What are you reading in 2024?

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

you can currently buy the 1977 version on sale on Prime for $4.99.....it's tempting, but I can't imagine watching it over and over.

It's a great nostalgic background movie to toss on. Classic Glenn Yarbrough soundtrack, classic John Huston as Gandalf.

 

[Bedrockgames]

Orson bean really made it hard for me to get into the 1977 Hobbit

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Orson bean really made it hard for me to get into the 1977 Hobbit

Pooh Bear and Bilbo Baggins are essentially the same character.

 

[CharlesWallace]

I started reading the dying earth by Jack Vance just the other day. I haven't really been reading at all since we had a kid a few years back. It's been really cool to just... read. And the stories- man, they're weird!

I'm reading it to see if I'm interested in the Dying Earth boxed set for DCC. I want that and "the music of the spheres is chaos" boxed set, but I don't know which first (I've never played DCC before).

Anyway, yeah, The Dying Earth is weird and cool!

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I'm reading it to see if I'm interested in the Dying Earth boxed set for DCC. I want that and "the music of the spheres is chaos" boxed set, but I don't know which first (I've never played DCC before).

The Dying Earth boxed set adds a lot of complexity to base DCC. I would make that a later purchase. I'd run the adventure in the core book (the adventures vary between printings) first and maybe one of the one-shot adventures.

 

[CharlesWallace]

The Dying Earth boxed set adds a lot of complexity to base DCC. I would make that a later purchase. I'd run the adventure in the core book (the adventures vary between printings) first and maybe one of the one-shot adventures.

Awesome, great to know One less thing for me to think about!

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

All the Rankin-Bass Hobbit is missing is Beorn and even a single female character. (Seriously, once you realize there are no women, it's wild. I'm guessing Laketown was more interesting than JRRT let on.)

Yeah, it's kinda surreal when you realize it. In general the source material isn't great for that, either. I still think that rather than adding Tauriel, Jackson should've just gender-swapped one or two of the dwarves.

I started reading the dying earth by Jack Vance just the other day. I haven't really been reading at all since we had a kid a few years back. It's been really cool to just... read. And the stories- man, they're weird!

I'm reading it to see if I'm interested in the Dying Earth boxed set for DCC. I want that and "the music of the spheres is chaos" boxed set, but I don't know which first (I've never played DCC before).

Anyway, yeah, The Dying Earth is weird and cool!

Jack Vance's writing is so evocative, so sardonic and anti-authoritarian. He paints pictures with words like no one else. And yes, it is gloriously weird. The DCC Dying Earth book is a joy to read, and does a great job at putting a net around the wild texts of Vance's Dying Earth. But as @Whizbang Dustyboots said, it adds a layer of complexity onto core DCC.

If you don't already have it, I might suggest DCC Lankhmar instead of The Music of The Spheres Is Chaos, if you're in the mood to buy a DCC boxed set. It likewise excellently distills Leiber's Fafhrd and Grey Mouser stories into RPG form, though without as much complexity as Dying Earth.

 

[Zaukrie]

Yeah, it's kinda surreal when you realize it. In general the source material isn't great for that, either. I still think that rather than adding Tauriel, Jackson should've just gender-swapped one or two of the dwarves.



Jack Vance's writing is so evocative, so sardonic and anti-authoritarian. He paints pictures with words like no one else. And yes, it is gloriously weird. The DCC Dying Earth book is a joy to read, and does a great job at putting a net around the wild texts of Vance's Dying Earth. But as @Whizbang Dustyboots said, it adds a layer of complexity onto core DCC.

If you don't already have it, I might suggest DCC Lankhmar instead of The Music of The Spheres Is Chaos, if you're in the mood to buy a DCC boxed set. It likewise excellently distills Leiber's Fafhrd and Grey Mouser stories into RPG form, though without as much complexity as Dying Earth.

I couldn't finish the Dying Earth. Boring to me. To each their own....

 

[overgeeked]

Awesome, great to know One less thing for me to think about!

I made a general DCC RPG thread awhile back if you’re interested.

General DCC RPG thread

There are a few people on here who play DCC RPG so I thought we should have a thread about the game. If anyone new to DCC has any questions, please feel free to ask.

www.enworld.org

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Yeah, it's kinda surreal when you realize it. In general the source material isn't great for that, either. I still think that rather than adding Tauriel, Jackson should've just gender-swapped one or two of the dwarves.

Little known fact: He gender-swapped all of the dwarves.