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Message: <blockquote data-quote="radferth" data-source="post: 2176589" data-attributes="member: 5791">Sorry to interupt the game reviewer shop talk, but I wanted to speak out in favor of the setting.  I agree that Aldis as presented in the BR book is on the treacly side, but that does not mean that it has to be run that way.  I remember playing in a (West-End Games) Star Wars campaign where the rebels we were playing were a bit less good than those in the movies (we we engaged in smuggling and con-schemes, coluded with imperial figures, etc.).  The GM was running on the paradigm that the movies (which actually existed as such in his world) were rebel propoganda designed to make them look good.  One could run a Blue Rose campaign in which the info about the world given in the rule book is the version taught to young Aldens, the real situation might be much grayer.  Maybe there are a lot of citizens who have feeling the Dennis in "Holy Grail" (Strange magical stags jumping out of windows and touching people on the head is no basis for a system of government).  Maybe the stage test and the blue-rose-scepter test are just illusionary shows for the masses and the current queen was the compromise choice of various factions of nobles.  Maybe some parts of Aldis are not as tolerant as presented, or maybe peace-loving Aldens are tolerant of different sexuallity, but look down upon the military (and thus the PCs).  There are many countries throughout history that have thought of themselves a good and enlightened and loved by all, but that is never the whole story.On an unrelated critique of the setting: why are all the gay men presented as girly-men?  Where are the manly Richard-the-Lion-Heart style homosexuals?</blockquote>

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