New D&D novel: Mark of Nerath

[Larrin]

@Spellsright of the book: I kind of enjoy it, when magic users in novels use spells right of the rule books. It always makes me smile somehow.^^ I just feel like i understood an insider joke people who don´t know the game won´t get.

Yeah, I don't know why I don't like it, but ever since the first time I noticed it, its grated on my nerves. It feels like they're hitting me over the head with it or something, and constricting the story to fit game rules. Its never seemed natural. I tried to be somewhat neutral in my initial description of the gameyness before chiming in with my opinion. *shrug* Its my burden to bear, and I hope few suffer it with me.

I think part of the problem is that while martial types are immune to the effect, they get to do fun swordsman moves and blocks and whatnot all day long, but the poor wizard must subscribe wholly to the rules of the game. Sadly the true reasons probably run deeper in my soul than that, though.....

 

[Vanifae]

I picked up last night night, I expect a cheap easy read.

 

[UngeheuerLich]

Yeah, I don't know why I don't like it, but ever since the first time I noticed it, its grated on my nerves. It feels like they're hitting me over the head with it or something, and constricting the story to fit game rules. Its never seemed natural. I tried to be somewhat neutral in my initial description of the gameyness before chiming in with my opinion. *shrug* Its my burden to bear, and I hope few suffer it with me.

I think part of the problem is that while martial types are immune to the effect, they get to do fun swordsman moves and blocks and whatnot all day long, but the poor wizard must subscribe wholly to the rules of the game. Sadly the true reasons probably run deeper in my soul than that, though.....

One thing which made me literally ROFL was the a wizard mention to the lord, that he always thought, halflings could not become bards and that he suspects her to be thief^^.

Yeah funny those race/class restrictions.

 

[Derulbaskul]

My conclusion: I think Bill Slavicsek should stick to admin or whatever it is he does as Director of RPG or whatever his title now is.

I haven't appreciated anything he has authored for a long time, game product or novel. This book is no different.

 

[Vanifae]

I dig the novel, it's punchy and pulpy. It reads just like a typical D&D story hour or game session, melodramatic and fits what I think most D&D sessions are like. The characters are interesting if somewhat not terribly deep but you get enough to make them memorable.

I am only on Chapter 20, but it's fun and an easy read I can see why some people might not like it but I find it enjoyable. I forsee myself picking up more of these D&D books for the ease of reading and staying true to the source.

In other words this is fantasy I can dig.

 

[Odhanan]

If you're looking for Hemmingway in game fiction, you're going to be looking for a long time.

I just settle for HP Lovecraft, Michael Moorcock, Clark Ashton Smith, Jack Vance, Fritz Leiber, RE Howard and a whole bunch of other authors whose fictions are closely related to gaming and blow anything ever put out by WotC out of the water every.single.time.

Just settling for lesser works because "obviously nobody could ever write the same quality of fiction ever again" strikes me as completely unrealistic. Of course, there's somebody out there who is capable of it, just as they were.

The question really is the sort of fiction WotC wants to publish, what kind of editorial supervision and revisions of the works exist, and what their aims actually are: whether to promote and increase the literary quality of the works, or rather to make the books fit some cookie-cutter marketing slots in a business strategy which doesn't have anything to do literature, whatsoever?

One doesn't have to settle for mediocrity.

 

[Vanifae]

Just finished this tonight, fun read not terribly deep but fun and very pulp-tastic. It's punchy and fast and I enjoyed Kalaban immensely.

 

[Scribble]

RE Howard and a whole bunch of other authors whose fictions are closely related to gaming and blow anything ever put out by WotC out of the water every.single.time.

I know this might be blaspheme around here but I got a collection of Conan short stories a little while back, and I couldn't finish it...

Maybe it was just because it was a bunch of short stories, but it seemed like every story Conan would proclaim something like "I'm just a barbarian unaccustomed to your civilized ways..."

I mean I know part of Howard's point was that civilization was often more barbaric then the barbarian, but after a while Conan took on Phil Hartman's voice in my head and all I could think about was the Caveman Lawyer SNL skit...

"I'm just a caveman your honor..."

 

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[SPECTRE666]

Just finished this tonight, fun read not terribly deep but fun and very pulp-tastic. It's punchy and fast and I enjoyed Kalaban immensely.

I want to read more about him myself...