D&D 5E Planescape shows up in the wild. Tease from Chris Perkins.

[Henadic Theologian]

The format is a bad fit, but opening up the IP on DMGuild means that one product doesn’t need to carry the IP. Curious what old hands will put out unshackled from too much editorial oversight ala Greenwood or Baker.

Honestly because so many settings, especially the Meta settings like PS and SJ, but also FR were so blurred, there are already planar products, like on various Outer Planes are already on the dmsguild, all this product will make accessible is Sigil itself.

 

[Reynard]

Why would you trust WotC?

Because for with 5E they went back to supporting Open Gaming in good faith, creating a robust and vibrant publishing ecosystem.

 

[Parmandur]

Because for with 5E they went back to supporting Open Gaming in good faith, creating a robust and vibrant publishing ecosystem.

Open Gaming was always just a marketing scheme to undermine their competition and appear to be "good guys": just as much in the 3E era as recently. Calculated self-interest won in the end. Wouldn't "trust" them, never have. I just like the books they sell.

 

[Queer Venger]

Maybe, but that is hardly a guarantee. I never liked his old style and didn't get into planescape back in the day because of it. His name alone would have killed this purchase. Fortunately I can see that his art has evolved and I in fact prefer his covers to the standard cover. So much so, that this will be the first physical book I've gotten in a while. So I am purchasing his covers despite his name being attached to it!

What that means for sales, IDK. It is unlikely the small number of 2e planescape fans will make a large dent in the sales of this book IMO. If adding Tony was a plan to increase sales, I image that target increase was pretty small.

opposite for me. But then again, different strokes for different folks. For me PS was my favorite setting next to Spelljammer, and remains so. I'll take any scraps from the table that WotC throws me, tbh.

 

[Reynard]

Open Gaming was always just a marketing scheme to undermine their competition and appear to be "goid guys": just as much in the 3E era as recently. Calculated self-interest won in the end. Wouldn't "trust" them, never have. I just like the books they sell.

That is both cynical and simplistic. It completely misunderstands the benefits of Open Gaming to WotC.

 

[Parmandur]

opposite for me. But then again, different strokes for different folks. For me PS was my favorite setting next to Spelljammer, and remains so. I'll take any scraps from the table that WotC throws me, tbh.

This looks to be a bit closer to the mark than Spelljammer was: the extra page count will .are a big difference least.

 

[dave2008]

Opinions will differ of course, but I would view as deeply inadequate and incomplete a Planescape product that didn’t cover, y’know, the planes. I mean, it’s right there in the title…

I didn't buy planescape back in the day, but i have been told (on these forums) that the original boxed-set didn't have much on the planes. It basically covered the same content the new books are covering, or so I have been told. You got to start somewhere?!

 

[Parmandur]

That is both cynical and simplistic. It completely misunderstands the benefits of Open Gaming to WotC.

Of course it is cynical, that's why I've never "trusted" them.

Certainly it is a particularly co.plex and clever marketing scheme to undermine their co.pwtition: which is why the more clever among them have to fight for it against lower level business logic. But just because it is a complex bit of game theory doesn5make it any less cynical on WptC part.

 

[Queer Venger]

This looks to be a bit closer to the mark than Spelljammer was: the extra page count will .are a big difference least.

Yeah, I think they (hopefully) learned from the sparse contents in SJ, still, one thing I love about 5e is home brewing, so I found some awesome space combat home-brews in DM's Guild that Im using.

 

[darjr]

Open Gaming was always just a marketing scheme to undermine their competition and appear to be "good guys": just as much in the 3E era as recently. Calculated self-interest won in the end. Wouldn't "trust" them, never have. I just like the books they sell.

no I think your completely wrong.

There is a reason the OGL debacle was so very bad.