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Well Pictland + Dal Riada == Scotland, so they definitely gelled with the Celts there!
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(Quote) And if this is Arthur retold, where's the vision of what could be? Bingo!
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(Quote) The latter
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(Quote) It's been a minute since I read that last.
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I think the subject matter could be the basis of a very interesting game if it were handled correctly. Certainly any roleplayer worth their salt would demolish the obsessive brooding darkness with hilarious hijinks and innate silliness.
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The sudden ending bothered me in an 'I was left hanging, now we'll never know..." sense, but far stronger was the relief that I didn't have to read more of this story. Thank God this was written before fantasy novels were required to be Family …
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I did not enjoy reading this book. It grated and felt lifeless, sullen and angry and hopeless. I could not bring myself to care whether any of the characters lived or died. The constant use of archaeologisms for effect merely distracted me from the …
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I agree most with @RichardAbbott's take. If anyone in this story made me feel empathy it was a few of the lesser characters, but probably if they had been fleshed out they would have been just as dour and bleak as the main characters.
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I addressed this in my comment on Q1, I think, so I will not repeat it.
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Interesting! The historical references to Picts do not mention this, so probably it is a manifestation of English racism. Thank you.
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The responses kind of moved off from the question here, but I feel that is most likely because Apocryphal's response nailed the probable cause right away, and was generally accepted. For the record, I didn't think of that, and do agree with Apocryph…
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The unrelenting brutality of the setting - embraced as normal by both sides - made me think of both current Grimdark settings and the role playing game FATAL. A fascination for nastiness for nastiness' sake and complete lack of humor or frivolity. I…
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Ruan is a male name in Irish, it means 'red', and is the same word as 'roan', the red horse coloring. I actually was using it in my current Magitech Kingdom playtest campaign, before I read harkfast. 'Harkfast' is, I am totally sure, made up by Rae.
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"Time and tide wait for no man..." The Dragon service takes this a step or seven further. The other dragons were born into this culture, so it is a part of them, and only Temeraire sees it from the outside. Laurence can see the Dragon Ride…
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(Quote) Temeraire is the Noble Savage, who does not see the Emperor's new clothes at all, and remarks on it, but then he is a savage, however noble...
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(Quote) In the Aubrey-Maturin novels the two principals call each other 'dear' all the time. I just think men weren't afraid of showing affection to their friends back then.
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Most D&D and Warhammer is done with figures. I have never run a game that way.
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I developed my game based solely on the ideas in the book we read, the first in the series. I had not read any of the sequels - there were none yet IIRC. The In Harm's Way series of games are military RPGs, and this was based on the military aspects…
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I loved the oiginal, and thus I read many of the following series, enjoying them less and less as they went on, to where I just dropped it before the conclusion.
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(Quote) Bingo
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This is a case of "... write the story as you would want to do it, then go back and remove the first chapter or two". Novik did not want to write about the long species war and skipped it.
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Agree with Neil here across the board
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Having read far into the series when they were released, I can confirm Apocryphal's insight. Novik is a great fan of both the Maturin-Aubrey naval series, and the Jane Austen books.
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I'm almost finished re-reading as well. I will be happy to do Harkfast in July.
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And nothing I can really add here.
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Nothing I can add here.
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In the main I do not think they were particularly visionary where technology was concerned. The places where their stories contained anything like modern tech were mostly where someone read their stories and emulated it. But they understood the futu…
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I think he's being pretentious after the fact. Probably read Dhalgren and thinks that's what he was doing all along...
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I read a lot of cyberpunk back in the day. Cyberpunk was indeed about repression and rebellion, but the rebellion was personal - a person rebelling against a reality they did not -could not - accept. They was no expectation of winning. Never. Everyo…