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<blockquote data-quote="Tequila Sunrise" data-source="post: 6323050" data-attributes="member: 40398">If we weren't talking about PS (or Spelljammer), I'd agree with you 100%. If we were talking about 'real world people stumble through a portal into Sigil,' I'd agree with you 100%. But I think that Planescape's position as a bridge between infinite worlds is a great feature, and so I see no downside to leveraging that feature when it comes to players who'd rather learn the setting through play.Of course PS also supports all-planar parties from the very start, and I think that faction-unique bennies could be a great carrot for getting players into the setting during chargen, but again I see no reason to avoid plot hooks for prime characters as well. (&quot;You stumble through the magical portal into a scene that is at once familiar and strange -- a busy tavern with all manner of odd creatures. One of them offers you a reward to [insert adventure plot].&quot;)PS DMs should make sure that each player has a general idea of what PS is about -- beliefs, exploration, not just a planar dungeon-crawl, etc.. But IME, expecting every player to be gung-ho enough about any given setting to read about it is just asking for disappointment. Maybe you're lucky enough to have a gung-ho group, though, or have enough gamers in your area that you can turn down the ones who don't want to do 'homework.'But hey, this is all academic anyway, until 5e actually resurrects PS. <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/laugh.png"&nbsp; class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":lol:" title="Laughing&nbsp; &nbsp; :lol:" data-shortname=":lol:" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Tequila Sunrise, post: 6323050, member: 40398"] If we weren't talking about PS (or Spelljammer), I'd agree with you 100%. If we were talking about 'real world people stumble through a portal into Sigil,' I'd agree with you 100%. But I think that Planescape's position as a bridge between infinite worlds is a great feature, and so I see no downside to leveraging that feature when it comes to players who'd rather learn the setting through play. Of course PS also supports all-planar parties from the very start, and I think that faction-unique bennies could be a great carrot for getting players into the setting during chargen, but again I see no reason to avoid plot hooks for prime characters as well. ("You stumble through the magical portal into a scene that is at once familiar and strange -- a busy tavern with all manner of odd creatures. One of them offers you a reward to [insert adventure plot].") PS DMs should make sure that each player has a general idea of what PS is about -- beliefs, exploration, not just a planar dungeon-crawl, etc.. But IME, expecting every player to be gung-ho enough about any given setting to read about it is just asking for disappointment. Maybe you're lucky enough to have a gung-ho group, though, or have enough gamers in your area that you can turn down the ones who don't want to do 'homework.' But hey, this is all academic anyway, until 5e actually resurrects PS. :lol: [/QUOTE]

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