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I picked up the TORG book because I was interested, having not actually played or did much with TORG before, just to find out it's got some bizarre card draw system? It wasn't entirely clear on whether the game worked well without the cards or if there was some way to substitute out the special cards for something else but whatever, no big deal. I was extremely amused when I opened it and saw a table explaining the status tokens or whatever and saw my favorite status effect in history: Stymied, followed by its bigger brother, Very Stymied. I also picked up Embers of the Forgotten Kingdom because I was interested in the theme and art, and I'm pretty happy with that purchase because it's giving me some inspiration for running a D&D game at some point. When I bought it I didn't realize it was just a lore/setting fluff book and had no mechanics to it but I'm not bothered by it. I am however bothered by the fact that after digging into the setting lore a bit it sounds like the setting's royalty has been based on centuries and centuries of incest? I suppose that's the risk of buying Kickstarted books though.
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Ilor posted:Oh, so it's England, then. I mean true but at least in old timey royalty they were mostly just marrying cousins and poo poo. According to the lore of this setting the same fae queen has been in power for centuries and the human kings have been countless generations of her own children. The eldest son becomes king then his son becomes king but the queen is always the same person so there sure is a lot of hosed up family relations going on. Like it's dropped in there as an afterthought so I think the writers didn't realize the implication? Either that or it's supposed to be mitigated by the fact that they have this whole ritual where the new king gets burned up in a fire and rises from the ashes so I guess he might technically be reincarnated as a different person? But then one of the kings who is a major plot character is referred to by the same name both before and after he takes the throne so that implies he's exactly the same and look it's weird. Basically RPGs are gross and we're all stained by association. I really like the dark soulsesque setting though and the weirdness just makes it more alien I guess.
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