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<blockquote data-quote="Hypersmurf" data-source="post: 2844792" data-attributes="member: 1656"><p>You know, I'm going to mention a series here... James Barclay's 'Chronicles of the Raven'.</p><p></p><p>The first time I read book one (Dawnthief), I thought 'My god, this is awful'.</p><p></p><p>And I'm pretty sure it still is <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin :D" data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> But I eventually gave it another try, and I actually rather enjoyed it.</p><p></p><p>But it's got a party of mixed fighters and mages, who chuck around fireballs and healing spells.</p><p></p><p>I won't say I didn't warn you if you read it and it's awful, but it's fun at the same time <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p>(Excerpt from one review at Amazon.com: "<em>My idea of great fantasy fiction is strong 3-D characters, believable dialogs and coherent and well thought through plot changes. None of these are present in Dawnthief.</em>" Heh.)</p><p></p><p>As far as running from fights goes - we did plenty of running from Strahd when we played through Ravenloft a while back <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin :D" data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" /> More recently - in a d20 Future game, we sat very quietly in the saloon, minding our own business, while the Corporate Assassin and his bodyguards came and kidnapped the genetic scientist. Hey, we didn't know the guy! (Of course, we later tracked the assassin down and took him out, but that was when the odds were more in our favour...!)</p><p></p><p>-Hyp.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hypersmurf, post: 2844792, member: 1656"] You know, I'm going to mention a series here... James Barclay's 'Chronicles of the Raven'. The first time I read book one (Dawnthief), I thought 'My god, this is awful'. And I'm pretty sure it still is :D But I eventually gave it another try, and I actually rather enjoyed it. But it's got a party of mixed fighters and mages, who chuck around fireballs and healing spells. I won't say I didn't warn you if you read it and it's awful, but it's fun at the same time :) (Excerpt from one review at Amazon.com: "[i]My idea of great fantasy fiction is strong 3-D characters, believable dialogs and coherent and well thought through plot changes. None of these are present in Dawnthief.[/i]" Heh.) As far as running from fights goes - we did plenty of running from Strahd when we played through Ravenloft a while back :D More recently - in a d20 Future game, we sat very quietly in the saloon, minding our own business, while the Corporate Assassin and his bodyguards came and kidnapped the genetic scientist. Hey, we didn't know the guy! (Of course, we later tracked the assassin down and took him out, but that was when the odds were more in our favour...!) -Hyp. [/QUOTE]
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