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<blockquote data-quote="jian" data-source="post: 9810197" data-attributes="member: 78087"><p>Just read <strong>Crystal Heart</strong>, a graphic novel that is basically the collection for the <a href="https://www.uptofourplayers.com/crystal-heart-rpg/" target="_blank">webcomic</a> of the same name, which in turn is all about the Savage Worlds <a href="https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/281539/crystal-heart" target="_blank">RPG</a> of the same name from Up to Four Players. The comic is basically an actual play and an excellent representation of running and playing in a Crystal Heart campaign.</p><p></p><p>The book is quite enjoyable in itself but it also answers some questions I had about the setting, some of which I feel should have been more explicit from the beginning. </p><p></p><p>[SPOILER="Spoilers for the game setting"]</p><p>For instance, it was quite noticeable that the setting is split into five very stratified nations with cliched ethnicities and cultures - dour fierce Eastern Europeans, clever arrogant Scandinavians, laissez-faire Pacific Islanders, proud boastful Africans, noble nomadic Plains Indians - and it’s never explained until quite late that this is both a lampshading of similar cliches in fantasy and an actual magical feature of the setting. For instance, if a Maseian (Plains Indian) has a child with a Bogovian (Eastern European), the child will clearly be of one ethnicity of another, not a mixture - the Kermit and Miss Piggy rule, as it were (at least from The Muppet Christmas Carol). Yes, there are some unfortunate implications there.</p><p>[/SPOILER]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jian, post: 9810197, member: 78087"] Just read [B]Crystal Heart[/B], a graphic novel that is basically the collection for the [URL='https://www.uptofourplayers.com/crystal-heart-rpg/']webcomic[/URL] of the same name, which in turn is all about the Savage Worlds [URL='https://www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/281539/crystal-heart']RPG[/URL] of the same name from Up to Four Players. The comic is basically an actual play and an excellent representation of running and playing in a Crystal Heart campaign. The book is quite enjoyable in itself but it also answers some questions I had about the setting, some of which I feel should have been more explicit from the beginning. [SPOILER="Spoilers for the game setting"] For instance, it was quite noticeable that the setting is split into five very stratified nations with cliched ethnicities and cultures - dour fierce Eastern Europeans, clever arrogant Scandinavians, laissez-faire Pacific Islanders, proud boastful Africans, noble nomadic Plains Indians - and it’s never explained until quite late that this is both a lampshading of similar cliches in fantasy and an actual magical feature of the setting. For instance, if a Maseian (Plains Indian) has a child with a Bogovian (Eastern European), the child will clearly be of one ethnicity of another, not a mixture - the Kermit and Miss Piggy rule, as it were (at least from The Muppet Christmas Carol). Yes, there are some unfortunate implications there. [/SPOILER] [/QUOTE]
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