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<blockquote data-quote="Grendel_Khan" data-source="post: 9185336" data-attributes="member: 7028554"><p>I mean, I don't like D&D monsters either, or D&D, so I hear what you're saying but don't really get it. D&D is not my bag, including because of dopey stuff like flumphs.</p><p></p><p>My issue, apart from the cosmology being overstuffed to an insanely indulgent degree, is just the pure unbridled randomness:</p><p></p><p>These worldbuilding nuggets are <em>everywhere</em> throughout the book:</p><p></p><p></p><p>Or how about:</p><p></p><p></p><p> </p><p>If you think I'm cherry-picking some 1 percent of zany examples, please, read the book yourself. Again, these are <em>everywhere</em>. Sometimes taking up more collective real estate than anything else on the page. Not really story seeds, more microfiction meant to make you titter and then...what?</p><p></p><p>Individual GMs can of course do whatever they want with the material, change the tone, provide clarity for what characters do other than immortal navel-gazing and interacting with the high randomness that makes up the setting. A point that doesn't need making—we've all run games here. My issue is with the game as written, as presented by the author. We don't have to agree, but that's my take—that its reputation as an infamously hard game to actually play and engage with is fully deserved, and then some. I don't begrudge the audience that it has, but I'm not misrepresenting how the game is written. It has lots of creepy stuff, but that doesn't change the fact that it's a deeply goofy work that revels in randomness and quirk. The manic pixie girl of RPGs, but look out, she's got serrated teeth or something.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Grendel_Khan, post: 9185336, member: 7028554"] I mean, I don't like D&D monsters either, or D&D, so I hear what you're saying but don't really get it. D&D is not my bag, including because of dopey stuff like flumphs. My issue, apart from the cosmology being overstuffed to an insanely indulgent degree, is just the pure unbridled randomness: These worldbuilding nuggets are [I]everywhere[/I] throughout the book: Or how about: If you think I'm cherry-picking some 1 percent of zany examples, please, read the book yourself. Again, these are [I]everywhere[/I]. Sometimes taking up more collective real estate than anything else on the page. Not really story seeds, more microfiction meant to make you titter and then...what? Individual GMs can of course do whatever they want with the material, change the tone, provide clarity for what characters do other than immortal navel-gazing and interacting with the high randomness that makes up the setting. A point that doesn't need making—we've all run games here. My issue is with the game as written, as presented by the author. We don't have to agree, but that's my take—that its reputation as an infamously hard game to actually play and engage with is fully deserved, and then some. I don't begrudge the audience that it has, but I'm not misrepresenting how the game is written. It has lots of creepy stuff, but that doesn't change the fact that it's a deeply goofy work that revels in randomness and quirk. The manic pixie girl of RPGs, but look out, she's got serrated teeth or something. [/QUOTE]
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