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[Planescape poll 2] What makes up the elusive Planescape "feel"?

Thread starter Quickleaf
Start date Sep 21, 2014

What makes up the elusive Planescape "feel" to you?

Abstract made manifest, e.g. meet your own mortality or conscience
Votes: 27 30.7%
Adventures spanning multiple contrasting planes
Votes: 44 50.0%
Aesthetics (graphic design, art, writing style, dark humor)
Votes: 54 61.4%
Cant (planar slang)
Votes: 34 38.6%
Compelling questions/revelations, eg. "what can change the nature of a man?"
Votes: 27 30.7%
15 factions managing Sigil's civil government (pre-Faction War timeline)
Votes: 32 36.4%
Interaction emphasized as equal to or more important than combat
Votes: 44 50.0%
Killing fiends and stealing their stuff
Votes: 6 6.8%
Overland travel thru strange paths like the Infinite Staircase or River Styx
Votes: 41 46.6%
Philosophers with clubs playing critical roles in the adventures
Votes: 32 36.4%
Player decisions shaping the planes in a significant way (the power of belief)
Votes: 30 34.1%
Portals (used in a variety of ways)
Votes: 48 54.5%
Sigil, City of Doors, as a key adventuring site
Votes: 60 68.2%
Strong adventure hooks, eg. WHY we're planting a rose in the Abyss
Votes: 37 42.0%
Subversive fantasy playing on expected villains and outcomes
Votes: 28 31.8%
Sense of wonder and majesty of the planes
Votes: 53 60.2%
Other/Lemon Slaad (see my post below)
Votes: 2 2.3%

MoutonRustique

Explorer

Oct 14, 2014

I play in French, so the cant... it's cool when reading the blurbs and the in-character texts, but in game-time? Not going to be used all that much...

The awesome of Plane Scape for me : the town that slips into another plane (Recruiters), treating with "gods" (in a somewhat believable manner), witnessing/deciding the fate of a new creature (Deva Spark), the "danger" of true happiness (Infinite Staircase), villains that are "plagues" (Infinite Staircase), moral dilemmas (some in Modron March), mysteries of the Planes (Harbinger House), Plane-shaping adventures (Squaring the Circle), and other things I can't recall off the top of my head...