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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kichwas" data-source="post: 10160" data-attributes="member: 891">Naturally I'm going to say yes.When I play in most fantasy worlds I feel like I'm trying to bring a person into a comic book. As a result I never really feel any attachment to my characters or to the adventures.Kalamar though doesn't do this to me. I feel like it's a world. Like if I got on a starship and went out there I might just find it. Save for the magic.On every level it makes sense to me.And yet at the same time it manages to be full of drama, full of tension. But the sort of tension that makes sense.If there's a loose plot thread on a page (and it's full of them on every page) then when you read it you can understand why it's there. Why it might happen one way or another. Why the people stuck in it are stuck in it. How they all got there.It all adds up.It never feel contrived or pushed.Never feels faked.Bland?Hardly. Sure if you only skim it or if you don't pay a lot of attention when reading it will seem bland. Because it's written in a very neutral and dry tone and has a very stale graphic design (which is not just pictures but also typography and layout) to it.But if you read it for the details and you start to pay attention a pattern will form in each section and that pattern will weave together in the larger body of the book to give you a fully consistent setting which still feels full of wonder, excitement, drama, magic, and of course fantasy.It no blander than the complex web of interrelations that form our own world's geopolitical mess.</blockquote>

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