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1994 Toyota Celica posted:i've always been curious about how much of what's portrayed in the books originally happened at a GURPS game https://malazan.fandom.com/wiki/Role-playing_Game_Origins_of_the_Malazan_Series There's a list of gamed events near the bottom.
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# ? Mar 28, 2019 01:32 |
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# ? Jun 3, 2024 19:48 |
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Oh wow...TBH, it would have been interesting if Turban Orr ended up winning that duel. Yikes. "what would it be like to die over and over again?" DARK SOULS
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# ? Mar 28, 2019 03:55 |
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Knobb Manwich posted:My god, how can y'all talk about the cool poo poo a new reader should stumble across for themselves so openly? What makes drizzt do'rake good is having him unfold over time. Well, the new reader should blame himself for going here. Given that the series have been out 10+ years and was completed a couple of years back it is kinda silly to spoiler everything.
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# ? Mar 28, 2019 05:54 |
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NoNotTheMindProbe posted:I enjoyed it quite a bit although for all the moving parts it still didn't manage to reach the same clusterfuck levels of a Peter F Hamilton novel. I can't tell if you mean that as a good thing or a bad thing.
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# ? Mar 28, 2019 06:55 |
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Half and half. I like Hamilton when he gets going but he needs to let his big messy stories have big messy endings instead of trying to tie everything up with a bow.
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# ? Mar 28, 2019 09:16 |
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Knobb Manwich posted:My god, how can y'all talk about the cool poo poo a new reader should stumble across for themselves so openly? What makes drizzt do'rake good is having him unfold over time. I feel the thread's been quite good at reining in the spoilers - I don't consider "this seemingly one-note guy has way more depth than you think" a spoiler.
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# ? Mar 28, 2019 12:44 |
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Guyver posted:https://malazan.fandom.com/wiki/Role-playing_Game_Origins_of_the_Malazan_Series
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# ? Mar 28, 2019 14:35 |
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I do love that Karsa's meeting with Binadas went down the way it did because Karsa's player was completely fed up with condescending foreigners.
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# ? Mar 29, 2019 19:39 |
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1994 Toyota Celica posted:I do love that Karsa's meeting with Binadas went down the way it did because Karsa's player was completely fed up with condescending foreigners.
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# ? Mar 29, 2019 19:51 |
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Steven Erikson posted:The God is Not Willing
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# ? Apr 1, 2019 06:02 |
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Holy poo poo I'm psyched for this to come out
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# ? Apr 1, 2019 08:14 |
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Deadhouse Gates Prologue & chapters 1-2 Laseen has gone full Stalin and is purging all the local Kulaks and Trotskyites including Ganoe's little sister. The other sister got the brainworms though. Chapter 1 opens with a furry and a half-Jaghut (which half?) wandering through a desert. The Soletaken and D'ivers changelings are all heading for a gate into the Warren dimensions that's going to open soon. I wonder if Anomander Rake will show up? It looks like this book is set only a year or so after the first one as Crokus and Apsalar are back with some of the bridge burners. There's not a huge amount to talk about yet as Erikson is following the same pattern of the first book where he introduces a bunch of stuff and fills in details over the course of the story. It is clear that some new Imam is going to appear and launch a Jihad against Malazan and poo poo's probably going to go down when all the furries reach the magic gate.
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# ? Apr 1, 2019 09:28 |
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Infinite Karma posted:Who hasn't had a few RPG moments where you're fed up with getting jerked around, and go on a rampage that's a bit of an overreaction? It's odd to me that Studlock and co aren't on the "characters played" list. They've got that frantic larger-than-life feel I'd expect from a goofy Halloween one-shot. And the "confrontation decided by a single diceroll" is surely (Toll the Hounds spoiler) Murillio and Councilman Absolute Fucker?
