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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Barastrondo" data-source="post: 392767" data-attributes="member: 3820">You'd have to ask Joe Carriker. Us writers got done with our obligated tasks some time back. I certainly hope so. When Joe contacted me to work on the book, I said, "But Joe, wizards are far from my favorite class." He said, "I know; that's why I'm getting you to do it. I figure if you produce work on wizards that you're happy with, it'll have to be pretty engaging."The fellow knows how to get one motivated. I'm happy with what I did; I hope it pleases.Doc, on Hollowfaust: Hollowfaust came to be from a variety of inspirations — the necromantic stories of Clark Ashton Smith, the imagery of a sprawling subterranean Gormenghast, the idea of a fantasy world's "Pompeii" being a nexus for death energies, the image of a cross between Puritan and Vampire Hunter D fashion as a "wizard's uniform" rather than robes and pointy hat, the intellectual puzzle of what a LN magocracy might be like, and the ever-gnawing question of why in the world animating skeletons to fight for you instead of conscripting peasants implied "evil", while dissolving away your foes' flesh with acid or charming a barmaid into being your love slave for an evening is often "neutral" at worst. It's kind of Ray Bradbury's Halloween Tree and "Homecoming" meets the Circle of Eight and your own group's Vek Mormont. Joe Carriker describes the apprentices-level game he runs there as sort of a cross between Harry Potter and the Addams Family, if that makes any sense at all. If some of this stuff rings a bell or makes you think "heck, that's actually cool-sounding," well, that's what Hollowfaust was all about. If you're not convinced, well, go ahead and get the SLCS. (Then read the Hollowfaust section and see if that wins you over... plug, plug.)</blockquote>

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