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I think it's okay if it's accurate but... it almost never is. Usually at best it's two things which are loosely conceptually similar but by calling the TTRPG one a videogame name you're at best giving something of an inaccurate impression. At worst it can be totally misleading, like serious...

I should dig through boxes until I find the book to get the exact details probably but IIRC that's really not how the story presents it (which is from her perspective, too, note).

In typical BG3 fashion they saw you coming and gave him remarkable Barbarian warcries and so on.

It is speculation. I don't think it's unreasoned speculation. I could go into some detail but it would take a while. Suffice to say I think it's a story that's been told a few times, but really only makes sense in narrow contexts (mostly mid-late 20th century America). That's the problem...

I don't think it's even about getting to be something cool, it's just not plausible for that character and her personality, background and so on. Like, I could buy her playing house with a farmer for a few weeks or months or year, until she thought of something else she wanted to try, but for...

Nah sorry it seemed like nonsense to me too. Lives can be messy, but personalities are personalities, and most "messy"-ness of this kind is caused the perception that society demands something, and the desire to fit in with society. I don't, for one second, believe the Tenar would have married a...

I was envisioning them using other methods than just talking to themselves. I could see Lae'zel writing some kind of war-diary or something for example, with her gathered thoughts/intel. Also, even Karlach isn't really doing much "self-reflection", it's mostly just colour commentary and...

I'm trying to think of what media is in that genre and only coming up with, of all things, The Force Awakens. I presume I am overlooking a bunch of things though!

I mean it gets the credit because AFAICT it's the first even slightly popular book with a magic school that is clearly a school in a recognisable way with teachers, classes, bullies, and so on, and it's quite a significant part of the original book, which is all most people read. It also has the...

I feel like with T. Kingfisher you're always kind of rolling the dice about how interesting the book actually is. You're pretty much guaranteed a strong setup and a certain quality of writing (which is well above par for fantasy), but some of her books are drastically more entertaining than...

I would have to agree with the people rating Lae'zel higher for unique content and perspectives. In fact, I think even objectively she's inarguably above Wyll, like just literally looking at how much you can do/see as Wyll that you can't do normally. I also think Shadowheart is below Lae'zel for...

My wife really wants this to happen sometime too. It won't, I suspect, all the people who could make it are scattered, but I wish it would. I think even a fairly 8/10 by-the-numbers official sequel with a big campaign would sell insanely on the legend and nostalgia of FFT, so Square should...

Can confirm Ziggurat is pretty fun - I think it gets old kind of fast but you'll get your money's worth!

There are technically a few others: HROT - Very directly Quake inspired: Amid Evil - Actually Heretic 2 inspired but thus Quake-like: Gravelord - Sort of situated between Quake and Doom gameplay-wise with some modern elements too: Wrath: Aeon of Ruin - Literally runs on the Quake engine and...

It's set on a non-Earth or not-our-Earth planet and it's got a science-based story, with zero fantasy, and a focus on the wonder and importance of science (also technology is important and has developed a little differently to ours). It's certainly speculative fiction, people who "like science...

Oh my god this takes me back lol. People would absolutely have fallen for that hook line and sinker 20 years ago.

Kind of the reverse here! Like, culturally, I've got infinitely more in common with Millennials than Gen X, I don't have the basic cynical attitude assigned to Gen X (not that I'm not a cynic, but if I am, it's in a rather different and less broad-spectrum way), I don't like the same films or...

Yup. And it's not even hard to find examples of games that handle this structure better - like ME1 and ME2 both do, for example. That was the original plan, and they only backpedalled on it because of extreme negative feedback about even the idea of it, and possibly due to internal testing...

From Abrams own statements it's abundantly clear that stuff like "No I'm a Palpatine actually see I'm important because I'm genetically related to a historically important person, that's how the world works!" was all Abrams, so I think it is squarely on him.

Even viewed as an apology it's weird because I don't think most SW viewers felt they were owed one, and for those that felt they were, I don't think it hit the right points at all and even seemed insulting at times (the very end particularly). I think that's because Abrams wasn't apologising to...