Lord Mhoram

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Agreed. That scene really made me grin. I have the second book (of the Final series) but I haven't read it yet; I want to be able to read the whole series all the way through. Let me know when the final book is out' date=' will ya? [/quote']

 

He's been about 2 years between books on this series and the 3rd one came out about a year ago, so late this year or early next I suspect. I hit his website's forum. I'll let ya know.

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I disagree with you, therefore, by internet rules you are WRONG!!!!

 

"Retool" or "Radiation Accident" might be better.

 

What I mean is that

1) The events up through GS allow most of the accumulated dangling and tired sub plots to be retired.

2) Harry has, in DnD terms, "shaken hands with a spectre." He's been knocked back from "cosmic" to "street" level experience wise.

 

Basically, Dresdenverse has jelled, and Harry is now, again, a Wizard PI; but to give just one example his relationship with his Fairy Godmother has been defined.

 

OK, back on our regular topic: I liked Andromeda, all except for the very last season. Even I thought that one stunk.

I can see that.

I think the first season of Andromeda some of the best SF TV out there.

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The book before the current one ends on a cliffhanger' date=' and the one on sale now is a massive RESET. Not a bad reset, but it really changes things.[/quote']

 

Reset wouldn't be the term I'd use - to me reset implies "return to the way it was" and Changes +GS was defiantly not that.

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I'm currently reading the last book.

I haven't read the 3rd book in the last Chronicles of Thomas Covenant yet. I'm going to wait for the 4th book, and read them all straight through. I've read books 1 and 2 though.

One of the bits I really liked about the start of that series - when Linden realized that she was going back to the land- the first thing she does? Gets a really nice pair of hiking books and some really tough jeans. I loved that.

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Well' date=' there are tournament formats for booster drafts, or for taking a starter and X number of boosters and building a deck on the spot. Those still introduce some luck, but test your on the spot deck building skills (vs. copying a popular deck style) and tend to even the field. On the plus side, you usually get to keep the cards after it's over.[/quote']

 

Trust me, I know the formats. I managed a game/comic shop for 5 years.

 

I just don't like draft. I like constructed, and I like access to all the playing pieces. I'm not a competitive player, I just play for fun... well played - it's been years since I looked at magic.

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There's a difference between selling games and making money at it' date=' and devising something that looks like a game but is actually calculated to milk people of money.[/quote']

 

It's why I never played in formal Tourneys - I and the friends I played Magic with would use Proxies. All the game pieces, none of the cost.

 

And I agree with you - I tend not to like collectible games, because if I am playing a game, I wan access to all the pieces.

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I think Lord Mhoram and I have the distinction of being the only living fans of the Thomas Covenant books.

There are a bunch. It's just the books can be so divisive it's seems that way.

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Not really a cred destroyer but of all the people that I have known IRL who were fantasy fans' date=' I was the only one of them that actually read the Elric books, [/quote']

 

I'm sorry you lost the lottery of all those people, and given that punishment.

 

 

I read them, and that was when I realized I wasn't a masochist - I didn't ever want to read them again. And I am not a sadist, as I have never recommended them to anyone.

 

 

 

No I don't like Elric (or Moorecock's work in general).

 

I don't know if I mentioned it up thread. I dislike Howard, I detest Elric, and I couldn't get through 3 books of Fafrd/Mouser. All in all, that was when I realized Swords and Sorcery was something that just wasn't for me.

Re: Why I prefer HERO System over Pathfinder/OGL/D&D for fantasy

 

I stick with Hero because I know it exceptionally well, and it works well for any genre. It may not work *better* than a genre-specific game; I do think it works better than any other game for *the set of all genres*, but that's not a big deal in my decision. Mostly, it's just that neither the strengths of other games, nor the weaknesses of the Hero System, are significant enough to me to entice me to switch. :-)

On RPG net the value of universal systems to games tailored to genre - and a lot of it comes down to "The specific system do better genre emulation" and the idea of learning new games vs "It emulates the genre well enough for me" and the ease of mastering a single system.

What you just posted is almost verbatim some things I've said over there. Good call.

Re: BOOK OF THE EMPRESS Kickstarter

Went over finances. Will be able to pledge in two weeks when I get paid. Woo hoo! Only a few days before it closes, but I can actually do it. And it will be the first 6E book I buy.

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Oh yeah - I don't play board games. Regular Hasbro or Parker brothers types, or European ones like Ticket to Ride or Settlers. Just don't like games where the players play against each other.

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I've never played a CCG nor even touched a deck.

I only started when I worked at a comic/RPG/CCG store, and it was good customer service to have a deck or two handy to play when someone came in. Of course anyone in the store as a customer or at the register always took precedence (and I let anyone I was gaming with of this rule, so I'd drop my hand in the middle of turn and everything went on hold).

