In 1995, Planescape won the Origins Award for Best Graphic Presentation of a Roleplaying Game, Adventure, or Supplement of 1994.

Planescape: Torment was given several Editor's Choice awards, was named RPG of the Year for 1999 by both GameSpot and Computer Gaming World, and won the Vault Network's Game of the Year for 1999.

The 1999 game Planescape: Torment removed character death as a motive and also won acclaim for its narrative.

The Planescape setting was published in 1994.

However, fan demand for a 2nd Edition Manual of the Planes was strong enough to justify its expansion into a full-fledged campaign setting, and so in 1994 Planescape was released.

1994 saw the release of the Planescape campaign setting.

The tiefling was introduced in the Planescape Campaign Setting ( 1994 ) with more information in the first Planescape Monstrous Compendium Appendix ( 1994 ) and the Planewalker's Handbook ( 1996 ).

The aasimar race was introduced in Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 2nd edition in the Planescape Campaign Setting series of books, published April 1994.

The marraenoloth appeared for the Planescape setting in the Planescape Campaign Setting boxed set ( 1994 ), and the arcanaloth, the dergholoth, the hydroloth, the mezzoloth, the nycaloth, the piscoloth, the ultroloth, and the yagnoloth appeared in the first Planescape Monstrous Compendium Appendix ( 1994 ).

* Planescape Monstrous Compendium Appendix ( 1994 )

The same set of slaadi appear for the Planescape campaign setting in the first Planescape Monstrous Compendium Appendix ( 1994 ).

Many Outer Planes were renamed in Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Second Edition in the Planescape campaign setting, released in 1994.

This new structure became the default one for the 1st and 2nd edition AD & D game, described in greater detail in the Manual of the Planes ( 1987 ), the Planescape campaign setting ( 1994 ), and The Inner Planes ( 1998 ).

The Lady of Pain was first described for the Planescape setting in the Planescape Campaign Setting ( 1994 ).

The air mephit, the ash mephit, the dust mephit, the earth mephit, the fire mephit, the ice mephit, the lightning mephit, the magma mephit, the mineral mephit, the mist mephit, the ooze mephit, the radiant mephit, the salt mephit, smoke mephit, the steam mephit, and the water mephit appeared for the Planescape setting in the Planescape Monstrous Compendium Appendix ( 1994 ).

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Planescape: Torment was ranked second overall after Fallout, earning it a " Quantum Leap Award ".

The same reviewer also stated " Planescape has just about the best sound I've ever heard in a game.

In 2005, GameSpot stated " Planescape: Torment has quite possibly the best implementation of role-playing an evil character ever to appear in a computer or video game to date ".

This Planescape envisioning of the slaadi carried forth into the 3rd Edition of the D & D game and has persisted ever since.

Planescape: Torment received widespread critical acclaim upon its release, but only made a small profit.

The tiefling was introduced in the Planescape Campaign Setting boxed set ( 1994 ) as a player character race, and received statistics in the first Planescape Monstrous Compendium Appendix ( 1994 ).

Popular commercially published campaign settings for Dungeons & Dragons include Greyhawk, Dragonlance, Forgotten Realms, Mystara, Spelljammer, Ravenloft, Dark Sun, Planescape, Birthright, and Eberron.

Planescape is a campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game, originally designed by Zeb Cook.

Pyramid magazine reviewer Scott Haring said Planescape is " the finest game world ever produced for Advanced Dungeons & Dragons.

Following the success of Baldur's Gate, the Infinity Engine was used for the games Planescape: Torment and the Icewind Dale series.

Planescape: Torment is a computer role-playing video game developed for Windows by Black Isle Studios and released on December 12, 1999 by Interplay Entertainment.

It was lauded for its immersive dialogue, for the dark and relatively obscure Planescape setting, and for the protagonist's unique persona, which shirked many characteristics of traditional role-playing games.

When Interplay dropped support for Planescape: Torment after the official 1. 1 patch, several not yet fixed bugs were corrected by fan created patches.

Interplay initially hired dark ambient musician Lustmord to create the musical score for Planescape: Torment, although this score was ultimately not used.

Chris Avellone was awarded Eurogamer's " Gaming Globe " award for Best Designer in 2000 for his work on Planescape: Torment, and The Nameless One was considered to be the Best Male Lead Character.

In the Planescape campaign setting, Pandemonium houses the headquarters for the Bleak Cabal faction.

The name " Tiefling " was coined by Wolfgang Baur, when original Planescape designer David " Zeb " Cook asked for a Germanic-sounding word for humans with fiendish blood.

Although by the time of its release in late 1999, Planescape: Torment's default 640x480 resolution was not considered particularly advanced, reviewers were pleased with the art design and color of the environments.

In the standard cosmology represented by the Greyhawk and Planescape campaign settings, Nishrek is a part of Acheron, while in the Forgotten Realms cosmology this is a plane of its own.

In first edition and second edition AD & D before Planescape, this plane is also at the center of the Outer Planes and known by its original name Concordant Opposition.

" DiTerlizzi worked on the 1994 Planescape Campaign Setting and its supplements, redesigning the look of the Outer Planes, " Not only buildings but the people had to have a rusted, organic look.

With the advent of the Planescape campaign setting, TSR, Inc. made an effort to create a more appropriately fearsome image of the slaadi, with their toad qualities toned down in favor of showing their more frightening aspects as beings of pure chaos.

This relationship set by Gygax was carried on to the game's second edition, especially in the Planescape setting, where the two demon lords now share the layer of Shedaklah.

In the gaming industry, he best known for his work in the collectible card game Magic: The Gathering and on the Planescape product line for the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game.

When I went to work on Planescape, I looked at anime and Japanese fantasy art like Yoshitaka Amano.