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Old 06-08-2018, 09:38 AM   #34
Apollonian
 
Join Date: Aug 2004
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Default Re: Mood or Tone of the 'Dungeon Fantasy' setting, world...

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Originally Posted by Kromm View Post
Whether any of these things really speak to a setting (rather than a genre treatment) is a whole other matter. The setting is more akin to that of post-apocalyptic sci-fi movies, where only the brave heroes ever leave the relative security of the ratty, thug-infested settlements – usually so they can go out into the wastelands and search for "loot" (fuel, ammo, still-working tech, etc.), which inevitably means fighting mutants and zombies.
My own DF game, though set in a fantasy 15th century Switzerland, owes an awful lot to my playthroughs of Fallout 4.
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