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Grounded 2 reminded me: sometimes, no world matches our own as a setting for a game


Middle-earth? Azeroth? Nirn? Thedas? They are nice worlds but there's one that's usually always better.

In order to survive the game, you'll need to fight insects and harvest their parts for armour and food, a bit like a micro version of Monster Hunter but with base building, which I now realise is a much better reference for 2025. There's a reason celebrated fantasy authors like JRR Tolkien and George RR Martin only detail pockets of their worlds and then only roughly sketch the rest, because it would take a life's work to even scratch the surface of what would be involved. Eat the Reich is a ridiculous tabletop role-playing game about being a group of vampire commandos dropped (in metal coffins) into Paris in 1944, and tasked with killing Nazis and drinking Hitler's blood.

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