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My point exactly!And since there are going to be haters, you should do whatever you think would be best for the game!
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My point exactly!And since there are going to be haters, you should do whatever you think would be best for the game!
I put some thought into various kinds of adaptations. If I was going to adapt the series for, say, a prestige HBO series, I would massively tone down the sexual violence and replace it largely with the cannibalism that comes into play towards the end.
It's not just about politics. Some material is not appropriate for some venues. That's why nobody is clamoring for a pornstar RPG. Do you really want to be in a session where a PC gets raped by a Skin Spy but can't help but enjoy it? I think there are very few groups that would feel comfortable having that happen at the table. Would you want to read out box text about Sranc copulating with corpses? Just say no!
And can you imagine that as a TV series? It's one thing when it's in a book, but let's be honest...you'd have sickos beating off to that stuff.
Sometimes we get caught up so much in the politics of the moment that we can lose track of the basics. I'm not a prude - you notice that I really enjoyed these books. But I wouldn't want to see a faithful TV version of Prince of Nothing with my human eyeballs. And I wouldn't want to play out some of those book incidents at the table.
I was thinking about it and one issue is that a lot of the character types would be hard to balance. Balance can be overrated, but you've got the classic Jedi PC problem here. The Dunyain, in particular, would be extremely hard to know how to play and probably too OP for a lot of situations. Sorcerers are also extremely powerful. I'd definitely leave the Logos for NPCs only, and sorcerers would probably come with a bunch of caveats about how you might need to run a troupe of sorcerers like Ars Magica. You can only have so many Chorae in play before it starts to feel deliberately nerfed.
It depends if you want people online to hate your game for creating yet another system for a licensed property instead of using one of the perfectly good ones in existence, or if you want people to hate it for trying to cram a licensed property into a pre-existing system. The choice is yours!
I would not try to suggest that nobody whatsoever would be interested in such a game. But it would be very niche. I don’t see a strict adaptation as a savage worlds product, for instance.What you consider appropriate for an RPG and what other people consider appropriate...might vary significantly.
I am familiar with French horror, and I could see that. I don’t know French TV at all but I’m earnestly surprised that this would be suitable.Yes.
Probably a French one.
You'd be even more surprised how many downloads some of those games had got, then!I would not try to suggest that nobody whatsoever would be interested in such a game. But it would be very niche. I don’t see a strict adaptation as a savage worlds product, for instance.
Well, I can't say anything about the TV. I was actually assuming some restricted cable channel might air it, though.I am familiar with French horror, and I could see that. I don’t know French TV at all but I’m earnestly surprised that this would be suitable.
Extreme, yes. I've never argued that!Look, it might be a bit much to say this is entirely non-political, but I think this stuff would be considered pretty extreme at most points in history and geography that I’m familiar with. I’m not really saying anything much more than that.
They're more than you suspect, I believe.It’s fine if some folks have outre tastes for role-playing.
Definitely not. If anything, all that changes is who's pushing restrictions, IMO.I just don’t think the politics and cultural sensibilities are as much of-the-moment as it may seem.
Probably. I've never lived there!This material would have been even more controversial in the US during the 80s given the Satanic Panic, for example.
That is awesome...I hope Elminster was salted mid-lecture.Anyhow - it immediately put all the Arcane casters on notice when I salted Khelben Blackstaff, Elminster, the Sisters, oh so fun!
I certainly hope so! I have major trouble finding anyone for anything other than 5e.They're more than you suspect, I believe.
Odds are it was actually mid-courting the newest goddess in the FR, from what I've heard!That is awesome...I hope Elminster was salted mid-lecture.
Re-reading my all-time favorite "military" novel, Catch-22, a book that, along with Animal Farm and a few others, has done much to shape my worldview. I've had this copy since I was around 20.
I really like the early short stories and novellas of Evenson but I haven't read this one although I have it.
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This is the one I'm actually reading right now. It has some of the same problems as "Last Days," with unnecessarily repetitive and mundane scenes. I got it at the same time as "Last Days," but it will probably be my last Evenson purchase, unless it gets a lot better near the end.
Check out his short stories, I think his style is better suited to shorter forms, his early work is also more overtly shocking/horror.
It's very interesting stuff, but be prepared that the last two books take things in very different directions, if I recall properly. If you're like me, the reason it didn't totally click is because Simmons is a bit too much in love with his ideas, and the characters sometimes seem a little thin (if not quite afterthoughts).I just read the first two volumes of the Hyperion Cantos - Hyperion and Fall of Hyperion.
Swapping between "The Long Lost Friend" (research for a game), and superhero stories of various sorts. Notably reading recent Spenser run on Amazing Spider-man and being generally happy with his handling of wall-crawler.
I have read "The Long Lost Friend" many times. I own a few different copies from various time periods. I first found out about it a few decades ago when I found Manly Wade Wellman's "Silver John" stories.
I'll note, I wrote to Kurt Busiek on Twitter, about the Astro City collection, "Broken Melody", and an old west character Silverstring mentioned briefly before being murdered. Thinking there was an obvious connection to Wellman's books, which he confirmed for me.
I sought out "The Long Lost Friend," as a resource for a character I'm planning on playing in a future game. (But also to have to draw upon for my own writings.) I think it will be a really useful reference for the "Righteous Men" in my Old West Horror game I'd like to do as well.
I initially thought you were talking about the most recent two. The series has typically struggled with its antagonists after Mao and Erinnwright.They are passably good action-adventure although I thought the villains in both were a bit two-dimensional - just evil personified in various ways.
I’ve just read this, too. I think he is probably my favourite living fantasy author.I just finished Sharp Ends, which is a short story collection from Joe Abercrombie's Circle of the World setting. Excellent stuff
I’ve just read this, too. I think he is probably my favourite living fantasy author.
Just a shame that there aren’t any new, full books at the moment. Sharp Ends was a great read, but not as meaty as his usual stuff by virtue of being short stories.
I do love how his books have moved on to the second tier characters from the first series. Makes the world very rich and nuanced.
Yes, reading his blog the first book is approaching print-ready and the other two are written in draft format. The plan is to release in 2019-20-21.I understand the first book of a new trilogy will be published this September.
Karl Edgar Wagner's Kane novels and Neal Stephenson's Fall. I am looking for the Kensho series by Dennis Schmidt; I read it when I was 11-12 and hope it's held up over the years.
I am disappointed that I did not discover Karl Edgar Wagner or Clark Ashton Smith until my 40's.Karl Edgar Wagner deserves more recognition as one of the best fantasy writers of his era.