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Dune is very much a white savior story. You can argue that it's a good one, or doesn't make certain errors... if that's something you want to do. But the basic elements of the story as written by Herbert directly fall

I'm not the only one that thinks so.

Villeneuve gives his defense here.

Villneuve has actually read the books, Muad'Dib is not a good guy/saviour, tough he missed that Atreides have olive, Bene Gesserit mixed various bloodlines, to be a savior you need sandtrout skin

in Dune 20k race is irrelevant, there's only humans, navigators and Tleilaxu included (who are hated all over the galaxy, their ways are also opposite to the Golden Path)

weird choice for Sully, and for Drake, Drake looks like the guy from Firefly

I played arcane trickster trickster and managed to upgrade it, just need to have it in the inventory

How about a planar adventure path for once, I'd even switch to 2e for it

I liked it more than the first two, very promising ending, for me Abercrombie's returning to form after books like Red Country or the Shattered Sea. Heroes is still my favorite.

Finished the game, I used mods/guides to skip the boring parts that take too much time, like pointless puzzles and the crusade. Also Enduring spells or using buffbot mods helps a lot.

Now looking at all the endings, the trickster one would be a lot more interesting for Golarion if it were canon, not what it's now in 2e.

Of the companions Aivu, Woljiff and Regill were interesting.

Comparing to the adventure path I liked the first four acts more, but the game at the end seems not fully developed.

The NPCs, Nocticula seemed cooler, they switched Minagho and Jerribeth, I prefer the adventure path's version of Areelu, Galfrey also got worse, and Iomedae should be cut from both.

the French and Russian revolutions, is this a spoiler for Orso?

either that or demonslayer ranger

In GOG you go into settings icon - Add Games - Redeem GoG code

I guess it's similar with Steam

so far no game breaking bugs, but I noticed some abilities don't stack when they should and during combat metamagic feats sometimes don't work

the loremaster prestige class is also weird, it doesn't advance spellcasting every level, you can't choose other spells, but it lets you choose any advanced rogue talent

the insane difficulty is truly nuts

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/owlcatgames/pathfinder-wrath-of-the-ri ghteous/posts/3086539

Finally Karsa's trilogy

Werthead wrote:

The God of Death is an Ascendant named Hood. Those who die pass through Hood's Gate into his warren, which is the one warren it's impossible to return from. Souls queue up outside the gate and if you can recover a soul before it passes through, it can be reincarnated (the Wickan people have a special ritual for this) or reconstituted as a ghost. Actual resurrection is possible but it requires the intervention by a god who gives up a small part of their power (presumably to Hood) for the pleasure.
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Is there any knowledge of what is beyond the Gate--well, presumably Hood's realm, but I mean is there any knowledge of what kind of realm this is (gloomy like Hades, or more like Elysium), or is this left to the imagination?

the warrens/holds are hardly ever described, mostly vague stuff, I kinda remember it appears like the Grey Waste, except souls are crushed into layers of earth like fossils, and I think time does not flow there similar to the Astral

just started, it seems like the first game with a better story

interesting that Rodrigo Borgia is the CEO of Abstergo in this

Honest trailers ft Deadpool

I'd like House of Suns or Revelation Space over Pushing Ice. More into the future.

it will probably work for you, some games can be played with well below minimum requirements

Larian already had great writers, this will be difficult for Obsidian

I thought he was a Cro-Magnon, that's the same as modern humans

here's what he is doing

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lle4t4o8EDk

it's hard to find any good new books, enjoyed just a few fantasy or SF novels this year:

The Liar's Key by Mark Lawrence
The City of Stairs by Robert Jackson Bennett
Sword of the North by Luke Scull

OK to average:

Disliked:

what about the jyoti, not everything has to have an exact opposite, and there are always individual fallen celestials or risen fiends

what happened to Mike?

Cause we have stats for god-like beings like the Elohim or Anunnaki, I'd like to see other similar mythic creatures. For example Asgardians, not the most powerful, but ordinary citizens. Also the Vanir. From other mythologies, Amesha Spenta (Persian), Tuatha de Danann (Celtic), Celestial Bureaucrat (Chinese), and so on.

The US has spent several trillion dollars waging war in the Middle East recently. If that same money had been invested in respective countries instead, would it be possible that there would today be thriving, vibrant trade partners that exported things other than terrorists there instead?

Probably not getting involved would be enough

fyi Veelas are all female, if it's a male it should be called vilenjak (or vilenyak)

That's very cool, space opera is my favorite genre, possibly there'll be ships using speed bubbles.

