I'm looking at a HârnWorld sourcebook, and near the beginning is the rarest of things to find in a #TTRPG sourcebook.
"CURRENT EVENTS
There is no reason to believe that the several centuries of peace and prosperity that Melderyn has enjoyed are about to be threatened."
HârnWorld is the exemplar of a beautifully detailed setting that I have a hard time imagining using in play. Though it's actually easier to imagine than some, just that it would have to be a very different vibe than I've ever seen in play. Like, seriously roleplaying peasants and artisans in a medieval village.
@foolishowl
i looked at a big compilation of short+form fan-made adventures set in Harn once, and a bunch of them were just like, "i will dangle the possibility of Adventures in front of you, and if you do any of them you will be fined!! and flogged!!"
so even the fan community seemed to struggle with this
@foolishowl
like, there was no alternative action implied
the PCs (in the context of that book) were assumed to still be some kind of vagrant jumping on plot hooks, but all the plot hooks just led to "being a vagrant is bad, you will be punished" or "how dare you assume the world is interesting, you waste hours doing useless things as a result"