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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tony Vargas" data-source="post: 9149654" data-attributes="member: 996">I remember, having played some Storyteller games in the preceding years, getting a bad first impression of Planescape, because aspects of it's writing style and it's collection of made-up slang (I remember 'berk' and 'prime' and, particularly, the condescending attitudes conveyed), made it look like a knockoff of White Wolf's goth-punk 'tude that missed the mark, and just came off as pretentious (some would argue that White Wolf always came off that way, too, I'm sure).Later, as I learned more about it, I was struck by the setting's need of the all-powerful Lady of Pain to arbitrarily keep the whole thing going, and decided my bad first impression wasn't quite bad enough. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />I've never really been into published settings, tho, so my opinion is moot, anyway.(Of course, Planescape is cosmology as well as setting, and, well, I guess I'd prefer to skip Sigil and all it implies, and use the pre-Planescape 1e AD&D multiverse, weird as it may have been, or the World Axis or Dawn War or whatever... maybe lift the Million Spheres from Moorcock....)</blockquote>