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NoNotTheMindProbe posted:I enjoyed it quite a bit although for all the moving parts it still didn't manage to reach the same clusterfuck levels of a Peter F Hamilton novel. Anamander Rake was by far my least favourite character. Yes, he is actually a Drow edgelord with a big edgelord sword, and he can even turn into a dragon. In a story full of powerful wizards and monsters he still managed to feel like a fan-fiction character. Nah he's Elric++. It's so blatant I take it as an homage. efb Cardiac posted:Anomander Rake is Eriksons version of Elric. Seriously though, he's so Elric it hurts.
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Strom Cuzewon posted:And the "confrontation decided by a single diceroll" is surely (Toll the Hounds spoiler) Murillio and Councilman Absolute Fucker? Isn't it Traveler doming Rake ?
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# ? Apr 3, 2019 10:46 |
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NoNotTheMindProbe posted:Episodes 8-10 The Imperial Warren is: basically Kallor killing the continent of Jacuruku, and Krul taking all the devistation and bringing it into himself and making a warren of the damage. https://malazan.fandom.com/wiki/Jacuruku
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# ? Apr 3, 2019 13:21 |
CoolHandMat posted:The Imperial Warren is:
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# ? Apr 4, 2019 11:11 |
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I'm a little over halfway through Forge of Darkness and discovering that the Tiste Liosan are actually a bigger bunch of brain-damaged assholes than I'd previously guessed. And how Osserc is actually the perfect leader for them, the massive man-baby with daddy issues that he is. They're basically a walking "hubris!" punchline at this point. I'm curious to see just how much more stupid they can get over the next book-and-a-half
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# ? Apr 5, 2019 19:25 |
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I mean they've been that since whichever book when a sapper just lobs a cusser at the war party
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# ? Apr 5, 2019 19:55 |
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It's not their fault that the tiste are fundamentally flawed. It's Draconus' fault for loving up their creation. Elves are always a bad idea.
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# ? Apr 6, 2019 22:05 |
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kingturnip posted:I'm a little over halfway through Forge of Darkness and discovering that the Tiste Liosan are actually a bigger bunch of brain-damaged assholes than I'd previously guessed. The flashback in tCG with Kallor confronting Serapp's grandson amongst the Liosan is one of my favourite scenes. Some of the most loathsome bastards in the entire series, and Erikson manages to squeeze some pity and compassion from the reader. Any scene with either of them in is pretty great, so to have 'em all together is just wonderful.
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# ? Apr 6, 2019 22:32 |
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Deadhouse Gates, Chapters 3 - 5 Felisin and the other purged people get sent to the gulag. None of these trio seem very likeable. That's understandable for Felisin as she is a teenager but the other two are also kind of jerks. The big reveal is that Shadowthrone and Cotillion are the ascended forms of the old emperor and his friend. This reveal would have been more impactful had we spent much time with any of these characters in the previous book. There was also a massive animal battle in the T'lan Imass warren. Why are all the changelings obsessed with the magic gate if they can travel through warrens already? Also Kalam did Chapters 6 - 10 The Whirlwind rebellion kicks off and mostly results in all our characters wandering around prairies and deserts for this section of the book. Heboric touches a big jade statue. Maybe a frozen god trapped in all the otataral? Erikson spends quite a few words describing the predicament of Coltaine's army but brushed over the fact that the Whirlwind has conscripted all the people from the cities. Their rebellion won't last long without a civilian base to provide logistical support. It seems to me that the rebel are in the same situation as the Mezlas. The whole ghost ship plotline is a bit of a departure from the main story. New Tiste Edur are revealed and T'lan Imass fix a hole in reality. Maybe they can sail to the magic gate from here?
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# ? Apr 8, 2019 10:36 |
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NoNotTheMindProbe posted:
It's an especially weird reveal given that it's mostly based on a) Kellanved and Dancer, the famous assassin, vanished mysteriously 11 years ago, b) the House of Shadow mysteriously "woke up" in some way 11 years ago and c) Shadow has the Patron of Assassins. Which is all thoroughly common knowledge. Nobody else managed to figure it out in all that time?
