Since I have a deeply morbid sense of curiosity...

Jürgen Hubert · Jul 30, 2005

...I dare you all to come up with a d20 template for Wraeththu.

If you don't know what a Wraeththu is, look here and here. But only if you are really brave.

The first one to post a complete template will get... nightmares probably, come to think of it.

I am so going to hell for this...

the Jester · Jul 30, 2005

Jürgen Hubert said:
...I dare you all to come up with a d20 template for Wraeththu.

No.

Unless you're throwing a $10 million X-Prize at it, that is.

Jürgen Hubert said:
I am so going to hell for this...

Yes.

Unless you're throwing a $10 million X-Prize at it, that is.

Turanil · Jul 30, 2005

I had a great laugh reading this review.

The spiritual son of "World of Synnybar" (or something like that)?

gizmo33 · Jul 30, 2005

I actually bought a compilation of three books in this series. I couldn't get through the first one, though I usually have trouble with anything that wasn't written in the 1920s. I don't think this thread it encouraging me to try again though.

ForceUser · Jul 30, 2005

That was...horrid.

The second link says that Storm Constantine is a woman. What do you call it when a woman is misogynistic?

mythusmage · Jul 30, 2005

Storm Constantine is what you get when a munchkin puts on a girdle of feminimity/masculinity.

Arbiter of Wyrms · Jul 30, 2005

What a disaster. I should report a bad post on you, Jurgen. I just read through a fair amount of drek on what sounded like unforgivably bad, bad, writing and design. I want that half-hour back!

At least I can take away a gratitude for EN World, WotC, Malhavoc, Expeditious retreat, and Green Ronin.

I feel real sympathy for the reviewer. I always thought that it would be cool to playtest. Now I see the hidden dangers.

EDIT: I just realized: this is how the Planes of Conflict boxed set decsribes the Gray Waste: pointless, endless, apathetic despair.

Then I realized while writing the above that I'm not going to be able to let this go. This is bad that will haunt be all day long.

Dakkareth · Jul 31, 2005

Arbiter of Wyrms said:
EDIT: I just realized: this is how the Planes of Conflict boxed set decsribes the Gray Waste: pointless, endless, apathetic despair.

Please don't mention that product in THIS thread. It has done nothing to you.

Mystery Man · Jul 31, 2005

One additional notable characteristic of Wraeththu is their need for regular sexual intercourse, known among Wraeththu as aruna.

If I could then figure out a way to slap this template on my wife that would be great.

William Ronald · Jul 31, 2005

I read through most of the review before feeling so disgusted that I closed the page.

To dignify the work by calling it excrement would be insulting -- to excrement, that is. At least excrement can be used in a garden as fertilizer. I fear what might grow from mulching copies of Wraethu and planting them in a garden. The reproduction method of the har -- blood sharing -- strains credulity in what apparently seems to be a science fiction/science fantasy game.

Let's say that as a man, who has several women in his life whom he values and holds himself to a set of ethical and religious standards, I found the treatment of women in the setting to be disgusting. I have not been so offended about learning of a product since I read about F.A.T.A.L. .