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<blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 7738621" data-attributes="member: 4937"><p>I deducted a star from the book because the scene wasn't detailed enough for my geek self. </p><p></p><p>In particular, there are several rooms in the Tomb which would require an extremely imaginative solution to do solo without even so much as a potion even if you had full knowledge of the trap. One example is the room of green and brown curtains. For the life of me, I can't think of an obvious solution for a single low level PC to get by the room by themselves without using magic, and unlike the author's assertion that the tomb contains everything you need to get through it, that's only partially true. For example, it does have the magic ring you need to sacrifice and it does have a trueseeing item that lets you find the well hidden secret door, and the gems you need to get them, and in many cases you imagine a plan to get them as a low level character, there are still moments where a potion of flying is really welcome and you just don't have one to use. </p><p></p><p>Everyone that has really been through the Tomb has stories about it. Any real geek would want to share those stories. But the author of 'Ready Player One' brushes by these difficulties as unimportant to the story, when I would think anyone actually familiar with the Tomb could care less that it appears in the story, but rather considers how the tomb was traversed to be the really good part that would prove the geek cred of the character and the author.</p><p></p><p>It was one of the many elements of the story that made me feel the author wasn't really part of the community he was claiming and that the character was a shallow Marty Stu that hadn't earned their geek points.</p><p></p><p>Then again, I'm a guy that is jarred out of emersion when a game of D&D set in 1983 uses a miniature that Ral Partha didn't release until 1984, and has the player rolling 'to hit' with a fireball, or a game of Dig-Dug in 1984 using a six character high score name rather than the three character which would have been available at that time.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Celebrim, post: 7738621, member: 4937"] I deducted a star from the book because the scene wasn't detailed enough for my geek self. In particular, there are several rooms in the Tomb which would require an extremely imaginative solution to do solo without even so much as a potion even if you had full knowledge of the trap. One example is the room of green and brown curtains. For the life of me, I can't think of an obvious solution for a single low level PC to get by the room by themselves without using magic, and unlike the author's assertion that the tomb contains everything you need to get through it, that's only partially true. For example, it does have the magic ring you need to sacrifice and it does have a trueseeing item that lets you find the well hidden secret door, and the gems you need to get them, and in many cases you imagine a plan to get them as a low level character, there are still moments where a potion of flying is really welcome and you just don't have one to use. Everyone that has really been through the Tomb has stories about it. Any real geek would want to share those stories. But the author of 'Ready Player One' brushes by these difficulties as unimportant to the story, when I would think anyone actually familiar with the Tomb could care less that it appears in the story, but rather considers how the tomb was traversed to be the really good part that would prove the geek cred of the character and the author. It was one of the many elements of the story that made me feel the author wasn't really part of the community he was claiming and that the character was a shallow Marty Stu that hadn't earned their geek points. Then again, I'm a guy that is jarred out of emersion when a game of D&D set in 1983 uses a miniature that Ral Partha didn't release until 1984, and has the player rolling 'to hit' with a fireball, or a game of Dig-Dug in 1984 using a six character high score name rather than the three character which would have been available at that time. [/QUOTE]
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