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The Planescape setting shifted the focus of philosophical organisation in fantasy settings from polytheistic religions to factions: philosphers with clubs.
Walking The Planes 4: Philosophers With Clubs
Planescape: Torment opened a door for me: the door to Sigil, the grimy, sharp, beating heart of the Planescape setting. It is also a door to new possibilities: the realisation that a fantasy setting could be so much more than what has become 'the standard' over the last few decades. When you set foot in the game, everything is different.
Walking The Planes 3: Pluralities
Before properly setting out on our planar adventure, it is worth exploring what significance the concept of the planes has had in the history of Dungeons & Dragons throughout the years. As we’ll see, the planes have been present almost from the very start of the game, and have remained part of it ever since.
Walking The Planes 2: A History of the Planes in Dungeons & Dragons
Walking the Planes is a series of articles in which I explore the philosophy of the planes of existence in Dungeons & Dragons from a personal (retro-)perspective. Most of it will focus on the Planescape campaign setting, which was published between 1994 and 1998 and which is to date still the most detailed exploration of the planes in the game. I’ve always had a thing for the planes, different places and worlds beyond and above our own, hidden behind portals. The metaphorical speech is strong here. A plane is a level surface; something that happens on another plane is situated on a different ‘level’ of existence from ours, usually […]