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<blockquote data-quote="Bran Blackbyrd" data-source="post: 1710676" data-attributes="member: 1710">I have to agree with this. As someone who really loved Planescape, seeing half-assed bits and pieces of the setting scattered throughout the 3.x books makes the bile rise in my throat. If it doesn't sell well enough to merit its own book, so be it, but don't pick the carcass clean. As I've said before, the setting is apparently good enough to stripmine, but not enough to publish as a whole. Don't try to call it an homage, or a &quot;nod-of-the-head&quot; to PS fans, let's just call it what it is WotC; bait. It's a shiny sticker on the books that says, &quot;Planescape Fans, Buy Me!&quot; That sort of treatment only leads to insulted, dissatisfied fans all around.What WotC is doing with Planescape material now is the worst kind of necrophilia. Do something proper with it or let it die...Note: I know plenty of planar material existed before Planescape, but I'm sure we all know the difference between that stuff and what I'll call, for want of a better term, Planescape flavored Intellectual Property.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Bran Blackbyrd, post: 1710676, member: 1710"] I have to agree with this. As someone who really loved Planescape, seeing half-assed bits and pieces of the setting scattered throughout the 3.x books makes the bile rise in my throat. If it doesn't sell well enough to merit its own book, so be it, but don't pick the carcass clean. As I've said before, the setting is apparently good enough to stripmine, but not enough to publish as a whole. Don't try to call it an homage, or a "nod-of-the-head" to PS fans, let's just call it what it is WotC; bait. It's a shiny sticker on the books that says, "Planescape Fans, Buy Me!" That sort of treatment only leads to insulted, dissatisfied fans all around. What WotC is doing with Planescape material now is the worst kind of necrophilia. Do something proper with it or let it die... Note: I know plenty of planar material existed before Planescape, but I'm sure we all know the difference between that stuff and what I'll call, for want of a better term, Planescape flavored Intellectual Property. [/QUOTE]

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