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I for one have no problems with Tieflings as a core race. I have a player that makes one about every 3rd character so there you go. And honestly, if you don't like them, house rule them or just you know..say "No tieflings." Problem solved. It's basically exactly what I do alot of times with monks.

Sky Captain fascinates me. I don't know why. I guess because it seems so brave to make this kind of movie in this day and age. Whoever made the trailer is a genius, they show just enough to arouse interest, but don't show the entire movie. I'll go see it.

Sounds good other than that little group you described. Oh and that be a thousand miles or so from me. Heh. Too bad. Best advice I ever got was to write stuff I enjoyed. Second best was to make my old story and not try to retell someone else's story. That was during my "See, it's Stand By Me...

First off, a science fiction writing group? Sounds interesting. Was it a school thing or more informal. Second, about the "heavy stuff" , sounds like a Philip K Dick novel to me. A space opera retelling of MacBeth? You making this one up or is it some movie I didn't see past the obvious on...

And why must it apply to you in specific? At this point I probably need to go back and reread my original post, but basically what I was saying was there are people who do it because it is fun, and there are people who do it as something else. I believe I did say intellectual stimulation. I was...

Of course it was an example of finding one's voice. But read it again. He was speaking, in my opinion of course, of feeling a pressure to write something that would be recognized by the academic establishment as having merit. Along the way he changed his mind and decided to write for himself and...

Ack! You're right. I switched them. I tend to do that alot with those two for some reason. Some kind of mental block. I pretty much imagined the Englishman in that story like the characters in this old Nintendo game I had. They'd walk blindly forward and you had to raise and lower doors, change...

The reason I brought them up is that I felt that the writer of that website that got this whole thing started rested very firmly in the literary snob camp. That and it made me cringe to see an author's work attacked so savagely in what is a very public way. (The internet) I just sort of felt...

Ah-ha! A perfect example of my proposed two camps. Fun and goofy vs appealing to the "writing folks". Give me fun and goofy anytime! As for finishing your novel. Good job. I used to write alot, but then my muse was savagely murdered, drawn and quartered, resurrected, staked and turned to dust...

Oddly enough you listed them in the order I prefer to read. Probably my big disappointment with Jordan is I got into it thinking I was reading Type 1 and am now stuck with Type 3. Still reading, though I have decided not to pick up "The New Spring".

You know, I've never given it much thought before, but I much prefer Science Fiction with "Bad" science to Hard Science Fiction as it's called. Perhaps because the novels with bad science feel more imaginative to me.

Note I have never said the classics are without merit. I've said I don't particularly enjoy most of them. Even Lord of the Rings I've only read twice as compared to some more modern series I have read probably half a dozen times. I am not sure WHY I don't. I think it is a different feel...

I have never read either, though I suspect from reading a summary of the Elric novels that they'd depress the hell out of me. I'm not a big fan of masochist fiction, IE, the main character suffers constantly. As for Sci-Fi, the only recent Sci-Fi I can think of that I read and liked that wasn't...

I never have liked Kings James versions of anything. Probably came from my exposure to it in the bible as a child. ;) In fact, I blame King James for my early aversion to Shakespeare, though as I got older I grew to really like Shakespeare, especially once I figured out the rhythm to reading it...

Confession time. I too am one of those "line straddlers". I enjoy both "high art" and "low art" Especially in movies. I can watch Just Married, then watch a French Import of Cyrano De Bergerac. In literature I lean more towards the modern stuff than the old classics, or even the modern...

Agreed. To give another movie reference, I long ago became convinced that these types of people are the ones who vote on the Academy Awards, one reason I haven't watched them in over a decade. ::does some math:: 15 years actually. Longer than I thought! In any case, I am not sure there's much...

THIS is exactly what I was driving at. People like the guy who wrote that webpage come across like to him, if you like the Fifth Sorceross, a novel I have not read but now am interested in ironically enough, you have to justify it somehow or you're an inferior mind. Hehe. I had to restrain...

As I said in my reply to MMadsen's post, I was speaking in generalities. See, I view the intellectual reader in much the same way I view film critics. Both of them somewhere along the line ceased to have fun and began to view their chosen form of entertainment as some kind of high artform. I'm...

No offense, but your reply is what I'm talking about. Did you notice how you had a need to distance yourself from the King and Clancy readers? I on the other hand could care less about Borges and Nabokov.