[RPG]: Charognards, reviewed by Sammael99 (5/5)

[RPGnet Reviews]

http://www.rpg.net/reviews/archive/11/11648.phtml

Ben FELTEN's Summary:

An amazing post-apocalyptic game that makes full use of the graphic possibilities of the PDF, and provides an atmospheric setting as well as a light, tactical and robust system. A must buy if you can read French.

Go to the full review (http://www.rpg.net/reviews/archive/11/11648.phtml) for more information.

[SteelCaress]

Just felt I had to point that out. I found it refreshing, for my own part, to play in a shattered Europe, when I played Hawkmoon. I live in America, but (A) it's disturbing to think of the place you live in ruins, and (B) most Gamma World editions (GW Alternity notwithstanding) and Horseclans used distorted regional names that probably meant something to someone who lived on the East Coast, but meant absolutely jack to me. I could pick out some of the larger metropolitan areas, but those distortions lose their charm when you don't have any frame of reference to them. Gamma World Alternity was set in the NorthWest, which I'm a lot more familiar with, having lived there for 34+ years.

Thanks for the review, though. We need more "light yet robust" systems; maybe someone will take rules-lite systems seriously enough to finally give them the recognition (and sales) they deserve! The game sounds like it has definite possibilities.

[Thunder_God]

Is this book available in English? And if so, where.

[Sammael99]

Is this book available in English? And if so, where.

It isn't as of yet, but I know the author is thinking about it.

To be honest, I can't see it being an easy translation. The tone is so specific that any attempt at a literal (or close to literal) translation is doomed to fail. A rewrite in English is really what's needed...