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<blockquote data-quote="Olaf the Stout" data-source="post: 5435494" data-attributes="member: 13703"><p>Well I finally got around to getting a copy of Game Night (it’s available on the Book Depository for a very reasonable price for international readers) and just finished it off today.</p><p></p><p>Overall I found it an ok read. Not great, but not bad either.</p><p></p><p>I found reading it pretty slow going at first and the writing style overall didn’t do a lot for me unfortunately. On a number of occasions I found it hard to figure out who was saying what (mainly in the OverRealm bits when 3-4 people are talking at once and their quotes aren’t attributed as “the Lady said” or something similar), which definitely was a drawback. There were a number of other times that I had to re-read certain passages to fully understand what was going on.</p><p></p><p>It also wasn’t until about three quarters of the way through the book that I actually realised that the gods weren’t just playing PC’s in a game, they were actually playing real people that existed in the AllFather’s world and that they were directly changing these peoples’ existence. Maybe it wasn’t clear enough or maybe I’m just a little slow. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big grin :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /></p><p></p><p>However, despite all that, I enjoyed the story more as I got through the book. A couple of comments of Hill / the Jester had me literally laughing out loud towards the end of the book (a couple of the comments he made just after he was blinded). The Warrior/Draag just came across as a dick and I really wondered why the rest of the people were still playing with him. He really didn’t mesh with any of the others in the group at all. If I had a guy in my group that played like that he would be spoken to and asked to change his ways or shown the door. For an AllFather he sure did have a pretty poor control of the game (which I’m sure was intentional).</p><p></p><p>To be honest the ending left me a little cold. I can understand how it ended the way it did. However, even with the way the in-game adventure ended, I felt that there should have been a bit more “epilogue”, either from the Weshen perspective or from the Gods’ perspectives as to what happened after that. As it was the ending seemed a bit abrupt, like there were still another 20 or so pages that could have been written. It also left me wondering just exactly where the PC’s were meant to put the magical salve (or whatever it was they were supposed to administer). The “monkey” also felt underused to me and could have had a much bigger part in the story, especially towards the end.</p><p></p><p>As a whole I’d give the book 3 out of 5 stars.</p><p></p><p>Olaf the Stout</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Olaf the Stout, post: 5435494, member: 13703"] Well I finally got around to getting a copy of Game Night (it’s available on the Book Depository for a very reasonable price for international readers) and just finished it off today. Overall I found it an ok read. Not great, but not bad either. I found reading it pretty slow going at first and the writing style overall didn’t do a lot for me unfortunately. On a number of occasions I found it hard to figure out who was saying what (mainly in the OverRealm bits when 3-4 people are talking at once and their quotes aren’t attributed as “the Lady said” or something similar), which definitely was a drawback. There were a number of other times that I had to re-read certain passages to fully understand what was going on. It also wasn’t until about three quarters of the way through the book that I actually realised that the gods weren’t just playing PC’s in a game, they were actually playing real people that existed in the AllFather’s world and that they were directly changing these peoples’ existence. Maybe it wasn’t clear enough or maybe I’m just a little slow. :D However, despite all that, I enjoyed the story more as I got through the book. A couple of comments of Hill / the Jester had me literally laughing out loud towards the end of the book (a couple of the comments he made just after he was blinded). The Warrior/Draag just came across as a dick and I really wondered why the rest of the people were still playing with him. He really didn’t mesh with any of the others in the group at all. If I had a guy in my group that played like that he would be spoken to and asked to change his ways or shown the door. For an AllFather he sure did have a pretty poor control of the game (which I’m sure was intentional). To be honest the ending left me a little cold. I can understand how it ended the way it did. However, even with the way the in-game adventure ended, I felt that there should have been a bit more “epilogue”, either from the Weshen perspective or from the Gods’ perspectives as to what happened after that. As it was the ending seemed a bit abrupt, like there were still another 20 or so pages that could have been written. It also left me wondering just exactly where the PC’s were meant to put the magical salve (or whatever it was they were supposed to administer). The “monkey” also felt underused to me and could have had a much bigger part in the story, especially towards the end. As a whole I’d give the book 3 out of 5 stars. Olaf the Stout [/QUOTE]
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