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It was an enjoyable read when I was 13, I even have some fond memories that I will definitely not dispel by trying to open one of those trash novels as a bitter adult. I remember being awed at a character that was a clear villain and a devout supporter of an evil goddess but still a sympathetic and kind character unlike a lot of children's entertainment villains.
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I started my sword and sorcery adventure with Fafhrd and Gray Mouser stories at the age of maybe 11 so thank gods all the D&D adjacent garbage didn't spoil it for me until advanced age
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Aug 20, 2020 23:03
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Empty Sandwich posted:Are you Incredibly Old or is this like me discovering Lovecraft as a small child? Either way, I think you did it right. Reading Vance as a D&D proxy/inspiration is... not great. I have an old soul sonny. Nah I was growing up in a non-english environment and I just stumbled upon some pretty good poo poo like aforementioned Fafhrd and also Conan in my native tongue as a young child. Come to think of it I also read precisely one Drizzt novel as a teenager and the only thing I recall is titular elf not fuckin' to spite his parents.
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Aug 20, 2020 23:27
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Gologle posted:You seem like a man who would enjoy some Michael Moorcock Heard about him but never got into it. Discworld is pretty much all the fantasy I've ever needed. Then again I do disappoint every D&D group I participate in by making Rincewind
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Aug 20, 2020 23:36
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Spazzle posted:All corporate fiction sucks. None of it is good. I only read punk fiction written on the bridge by local drug afficionadoes
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Aug 20, 2020 23:46
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Turning into stone when you die has to be the dumbest special ability ever lmao Now the memories start flowing back, wasn't there a whole continent of weaboo minotaurs swinging katanas
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Aug 20, 2020 23:50
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There's nothing wrong with a whole race of r-worded dwarfs, at least it breaks Tolkien's mold
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Aug 21, 2020 00:14
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And there was a manchild elf prince who wasn't secretly a manchild but a leader of la resistance who only pretended to be a manchild to fool his evil scheming vizier who just happened to be a dragon
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Aug 21, 2020 00:18
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Raistlins large adult brother became a fat sad alcoholic but then they just had to send him back in time to go to a fake gladiator fat camp
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Aug 21, 2020 00:21
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Kender represent a Mormon caricature of communist hobbite
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Aug 21, 2020 00:24
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That's the point of being a wizard tho. Wizards that gently caress are a blight upon the genre, all magic users aside from clerics are obsessed weirdo losers
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Aug 21, 2020 00:26
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I thought he was just a nerd who meddled with things no mortals wot of and became even shittier as a result. Tbh I don't think I ever read the original novels, just the series titled dragons of *some celestial body* I think and the ones where they go back in time and a gully dwarf almost fucks raistlin
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Aug 21, 2020 00:31
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I don't have anything else to add about kenders they were barely featured in the books I read as a child  But given the writers backgrounds one can only imagine
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Aug 21, 2020 00:36
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I'm pretty sure they used a lance to kill some dragons so idk maybe the real Dragonlance were all the friends they made along the way?
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Aug 21, 2020 00:37
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Lmao Cardamom is such a dumbass name
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Aug 21, 2020 00:39
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Ah yes "boss fights" really define what is and isn't a worthy piece of literature.
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Aug 21, 2020 00:43
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Big Beef City posted:...well it's a book about wizards written for children so I mean I'm not setting the bar SUPER high expecting "Hey remember the time the wizard blew up the dragon" to be a major plot point. I'm just trying out your gimmick and I gotta give it to you, it sucks!!!
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Aug 21, 2020 00:57
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Idk there was definitely at least one, maybe two dragons in the ones I read. One was pretending to be an elf 90% of the time but I think that still counts?
