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Old 07-31-2006, 03:04 PM
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Re: [RPG]: Faery's Tale, reviewed by grandmaster_cain (4/5)

I don't know if the printout issues were an acrobat problem, or the fact that we were using an older-model laser printer. I will say that my Kinko's copy had the mysterious vanishing "Y" issue, where the lower-case y's in the fiction sections refused to print, no matter what they did. Nobody else has reported anything like it, so I'm inclined to think that it was a glitch on their part. The second printout, while slow, didn't have anything resembling this problem.

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Interesting. I definitely expected pixies to be the most familiar type of faery to most people not versed in faery folklore, but I didn't consciously try to reflect that in the rules. It's just that while other fey magic has some basis in folklore, and therefore some inherent limits, pixie dust seems to get used for almost everything in the source material (admittedly, more movies & stories than folklore, in this case). So to be true to the sources folks would be coming at Faery's Tale from, pixie dust in the game also had to be pretty flexible.
I see where you're coming from. It's just that when you put out future supplements (and you better! ) you'll need to really punch up the folklore and cultural references for the other three types of faeries. Tinkerbell and the butterfly-winged type are just too popular as is.
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