Bregales said:
Good to have you back. I'd say good to see you back, but your avatar picture doesn't show - I miss those pics :wink:
Yeah, I'm on a different computer and have been too lazy to get my nifty Gene "Match Game" Rayburn avatar back (I saved it on disk somewhere before I moved).
It's good to be back, even if I'm a bit out of touch with everything that's happened here (and with what's been published for the game) since early last year. Real life may be a pain, LOL, but without it, you got no need for fantasy. My best friend (and co-DM) flew down to visit me the other week, but we didn't game any. Just got so blind drunk on martinis we couldn't find our way out the mall... LOL! At least my buddy was so drunk he bought me George R.R. Martin's A Game of Thrones, which I'm just starting to read... It started off super-slow (after the prologue) and extremely confusing (too many characters, too many new details and words in the fantasy world), but it's starting to take off for me now around page 50+ (took me almost that long just to figure out Ned and Eddard were the same character, LOL, and that Catelyn was Ned's wife, not his daughter). Seems a bit padded for my taste, but I've been reading little but 1920s-30s hardboiled detective stories from Dashiell Hammett and Raymond Chandler and fast-paced 50s noir like David Goodis and Jim Thompson, not to mention Wagner's Dark Crusade and a John Maddox Roberts Conan pastiche (Conan And The Manhunters) that moved like a freight train. I'm just not used to reading these billion page epics. Never read Wheel of Time, frex. Never had any desire to. Seemed like too big of a commitment, both in time and cash, LOL. And padded all to hell just to sell more books. Didn't like reading Lord of the Rings either, for the same reason (at least past Fellowship of the Ring). Is it just me or do I sense a disturbance in the force motivating all these bulky multi-book epics? Used to be, a writer could tell his story in 300 pages or less (sometimes as little as 150!). Nowadays, just like with movie times getting longer (and not usually for the better), a writer's got to drag his story out for 800 pages or it's not an instant "classic". :roll: