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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Majoru Oakheart" data-source="post: 6132136" data-attributes="member: 5143">I have to admit that I love the idea of Planescape and Spelljammer.  I love the idea that the universe is vast, huge, filled with nearly everything you can think of.  I like the feeling that the players are only a small part of something so large that it's inconceivable....but also I like the feeling that everything is connected, even if only at a small level.I like Dragonlance.  I love Forgotten Realms.  I love Dark Sun.  I love Ravenloft.  I like the idea that if I set a game in one of them that it is connected in some way to the rest of them.Plus, I'm horrible at coming up with ideas of my own.  I find most of my creativeness comes from taking other people's ideas and putting them together in interesting ways.With all the lore of all the campaign settings in my head I find it easy to go "This guy is a powerful Wizard who has a tower somewhere exotic....wait, maybe it's in the elemental plane of fire.  Since he plane travels, he is also odd in that he has an assistant from Dragonlance, a Kender.  He knows about the other planes so means he has contacts within the factions of Sigil.  I can pepper his speech with a couple words of Sigil slang.  That way he'll seem exotic and different."Meanwhile, if left to my own devices I end up with something like "Uhhh...he's a powerful Wizard who...umm....lives in a tower on top of that hill."Basically, I like lore.  I like Planescape because it, at its heart, allows me to use more lore in my game when I want to.</blockquote>

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