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Aug 21, 2020 01:00
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Empty Sandwich posted:poo poo, that sounds vaguely familiar. Is that the dude where he has 7 sparrows flying around him? But hang on The book I read had some kinda burny horse on a cover and there were a bunch of shut-in elves living in a magical dome who were secretly led by a racist green dragon disguised as an elf vizier. I think. It's been maybe 2 decades since I looked at that book
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Aug 21, 2020 01:14
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firrup posted:Take a small dwarf. Have it live in a cave covered in garbage instead of a mine. Give it an IQ below 60. Finally make it survive by scrounging through garbage and eating rats it has bashed to death with a stick. They're just hobbits who didn't figure out air vents for their disgusting moist worm holes
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Aug 21, 2020 18:02
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Idgi if you make a Faraday cage inside the microwave wouldn't it just not perform its function of heating poo poo up? The cage would just redirect all the energy to itself and likely void your warranty while making pretty sparks
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Aug 21, 2020 20:08
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Unless fertilized by devout good dragon in a holy matrimony with the egg layer, the eggs turn into evil orcs. Probably idk but I could see a Mormon writing that
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Aug 23, 2020 01:03
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Shageletic posted:How about a lizard monster bring flabbergasted by them This owns btw, I want Sasquatch/Merman/naked swordlady on a van.
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Aug 23, 2020 17:15
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Another real garbage book is the one with the armored polar bear. Golden compass?
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Aug 24, 2020 18:57
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What good is kids reading anyways? They are going to get all sorts of weird ideas, better not.
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Aug 25, 2020 12:18
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I've been revisiting Terry Pratchett in form of audiobooks and the quality definitely is consistent. I've spent probably hundreds of dollars buying the paperbacks when I was a high schooler but I don't think I've read anything TP wrote in 5-10 years before his death. Can't wait to get there...
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Aug 25, 2020 19:20
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ChubbyChecker posted:nightwatch was his best work, after that the quality plummets, but the next two books, monstrous regiment and going postal, are still readable Last ones I've read is unseen academicals and uh the wintersmith and they were still good.
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Aug 26, 2020 05:05
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"Sic semper tyrannosaurus", Rock Beefcake exclaimed, unloading the entire magazine of his high powered assault rifle into Caesar as the assembled would-be assassins clapped in admiration.
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Aug 26, 2020 05:32
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Imagine fawning over late Le Guin's work when she's the epitome of a white lady really into the Mysterious Orient  I kid, I kid, she's awesome.
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Aug 27, 2020 05:46
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Someone mentioned Farseer trilogy itt is it any good? I read the first book when I was in highschool and all I remember is a sad clown and some dude being angsty about getting laid and then faking his death.
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Aug 27, 2020 17:21
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The Night Watch (Russian one not TP) had a hilarious movie back in maybe 2003. The bad guy pulls out his spine and beats people up with them while good guys use fluorescent light bulbs as lightsabers
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Aug 27, 2020 19:57
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Slippery posted:I absolutely loved Going Postal, and I think its standalone nature might help someone decide if they want to get deeper into Discworld. Granted it doesn't have a lot of the 'standard' Discworld characters of course, but it's amazing and owns. Moving Pictures is also kinda like that. I just now finished going thru it for the first time since high school and honestly it didn't get any worse.
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Aug 28, 2020 22:03
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Just wait till you get into scifi authors 
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Aug 28, 2020 23:28
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Flared Basic Bitch posted:I read more than one coughsixcough before I realized I was reading a virgin nerd’s version of harlequin romances.  Butcher is cringy nerd bait.
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Aug 29, 2020 06:04
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I'm pretty sure Ged is black.
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Aug 29, 2020 17:15
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Everyone in the civilized world in earthsea is brown or black skinned and the whities are imperialist slave taker aztec-viking types who everyone hates, it owns
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Aug 29, 2020 17:22
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Galewolf posted:Did they also sucked at magic or straight up incapable of doing magic, which was implied that why they were never able to completely invade the south. I should read the fuckin' books again I think the A'tuan book made it pretty clear that their priesthood were very much against magic but idk if it ever went beyond that.
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Aug 29, 2020 17:40
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*squints* Oh yes I see Absalom riiiiight there
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Aug 29, 2020 20:39
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Lmao creative fiction writers are freaks
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Are horses oppressing anyone in this wild scenario?
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