Your Pun-Fu is Mighty (If in Poor Taste)

[woodwardiocom]

-So, one of the latest supplements for the Silver Age Sentinels superhero RPG is Roll Call 3: Country Matters. It's a selection of characters from around the world -- i.e., from different countries. And they're all female.

(Some of you are now going, "Uh-oh.")

-The title comes from Hamlet, Act 3:

Hamlet: Lady, shall I lie in your lap?
Ophelia: No, my lord.
Hamlet: I mean, my head in your lap.
Ophelia: Ay, my lord.
Hamlet: Did you think I meant country matters?

-Now, Shakespeare was not above a pun or two. This being a largely PG-rated LJ, I'm not going to spell it out. But, I suspect someone at Guardians of Order (the publishers of SAS) just snuck a very derogatory title for a book of female characters past all their editors.

Comments

[jadasc.livejournal.com]

Snuck? I can't imagine they didn't know.

Then again, I couldn't imagine that Dream Pod didn't check the name Tribe 8 before assigning it to their RPG, so what do I know?

[woodwardiocom.livejournal.com]

I can't imagine they didn't know.

-I dunno, I've seen amazing levels of incompetence in this industry. (Only from publishers who don't write me checks, of course.)

[metalfatigue]

I'm only two degrees of separation from most of the staff of GoO...next time I see them I'll try to remember to ask them about that.