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<blockquote data-quote="Alzrius" data-source="post: 730033" data-attributes="member: 8461"><p>Heh, and for the most part, I did. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> </p><p></p><p>On the subject of <em>Tomb of Horrors</em> though...I found the book very disappointing indeed.</p><p></p><p>If you have a hundred pages left, then they should only now have actually gotten to the Tomb. That right there ticked me off. The titled Tomb gets very little attention, especially since most of the book is just the decision to go there and the actual journey there.</p><p></p><p>I also found the choice of villains to be extremely upsetting. A cult of Tharizdun? Monks of the Scarlet Brotherhood? Flashbacks to the capital of Iuz? I read <em>Tomb of Horrors</em> and <em>Return to the Tomb of Horrors</em>, so when I read a novel called <em>Tomb of Horrors</em> I expect to see something <strong>substantial</strong> about <strong>Acererak</strong>! That irked me so badly.</p><p></p><p>Minor trivia note here: Way back when TSR was trying out a new adventure format (I forget the name of the line), those adventures had books of the same name published also. Anyone remember the novel <em>Tale of the Comet</em>, based on the boxed set of the same name (I'm pretty sure I got the name right). Well, look on the first page of that novel, where it lists future novels. What do you see? <em>A Thief in the Tomb of Horrors</em>, by, iirc, Simon Hawke (of the Tribe of One trilogy, and <em>The Broken Blade</em>, all for Dark Sun). I would have liked to read that, and I still wonder whatever became of it...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Alzrius, post: 730033, member: 8461"] Heh, and for the most part, I did. ;) On the subject of [I]Tomb of Horrors[/I] though...I found the book very disappointing indeed. If you have a hundred pages left, then they should only now have actually gotten to the Tomb. That right there ticked me off. The titled Tomb gets very little attention, especially since most of the book is just the decision to go there and the actual journey there. I also found the choice of villains to be extremely upsetting. A cult of Tharizdun? Monks of the Scarlet Brotherhood? Flashbacks to the capital of Iuz? I read [I]Tomb of Horrors[/I] and [I]Return to the Tomb of Horrors[/I], so when I read a novel called [I]Tomb of Horrors[/I] I expect to see something [B]substantial[/B] about [B]Acererak[/B]! That irked me so badly. Minor trivia note here: Way back when TSR was trying out a new adventure format (I forget the name of the line), those adventures had books of the same name published also. Anyone remember the novel [I]Tale of the Comet[/I], based on the boxed set of the same name (I'm pretty sure I got the name right). Well, look on the first page of that novel, where it lists future novels. What do you see? [I]A Thief in the Tomb of Horrors[/I], by, iirc, Simon Hawke (of the Tribe of One trilogy, and [I]The Broken Blade[/I], all for Dark Sun). I would have liked to read that, and I still wonder whatever became of it... [/QUOTE]
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