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Kreeblah
May 17, 2004

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A Nice Boy posted:

the next Locke Lamora book is in february

Uh, how firm is that date? Every "release date" I've seen posted for the next book seems to slip by.

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Kreeblah
May 17, 2004

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mastur posted:

So according to the Q&A, there will be a role playing game. I can't remember what system he quoted, but I think that "hero" was in the title.

Is that what that was about? I was stuck in the back, so I could barely hear anything. :(

Anyway, I'm thinking he may have meant this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hero_System

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BananaNutkins posted:

The Felurian parts exist because Rothfuss is riffing on the myth of Thomas the Rhymer. The sex scenes in those chapters really aren't that over the top, considering...

Ellen Kushner wrote a Thomas the Rhymer book that won the World Fantasy Award. It was basically Wise Man's Fear's Felurian bits WITHOUT anything else. She writes really well, but the book is complete porn.

http://www.amazon.com/Thomas-Rhymer-Ellen-Kushner/dp/0553586971

The only part that has bothered me so far is the Broken Tree chapter. It didn't seem to be a plausible use of the magic system when Kvothe "Grounds" a tree, which results in it being struck by a huge bolt of lightning? Isn't a tree pretty much as grounded as an object can get by virtue of it being in...the ground? I mean, I can see if he managed to lower the resistance of the tree. Wood is a bad conductor and electricity seeks the path of least resistance...I just don't understand why anything he did would have increased the likelihood of a massive lightning strike.

There's that stuff you mentioned, but he probably also jacked the potential difference to make drat sure the lightning hit it. I doubt he'd have thought about it in those terms, though. Essentially, he turned it into a reverse Tesla coil.

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