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<blockquote data-quote="Mystery Man" data-source="post: 1304956" data-attributes="member: 13273"><p>I'm not going to bash but I am going to be critical.</p><p> </p><p>About 2 months ago I ran into the Kalamar setting book at one of those book stores where you could sit in big leather chairs and pretty much read an entire book if you wanted to.</p><p> </p><p>I have to admit I nodded off like 3 times and I had a perfectly good nights sleep the night before. The book is <em>really</em> boring, and not because its a <em>deep read</em>. It has no soul, no spark that makes it special or dynamic. <strong>I've read Cisco router/switch hardware manuals that held my interest for far longer.</strong> As has been said there are logical social structures a plenty, the migration of humans is interesting but ultimately gave me little reason to care. Sure the book tells you what kind of society lives where and does what but there is no <em>flavor</em>, or feel of how it is. Again no spark, no soul nothing there to make it a living breathing world for me. </p><p> </p><p>Other faults that I've found; (and this again is all personal pref) too many names for the gods. The creation story starts out great, then goes <em>pfft</em>. Even reading about each individual god was uninteresting. About the only one I gave a damn about was the super good knightly type god (sorry I forget his name) but the other fall far short. It's like they just kept adding gods to keep up with FR.</p><p> </p><p>Hey, I gave it a good hour (when I could keep my eyes open, maybe it was the chair) and these are pretty much all my personal opinions but I've seen the same things voiced more or less by others. Granted I haven't read Geanavue, mainly because I can't find it anywhere (we have 3 gaming stores in my town 2 of which have 2 locations) but I would assume since its written by the man himself it has to be good.</p><p> </p><p>Do I think its falling from popularity? I would think that it would have to be popular in the first place. I go to my LGS's and they same Kalamar stuff thats been on the shelf for months is still there and all the ones I hear about or may take an interest in looking at aren't there.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mystery Man, post: 1304956, member: 13273"] I'm not going to bash but I am going to be critical. About 2 months ago I ran into the Kalamar setting book at one of those book stores where you could sit in big leather chairs and pretty much read an entire book if you wanted to. I have to admit I nodded off like 3 times and I had a perfectly good nights sleep the night before. The book is [i]really[/i] boring, and not because its a [i]deep read[/i]. It has no soul, no spark that makes it special or dynamic. [b]I've read Cisco router/switch hardware manuals that held my interest for far longer.[/b] As has been said there are logical social structures a plenty, the migration of humans is interesting but ultimately gave me little reason to care. Sure the book tells you what kind of society lives where and does what but there is no [i]flavor[/i], or feel of how it is. Again no spark, no soul nothing there to make it a living breathing world for me. Other faults that I've found; (and this again is all personal pref) too many names for the gods. The creation story starts out great, then goes [i]pfft[/i]. Even reading about each individual god was uninteresting. About the only one I gave a damn about was the super good knightly type god (sorry I forget his name) but the other fall far short. It's like they just kept adding gods to keep up with FR. Hey, I gave it a good hour (when I could keep my eyes open, maybe it was the chair) and these are pretty much all my personal opinions but I've seen the same things voiced more or less by others. Granted I haven't read Geanavue, mainly because I can't find it anywhere (we have 3 gaming stores in my town 2 of which have 2 locations) but I would assume since its written by the man himself it has to be good. Do I think its falling from popularity? I would think that it would have to be popular in the first place. I go to my LGS's and they same Kalamar stuff thats been on the shelf for months is still there and all the ones I hear about or may take an interest in looking at aren't there. [/QUOTE]
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