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# ? Apr 8, 2019 18:23 |
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I always felt like that twist gets dropped so early in Deadhouse Gates because Erikson expected readers would have figured it out in Gardens and they didn't.
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# ? Apr 8, 2019 18:51 |
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Well to be fair Kellanved was using Shadow throughout his life, it wasn't like Shadow only became a thing right after they disappeared. Also the assumption was that they were assassinated by Surly, people aren't really looking for another explanation. Also also they didn't reappear immediately after their disappearance during the Night of Knives.
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# ? Apr 8, 2019 19:38 |
The Ninth Layer posted:I always felt like that twist gets dropped so early in Deadhouse Gates because Erikson expected readers would have figured it out in Gardens and they didn't. Of course, this being Kellanved, most of it is misdirection.
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# ? Apr 8, 2019 19:43 |
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Also did anyone else notice the giant retcon over the founding date of the empire and hence ages of all the old guard in Kellanved's Reach? The 0 date is reckoned from the birth of Kellanved not his assumption of the throne. He plays at being 120 years old but is actually 20, so they compromise at 70. For example that means in the prologue in GoTm year 96 is really only one generation after taking Quon Tali, and Gardens seven years after that.
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# ? Apr 8, 2019 19:48 |
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Post/describe how you pictured characters in your mind, I'll start Tavore was the chick from Willow Icarium was Abe Quick Ben was that guy from The Incredibles voiced by Sam Jackson
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# ? Apr 8, 2019 19:55 |
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The Malazan Book of the Fallen: mostly results in all our characters wandering around prairies and deserts for this section of the book.
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# ? Apr 8, 2019 20:02 |
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There is a rich history of characters in fantasy walking through and noticing terrain
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# ? Apr 8, 2019 20:13 |
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my reread's getting towards the end of Reaper's Gale. the Awl sections are truly rich with excellent scenes of wandering around a prairie
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# ? Apr 8, 2019 21:35 |
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I imagined Karsa as Kratos because I’m shallow.
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# ? Apr 8, 2019 23:54 |
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Karsa is basically rapist Half-Nazi Conan the Barbarian. I say Half-Nazi because half-Toblakai is good enough for him. He's one of the most loathsome, albeit entertaining, characters in the series.
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# ? Apr 9, 2019 00:01 |
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Ben Nerevarine posted:Post/describe how you pictured characters in your mind, I'll start An old post I made Tokelau All Star posted:
Tokelau All Star fucked around with this message at 07:06 on Apr 9, 2019 |
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To me, Kruppe has always been played by Ian McNeice (Baron Harkonnen in the Dune miniseries, and the town crier in Rome). He's taller than Kruppe is described but otherwise perfect.
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# ? Apr 9, 2019 10:36 |
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Krupp as Sallah I find pretty fitting. Baron Harkonnen just feels too fat/slow and not jovial.
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# ? Apr 9, 2019 19:58 |
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Tokelau All Star posted:An old post I made Good ones. I feel the Cid/Whiskeyjack one deeply. I pictured Kruppe like Dustin Hoffman in Hook except fatter and of course more jovial Caladan Brood is Garrosh from WoW Tiste Edur are the ash zombies from Morrowind. With faces. So gray Dunmer, I guess. Smiles is Nance from Edge of Tomorrow Young Grub is the baby from Baby's Day Out Ben Nerevarine fucked around with this message at 20:27 on Apr 9, 2019 |
# ? Apr 9, 2019 20:21 |
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Sallah is flawless for Kruppe, but this is just inspired. Ben Nerevarine posted:Icarium was Abe
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# ? Apr 9, 2019 20:27 |
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Yeah, add barely protruding tusks and that was exactly my image and I don't even know what that thing is
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If your Tavore isn’t Noomi Rapace you’re reading the drat series wrong. Although the Willow comparison is good, she’s way more openly emotional.
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