12-29-2011, 04:40 AM
I'd like to a see bigger review by him, though! 
But on the game, yeah, he's right, it's a goddamn shame.
C7 is pretty much a good company, with Victoriana being a de-facto Ravenloft successor, so my hopes were pretty high.
But what motivated them to publish this lame duck of an RPG, I do not know...
Frankly, for me, I have this problem:
All RPGs I truly like are from the 80s or 90s, or clones and reeditions (Dragon Warriors, for example).
To start a new group with people that all have access to the same bunch of books is getting increasingly difficult,
the last time that happened being my New World of Darkness campaign.
But now, apart from some really obscure stuff, there is no generic RPG system that I can tell my players to buy.
TOR would have been one such thing - simple system, relatively well-known setting, etc.
And instead, we get what I would classify as an absolute can.
The level of my bumming, it is considerable.
Pathfinder doesn't really catch my interest (something that led to really awkward moments between me an Mr Mona at Ropecon, btw), the WOD games are all naaah, and the new Warhammer, both FRP and 40k requires you pretty much to play in the canonical setting.
But a rather generic fantasy RPG, usable for conventional or homebrew settings, there's simply none.
But on the game, yeah, he's right, it's a goddamn shame.
C7 is pretty much a good company, with Victoriana being a de-facto Ravenloft successor, so my hopes were pretty high.
But what motivated them to publish this lame duck of an RPG, I do not know...
Frankly, for me, I have this problem:
All RPGs I truly like are from the 80s or 90s, or clones and reeditions (Dragon Warriors, for example).
To start a new group with people that all have access to the same bunch of books is getting increasingly difficult,
the last time that happened being my New World of Darkness campaign.
But now, apart from some really obscure stuff, there is no generic RPG system that I can tell my players to buy.
TOR would have been one such thing - simple system, relatively well-known setting, etc.
And instead, we get what I would classify as an absolute can.
The level of my bumming, it is considerable.
Pathfinder doesn't really catch my interest (something that led to really awkward moments between me an Mr Mona at Ropecon, btw), the WOD games are all naaah, and the new Warhammer, both FRP and 40k requires you pretty much to play in the canonical setting.
But a rather generic fantasy RPG, usable for conventional or homebrew settings, there's simply none.