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<LI><em>From</em>: Mike Sellers <<A HREF="mailto:mike#online-alchemy,com">mike#online-alchemy,com</A>></LI>
<LI><em>Date</em>: Sat, 13 Dec 1997 02:47:33 -0800</LI>
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At 08:57 PM 12/12/97 PST8PDT, Matt Chatterley wrote:
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>I'm also a collosal fan of Raymond E Feist, whose writings are very
>stylish, if a little gory and divulgery (is that actually a word?) in
>places.
Oddly enough, I got into gaming at all sort of because of Feist. I played
a few FRPGs in high school (during the '70s), but it didn't really take.
But then I began playing seriously (as in, every day -- it's amazing I
passed my classes) when I hit college. My roommate, the guy I learned from
and still one of the best DMs I know, played with Feist and his crew and
used a AD&D variant he called "Midkemia" in our adventures. Some of the
others in Feist's circle eventually created Midkemia Press in the early
'80s, which put out a few AD&D-ish supplements of varying quality and
_kept_ saying they were going to put out their FRPG (which I had since
discarded in favor of my own design, but which still influences what I do,
even down to M59).
I think it's for this reason (and because of Feist's somewhat sophomoric
writing style) that I find his books unreadable. To me they're a slightly
twisted version of a campaign-world he ran, and are so incredibly
derivative of Tolkein and AD&D it makes Shannara look like genius.
Anyway, I didn't mean for this to be a rant. But you can imagine that the
first time I saw Feist's "Midkemia" books in the store, I just about fell
over.
Now, if he had written about the Shattered Orb saga, that might have made
the books more readable. ;)
Mike Sellers mike#online-alchemy,com
Online Alchemy A division of The Big Network
Combining art & science to create new worlds.
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00747" HREF="msg00747.html">RE: [MUD-Dev] Is mud research real?</A></strong>,
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<LI><strong><A NAME="00746" HREF="msg00746.html">RE: [MUD-Dev] OT: Books</A></strong>,
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Adam Wiggins <a href="mailto:nightfall#user1,inficad.com">nightfall#user1,inficad.com</a>, Fri 12 Dec 1997, 07:34 GMT
<LI><strong><A NAME="00725" HREF="msg00725.html">Re: [MUD-Dev] Guilds & Politics [was Affecting the World]</A></strong>,
Chris Gray <a href="mailto:cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA">cg#ami-cg,GraySage.Edmonton.AB.CA</a>, Fri 12 Dec 1997, 06:57 GMT
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