Reading Raymond E. Feist's Magician

[bunn]

Me : it's like all the women come from a really short catalogue of fantasy women. " I'll have three Feisty Ones, six Simpering Women, twenty anonymous Servants..."

philmophlegm (with sarcasm...) : "Well, what other types of fantasy women are there...?"

*ponders*

"Oh yes, Limara the She-Wildebeeste."

Am also amused by the chainmail concept : I imagine REF thinking "hmmm.  How could we make the One Ring even cooler?  Ooh, ooh,  we'll have lots of them and we'll knit them into chainmail armour and have someone wear it!  Take THAT JRRT! "

Comments

Re: a novelised RPG.

[bunn.livejournal.com]

It was published 1982, not 1882!

I'm prepared to make allowances for historical cultural differences, but for a man in 1982, even one immersed in a relatively male culture, to be writing like this is not, in my view, cultural, it's just poor, careless and clumsy character building. He's obviously read Tolkien, one assumes he has probably read Le Guin, so he must have some idea that characters can have more than one dimension.

Whether the book is based on a game or not should not make any difference to the quality of the character building : there is nothing intrinsic to any game that says characters must be onedimensional.

He's just not very good. He may be better now, I don't know, I've not read the rest of his stuff. But his not very goodness is nothing to do with 1982 or roleplaying, it's just him.

Re: a novelised RPG.

[lil-shepherd.livejournal.com]

Theoretically, you're right.

Unfortunately, I have yet to read a book plainly based on an RPG that was any good. Your mileage may vary.