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Message: <blockquote data-quote="haakon1" data-source="post: 5119820" data-attributes="member: 25619">A "special" themeI've got the Last Days of Constantinople, and Greenland Saga, and possibly one more.I ignored the illustrations and tried to take it seriously, since these were interesting historical events.I figured maybe it would be like the old Historical Resources books in 2nd Edition, which were high quality writing with respect for the subject matter.Sadly, I don't think that's the case with Avalanche.  When I was reading Constantinople, I thought it was quite odd that a fair amount of space was devoted to prostitution and that the incontinence of a major NPC -- due to being a eunich, if I recall correctly, seemed to be an importance theme.  But I bore with it and just ignored that as an attempt at flavor.When I saw in Greenland Saga that one of the major NPC's was incontinent, I quietly closed the book and never reopened any of them again.That's at least one step too freaky a fetish to belong as a theme in a series of otherwise unrelated adventures . . .</blockquote>