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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dakkareth" data-source="post: 1786174" data-attributes="member: 9928">Another Erikson thread. Nice <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=":)" /> The Malazan Book of the Fallen is about the best series I've ever read, so keep that in mind, when considering my words <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Comparing Erikson's writing to other authors' I'd say, it's like G.R.R. Martin grown up in many aspects of that term. (Deleted long and inadequate try to explain this in detail. Maybe I'll try again later.)I've seen the covers of the American releases and I concede, that it's singularily ugly. The UK covers (which incidentally are used on the German translations as well) of GotM, DHG and HoC are simply great and those for MoI and MT are at least not bad. I wonder, why they couldn't simply keep them ...And while it would probably be cool to play Anomander Rake in an RPG, it's one of the most important points in the series, that in the end the mortals have grown up enough to beat ascendants, gods and dragons at their own game, that it is the mortals, who in their unfathomability (if that's a word) can throw a wrench into the machinations of the gods and who are usually responsible for great decisions - great powers balance each other out while the mortal factor is deciding. If the DM could live up to these principles, I wouldn't mind playing Fiddler when the others at the table play frighteningly Epic characters like Icarium, Mappo or Iscaral Pust. There's a special appeal to being overly aware of one's own limitedness and mortality and still being able to surprise (that at least) the others.I probably wouldn't be here on this board, if I wasn't someone to think of gaming system equivalents <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> Of course translating the entire system would be a major task, but combining as power point system with a sphere system like divine spells in 2e or even better Mage with restrictions on availability and caster level boni/mali would go a long way into the right direction <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" />I might actually try something like this in a PbB some day. Some day.For now I'm hoping, the release for Bonehunters given on Amazon is a good one and that the novellas will be released in greater numbers soon <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /></blockquote>

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