I believe that instead of limiting the flexibility of PS:T, the D&D Planescape lore helped build and set the general tone and atmosphere of the game. Without it, a spiritual successor will need a big team of very talented and creative writers which is very hard to find in the current video game market.
Dragon Age: Origins was advertised as the spiritual successor of Baldur's Gate without the Forgotten Realms, and while it was good for a modern game, it was nowhere near the overall quality of BG.
I think an open classless system a-la Arcanum would be great for a game like Torment, but they would have to work long and hard on the setting.
Dragon Age: Origins was advertised as the spiritual successor of Baldur's Gate without the Forgotten Realms, and while it was good for a modern game, it was nowhere near the overall quality of BG.
I think an open classless system a-la Arcanum would be great for a game like Torment, but they would have to work long and hard on the setting.
I'm not so sure, Planescape itself was a setting that broke much of the AD&D 2nd edition lore, it actively subverted the usual tropes of the game and was made by designers who seemed a little tired of the core rules. Torment really embraced this subverting of the traditional games, making the cranium rats of Many as One a terrifying foe instead of first level hero fodder, banishing swords and plate armour, Conversation trumping combat, the Undead of the Dead Nations being some of the nicest people you'll meet in the game etcetera.
This combined with the fact that Mr Avellone used to design mods for the industry and is a long time gamesmaster means that he'll most likely have a half dozen or so campaign worlds lying around, of varying depth and sophistication. In my experience D&D really does shackle a campaign eventually, thus prompting the house rules and more outlandish settings of many long term campaigns. Plus what kind of price would WOTC demand for licensing such a game, might make a Kickstarter pointlessly expensive.
Apparently Tim Cain thought up the Fallout SPECIAL ruleset in only a few days after Steve Jacksons balked at Fallouts mature content, so I don't think the mechanics are necessarily all that important.
This combined with the fact that Mr Avellone used to design mods for the industry and is a long time gamesmaster means that he'll most likely have a half dozen or so campaign worlds lying around, of varying depth and sophistication. In my experience D&D really does shackle a campaign eventually, thus prompting the house rules and more outlandish settings of many long term campaigns. Plus what kind of price would WOTC demand for licensing such a game, might make a Kickstarter pointlessly expensive.
Apparently Tim Cain thought up the Fallout SPECIAL ruleset in only a few days after Steve Jacksons balked at Fallouts mature content, so I don't think the mechanics are necessarily all that important.
Do you think if i throw enough money at him, he would make another isometric fallout?