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Message: <blockquote data-quote="thormagni" data-source="post: 2493420" data-attributes="member: 13637">You think the system sounds fascinating, you should read the books! As I explained at the aborted demo game, the world is one of extremely long seasons, lasting up to a decade each. Far to the north, there is a great ice wall behind which roam creatures of nightmares and children's bed-time stories. Holding back the darkness is a thin line of ragged defenders known as the Night's Watch. Far to the south, nobles and would-be kings plot and scheme forgetting that winter is coming. They are more concerned with jockeying for position than defending the lands of Westeros from the rising threat or preparing for the coming cold. I do have some problems with the "facts" of the books. The long seasons are never explained. Years pass there as they do here, so it can't have anything to do with the planet's orbit around the sun. There is talk in the books of the Long Night, a period of years where the sun didn't rise, so I guess it is possible that the planet has an extremely unstable wobble on its rotation. Also, his version of history is a little disturbing. For example, the Starks who are the northernmost Lords apparently trace their lineage back 8,000 years. Which is just crazy compared to the real world. That would be like me knowing who my ancestors were all the way back to before the pyramids were built. But it has a really engrossing story written by an author unafraid to just kill main characters. Or to have really horrible things happen to them.And yes, they will have the book at GenCon BUT... the first version is a $100 deluxe edition, leatherbound with gilded edges and including Tri-Stat and D20 rules. If you wait a few months, the D20 version will be available alone for about $40. Alternately, I ordered my deluxe edition through Amazon, which is selling it for $66. Still pricy but not as painful as $100.I am really going to try to save money at GenCon this year, by just taking note of books I want to buy and not actually doing a lot of buying. Instead, waiting for good deals online. No  paying cover price! I say.</blockquote>

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