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Old 05-19-2007, 12:03 PM
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Re: [RPG]: ORX: Nasty, Brutish & Short, reviewed by C.W.Richeson (1/3)

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Originally Posted by torbenm View Post
The name of this game is very close to Columbia Games' HarnMaster supplement "Nasty, Brutish and Short -- The Orcs of Harn". It is probably unintentional (both deriving from Thomas Hobbes' observation about the lives of men), but it is a bit unfortunate.
That's exactly where it came from. I found out about the Harnmaster supplement a couple years after I had placed a playtest version up on the web for comment. A bit unfortunate, agreed, but at that point I wasn't going to change the name since the name was carrying a big chunk of the premise (as well as being related to the names of the Stats: Nasty. Brute. Grok (most orcs are a bit short on Grok)).

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The game sounds fun, though, in a Toon-like way.
Thanks! I certainly think it is, and the folks who play it seem to like it. I've actually never played Toon, so I have no comparison there; I would say it has a Paranoia-like vibe to it.
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