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Character Creation: Blue Rose
Feb. 12th, 2010 12:58 pmI should really be doing my readings for my group project today, but no! Procrastination sits on my right shoulder, whispering sweet nothings in my ear, so instead of reading of the horrors of slavery, I'm making a character. So be it.
I have here in front of me Green Ronin's Blue Rose game. I own it, though I've never really done much with it. I greatly appreciate its existence, frankly. I like a lot of the literary inspiration for the game, especially the Robin McKinley books The Blue Sword and The Hero and the Crown (which is how they go chronologically, but were published in reverse order). Those are two of my favorite books of all time, frankly, and a system that would let me run them happily is a system I would hug and love and make mine forever.
The problem I have with the setting of Blue Rose, however, is that it's not really much like those books at all. It's far closer to Mercedes Lackey's Valdemar -- which has its good points, but isn't the inspiration I wanted. It's all a little too... gah. Good, I guess. I like a bit more dark mixed in, a touch more of a central point on the alignment charts. That said, there's nothing actually wrong with it, and as I read through the setting information and grudgingly let go of what I really wanted it to already be, I found that I was all right with what it was. ( Azure petals beckon... (and lord, isn't that pretentious of me) )
I have here in front of me Green Ronin's Blue Rose game. I own it, though I've never really done much with it. I greatly appreciate its existence, frankly. I like a lot of the literary inspiration for the game, especially the Robin McKinley books The Blue Sword and The Hero and the Crown (which is how they go chronologically, but were published in reverse order). Those are two of my favorite books of all time, frankly, and a system that would let me run them happily is a system I would hug and love and make mine forever.
The problem I have with the setting of Blue Rose, however, is that it's not really much like those books at all. It's far closer to Mercedes Lackey's Valdemar -- which has its good points, but isn't the inspiration I wanted. It's all a little too... gah. Good, I guess. I like a bit more dark mixed in, a touch more of a central point on the alignment charts. That said, there's nothing actually wrong with it, and as I read through the setting information and grudgingly let go of what I really wanted it to already be, I found that I was all right with what it was. ( Azure petals beckon... (and lord, isn't that pretentious of me) )
