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<blockquote data-quote="I'm A Banana" data-source="post: 2790703" data-attributes="member: 2067"><p>Here's my Gamer's Critique. Keep in mind that I'm often pretty harsh, but I'm veiwing this in a context of a campaign setting book.</p><p></p><p>1) Nothing steps out at me as "unique". I don't get much of a sense of the world other than that there's giants and sand and gods. And that doesn't really tell me a lot. Deserts with giants and gods can exist in almost any setting.</p><p></p><p>2) It takes too long to get to the action. A man falls unconcious, there's a lot of down time, and then a fight happens. The fiction should contain the moments of potential, not the moments of peace. It should be ABOUT the struggle to survive or the fight, not about the space in between.</p><p></p><p>3) There's a confusing amount of name-dropping. You need to provide a context before you provide a name. Define why the god is importnat (and that it is, in fact, a god) before you name it. Make the move from the emotion the character is experiencing to the name more gradually, so people can follow that chain of thought a little better. It's not Yar that's important -- it's what Yar means to your character.</p><p></p><p>All told, I would've read up to about the part where Mingo starts eating before I put the book down and looked at something else, knowing that the characters will be safe-ish, and not really caring about the context they fit into much.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="I'm A Banana, post: 2790703, member: 2067"] Here's my Gamer's Critique. Keep in mind that I'm often pretty harsh, but I'm veiwing this in a context of a campaign setting book. 1) Nothing steps out at me as "unique". I don't get much of a sense of the world other than that there's giants and sand and gods. And that doesn't really tell me a lot. Deserts with giants and gods can exist in almost any setting. 2) It takes too long to get to the action. A man falls unconcious, there's a lot of down time, and then a fight happens. The fiction should contain the moments of potential, not the moments of peace. It should be ABOUT the struggle to survive or the fight, not about the space in between. 3) There's a confusing amount of name-dropping. You need to provide a context before you provide a name. Define why the god is importnat (and that it is, in fact, a god) before you name it. Make the move from the emotion the character is experiencing to the name more gradually, so people can follow that chain of thought a little better. It's not Yar that's important -- it's what Yar means to your character. All told, I would've read up to about the part where Mingo starts eating before I put the book down and looked at something else, knowing that the characters will be safe-ish, and not really caring about the context they fit into much. [/QUOTE]
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