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Nick,

Damn you!
I thought you were proposing to RUN a game of "Planescape Torment".
You berk!

As for the game, I have the original one, with the actual game box like in the good old days, the little poster and the booklet in Sigil cant.

Cannot beat the stories by Morte:

An elderly man was sitting alone on a dark path, right? He wasn't certain of which direction to go, and he'd forgotten both where he was traveling to and who he was. He'd sat down for a moment to rest his weary legs, and suddenly looked up to see an elderly woman before him. She grinned toothlessly and with a cackle, spoke: 'Now your *third* wish. What will it be?
"Third wish?" The man was baffled. "How can it be a third wish if I haven't had a first and second wish?"
"You've had two wishes already," the hag said, "but your second wish was for me to return everything to the way it was before you had made your first wish. That's why you remember nothing; because everything is the way it was before you made any wishes." She cackled at the poor berk. "So it is that you have one wish left."
"All right," said the man, "I don't believe this, but there's no harm in wishing. I wish to know who I am."
"Funny," said the old woman as she granted his wish and disappeared forever. "That was your first wish."

Good and Evil, Law and Chaos and a man's doomed fate, it had it all.
A true RPG that was, where bashing things is less than a third of the total game time.
Don't make 'em anymore for sure!

Laurent,

Yeah, PT was great. I remember first playing, being introduced to Morte and thinking this was only going to get more bizzare. I wasn't dissapointed! Though I do recall getting distraced from Planescape by Dungeon Keeper (which was out around the same time, wasn't it?).

Drew,

"Dungeon Keeper II" was out in 1999 indeed, the original comes from 1997.

Many hours lost playing these too...

Laurent,

If we're talking about dungeon keeper then I noticed http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2010/09/28/a-deeper-dungeon-dungeon-keeperfx/ today. Not looked in to it yet sadly, I'll let you know if I do.

On the Planscape game idea.... I've not played a table top game of planscape will have to look to see if it is possible to "pathfinder" it.

Nick,

One would need the special monsters from PS, basically finding a Pathfinder site that upgrades 2nd ed. monsters. Possible but tough to find.

Then there is the story, while "Baldur's Gate" was pretty linear, the main plot-line at least, "Planescape Torment" was anything but. Even finding Pharod, the first time, without cheating by reading FAQs, was quite hard to suss from the myriad of side quests.

Most of the game was about reading the stories and very little about interacting with the world (apart from starting the dialogs) or bashing things; thus this would be an incredible feat to actually role-play.
The GM would need to love reading prose and the players would need to be very attentive.

Of course, upgrading a 2nd edition Planescape adventure to Pathfinder should not be too difficult. Still, Planescape to me is "Planescape: Torment".

Laurent,