Search results

"The Deed of Paksenarrion" was one I did enjoy, and I thought of it as good military fantasy, since it was lower power (at least in the beginning) and closer in tactics to how an actual infantry unit would fight. It's also unabashedly gaming fantasy -- Elizabeth Moon is on record as stating that...

And for the flip side: :) http://pats-quinade.livejournal.com/4138.html http://pats-quinade.livejournal.com/4626.html Therein lie chronicled my attempts to read "Gardens of the Moon", and my final defeat at the hand of character development. If you like grim, and you can look past the lack of...

See, I suspected Cylons.

Never played any of them myself. I wasn't so desperate to play Star Trek that I wanted to learn a new ruleset. I could pretty easily see a d20 Modern (or True20, or Grim Tales) adaptation, though -- I outlined something similar, though it didn't end up coming through with my players. Once you...

Yeah. One of my local friends read it and actually wasn't sure I was joking, which was kind of sad. I don't think I'm quite that much of a jerk in my actual posts. Once I assured her that there was no CordyFan, and that I was not referring to any actual build of Season Four Wesley, she was...

I'll agree with both you and another poster -- while I didn't care for it, it's definitely a matter of taste, and it's good to hear from people on both sides. :) EDIT: Spoilers removed -- can somebody tell me how to slap a spoiler tag in? I tried spoiler with brackets around it, and that...

He might be better known up here in Canada than elsewhere, since he's from here, but I'd heard of him when I lived in the U.S. No idea. I only read the Dark Glory one, and it didn't really wow me. It wasn't bad, but it read more like a setup novel than a real "stuff happening" novel -- which...

If you're determined to try one of them, I'd go ahead and try both, ideally from the library or used bookstore. I'd read Rhapsody if you generally like gaming fiction, and Wayfarer Redemption if you like stuff like, say, Goodkind. On the epic fantasy track, the things I'd recommend offhand...

I read this shortly after reading Rhapsody, which you mentioned in another thread. It looks like you're where I was a few years ago in terms of hunting for new stuff. :) Sara Douglass has a wonderful ability with language -- there were lines that gave me goosebumps and lines that made my skin...

Short answer: I didn't care for it. Longer answer: This read less like epic fantasy than gaming fantasy to me. There were way too many "____ist ____ in the world!" characters. Without going into spoilers, the main group of heroes includes TWO people who are BOTH the best warrior in the world...

I'm coming at it from the viewpoint that if you're posting this here, you ARE thinking of running an RPG. If that's not the case, everyone else's points above are great -- and they're still pretty good points even if you do want to run an RPG. For kids that age, I'd suggest a couple of things...

No involvement on the Cormyr project, although I am glad it finally made it out, circuitous and often tortuous as the path to publication was. Random question for habitual con attendees: how much gaming experience with d20 can I usually assume? Pure Speculation is tiny, so I'm guessing we'll...

Generally speaking, aside from making sure to use tacky language... :) Well, they've got a bunch of authors there, so my handful of pro short-story sales aren't terribly impressive. So I'll mainly be speaking there as a BioWare writer. It's funny -- there are going to be several BioWare...

Thanks! We'll see how it goes. I'm also evidently running a game now, too.

I think D&D monsters are usable in GT, but their CRs probably need to be fiddled with a BUNCH. Some monsters are pretty much the same -- zombies are zombies, for example, and they're always gonna be weak. But in a fight with 2 10th level PCs against a bunch of zombies, several ghouls, and 4...

I liked Rush Hour. It didn't set the bar high, but it nailed what it wanted to nail -- a basic buddy cop movie that happened to star two non-white guys, which is actually pretty cool. What drove stakes of pain through my eyes was "The Tuxedo", and what lit those stakes on fire was "The...

I have no idea if this is the right forum. General kind of made sense, as did the Software forum, but really, I dunno. So here we are. :) I'm speaking at a con called Pure Speculation, which runs October 13-15 in Edmonton (in Alberta, in Canada). It's a small con, but it's the first time I've...

I only know that I don't know enough to make any broad statements. Up here in the frozen north, I haven't seen enough preseason stuff to get a handle on who's got what. I like the Niners and the Seahawks and the Broncos. At least two of those teams have the chance to do well this year. :)

What's the timeframe difference on the next two books? Do they use the same characters, or is it a Modessit-esque "Several Hundred Years Pass" kind of deal? And are they equally grim? I don't love grim, so even if they fix some of the character and plotting issues that bugged me in the first...

I couldn't make it through the first book. I can see it appealing to people who like grim (I don't), but it didn't even feel like well-differentiated grim. There were just too many points that didn't make logical sense for the characters in question. The epic struggle of my attempt to read...