The "I Didn't Comment in Another Thread" Thread

[RealAlHazred]

Old Hotness: How dare WoTC make any changes to 5e without naming it a new edition?

New Hotness: How dare WoTC not make exciting and awesome new changes to 5e?

Look, I want them to make a lot of changes. But I want those changes to make it exactly like AD&D 1st edition. Is that so hard?

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

Look, I want them to make a lot of changes. But I want those changes to make it exactly like AD&D 1st edition. Is that so hard?

So what you're saying is ... the Bard goes to the back of the book?

...That's a good first step!

 

[RealAlHazred]

Heh. I've run into that many times. A buddy I play with is a HUGE Tolkien fan and was... vocal about his reaction to the Amazon series. When I commented that I couldn't even finish the Similarian (sp) and wasn't really even a huge fan of fantasy in general, he was utterly flabbergasted. When I pointed out that in my opinon the Amazon series was fun, beautifully filmed and a pretty good story, he was... again, vocal in his reactions.

When I was RPG Director at our local conventions, and so frequently had conversations with gamers who knew I couldn't just leave, I usually got a few minutes of blessed (shocked) silence when I informed them that my favorite Tolkien wasn't The Lord of the Rings, but The Hobbit, and that my second favorite was Farmer Giles of Ham. LoR didn't even make the top 5!

 

[prabe]

Heh. I've run into that many times. A buddy I play with is a HUGE Tolkien fan and was... vocal about his reaction to the Amazon series. When I commented that I couldn't even finish the Similarian (sp) and wasn't really even a huge fan of fantasy in general, he was utterly flabbergasted. When I pointed out that in my opinon the Amazon series was fun, beautifully filmed and a pretty good story, he was... again, vocal in his reactions.

I bounced off Tolkien pretty hard, in middle school-ish and in high school. I read some other Fantasy series when I was in high school, and I enjoyed them more, but working for fifteen+ years recording audiobooks put a hurting on my patience for Fantasy's tendency to expand to fill the available space.

 

[RealAlHazred]

I bounced off Tolkien pretty hard, in middle school-ish and in high school. I read some other Fantasy series when I was in high school, and I enjoyed them more, but working for fifteen+ years recording audiobooks put a hurting on my patience for Fantasy's tendency to expand to fill the available space.

I realized I didn't actually care for The Lord of the Rings on my second read-through. There's a point in The Two Towers, where Tolkien is describing the Pelennor Fields, and he starts talking about the flowers, and the mythology behind the flowers, and at some point, teenage me just sighed and skipped ahead to somewhere in the first half of The Return of the King. I've not been able to reread the trilogy without skipping through that part; I just don't have the patience to read all that again. “But that's so important because it foreshadows—,” I hear the Tolkien mega-fan start to scream. I cut them off: “Don't care. Ain't nobody got time for that.”

 

[payn]

I realized I didn't actually care for The Lord of the Rings on my second read-through. There's a point in The Two Towers, where Tolkien is describing the Pelennor Fields, and he starts talking about the flowers, and the mythology behind the flowers, and at some point, teenage me just sighed and skipped ahead to somewhere in the first half of The Return of the King. I've not been able to reread the trilogy without skipping through that part; I just don't have the patience to read all that again. “But that's so important because it foreshadows—,” I hear the Tolkien mega-fan start to scream. I cut them off: “Don't care. Ain't nobody got time for that.”

Oh man, those second and third books are so boring. An absolute chore to read.

 

[Ryujin]

So what you're saying is ... the Bard goes to the back of the book?

...That's a good first step!

That Bard belonged in the back of the book. Can't agree about later incarnations.

 

[Snarf Zagyg]

I realized I didn't actually care for The Lord of the Rings on my second read-through. There's a point in The Two Towers, where Tolkien is describing the Pelennor Fields, and he starts talking about the flowers, and the mythology behind the flowers, and at some point, teenage me just sighed and skipped ahead to somewhere in the first half of The Return of the King. I've not been able to reread the trilogy without skipping through that part; I just don't have the patience to read all that again. “But that's so important because it foreshadows—,” I hear the Tolkien mega-fan start to scream. I cut them off: “Don't care. Ain't nobody got time for that.”

Tolkien is for people that think they love literature, but can't be bothered to read real books.


.....I'll see myself out now.

 

[CleverNickName]

Tolkien is for people that think they love literature, but can't be bothered to read real books.


.....I'll see myself out now.

 

[Alzrius]

Tolkien is for people that think they love literature, but can't be bothered to read real books.


.....I'll see myself out now.

We know your opinion isn't credible on this topic, Snarf. After all, you're still not over how the guy who killed Smaug was named Bard.