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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shemeska" data-source="post: 6231884" data-attributes="member: 11697">And this is why I'm not surprised that Greyhawk is winning. Now allow me to generalize and speculate about various groups of people on this issue. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Some campaign settings are more polarizing than others - with Planescape it has a lot of people that like it and it also has a lot of people that just don't care for it. Like Hussar mentioned earlier, anytime the setting comes up it has a vocal contingent that just don't like it. I'm sure some of that is on its own merits, but some of it might just come from a rejection of anything 2e as that edition moved away from 1e in terms of tone, and I've noticed one segment of folks that really like the 4e cosmology and despise the Great Wheel (though the Wheel predates Planescape completely). For those not liking it on its own merits I'm sure the cant was a turn off for some, as was what some have termed an attempt to go for the White Wolf audience. The setting is distinctly different in tone compared to oftentimes in 1e - it was darker, had lots of muddled grey areas mixed in, and while it did whimsical, it rarely did camp. It really didn't change much from the 1e MotP (though it added a massive amount of detail to what was already established), but the tone was different, the focus on how PCs interacted with the planes was subtly different as well.Greyhawk on the other hand... it doesn't seem to gather those varied camps that don't like it. It may or may not have high positives (to look at this like a politician's poll numbers), but it sure as heck doesn't have large numbers that don't like it. It does have folks that really enjoy it (some of the Paizo crew adore it), but I would wager that for most people it's the compromise candidate when faced with popular but polarizing choices like Planescape or Forgotten Realms.</blockquote>

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