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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9102199" data-attributes="member: 18"><p>Ok so that's the real reason huh? I was wondering because this Scandi (and I think German?) duck-person obsession goes way, way beyond just this game and Runequest.</p><p></p><p>(I note that in this case "Northern Europe" must exclude the UK.)</p><p></p><p>None of them remotely as cartoonish/Disney-esque as duck-people in RQ though. They're generally just "normal-size humanoid with head and fur/scales of animal, maybe tail", and typically depicted in a vaguely realist way. Whereas RQ's ducks (and those of Mutant: Year Zero) are basically cartoon-style beings that exist in a non-cartoon reality, with limbs that wouldn't work, often eyes that aren't just oversized but also flat rather than spherical, and so on. I think liking that is mostly a generational thing where a significant fraction of Gen Xers seem quite keen on that but when you go down to Millennials suddenly it's a rather niche thing (I have no idea how Zoomers feel about, it's not something that comes up often).</p><p></p><p>It definitely fits with some games - TMNT for example, all the mutant beings are like that, it's not just the turtles.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 9102199, member: 18"] Ok so that's the real reason huh? I was wondering because this Scandi (and I think German?) duck-person obsession goes way, way beyond just this game and Runequest. (I note that in this case "Northern Europe" must exclude the UK.) None of them remotely as cartoonish/Disney-esque as duck-people in RQ though. They're generally just "normal-size humanoid with head and fur/scales of animal, maybe tail", and typically depicted in a vaguely realist way. Whereas RQ's ducks (and those of Mutant: Year Zero) are basically cartoon-style beings that exist in a non-cartoon reality, with limbs that wouldn't work, often eyes that aren't just oversized but also flat rather than spherical, and so on. I think liking that is mostly a generational thing where a significant fraction of Gen Xers seem quite keen on that but when you go down to Millennials suddenly it's a rather niche thing (I have no idea how Zoomers feel about, it's not something that comes up often). It definitely fits with some games - TMNT for example, all the mutant beings are like that, it's not just the turtles. [/QUOTE]
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