Still, there are also some high points in the future Unavowed additionally being light on puzzles in quantity and quality doesn't help, either. I mean.damn, this scene and the endgame are like the ending of the Blackwell series all over again Sad, since Dave Gilbert seems to have been especially passionate about this one :/ I bought and got a WEG adventure, but it's definitely not their best one, not even close to it. I don't think the game as a whole is horribad, but ok-ish with lots of wasted potential. I also think (and guess after actually seeing the scenes in context quite a few would agree) that complaints about WEG going full fauxgressive because of Art's seduction (Demons tempting mortals into sex for nefarious ends? Never heard that one before! DAMN YOU, SOCIAL JUSTICE!) and Vicki's gaslighting comment (Wasn't some YOU GO GRRL moment against a strawman macho swine, but directed at Harrison, who quite literally, if unintentionally, manipulated her into thinking she is going crazy) were oversensitive knee-jerk reactions.īut then this scene and the absolutely underwhelming payoff of the MORAL DILEMMAS during end game stand out in memory as the absolute low points of the game, dragging the rest down with them. Instead this of all MORAL DILEMMAS in the game is a 'but thou must' moment.įrankly speaking, I didn't share too many of the grievances aired in this thread before this update, mostly because some of those are questions that get answered later in the game or because they concern details where I am fine with ambiguity. Especially with the much tauted RPG INFLUENCE this would have been THE opportunity to have meaningful choices and consequences in the game, with the effects of Kalash living or dieing rippling throughout the rest of the game. It tries to set up a good 'forced to kill a friend after exhausting every reasonable alternative' situation, but instead ends up with a bad 'forced to kill a friend, despite there being a myriad possible alternatives which you aren't allowed to even try to pursue, because DRAMA'. Whatever the case, fact is this scene is terrible. Unless wishes granted by a jinn have to be fueled by someones death, so Kalash's wish would be fueled by Galene? Then again, I guess you could argue that nowhere is it specified that the winner's wish must be granted through use of the wish crystal, but then why didn't Kalash simply wish Eli/Mandana back to headquarters instead of wlaking into a trap. So either Kalash dies (as happens) or Kalash wins and then either violates clause 4 by not getting his wish granted or dies afterwards to fuel the wish, but still violates clause 4, since he can't make his wish when he's dead (if he can make it beforehand, he's just dead in this case clever devil!). We learn from Kalash himself that the wish is fueled by his own death. Not loophole abuse, but a sign that perhaps Kalash is an incompetent jinn: I did mention it is obnoxious ruleslawyering? They are under threat of harm unless a demand by their captor is met, not people deprived of their freedom as punishment for a crime they committed. Even better, if you want to get really literal, Mandana and Eli are hostages, not prisoners. Whereas the combatants are specified by name, the prisoners aren't, so who is to say prisoners refers to Mandana and Eli? Thus striking ANY deathblow, even against non-combatants, should make one the winner of the duel. It only mentions one of the combatants being dead, but nothing about the cause. Clause 2 doesn't define the deathblow for later reference like clause 1 defines the combatants. The deathblow in clause 3 only implicitly refers to the death ending the incarceration in clause 2. My problem is more with the fact that if we accept this as a valid loophole, there are some more ambiguities ripe for obnoxious rules lawyer abuse: Obviously not intended this way, but that's what being a literal genie excuse me, jinn is all about. Nowhere does it specify that the winner has to be one of the combatants. I don't actually have a problem with the loophole per se (have none of you ever encountered an asshole literal genie during a PnP game?). It would even still have been loophole abuse, just with killing the other combatant! because I bought into the CHOICES AND CONSEQUENCES marketing hype and thought there must be a way to save Kalash. I spent quite a bit of time trying to stab that face, scratching the magic symbols etc. A hotspot of 'Galene's face' or similar appearing above the roots of the leftmost tree whenever Galene was disintegrated did not help matters.
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