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Writing team...thank you for the Planescape feels
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Well I just 100% Necrom and...wow from the color palette to the storyline I loved all the shoutouts to AD&D's Planescape and the CRPG Planes of Torment it was a fun roller-coaster and some of your best writing in years. You could really tell that ESO is in fact written by many former TSR writers (Who haven't missed a step) and if I could make a suggestion you should embrace that more as that type of writing is greatly missed by many of us.
I know I can't stop the inevitable snarky reply to this but I just want you to know that the appreciation of the story isn't lost on many of us as most of of the folks I talked to that use to play AD&D back in the day feel the same way.
I know I can't stop the inevitable snarky reply to this but I just want you to know that the appreciation of the story isn't lost on many of us as most of of the folks I talked to that use to play AD&D back in the day feel the same way.
““Elric knew. The sword told him, without words of any sort. Stormbringer needed to fight, for that was its reason for existence...”― Michael Moorcock, Elric of Melniboné
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✭✭✭✭✭Not really snark - I just could not get into Planescape at all. Much like I couldn't get into the Witcher games. There are just things that never clicked with me. I was FAR more into Ed's Forgotten Realms, more my cuppa for sure.
I hope when I really get into Necrom that I won't know it's "like Planescape"....______________________________________________________
"But even in books, the heroes make mistakes, and there isn't always a happy ending." Mercedes Lackey, Into the West
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Warhawke_80✭✭✭✭✭Not really snark - I just could not get into Planescape at all. Much like I couldn't get into the Witcher games. There are just things that never clicked with me. I was FAR more into Ed's Forgotten Realms, more my cuppa for sure.
I hope when I really get into Necrom that I won't know it's "like Planescape"....
I get that...I guess I enjoyed Planescape because I read The Elric Saga by Michael Moorcock and it dealt with such locales in a cool high Fantasy way
As far as you knowing it's like Planescape...that depends on how familiar you are with the old sourcebooks really.““Elric knew. The sword told him, without words of any sort. Stormbringer needed to fight, for that was its reason for existence...”― Michael Moorcock, Elric of Melniboné0 -
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✭✭✭✭✭Warhawke_80 wrote: »Not really snark - I just could not get into Planescape at all. Much like I couldn't get into the Witcher games. There are just things that never clicked with me. I was FAR more into Ed's Forgotten Realms, more my cuppa for sure.
I hope when I really get into Necrom that I won't know it's "like Planescape"....
I get that...I guess I enjoyed Planescape because I read The Elric Saga by Michael Moorcock and it dealt with such locales in a cool high Fantasy way
As far as you knowing it's like Planescape...that depends on how familiar you are with the old sourcebooks really.
Familiar enough.... I tried to like Planescape, I really did.... [I didn't really enjoy Moorcock either, sorry.]Edited by TaSheen on May 29, 2024 10:41PM______________________________________________________
"But even in books, the heroes make mistakes, and there isn't always a happy ending." Mercedes Lackey, Into the West
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LannStone✭✭✭✭Just to add a comment so you don't feel alone
I loved Planescape, went it through three times - such an unusual story - the atmosphere was a big part of the appeal
But I can see how some people would not like all the reading stuff that is required
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✭✭✭✭✭Just to add a comment so you don't feel alone
I loved Planescape, went it through three times - such an unusual story - the atmosphere was a big part of the appeal
But I can see how some people would not like all the reading stuff that is required
Oh, I never mind reading. I read so fast (like 1500 wpm) that it's never really a chore. The problem for me was the.... uh.... overdone grittiness (I guess that's the word) of the Planescape setting (for me - I know there are many people who really loved it, but it just wasn't for me).
I DM'd scenarios of my own creation for my daughter and her jr high/high school friends in the mid-70s, and if that didn't require a lot of reading background, I don't know what might have!
Today, I read whole novels in the evenings after dinner....Edited by TaSheen on May 30, 2024 1:51AM______________________________________________________
"But even in books, the heroes make mistakes, and there isn't always a happy ending." Mercedes Lackey, Into the West
PC NA, PC EU (non steam)- four accounts, many alts....1