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Isn't that how they did it on Dune? Producing one ghola after the other from the original?

It was around the time the third book was published, probably 2000, so I would have been 22. Back then, I was an avid fantasy reader, and I admittedly was also annoyed by all the people telling me about all the amazing ideas and the wild imagination on display in these books, and I read them...

You're probably right that the treatment of the chosen theme are not that one-dimensional ... and I will also admit that, if you go at it in another way, there is a lot to love about the series, thematically and in execution. It just happens that it pushes a lot of my negative buttons.

[...] That's pretty much how I feel and why I won't watch the series. I got through the first five novels, the the fifth already felt like a slog, and the unpleasant tropes were becoming more and more obvious. (I watched the other movies once my kids were old enough and really wanted to, but...

I'm pretty sure that in terms of sheer word-count, Aventurien of the Dark Eye is ahead of Forgotten Realms. New material has been constantly published since 1984 - I don't think there were ever any breaks. And especially the 4th edition regional guides where huge. There were 16 of this "green...

Haunted West has a dueling subsystem that really sounds like it aims to emulate classic western cinema. It looks very ambitioned, but frankly, I never really managed to understand the rules system. I think it has a solid d100 core, but the book is really badly organized, the terminology seems...

I strongly disagree. I've only published very few rpg scenarios, and each of them was in development for years, with multiple phases of text production. What I guess amounts to 95% of the text I've produced in relation to them remains unpublished. All of this (well, maybe not strictly all) was...

As far as I am concerned, what's broken is the logic that you have to reproduce the complete production value package of a big company as an indie creator. Do what you're great at, wing the rest or just leave it out if it isn't strictly necessary. Upping the standard to "it must have art that...

They were calling themselves the Sad Puppies, but Sick Puppies would have been so much more fitting!

Jodorowsky could have done it (which doesn't mean that it would have been good, but at least interesting ...).

"That chewing gum you like is coming back in style."

Yes, that is kind of weird ... what they show in the trailer actually looks more like an "inquel" about the Jihad. Apart from Duncan, there's nothing there that I could place anywhere in Dune: Messiah, let alone Children of Dune. Not sure how much of CoD they will include, anyway. To be honest...

Yes, the Duncan clones are actually pretty much the most prominent character(s) of the whole series (occasionally to a bleakly-ironic effect, as in God-Emperor: "Oh, crushed the last Duncan, I guess I'll have to order a new one ...").

I can't quite say that I like God-Emperor of Dune (though I'm still not quite sure whether it's deeply homophobic or more kind of well-intentioned, but missing the mark - I'd have to read it again to even get an idea ...). But in terms of imagery, it left an enormous impression with me. and I'd...

Well, at least he will live to a much greater age than his grandfather.

RE: Creating characters, there's also the question what you actually want to do. I prefer simply playing systems where I enjoy character creation. If we presuppose that everyone is doing character creation with some online tool, anyway, it's no wonder if it becomes bloated. I'd rather have my...

Well, to look at the upside, that would be the day I could finally stop following new releases and just keep playing happily with my printed books and my phyisical dice and pencils for the rest of me life, knowing that all that other stuff that's going on out there doesn't pertain to me anymore.

Don't beat yourself up! It didn't connect with me the first time ... I've read it a total of four times, because I translated it into German (there was an older translation, but they wanted to do a new one, and I got to do it). It took me that many times to really appreciate it, and I only got...

Samuel R. Delany, Nova. It's fun, it's intellectually satisfying, it prefigures tons of core concepts of later science fiction, it is supremely well written. I'm not sure if it is my favourite sf novel, but if I have to pick one single best one, it's Nova.

To get further sidetrecked: How do people feel about diegetic/extradiegetic metacurrency? Personally, I'm fine with metacurrency (though I prefer if there is only one, in player's hands), but I really don't like it if it's turned into something diegetic. I yet have to so an RPG where this...