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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8287096" data-attributes="member: 18"><p>Even at this age, whilst it is definitely quite "college naughty word session", yes, that's kind of well-pitched for the level of philosophy that can work really well with D&D, not quite beer and pretzels (though not a million miles from it), but not po-faced and over-serious either. The Factions are pretty accessible, as written in 2E, conceptually, and everyone is going to find a number that either resonate with them or that they'd just enjoy roleplaying.</p><p></p><p>Yeah I think this is often overlooked. By 1994, a lot of AD&D 2E stuff felt like it was aimed at a sort of 30-something crowd who were not cool (I was 16 then, note), I mean, obviously fellow geeks/nerds, but they're this really different kind, different era. Not all the stuff, but a lot of it. It didn't really speak to me.</p><p></p><p>But Planescape jesus, it was like they'd drilled into my skull. Especially the art and the Factions and the cant. Often slightly older or a decade or so younger players sneer hardcore at some or all of that stuff, but for me, and I think a lot of Xennials and older Millennials, it was so horrifyingly spot-on. I was reading one of the books on a break at school, and I was at a weirdly cool-but-alternative-kids-only school (long story, and several people famous now were in my year or the one above, again long story), and people, like cool people who'd never played an RPG or even knew what they were wanted to see it, and loved the art and the vibe (including the cant). I never got any of them into D&D with it, but I bet today in the same scenario I would have, and it shows how absolutely on-point Planescape was.</p><p></p><p>By the end of the 1990s it was not quite as on-point anymore, but now, in the 2010s and 2020s, that whole vibe has become part of the culture (and kids dress more like we did back then than '80s kids or something, and have done since like 2014), so I think today it could potentially get both a very specific set of grogs and semi-grogs, and kids who have rarely seen that style "in full flight" before.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 8287096, member: 18"] Even at this age, whilst it is definitely quite "college naughty word session", yes, that's kind of well-pitched for the level of philosophy that can work really well with D&D, not quite beer and pretzels (though not a million miles from it), but not po-faced and over-serious either. The Factions are pretty accessible, as written in 2E, conceptually, and everyone is going to find a number that either resonate with them or that they'd just enjoy roleplaying. Yeah I think this is often overlooked. By 1994, a lot of AD&D 2E stuff felt like it was aimed at a sort of 30-something crowd who were not cool (I was 16 then, note), I mean, obviously fellow geeks/nerds, but they're this really different kind, different era. Not all the stuff, but a lot of it. It didn't really speak to me. But Planescape jesus, it was like they'd drilled into my skull. Especially the art and the Factions and the cant. Often slightly older or a decade or so younger players sneer hardcore at some or all of that stuff, but for me, and I think a lot of Xennials and older Millennials, it was so horrifyingly spot-on. I was reading one of the books on a break at school, and I was at a weirdly cool-but-alternative-kids-only school (long story, and several people famous now were in my year or the one above, again long story), and people, like cool people who'd never played an RPG or even knew what they were wanted to see it, and loved the art and the vibe (including the cant). I never got any of them into D&D with it, but I bet today in the same scenario I would have, and it shows how absolutely on-point Planescape was. By the end of the 1990s it was not quite as on-point anymore, but now, in the 2010s and 2020s, that whole vibe has become part of the culture (and kids dress more like we did back then than '80s kids or something, and have done since like 2014), so I think today it could potentially get both a very specific set of grogs and semi-grogs, and kids who have rarely seen that style "in full flight" before. [/QUOTE]
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