Planescape had a really remarkable fashion sensibility that distinguished it from any other product line in the Dungeons & Dragons canon, before or since. The slightly florid, slightly grubby Battle Of The Five Points stylings, juxtaposed against extravagant decorative blades, spikes, and other metallic accessories, helped make Sigil feel like a place all its own, and not merely someone's pinup-clean idealized view of culturally nebulous pre-gunpowder Europe.
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in reply to @ICELEVEL's post:
the effect looking at tony diterlizzi planescape art had on my teenage brain, man. my main 'I am just gonna copy this drawing' artist other than Amano.
truly a brain-unlocking experience! If you’ve got someone going “whoa who’s that guy? What’s this? What are they wearing? What’s that in the background?” while reading a game manual you've knocked it out of the park imo
I never played any Planescape (other than Torment, obviously) but oh man oh man oh man did I spend my formative years reading those sourcbooks and listening to THIS
so much of it is just In My Brain Forever due to just putting it in the CD player on repeat while I was playing video games