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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8353281" data-attributes="member: 18">I don't really disbelieve him entirely as much as I feel like given he had various Factions destroyed or disbanded (I'd look up which, but it'd make me feel kind of sick, honestly PS was the only D&D setting I've ever been a "fan" of, well maybe Taladas too but that's it, despite my dozens of FR books, I've only ever "liked" that), that his intention, when he "wove them back in", wasn't to bring back all the Factions, or the most important Factions, but only the Factions that Monte Cook liked (as opposed Zeb Cook, y'know the dude who actually came up with all this), and to probably reposition Factions and introduce new Monte Cook Factions so on, and I don't think Monte is half the genius Zeb is (Arcana Unearthed notwithstanding), so that would still be like the old lady "repainting" that poor saint in that church, with all the same "Well I think I did a good job!" attitude too. That his objective was to create "Monte Cook's Planescape".So I buy he was going to do more. I just don't buy he'd have brought back destroyed or disbanded Factions, or put Factions back into the roles they previously played, or even fully got rid of those godawful beige 1970s three-letter-acronyms.If the quote contradicts my belief I may ease up on him a little but IIRC the quote is more like "I was gonna bring back [some] factions to Sigil I swear", without any detail or comment on which or how many.4E doubled down on this by portraying the setting as having moved on several years and almost all the Factions still being exiled/destroyed/disbanded (I think the Dustmen or someone were back but that was it).</blockquote>

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