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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Arkhandus" data-source="post: 2119198" data-attributes="member: 13966">LOL.  Could be.  Maybe meant as a joke for us poor sods actually enjoying the Eyros Creative Exercise or something?  :^DIn any case, the restriction on magic makes me disinterested, since it seems that even if he's serious, he's going for something that hardly qualifies as fantasy whatsoever, with the implication that the only things fantastical should be wierd or cutesy magical places and critters in an otherwise bland Renaissance setting.  I.E. the Three Musketeers gunned down a fire-breathing drake in a forest of bleeding trees with talking ravens, hoody-hoo.Edit: Oh, and then got on a ship and traded cannonades with troll pirates and human privateers. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  And probably some ninja dino-pirates too.  Really, the premises set forth at the start are vague as to what the hell is supposed to be 'high fantasy' if everything else puts forth the assumption that it's basically Renaissance/Colonial Earth with some pitiful bits of fantasy thrown in.  The Razina exercise at least put forth that magic was simply rare, and the world should be mostly humanocentric, and folks contributed some interesting creepy/wierd stuff after that.  This one sounds more difficult to comprehend as anything but bland.  Sell us on it, or something, if my first impression is the same kind that most folks will have upon seeing this.</blockquote>

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