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Originally Posted by Sirharrok
Daughters of Darkness, in my opinion, was just plain bad from start to finish. It was, in my opinion, an utterly uninspired piece of work. I can't imagine what Avalon Hill/Chaosium were thinking -- did they have no other RuneQuest manuscripts to hand? Why didn't they use the slot in their list to publish more Gloranthan based adventures, rather than this shoddy piece of work and endless, repetitive lists of troll gods?
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Actually our opinions on it are actually not that different. The lack of
insipiration is quite evident, and it was a terrible production, but the actual scenarios - from actual play (and it may be possible I'm one of the few people in the world who has actually run this pack) - do actually work.
You're absolutely spot on about the lack of decent support that AH gave to Glorantha. In the first several years there were two decent products for Alternate Earth (Vikings, Nippon), and four for Glorantha (Gods, Genertala, Bestiary, Elder Secrers) the rest were reprints (albeit some classics) and useless material.
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Originally Posted by JRM
Thanks Lev, the extra detail clears things up - it'd have been nice to have included it in the review!
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Hey! From the first paragraph:
The peninsula map is both quite unpleasing to the eye and geographically quite improbable, and half the city map is effectively blank space, either river or undetailed land outside the city walls. The various building and village layouts are quite acceptable. The writing is of average quality and the layout is a rather dull two-column text throughout.
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I don't recall the binding of my copy of Daughters being any worse than any other products, but then I never subjected it to any vigorous use... or any use at all. For an official RuneQuest book, I would rate it one of the least inspiring.
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The binding seems to be a very cheap glue that peels off once any significant use is applied (I didn't seem to mention this in the review, but I did include it in my 'style' rating. My bad.)
There's some pretty stiff competition for the worst thing that AH released for RQ... The pad of Human Adventurer Sheets, the slightly more useful Non-Human Sheets, Elderard... Troll Gods wasn't too
bad as such, it just had very marginal utility...
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Originally Posted by Ranyart Finn
In fact, I've seen cigarette lighters being auctioned with a free copy of DoD attached. I'm sure that all this rabid burning of the book is keeping an entire small-press unit in business, y'know. I'd have thought all copies would have been burned by now, but every year, without fail, another crops up for sacrifice...
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I have two copies...