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Topic ID: 61
Message ID: 47
#47, RE: The Psi Corp is your friend
Posted by Laudre on Aug-05-01 at 00:41 AM
In response to message #44
>>Earthdawn in the World of Insufficient Light.
>>
>>Um, pass.
>
>(snicker) Not a World of Darkness fan, I take it?
>
>Seriously, I can see why. I'm not really one either, except for
>Hunter. Although I picked up the Exalted Limited Edition
>last week, and the tone's not really the same. I might try
>Earthdawn one of these days.

...Hunter?

You like Hunter?

So you're the one buying all of that crap.

(For those who don't quite grok the tone, I loathe Hunter. It's a game about ordinary people fighting supernatural beings... by gaining supernatural powers. And the game goes on and on about the high mortality rate among Hunters, but everything in it supports characters who live quite a long time. Ugh. I'd love to find The Hunters Hunted, but it doesn't look like it'll happen anytime soon. That was a game that got it right.)

Earthdawn... there's a lot of things I rather like about the setting, but the first edition is severely flawed. I have yet to see the second edition, but I'm hoping it'll be... y'know... coherent.

Exalted... I haven't yet read the book itself; I'm waiting for the unlimited edition. But the art is lush, what I've read of the setting is wildly imaginative (and it is far, far more intense than Earthdawn; Earthdawn is epic fantasy with a somewhat unusual set of humans in funny clothes, and some fancy terminology; Exalted is pretty damn far from traditional epic fantasy, and a lot more alien), and it's a prequel to the World of Darkness, not really set in it, either tone-wise or thematically.

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