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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 7856528" data-attributes="member: 18">So your position is one of pure ignorance here, Hussar, and you're assuming, out of ignorance, that I'm mad because "something was changed"? Despite me specifically saying in my post that change isn't the issue, outright deletion of the core elements of a setting is. Changing up the Factions, shaking up the political situation in Sigil, that could have been cool.Specifically, right at the end of the TSR era, Monte Cook wrote a massive and not-great adventure, apparently intended to be the first of two, which wiped out all the Factions in Planescape, especially all the interesting, risky, or thoughtful ones, and replaced them with a handful of slapdash deeply generic organisations,. The Factions were the heart of Planescape, in that they made it more than a fancy MotP, and gave it a depth and artistry not often seen in RPG settings. He also wiped out most of the major NPCs in Sigil and reordered Sigil in a rather unfinished-feeling and ill-considered way.Then apparently due to Wotc taking over and other factors he was never able to write the second adventure he claims he planned (his story has changed a couple of times).You equate this deletion of the core of a setting with some arcane quasi-fact from an imagined Dragon article, then appear to blame me for your own ignorance. You defence appears to be "I know nothing and care nothing about Planescape so I can imply you're a pathetic canon obsessive and I can't be criticised because I'm ignorant on this and want to stay that way!". Do I understand correctly? That seems a rather audacious approach, old chap, I must say! <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" alt="🤔" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f914.png" title="Thinking face    :thinking:" data-shortname=":thinking:" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" />Again, to be clear, obsession over canon is the problem I am complaining about. Cook wrote an unpopular and forgotten adventure which deleted much of the core of Planescape whilst adding nothing. Okay, fine. If canon should not be obsessed over, that should be forgotten. We agree, I think. But 3E and 4E needlessly and bizarrely did obsessed over this obscure and forgotten adventure, because technically it was the dreaded "canon". Those authors are the people who you should be arguing with.</blockquote>

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