Celebrim
Legend
Oryan77: I think your 2:15 post pretty much sums up precisely why I admired Planescape so much but never used it.
Ultimately, the setting tends to make the extraordinary into the mundane. It's the anthromorphic principle taken to its ultimate extreme. It suggests that everything everywhere no matter how different it may be from the ordinary is after the local color is removed completely recognizable and understandable.
To clarify, I - and I think alot of DM's - would consider the following statements to be 'bugs' and not 'features'.
"Don't send PC's to the Gray Waste to fight in the Bloodwar, send them to the Gray Waste to deliver battle plans to a Platoon of fiends."
"just do a typical city adventure but with stranger PC's."
"a low lvl sailing adventure in the Plane of Water..."
"My party is 6th lvl and adventuring in Baator (Hell) right now." (That one is particularly funny)
"They've encoutered almost every type of Baatezu (devil) so far"
"Powerful creatures still need to get things done like the rest of them."
"There's still markets, cities, and taverns on the planes."
"Fiends & Angels like recreation like everyone else."
"...how realistic is that?" (That one in particular irks me for its lack of understanding of the issues being raised.)
"Someone is making cheap army gear for the Bloodwar & building homes in cities on the planes, and I'm sure it's not Pit Fiends and Deva's doing it."
Ultimately, the setting tends to make the extraordinary into the mundane. It's the anthromorphic principle taken to its ultimate extreme. It suggests that everything everywhere no matter how different it may be from the ordinary is after the local color is removed completely recognizable and understandable.
To clarify, I - and I think alot of DM's - would consider the following statements to be 'bugs' and not 'features'.
"Don't send PC's to the Gray Waste to fight in the Bloodwar, send them to the Gray Waste to deliver battle plans to a Platoon of fiends."
"just do a typical city adventure but with stranger PC's."
"a low lvl sailing adventure in the Plane of Water..."
"My party is 6th lvl and adventuring in Baator (Hell) right now." (That one is particularly funny)
"They've encoutered almost every type of Baatezu (devil) so far"
"Powerful creatures still need to get things done like the rest of them."
"There's still markets, cities, and taverns on the planes."
"Fiends & Angels like recreation like everyone else."
"...how realistic is that?" (That one in particular irks me for its lack of understanding of the issues being raised.)
"Someone is making cheap army gear for the Bloodwar & building homes in cities on the planes, and I'm sure it's not Pit Fiends and Deva's doing it."
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