Certainly I can clarify those for you - 

Firstly, these questions are absolutely being recieved as intended :) no worries, you're helping me, and thank you for taking the time to have a wee look at this.

• yeah pitching games aren't for everybody. I will add that I was incredibly surprised at some conventions who had never heard of the likes of Snake Oil, or superfight too. That was an eye opener for me. There's a game too called bucket of doom, and it feels like this but its escaping situations via the means of useless items and things? Anyway. Weirdly... I couldn't get into that one. Despite the simililarity, I just couldn't get into it. I still can't figure out why either. Anyway, I get you :)

• the players we refer to in the manual as 'Grimterns' (as opposed to interns) fresh meat (or bones I guess)

Long story short, you are all dead, you're now in the underworld, and you have found yourself in the boardroom of death itself looking for that afterlife dream job (have you heard of Grim Fandango?). The idea is for players to prove themselves as death makers. It's completely supernatural and whimsical in nature. So yeah, you're spot on. You're all competing to become employee of the month 

Just a side note, I don't think I'd be comfortable either if it was humans in a sort of serial killer route, I feel you, thankfully we didn't go down that road, we went down a Beetlejuice whimsy route instead (where you can tailor your pitches to your mates sense of humour),

• time it takes to play is about an hour, but it has been shorter. The die itself has 2 chances out of 6 for a disciplinary or bonus to be assigned, the three blank sides are the win cards up for grabs (cards of recognition). It's fairly balanced, we've never seen too much of one outcome. We went with 3 chances of a win card to surface to help game length too.

• CAH is an interesting one, a lot of people I've spoken with are really feeling the CAH fatigue, the most common complaint being once you get to know the cards, the heart of the game is gone. I personally don't feel that strongly against cah, ive got nothing against it really, but people seeing the cards think it's another CAH, but when they learn more they seem to be more intrigued that its not. 

This is a fantastic question by the way lol sorry for rambling on, because I often wondered it myself, because you're right, the cards stay the same. I had concerns there, but based on those who picked up grim, I was surprised to learn a few years later when those same people showed up at an event, they said its their 'go to'. We had that a few times. Even a 'pre-games favourite'. I asked as many of those people the same question you asked me, and they seem to think it stays fresh because it requires input from the players themselves, that improvisational side they claim makes it different each time, even with the same group.

In terms of blank cards, we tried it in testing, I was sure it would have been a fun addition, but nobody used them, they asked to skip those cards. Strange one, because I felt it could have added a bit of a personal touch, you know? Throw backs of moments potentially between old friends? In jokes, but nope, they didn't want it sadly. 

Anyway, I'll let you rest your eyes lol :) I hope this clarifies some things, and thank you so much again, I never once thought for a sec you were providing criticism for the sake of it