…I can explain.
It’s actually not that complicated. My wife was checking to see if there was a new TALES OF TWO RULERS book out. There was not. But there was the Curvy Cryptids Monster Manual and Adventure!- 5e D&D Compatible Game Book!, and the concept sung to something in my soul. Specifically, the part of my soul that is contemplating telling our DM that this should be our next adventure before Spelljammer. Just to see his expression.
The book itself is very well put together, too. Good-quality glossy paper and a nice layout. Worth picking up, if you’re into this sort of thing.
Blink
Blink
Squick
Ew.
You deserve to have dice thrown at you.
You don’t have to hate just because it’s not what you’re into. It’s not hurting anyone.
FATAL is not improved by adding a gloss of yaaas queen slay.
I guarantee you that thing is not any sort of descendant of FATAL.
And yet, you offer no specifics supporting that guarantee.
The parallels are obvious.
Specifics:
– It doesn’t have nearly the same level of EDGE.
– The production quality, and the quality of the art in particular suggests that it was not made by two angry nerds in a basement.
– FATAL had a huge thing about, not just sex, but degrading women in sexual ways. I refuse to reference any of it directly, because it was *awful*, but if you know enough to be referencing FATAL at all, you ought to know what I’m talking about. In this, the female creatures are, by and large, smiling. They show a degree of character and intelligence. “Swimming in degradation” this is not.
– “Create the worlds greatest cryptid bikini calendar”. From the sounds of things, the cryptids in question may be dangerous, but the objective is not to hunt them down and kill them, let alone anything more unsavory. There’s a decent chance that the adventure doesn’t have any actual sex in it at all – possibly not even any nudity.
I was going to say something but then I remembered that I have a copy of Steve Jackson’s SPANC! (Space Pirate Amazon Ninja Catgirls) around here somewhere and the only excuse I have is that it was a gift. Although it is illustrated by Phil Foglio…
Lovingly illustrated by Phil Foglio, even. Back when my wife and I had housemates, we’d play that on game nights sometimes.