Some dude about playing Amber
Some dude on the Internet wrote the following about playing Amber:
Here’s a recipe for making yourself really miserable in ADRPG: Go in with a character that you enjoy because of his physical and mental abilities.
Here’s a recipe for making yourself really happy in ADRPG: Go in with a character that you enjoy because of the way they view their family members.
This game, more than (almost) any I’ve seen supports talking about other people: to their face, behind their back, eulogizing them, praising them, pitching them as prospects for the throne, using them as bogeymen to scare your rivals … and so on, ad infinitum.
That game, where you’re in a very constrained family with all sorts of powerful and abrasive personalities, is fun. The other game, where you’re a trans-dimensional ass-kicker but the GM randomly decides that you don’t have a strong enough grip to hang on to the back of a bucking black dragon, is really frustrating.
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