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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Incenjucar" data-source="post: 1693476" data-attributes="member: 6182">Agreed.My theory is this:  If you're going to utilize something, do it right, or don't do it at all.If you're going to go for the pre-Planescape version of the planes, then don't even MENTION Sigil.I have no issue with them wanting to go for 1e style.I do have an issue with them trying to shake a Lady of Pain rag doll at me and say "If I rub this on the book, you'll buy it, right?"--It's especially irritating for me because Planescape is, ultimately, why I've been in to D&D all these years.  The basic game is a fun excuse to hang out with buddies, but I have hormones now, and have other 'roleplaying' activities I can do.  I can also find as much fantasy via MU*s online, and without having to hunt people down and buying books.Heck, I'm a game theorist and reader more than I am a player or DM.  I like to mess with the concepts, the worlds, and the better monsters especially.  I use D&D to fuel my own creativity more than anything.  PS was and remains extremely strong in my mind (especially considering my first RPG was Cyberpunk, which I later gave away because PS had swallowed me), equal to how the comic Gold Digger (Partially D&D-based, even) has driven my art for even longer.  And because GD has remained itself, and only gotten better (Color!), when I have enough money, I drop 50 bucks for the most recent compilation.Frankly, aside from the monster books (Draconomicon, Serpent Kingdoms, etc), and possibly the upcoming environment books, D&D is losing my interest.  I loved D&D because a few settings were awe-inspiring.  Now I can do better on my own.Thankfully, the PS crew still seem to want my money.  They can keep producing stuff like that WITHOUT rules, just a book about a world or a universe that's not even a novel, and I'll buy it.More ways to kill things?  Eh.  I'll pass.  There's a free EQ-style game (which even utilizes the idea of planes!) in the works, that's got some decent 3D and is 'soon' to have combat, and is already in 'run around and RP' stage, if I want to go on a spree in the midst of RP.</blockquote>

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