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<blockquote data-quote="The Shadow" data-source="post: 6396193" data-attributes="member: 16760"><p>Much like [MENTION=42582]pemerton[/MENTION] , my dislike of Planescape has multiple reasons - some petty, some serious. The cant grates on my nerves. Part of this is just personal taste, and therefore petty. But there's something more...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>And that's the something more. The setting takes something which (to my own mythic imagination) should be rare and wondrous, and turns it into just another place to go. 'Jaded and casual' is not an attitude I want to encourage toward a fantasy world.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Again, this is an element that really rubs me the wrong way, both aesthetically and philosophically. (I'm not a professional philosopher like [MENTION=42582]pemerton[/MENTION] , I just play one at home. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> ) The idea that the great mythic wellsprings of the world are up for grabs, that they are less real than the material world, goes so completely against my grain that I don't find it fun. The strain of twisting my brain into that shape is just not worth the effort.</p><p></p><p>Give me the Little Prince for my money - "What is most important is not visible to the eye."</p><p></p><p>And while the idea of a place like Sigil, a city of doors to all sorts of places, is indeed really cool; it makes no mythic sense for me for it to be at the very center of the multiverse and off-limits to the gods themselves. (Of course, this is starting to edge into my vast distaste for the whole Great Wheel, not Planescape per se.)</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>I recall looking over one of the PS modules (don't remember what it was called) and being aghast at how horribly railroady and de-protagonizing it was - the PC's were basically there to be forcibly taken on a grand tour of the planes and be jabbered at.</p><p></p><p>But in fairness, you're right - a lot of the adventures back then were terrible, it certainly wasn't unique to Planescape.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="The Shadow, post: 6396193, member: 16760"] Much like [MENTION=42582]pemerton[/MENTION] , my dislike of Planescape has multiple reasons - some petty, some serious. The cant grates on my nerves. Part of this is just personal taste, and therefore petty. But there's something more... And that's the something more. The setting takes something which (to my own mythic imagination) should be rare and wondrous, and turns it into just another place to go. 'Jaded and casual' is not an attitude I want to encourage toward a fantasy world. Again, this is an element that really rubs me the wrong way, both aesthetically and philosophically. (I'm not a professional philosopher like [MENTION=42582]pemerton[/MENTION] , I just play one at home. :) ) The idea that the great mythic wellsprings of the world are up for grabs, that they are less real than the material world, goes so completely against my grain that I don't find it fun. The strain of twisting my brain into that shape is just not worth the effort. Give me the Little Prince for my money - "What is most important is not visible to the eye." And while the idea of a place like Sigil, a city of doors to all sorts of places, is indeed really cool; it makes no mythic sense for me for it to be at the very center of the multiverse and off-limits to the gods themselves. (Of course, this is starting to edge into my vast distaste for the whole Great Wheel, not Planescape per se.) I recall looking over one of the PS modules (don't remember what it was called) and being aghast at how horribly railroady and de-protagonizing it was - the PC's were basically there to be forcibly taken on a grand tour of the planes and be jabbered at. But in fairness, you're right - a lot of the adventures back then were terrible, it certainly wasn't unique to Planescape. [/QUOTE]
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