So far I'm not sure why he continued Mistborn, what's the point after the epicness of the first trilogy.

Is Fext still the futuristic worldwar 2-thing? Or can it be put together with other Medieval monsters now? But Fext never were Medieval monsters, they are made-up during 1900 or something like that. Think I don't really care, they are among my least favorite myth monsters anyway.

Futuristic? They are from the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648)

Numerian wrote:

what about the overuse of dragons?

The only dragons that get overused are that D&D Dragons, mythology dragons never get overused, they most are after the Wyvern then or the good natured Chinese Dragons, but Peluda, Gaasyendietha and Shen aren't overused.

I'm not a disliker of all overused stuff though, Medusa, Minotaur, Harpy and Hydra (overused Greek Myths) never get old in my book

But people will always go for the most known stuff, take that series Gotham, a guy that resembles the overused Joker dies in that series, and many people stop watching, they don't care about the more interesting, less known villians at all and don't even give them a chance to shine and become their own Joker, that is what frustrates the hell out of me, and while normally I wouldn't mind the Joker as I really like him, such people make me dislike him, this is an wild example, but it is pretty much the same for me with D&D Dragons, WOlverine from the X-men, Soccer (Sport), Zombies, Vampires and Werewolves (horror-movies), Smilodon (prehistoric beasts), Great White Sharks (animal programms) and Tyrannosaurus Rex (dinosaurs).
The world keeps drowning itself in the old stuff, which is fine and all, but at least give some attention to the more interesting monsters, movies, animals, characters and sports.

This isn't the case in Pathfinder at all, while they give the D&D Dragons a lot of thought and space, the other less known myths and stuff flow richly into the AP's and Monster Books! And that is really cool.

yeah, but I wouldn't call a lizard with a bit different colored scales and a new unpronounceable name interesting. Mythology is limited cause most of the creatures are based on real life animals.

what about the overuse of dragons?

Ash is Reagan the evil dead hunter in Fargo

Fortunately we don't have to wait long. I'd prefer the story on Roshar, or a sequel to Elantris.

I guess that's the whole plot explained in the trailer

There isn't any new neutral outsiders, other than aeons?

Numerian wrote:

Malazan is a series that gets better if you reread it

I mean, a series asking me to read 10,000+ pages to get the story is already quite a bit (though there's definitely a certain pleasure in that, too), but asking me to reread those 10k to actually get what's going on... that's maybe too much.

I mean I love epic fantasy and all, but from what I hear of those Malazan books, I really don't feel a burning need to read them.

Just in this case, I'd say it's worth more re-reading Malazan than reading most other fantasy for the first time (except Esselmont). Only other fantasy that I've re-read is ASoIaF 1-4, the Book of the New Sun, the Second Apocalypse, and I usually hate to watch even movies twice. If you love epic fantasy Gardens of the Moon is not hard to get into, maybe for inexperienced readers. Maybe because the world is not so much a fantasy version of medieval Europe like most are. It's got a lot of characters and concepts, but it doesn't go into complicating things.

Numerian wrote:

anyone know who is Trell (not Mappo but the power mentioned in Mistborn)?

Trell is only mentioned a few times in Mistborn (Trelagism is one of the religions Sazed offers to Vin, focusing on the night sky and stars). Miles mentions Trell briefly in Alloy of Law, and Marasi even more briefly in Shadows of Self.

My hunch is that Trell has something to do with the Shards...perhaps a holder of a Shard we know nothing about yet?

Forgot about that, would be cool if it's something else like Hoid.

Malazan is a series that gets better if you reread it

anyone know who is Trell (not Mappo but the power mentioned in Mistborn)?

they were in 3e in the Living Greyhawk journal, in the Fiend Sage article, not sure if that counts

everyone's mortal to Pharasma

I'd love it. Tough Pathfinder is so focused on the Prime, there's just one planar module.

Kickstarter for the sequel, looks great

LINK

They have soul (spirit), at least in Planescape, I think they go to the Negative energy plane, and possibly emerge on the other side of the ''black hole'' in the Positive, or dissipate in the Ethereal (in the ether gaps).

From the descriptions I was trying to imagine something else, to make it interesting, but failed

the character of Bright Yilling was interesting, it needed more scenes not just the burning

I've never seen so generic world-building, and the elves part makes it even worse

1. Planar AP, or I'd be happy with just one module (devils don't count)
2. Kaer Maga
3. Absalom

the most interesting story from FR would be the fall of Myth Drannor

this season is nothing compared to the 1st

would be interesting if it had corrupted aeons

hope it's Kaer Maga

looks like a girl