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Brandon Sanderson / Re: Ask Brandon
« on: November 28, 2005, 08:38:39 PM »
Yay! It's not Poche! I've refused to read some of the books they've translated simply because the covers were so disturbing. I know you should judge a book by its cover, but really, abstract nude people on the covers of LeGuin's Earthsea series really didn't make me want to read their translations of it... Thank goodness that Calmann-Lévy tends to do good covers.

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Webcomics & Free Stuff / Re: Webcomics You Read Regularly
« on: November 28, 2005, 04:58:18 AM »
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it's actually .org not .com


Thanks Spriggan. I fixed the link so it works correctly now. This is what happens when I visit there so often I just have to type "u" and my computer fills in the rest of the address for me instead of having to pay attention. hehe. Sorry!

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Brandon Sanderson / Re: Ask Brandon
« on: November 27, 2005, 02:52:50 PM »
I'm curious about the French version. Who picked it up over there? Release date? Are they going to go directly to paperback or come out with hardback too? That sort of thing. Also, are they going to redo the art for the cover? I really hope they don't redo the cover art. The cover here is gorgeous, but my main reason for hoping they don't is that I haven't seen too many French covers on translations of fantasy that aren't absolutely hideous, completely unrelated to the book, or both.

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Role-Playing Games / Re: Campaign Setting Speculation
« on: November 27, 2005, 02:40:22 PM »
I'd say it is possible. However, it'll depend heavily on how good of a GM you are since it would be up to you to keep the plot moving and the players interested. As for justification of why events are occuring in that one small area, you could have the campaign's events a small part of a larger picture, a castle under seige, a monostary in quarantine, etc. The possibilities are there if you can manage to pull it off.

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Everything Else / Re: Geek Girls Survival Guide #2
« on: November 26, 2005, 04:11:52 AM »
As my GM's fiance ;D I always try to get him to tell me what's going to happen, give me cool stuff, etc. After all, if you're not cheating you're not trying hard enough, right? Unfortunately he doesn't go for it... In retaliation I once went and screwed up his entire campaign by siding with the bad guy and trying to kill of the other PCs (I was one die short! One! It's still painful to think about.).

Anyways, that girl at Dragon's Keep mentioned in the article wouldn't happen to have been tall, blond, and fairly skinny, would she?

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Rants and Stuff / Re: another spam rant
« on: November 26, 2005, 03:47:40 AM »
Well at least they got the CIA's Office of Public Affairs address, phone number, and hours right. :P

If that's any consolation...

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Webcomics & Free Stuff / Re: Webcomics You Read Regularly
« on: November 26, 2005, 03:37:26 AM »
I'm a big fan of User Friendly. It may not be the most plot intensive webcomic, best drawn, or even the funniest, but I think it's absolutely hilarious and Dust Puppy is so cute! I really need to get a plush Dust Puppy one of these days...

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Role-Playing Games / Re: Campaign Setting Speculation
« on: November 26, 2005, 03:25:18 AM »
My favorite campaign ever was a single location campaign actually, held in one city (ok, so I left the city once when I got kidnapped but I blame one of the other PCs for that, not the GM) . I think they can work really well if you drive the plot forward with character interaction, intrigue, local events, etc. rather than by having a changing landscape and the goal of the campaign to get cool stuff. It was nice to be able to get to know a single place really well actually. Our was a political intrigue campaign so there was only minimal combat too, which makes it a bit unusual. Of course, with this type of campaign you do run the risk of having a female player fall in love with the bad guy, betraying the rest of the PCs, and taking over the city... ::)

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Role-Playing Games / Re: Your favorite setting...
« on: November 24, 2005, 11:27:35 PM »
I believe he's in Iraq at the moment with the Army... that was the last I heard at the very least.

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Role-Playing Games / Re: Your favorite setting...
« on: November 24, 2005, 01:37:45 PM »
The thing about Weryth that turns a lot of people away is that the book doesn't give you every single detail about the countries. It leaves a lot up to your imagination and what's in the book is really just a framework. I happen to really like being given that flexibility to create anything I like.

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Role-Playing Games / Re: Your favorite setting...
« on: November 24, 2005, 06:16:18 AM »
I absolutely love Weryth of The Riddle of Steel. There's just such a diversity of culture and languages across the entire continent that practically anything is possible. I've been playing in it with my regular TROS group for about two years now and we haven't gotten bored with it yet, even though we've really only touched about a quarter of it so far. It's a rough world, loosly based on the medival world where magic is rare and very very dangerous. One of the things I like best about it though is that each country has its own point of view- there aren't any purely good or evil nations, which makes it more realistic.

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Site News / Re: Introduce yourself - right on!
« on: November 24, 2005, 05:56:52 AM »
Wow, this is a great place to come when you can't get to sleep! Like so many others here, I'm a student at BYU. I took Brandon's creative writing class last winter semester, read Elantris when it came out, and am not-so-patiently waiting for Mistborn.  ;) I'm working on my Linguistics BA at the momen. I'm currently involved in a campaign of The Riddle of Steel, reading about 4 books at once, writing my senior thesis, planning my wedding, and amist it all slowly working on my own novel.

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