User:Zenoseiya/PlaneScape Campaign Setting/Torment
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[edit] What is Torment?
"Planescape®: Torment™ is an Advanced Dungeons and Dragons® single player fantasy RPG, set it TSR's Planescape campaign setting.
Character creation is just the beginning - throughout the game your character adapts to fit your own personal gaming style. The Planescape universe is a setting you've never experienced before, filled with sharp-edged visuals, bizarre adversaries and strange magic.
Encounter inventory items with personalities. Manage an unpredictable party of the strangest allies to walk the faces of alternate planes.
You can regenerate, speak with the dead, and have magical immunities. You're a power to be reckoned with. Unfortunately, so is everyone else." - from the Torment FAQ
[edit] Planescape Encyclopedia Entry
Planescape: Torment was a computer RPG created by Black Isle Studios. It was released in 1999. It followed the story of a hideously scarred, amnesiac man called the Nameless One, whose greatest enemies were often products of his own forgotten lives. His weird and eclectic cast of allies include a tiefling thief, the ghost of a past lover, a floating, talking skull, a bodiless suit of armor, a rogue modron, a githzerai enslaved to his honor, a reformed succubus, and a pyromaniac wizard whose body is perpetually on fire. Over the course of the game, players can choose to direct the Nameless One through a variety of different career paths and alignments. The amount of intelligence, wisdom, or charisma they choose to give him dramatically affects the dialog choices.
The game had a rich, involving story with a lot of words in it, most of them written by Planescape designer Colin McComb, great voice talent, and innovative play. It won a lot of awards, but didn't sell a lot of copies. Many people blame the Nameless One's hideous mug on the cover, or all those damned words.
I don't think anyone who's played the game has ever said anything bad about it, though.
[edit] External links
Below is a partialy exhaustive list of links to websites relating about Planescape: Torment.
[edit] General Info
- Planescape: Torment Spoilers, Solutions, & Spell Lists, from The Spoiler Centre
- Universal Hint System - Planescape: Torment, gradual hints in a question-and-answer format.
- GameFAQs - Planescape: Torment, a selection of walkthroughs and user reviews.
- Planescape: Torment at GameSpot
- Planescape: Torment at Home of the Underdogs
- Planescape: Torment at the Internet Movie Database
- Planescape: Torment at MobyGames
- RPG Codex, covers all CRPGs
[edit] Reviews/Previews
- Gamespy Hall of Fame - Planescape: Torment
- Gamespot Presents: The Greatest Games of All Time
- A Universe Where Ideas Can Trump Actions, from The New York Times
- IGN, game review by Trent Ward [9.2/10], with media.
- The Adrenaline Vault, Reviewer's Choice [5/5], with screenshots.
- The Armchair Empire, review [9/10] with screenshots.
- GameSpy.com, positive review [90/100].
- Games Domain Review, game information and a positive review, "Planescape is just one not to miss."
[edit] Community
- Planescape: Torment - Novelization, a downloadable PDF/DOC of a novelization of the game
- Planescape: Torment Artwork, includes pictures of the various faction leaders
- Planescape-Torment.org (archive), has both the complete Planescape: Torment soundtrack and a fan-made fix pack that resolves the bugs not fixed by the official patch available for download
- Sorcerer's Place - Planescape: Torment Index, extensive coverage at Sorcerers.net
- The Pit, an extensive resource site
- HK's Planescape: Torment, includes information on weapons, magical items, areas, characters, and more.
- Planescape: Torment @ GameBanshee, extensive coverage at GameBanshee.com
- Bootstrike.Com's Planescape: Torment Files Collection, game information, guides, and links to related materials.
- The Planescape: Torment Shrine, a source of info
- The Planescape: Torment Webring, a list of sites dedicated to PS:T and other Infinity Engine games
