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Old 01-12-2007, 02:50 PM
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Re: [RPG]: Fantasy Imperium, reviewed by Dirk Vandereyken (3/4)

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Originally Posted by Lars Dangly View Post
I just checked out the web site on this game and was really put off by the Avalanche Press style art, bazzilion-page combat example and massive character sheet. Honestly, it looks like a slow, complicated version of Harnmaster. Is this an unfair impression?
I don't know.

However, I just read "How To Design an Adventure" and "How To Tell A Story."

Basically, IMEO, they are 1) content-wise, pretty much the same and 2) somebody taking the first chapter of a textbook from an introductory creative writing course and summarizing it while sprinkling in RPG-isms and irrelevant illustrations.

So far, Fantasy Imperium looks like "Just the same old fantasy heartbreaker that somebody has appended some writing class notes onto and thinks it's original."
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