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Not entirely happy with this game. Very inconsistent tone, maybe partly to blame on the translation, and tone is so important in a PbtA game to make the marriage of fiction and function work right. A lot of questionable word choice in the translation too, but the underlying text is often wordy and talks around an idea instead of expressing it concisely.

Not at all impressed by “magically twisted = ugly = evil” being the central tension of one class. The design is good in a lot of the rules, but the class Moves feel like the weakest part.

Each story adds to a strange, self-referential world of animals that are an odd mix of people and animals—young pigs wear coats and are warned about being bought for bacon, kittens are put in Sunday best while running around on four feet, mice make dresses from cloth scraps and keep city manners while other mice go naked without comment. Endearing, a little weird… and very of its time.

Standard Ebooks just published this Beatrix Potter collection. Beautifully-assembled files, as usual.

That was fun.

This really should be listed as 1.5 in the series, not 0.5. I think that's a Goodreads librarian error. Though it's young Cam and Palamedes, it's being written/related by Camilla after the events of Gideon the Ninth.

I just discovered this Locked Tomb short story exists! This is worth a short detour from Tress of the Emerald Sea.