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<blockquote data-quote="CruelSummerLord" data-source="post: 3545253" data-attributes="member: 48692">Yes, I know, but I prefer to take these things seriously.&nbsp; I'm one of those uptight stuffed shirts who gets cranky if the game isn't set up as an intense, serious, grim, Shakespearean drama.&nbsp; &nbsp;<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> In all seriousness, I don't mind humor, but I don't want it to be campy or silly.&nbsp; The kind of humor you might see in the comedies of Shakespeare or Aristophanes is the kind I'd enjoy including in the game to lighten the mood.&nbsp; The latter's play Lysistrata, which I read in university, genuinely had me laughing even though it was a few thousand years old.&nbsp; The witty bantering of Commedia de l'Arte, the Shakespearean comedies or some of the Arthurian legends is to my mind far more appropriate than having your halflings say &quot;Boogers&quot;.&nbsp; Olive's talking simply ruined whatever kind of atmosphere Grubb was trying to create, and made the whole thing seem terribly artificial and contrived.&nbsp; Any believability in the story came to a screeching halt.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="CruelSummerLord, post: 3545253, member: 48692"] Yes, I know, but I prefer to take these things seriously. I'm one of those uptight stuffed shirts who gets cranky if the game isn't set up as an intense, serious, grim, Shakespearean drama. ;) In all seriousness, I don't mind humor, but I don't want it to be campy or silly. The kind of humor you might see in the comedies of Shakespeare or Aristophanes is the kind I'd enjoy including in the game to lighten the mood. The latter's play [I]Lysistrata[/I], which I read in university, genuinely had me laughing even though it was a few thousand years old. The witty bantering of Commedia de l'Arte, the Shakespearean comedies or some of the Arthurian legends is to my mind far more appropriate than having your halflings say "Boogers". Olive's talking simply ruined whatever kind of atmosphere Grubb was trying to create, and made the whole thing seem terribly artificial and contrived. Any believability in the story came to a screeching halt. [/QUOTE]

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