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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TruffleGrubber" data-source="post: 262668" data-attributes="member: 4463">HrmmmShadow of Burkai's chronicle of events concerning Falstaff vs Harn Forum is pretty much how I saw them unfold.  I attempted to mediate a bit and too late, not that I think it would have mattered anyway.  Falstaff, no forgivness needed from me, despite my quite abrasive final email, I don't hold grudges.  You are who you are and you should know by this point in your life that you are not going to fit in with every crowd.  That doesn't bother me one bit, it's your problem not mine.  Similarly I don't really fit in here at EnWorld, so I don't post here much- except to crawl out of the cracks when Harn comes up, though I do lurk a bit now and then.Now on to Harn and Harnmaster...  I love the Harn setting and Harnmaster.  I generally convert those that players that play in my games.  The one mentality I have a hard time getting past is the 'Turnip Farming' mentality that has been presented here.  Do I run games where the players are concered with nothing but their crops and the gout?  No.  And I think it is safe to say that 95%+ of the gamemasters for Harn don't either.  The fact that the detail is there to allow you to consider such details only deepens your sense of the world and I do consider such mechanics when detailing a manor for the game.  It's just a different style of Fantasy Roleplaying.  The closest comparison I can come to in feel would be to say that D&D3e is to Harn as D&D2e was to Call of Cthulu.  A matter of tastes and I respect the fact that people don't want to play low fantasy.  What annoys me is that the negative response you get for Harn is consistently 'Let's Play Farmers!' or 'Why would I want to play a broke, slovenly, my life sucks peasant?'.  And Mr. Becker if you are here and reading this and even dare to goad me I'll pee in you Pho next time I see you in Huang! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /></blockquote>

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