What you get: Your EUR 93,99 or USD 106,99 or GBP 79,99 will buy you the full-colour 384-page Kult: Divinity Lost 4th Edition - Black Edition, the collector's edition main rulebook of the Kult: Divinity Lost game line in both hardcover and pdf format. The book boasts an integrated gold cloth bookmark.
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The production values are as high as one would expect from a collector's edition. The black cloth cover makes the book feel as an old, musty tome that was recently rediscovered. The subtly engraved Kaballah drawing of the ten Sephirot gives it an eerie feeling, even though they are not their original Jewish selves and they have been substituted by in-game ideograms and emblems. The golden cloth bookmark is as gorgeous as it is handy; I can hardly read rulebooks nowadays when they don't contain one. If you get this special edition don't expose it to dusty places. It is a rather hard book to clean.
The art is as visceral and horrifying as the rest of the book. There are images of male and female nudity, even though they are masked with shadows or the presentation of asexuality, mutilation, of violent and extremely painful body alterations, and other disturbing pieces of almost every possible nature, like truly mortifying monstrosities, Giger-like technohuman crossbreeds and more. I say 'almost'. It came to my attention that the original kickstarter pdf and rulebook were even more hardcore than that, something I was able to verify myself through the help of a friend. The initial, uncensored imagery of the pdf and the rulebook that the kickstarter backers received was full of male and female genitals (relaxed, in full erection, or mutilated), and other imagery that went beyond suggestion, like a man-on-man blowjob. Some of these have been slightly covered, while others have been purged from the text without being substituted by other images. I admit I am perplexed and disappointed by the alterations. Kult does not hide its nature; it's a mature game requiring very mature players and gamemasters. I don't mind it coming out with less or more graphic images, yet having it come out one way for kickstarter backers, and then providing a slightly more sanitized version for the mass market is the wrong path to take. 2ff7e9595c
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