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<blockquote data-quote="A Passing Maniac" data-source="post: 4627045" data-attributes="member: 57472">Allow me to ruin your lucky number of contestants by submitting my own... submission... thingy...My comrade Joseph Wilburforce and I, Matthew Woodward, will hopefully manage to get through the process of actually creating a system so we might present to you Saga, a game set in 10th-century Iceland. &quot;But,&quot; you undoubtedly exclaim, &quot;10th-century Iceland was primarily inhabited by farmers. What's so fun about farming?&quot;&nbsp;&nbsp;To which I would reply, &quot;You obviously haven't played the Harvest Moon games, but that's irrelevant, because this game is not about farmers. This is a game of the fantastic, in which Iceland is inhabited by all the giants and elves and dwarves who retreated from continental Europe with the spread of Christianity. This is a game where the old gods still walk the Earth. This is a game about raiding and pillaging, about swords and runic sorcery, about slaying trolls and dragons, about the risen dead and werewolf outlaws and wooden golems powered by human hearts, and possibly about alliterative poetry. This is the world of the sagas!&quot;&nbsp;&nbsp;Then you would probably say, in turn, &quot;Hey that sounds pretty cool.&quot; And you would be right. But you might continue, &quot;Yet how is this any different from any other fantasy role-playing game?&quot;&nbsp;&nbsp;And then I would angrily reply, &quot;It just is,&quot; and if you tried to protest I would turn into a giant wolf and eat you.Joseph tells me this declaration or announcement or what have you requires more mention of Loki, and he is correct, so I shall rectify my error in excluding him immediately.<img src="http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/4773/lokistonehd6.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" />I love his villainous mustache, don't you?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="A Passing Maniac, post: 4627045, member: 57472"] Allow me to ruin your lucky number of contestants by submitting my own... submission... thingy... My comrade Joseph Wilburforce and I, Matthew Woodward, will hopefully manage to get through the process of actually creating a system so we might present to you [B]Saga[/B], a game set in 10th-century Iceland. "But," you undoubtedly exclaim, "10th-century Iceland was primarily inhabited by farmers. What's so fun about farming?" To which I would reply, "You obviously haven't played the Harvest Moon games, but that's irrelevant, because this game is not about farmers. This is a game of the fantastic, in which Iceland is inhabited by all the giants and elves and dwarves who retreated from continental Europe with the spread of Christianity. This is a game where the old gods still walk the Earth. This is a game about raiding and pillaging, about swords and runic sorcery, about slaying trolls and dragons, about the risen dead and werewolf outlaws and wooden golems powered by human hearts, and possibly about alliterative poetry. This is the world of the sagas!" Then you would probably say, in turn, "Hey that sounds pretty cool." And you would be right. But you might continue, "Yet how is this any different from any other fantasy role-playing game?" And then I would angrily reply, "It just is," and if you tried to protest I would turn into a giant wolf and eat you. Joseph tells me this declaration or announcement or what have you requires more mention of Loki, and he is correct, so I shall rectify my error in excluding him immediately. [IMG]http://img89.imageshack.us/img89/4773/lokistonehd6.jpg[/IMG] I love his villainous mustache, don't you? [/QUOTE]

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