Wheel of Time - Anyone Playing?

[ragboy]

I've heard no credible sources. The main problem is that there'd be no way to adapt the entire series to film. You'd have to do something very limited, like JUST The Eye of the World.

Bah! If you took out all the 'Rand sat and thought' (45 pages), 'Elayne fumed and espoused how she couldn't possibly love Rand' (350 pages), 'Perrin doubted himself, introspectively' (999 pages), you could do a 30-minute TV movie of the whole darn series!

I'm joking, of course. I really liked the first handful of the books, but never could finish Winter Heart and can't even remember what happened in the book before that. Seems like everyone was sitting and waiting for something to happen and then the book ran out.

The RPG was beautifully designed and illustrated and had the feel of the world down really well (imho). It's such a multi-faceted world that it seemed quite an accomplishment for WotC to get all of that into two books. I never got to play it, so I can't speak to balance and mechanics.

 

[ragboy]

Sorry! Doublepost.

 

[Neo]

It seems to me that with such a following and a strong fanbase (Otherwise there would not be so many novels in the series) that there should be a friggin' movie. Is there any chance of such?

There was a computer Game at one point (never played it myself though).. a movie would be nice but I havent seen or heard any rumours of such or of anyone obtaining the rights to do so.. but then I am only one person and the internet is a veritable miasma of rumours and hidden info.

 

[cignus_pfaccari]

You mean Winter's Heart. As per above, there are no major events in Crossroads of Twilight. I'm not sure there are any minor events in Crossroads of Twilight.

Ouch. That's COLD. True, too.

Oh, the WoT game, aside from loving channelers entirely too much, is not bad at all. The blademaster is really nice, and I hear it gets used in D&D games a fair amount. The adventure is more of a railroad than the Union Pacific, though.

Brad

 

[scourger]

Our group found the game to be broken. The "fighter" is more powerful than the other classes, and the "magic user" is even more powerful than that. The module is written to make the PCs bit players watching the events of some of the books unfold. We quit without even finishing the adventure.

 

[GSHamster]

It sounds like you (Frukathka) are the DM and haven't read the novels, while your players have read them. I'd really recommend that you read the novels first, so that you're on the same page as your players.

Unfortunately, reading the novels is a large time investment. Jordan really needs an editor. Take The New Spring prequel, as an example. It was originally a short story / novella in Legends, which got expanded out. The novella is actually fairly good, but the full-length novel adds nothing, and just wastes your time.

 

[kingpaul]

Unfortunately, reading the novels is a large time investment. Jordan really needs an editor.

I thought he had one...his wife.

Take The New Spring prequel, as an example. It was originally a short story / novella in Legends, which got expanded out. The novella is actually fairly good, but the full-length novel adds nothing, and just wastes your time.

Well, I didn't read the short story / novella, but I own, and have read, the book. I thought the book was pretty good.

 

[kingpaul]

You mean Winter's Heart. As per above, there are no major events in Crossroads of Twilight. I'm not sure there are any minor events in Crossroads of Twilight.

That book was rather painful for me to read. I didn't see it do anything. The last couple, IMO, have dropped in interest value. If the next book, whenever that may be, comes out, and is as painful as CoT, I don't know if I'll finish the series out.

 

[Angel Tarragon]

You are absolutely right GSHamster. My players have read the novels. They dont own them, they use the publicly library quite heavily. I am in a position to do the same if interest in playing doesn't fade. The only problem is, as yoiu so bluntly put, is that it will take time to read the novels. I've seen a few of them. They are definetly thick.

My problem is that my players have read every WoT novel to date. I don't the luxury to do that if they want to start playing soon. Even reading 7 of the 11 books can be draining. However, I'm going to try to read as many of them as I can in as short a time as possible. Luckily, I have all my hours of all my days to do with as I wish. Why I spend most of them here at ENWorld and waiting for webpages to load is beyond me.

Oh, well. Guess I'll be off to the library tomorrow to get the first book in the series.

 

[garyh]

You guys are right, the major event I was thinking of happened at the end of Winter's Heart, not Crossroads. As many have said, NOTHING happened in Crossroads...