itself, which is perfect, that's...

Ditch the slavery, just use modern working conditions, lightly exaggerated: You work back-breaking jobs for 12-16 hours a day in brutal conditions, you rent your living quarters from a corrupt entrenched power along with 5 other laborers, and you are forced to pay ever-increasing prices for...

Up to a point, yeah. But the point at which it switches from fantasy fun times to too real to be fun is remarkably...individual. Like, if you got a player whose husband recently died, maybe skip the bereaved widow NPC you were thinkin' of including. ...and if you're playing in a setting that...

It's been a few pages, so I suppose it's time to tap the sign.

I think we can hold these two ideas in our head at the same time: In a perfect world, people would get hired purely based on their skill at the task they are being hired for. In reality, nobody has ever gotten hired purely based on their skill at the task they are being hired for...

I'd have to have a better understanding about the items we're purchasing and how that would play into the VTT environment. I'm not against microtransactions, especially cosmetic ones, especially ones well-implemented without "loot box" mechanics. But a VTT is a different space than a video game...

I don't think the concern trolling on this is helpful. It's not a surprise that when someone whines about Brand X "being racist to white people" on the internet that a million sad little flies will flock to that heap. The quantity of views just shows that it has hit a favored talking point for...