I was attracted to this roleplaying game by my love of Jack Vance's works. It does make a fair stab of recreating the worlds of the 'Demon Princes'; the premise of the game is that the characters are pursuing a star-villain of the ilk of the Demon Princes. This is one of the newer schools of RPGs, where the players and GM collaborate to create a reality with specific transactional rules involving meta-'tokens'. It's a more investigative game than blaster-wielding. An interesting, but to me ultimately unsatisfying inclusion is a number of Vancean quotes with which the players are encouraged to pepper their characters' dialogue. Interesting but not for me. ( )