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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Cam Banks" data-source="post: 1870938" data-attributes="member: 3817">It really is interesting to see the reaction to this game from "standard" D&D fantasy gamers. A lot of folks are weirded out by it, or think it's overly flowery and full of cheesy content. There's a huge stigma applied by (mostly) male fantasy fans to romantic fantasy in this vein, making it the subject of nervous laughter or mockery. I can't say as I find this terribly shocking. But then I also don't think those people are the target audience.I had some difficulty with Mercedes Lackey's novels, but my wife on the other hand really loves them. I had to think about what my trouble was, and it was the assumptions I have about what fantasy is, what it should include and what's considered to be a failure of a fantasy book to live up to that. I've become a lot more open to the thematic elements presented in Blue Rose, but I may still have a little way to go before I embrace it completely.I'm a George R. R. Martin type of fantasy fan. I think there's a way to make use of Blue Rose to play out GRRM's books, but it would also require quite a sharp turn in the expectations of the genre. Over on rpg.net, poster Kevin Mowery has recently (and cleverly) summarized the A Song of Ice and Fire series by GRRM as "romantic fantasy gone horribly horribly wrong". That's something I can sink my teeth into.Cheers,Cam</blockquote>