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Planescape: Torment

Trivia

The music that plays in the Civic Festhall is from the 2nd movement of Vivaldi's concerto for two oboes in D minor.

So who is the guy that appears in the box covers and ads as the Nameless One? Game director Guido Henkel himself!! (with some heavy makeup and after some digital post-production of course!).

There is a promotional trailer for the game featured on earlier Interplay titles like Baldur's Gate (NOT the one featured in the game's page and which includes gameplay shots), that includes completely unseen CGI footage that doesn't appear in any of the game's cutscenes. The trailer shows, among other things: the Lady of Pain floating around, Nordom in the Modron Cube, the Iron Golem roaming a forest, the Nameless One at his tomb, Hargrimm casting a spell, Ignus being consumed (probably his origin?) and several other creatures plus many POV sequences which show places and scenery (you know, the ones that get triggered when you first travel to some location). Rumor has it that this is actually a mix of sequences made solely for promotional purposes and stuff that was cut out of the game for space considerations. In any event, save for a part of the shadow world intro, this is all unseen stuff.

There is a novel based on the game written by regular Planescape suplement writters Ray Vallese and Val Vallese. The novel was later included for free with copies of Planescape: Torment when bought from the Interplay Store. A soundtrack CD is also available.

If one is to believe a certain motion picture-like add that run in late 1998 (you know, the one's that go "so and so present a so and so production starring...). You'll find that Morte's lastname is "Rictusgrin".

The creator of the Planescape campaign universe and former TSR creative guru himself Zeb Cook, contributed to the creation of the game along Colin McComb, (who took the Planescape banner at TSR when Cook left), and Guido Henkel, designer of the Realms of Arkania series. No wonder the game turned out so good!

Almost all the roles in Torment are played by well established voice actors or recognizable celebrities including: Sheena Easton (singer) as Annah, Rob Paulsens (Yakko Warner and Pinky on Animaniacs) as Morte, Mitch Pileggi (A.D. Skinner on The X-Files) as Dak'kon, Charlie Adler (Tiny Toon's Buster Bunny) as Ignus, Keith David (HBO's Spawn) as Vhailor, and Michael T. Weiss (Jarod on The Pretender) in the lead role as the Nameless One.

P:T's voice actors were not the most illustrious, but they did a good job. Two of them are recognizable names, however. Dan Castellaneta, who voiced Nordom, is memorable for his role voicing Homer Simpson. John DeLancie, who voiced Trias, is remembered as portraying Q in Star Trek: TNG.

The unique language in the game is based on 17th-century English working class slang, rather than the typical "ye olde english" many medieval RPGs have.

Short and sweet: in the initial concept for the game the title screen menu was to have an additional tab for viewing the cinematics. Thought it was removed for reasons unknown it still made its way to some manuals which state the title screen should have a "Visions" tab for movies.

For both St. Patrick's day and Eastern of 2000 the developers released a pair of character add-ons. "Leprechaun Annah" and "Eastern egg Morte" which change all the graphics and animations for said characters and , in Morte's case, add new sound samples that were left in the cutting room.