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Okay, here's to destroying my music geek cred:

 

I think Paul McCartney was a better songwriter than John Lennon. ("Yesterday", "Hey Jude", "Eleanor Rigby", etc.)

I agree with you on that one.

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I've never seen an episode of X-Files, Lost, or Heroes, and I have no particular desire to change that fact.

 

I've only read two books by Heinlein: Starship Troopers and The Cat Who Walks Through Walls. I enjoyed them both...but not enought to seek out his other works.

 

Yeah - I don't care for Heinlein myself except his early juvinile novels - Have Spacesuit will travel, starman jones - those were good.

I tried Time enough for Love, Number of the Beast, Friday, Stranger in a Strange land and Job. Couldn't finish a single one of those - and I tend to make myself finish books, but hated each of those so much, I couldn't do it.

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Just finished re-watching seasons 1 and 2 of Deep Space 9. While uneven it was better than I remember. I know that things pick up in season three, and then Worf Shows up in season 4.

Best start trek series of them all.

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We really gotta find you some hard SF that doesn't suck.

I like some niven, and I really liked Robert Forward's Dragon's egg.

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Who comes on top? Batman according to the majority of people out there. Which annoys me. He should be getting his butt kicked by most of the higher powered people out there. If a particularly ruthless psychic wanted to, they would kill Batman outright. Brain: off. Just as an example.

 

Batman can be cool, but he's way overrated and conceptually lost in memes. Screw Batman in his caped posterior.

There is an X-men panel (I wish I could find it, but cannot) where wolverine rushes in and get "Logan Wait, he's had preptime" and the next panel is wolvering flying miles out and the sound effect of it is BAATMAAAAAN

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Someone who is bored of the X-Files is tired of life. And I can do something about that - Death Tribble

 

I guess I got tired of life after about 4 episodes.

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+1

 

 

 

Well, we were in full agreement until this.

I like my star wars a little goofy and lighthearted. Empire is my least favorite of the original trilogy and I liked Attack of the clones more than Empire, and Revenge about the same (it's also a little dark).

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I've never really understood the HUGE fanbase response to Harry Potter or Firefly/Serenity.

I think a lot of HP is what happened socially and the timing.

Childrens books had been dominated by sterile stories with a message - the kind that dominate the Newbury Awards. Trouble is it wasn't any fun - not fun to read, not fun to imagine.

Then HP came along, and it was fun again. So younguns started reading them. A lot. Then parent are "what is this that actually makes my kids read" and they read then - to be able to talk about it with their kids, or read it to the ones to young to read. And they liked them. After that start it just snowballed and became a cultural zietgiest. And the movies would not have been so huge if the books didn't already have such a huge impact, and it drew it the people that didn't read the books and many of those liked the movie.

The books are well crafted, and Rowling gets better at writing as they go. The films are solid - if not great, especially early on - and get a pass because of the huge social impact.

That is my thoughts anyway.

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The spakly vampires didn't bother me at all.

In Dracula vampires were supernaturally evil.

In Salem's lot they were evil, but it wasn't the holy symbols it was the faith in them

Anne Rice killed any relation to God at all.

I saw Sparkly as just the next step.

Actually as a champions player I sort of liked it - it was like "What are the classic vampire schticks - strong, fast, durable, cold the the touch, cannot go out in the sun (or at least don't like to - Dracula did)... what could explain that- having a body made of gemstones would do - which means the sun thing is the masqurade - it's their secret.

I like the resoning from effect - Vampire power - and coming up with a single SFX that tied it together.

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Most of mine have already been touched on by others. But I do have one nobody else has given. I found the League of Extraordinary Gentlemen movie to be better than the comic. Much more entertaining.

I'll second that.

I hate the writer. He's only done 1 halfway decent comic.

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I thought the new My Little Pony was cute, but I don't feel a real need to watch it. I don't see what the big deal is.

That brings up one for me - I never had GI joe toys, or Transformer toys, never read the comics, never watched the cartoons. The first time I watched any media related to the two franchises were the recent live action movies. I liked them a lot.

I liked the Ewoks too, and didn't mind Jar Jar Binks at all.

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I have never watched Dr Who. Tried years ago and it bored me to tears.

I thought Buffy was boring - never watched Angel.

I like the TV mini of the Shining much more than the theatrical release.

2001 was boring.

I hate Song of fire and Ice, but I sort like the Wheel of Time.

I hate Swords and Sorcery in any form (don't like Howard's writing at all - I also don't like Lieber or Moorcock).

X-files was pretty boring - I couldn't get into it at all.

I like the Star Wars Prequels, I like the Matrix Sequels.

I have never played a console game online, nor a computer game online. My first MMO was only a month ago with CoH - a coworker talked me into it, and I don't play for the combat, I'm in a Roleplay Heavy supergroup - and as I can't make my normal weekly face to face game sessions this is an okay fill in until I can.

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Tucker and Dale vs Evil - not usually my kind of movie, but this was really funny.