Starts slipping City of Brass and Six Arabian Nights out of Delbarre's bag while he's in front of the group...
Hello, Veector.Hi, my name is delabarre, and I have...
<hangs head>
...a complete set of 2E Al'Qadim boxes and books...
I got those! Missing Sha'ir's Handbook and missing Caravans (although I'm not really interested in getting it).
Sha'ir's Handbook was probably one of the best original ideas for a class I've seen.
As long as the word "Fane" isn't overused ;-)
Uh-oh ... the men with the white coats are coming! ::giggling::
Oh, look, the men with the white coats are running away screaming.
Must be because they brought the wrong white coat again. This one only accomodates two arm-like appendages.
Not... Nearly... Enough!
As long as the word "Fane" isn't overused
Scratches out the titles of the five module drafts he has in his files.
Hello, Veector.Hi, my name is delabarre, and I have...
<hangs head>
...a complete set of 2E Al'Qadim boxes and books...
...and a City of Brass box set...
...and I was a patron on Wolfgang's Six Arabian Nights book...
Hmmm ... I have the complete 2E Al'Qadim, but not the rest. However, I do have 7 21" shelves and 2 28" shelves full of D&D, from pink books through 3.5 (First and Second editions being MUCH more complete). Paizo is on another shelf entirely ::laughing::
More shelves are filled with Shadowrun, Hero, GURPS, World of Darkness, LoTR, MiddleEarth, L5R, 7th Sea, Serenity, Conan, Macho Women with Guns, TOON, Elfquest, Games Workshop ... and more :)
Tremble with fear and dare to enter
And the sequel
The Printing Press of the Heirs of WotC.
Only fools tread where the brave dare not go ...
There's always the horror of:
The Maze of Mindless Bureaucrats
(in honor of tax season)
All who enter are condemned to wander from room to room, accomplishing and re-accomplishing meaningless and trivial tasks to meet complex and obscure requirements! Those who succeed are allowed deeper into the complex, requiring them to decipher stranger and even more complicated rituals! In the final chamber, should anyone get that far, they must deal with the Gordian Codex and its fearsome guardians, those who have already been corrupted by its maddening secrets!
Don't say I didn't warn you!
Makes me think of the Treasure Trove of the System Switchers.
If you want more alliterative use of overused words:
Fiendish Fane of the Frozen Fens
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Two of those, of course, are variations on popular movies (Texas Chainsaw Massacre and Escape from New York). The middle one is the creation of our own Jeff Alvarez, the secret creative brain behind a lot of what goes on back in the editorial pit.As one word titles go, it's hard to top 'Ravenloft'.It is a pretty bad-ass title, although titles like:
[description][place] (e.g. Ravenloft, White Plume Mountain)
really aren't much different semantically from:
The [place] of [description] (e.g. The Tomb of Horrors, The Isle of Dread)Some of my favourite Pathfinder titles are "The Hook Mountain Massacre", "Seven Days to the Grave" and "Escape from Old Korvosa".
Having read all 18 and seen the carnage and doublecrosses, I'd say the Journal of Eando Kline should be called Once Upon A Time In Varisia.
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I'd like to like titles with a little mystery, ambiguity, or even a pun. So far, I've come up with:
To Run Before the Wind
New Potions in Old Bottles
Signed, Sealed, & Delivered
Across the Checkerboard Floor
The Flaxen Hare of Golden Fields
The Bear, The Owl, and The Twin
Postillion's Puissance
Or A Sinister Sable Tincture of Shame
A Glaring of Gnomes
A Fine Balance for a Fair Druid
A Gambit When All Bets Are Off
Eudaemonia
Or A Sinister Sable, Tincture of Shame... :)
Too good. When your entrendres pass double, I salute!
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Too good. When your entrendres pass double, I salute!
I was sure that the Gnomes title would get a rise, too. After all, they're kind of cat-like, personality wise, and The Unkindness of Ravens was a cool title with those oh-so-fun collective nouns. Maybe I should have proposed a Village of Smurfs or something. :-\
Hmmm...looking at the "Council of Thieves" adventure titles, I think I found a new least favourite title: "The Infernal Syndrome". As I said before, I prefer adventure titles that don't sound like Star Trek episodes.
Well, having lived with the Legacy of Fire titles for awhile, my reaction is pretty much unchanged. Howl of the Carrion King is by far and away my favorite title in this AP. The others are OK--I don't have a clear weakest link from this batch. I'll start thinking about the Council of Thieves titles now.
And LP, I actually enjoyed all your titles--it was just that the one really hit me.
Abandon hope, all ye who enter the
Maybe they should do it Two and a Half Men Style and name the books after one of the lines in the adventure.
Skinsaw Murders becomes "They even ate the dogs" and Hook Mountain Massacre becomes "The Smell is Disturbingly Flavourful"
My thoughts on fantasy titles can be found here:
For a while, Wizards of the Coast editors assigned titles with an eye toward branding. Mary Kirchoff, the managaging editor at the time, wanted my trilogies/series to follow the construction Noun & Noun. So we had Songs & Swords, Starlight & Shadows, Counselors & Kings.
Could be worse. Imagine the difficulty of contructing titles around conjunctions such as "whereupon" or "nevertheless." :)
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More shelves are filled with Shadowrun, Hero, GURPS, World of Darkness, LoTR, MiddleEarth, L5R, 7th Sea, Serenity, Conan, Macho Women with Guns, TOON, Elfquest, Games Workshop ... and more :)
Wow, I just got massively nostalgic looking at those game titles: Elfquest, MWwG, TOON, MERP, etc - I also realized I'm OLD! =)
If it was published prior to the late 90's, there's a real good chance I've played it/own(ed) it, lol
Heh-heh. Enjoyable reflection, E.C., thanks for linking it. Obviously the perfect title for either a module or a novel would be Shadow of the Dark Moon with Moondark of the Raven as a close second. ;P
As for "Nevertheless" and "Whereupon," I think they deserve to stand alone as novel titles, but can't recommend them for modules. Glad Kirchoff didn't push "Cabbages and Kings" off on you...
Heh-heh. Enjoyable reflection, E.C., thanks for linking it. Obviously the perfect title for either a module or a novel would be Shadow of the Dark Moon with Moondark of the Raven as a close second. ;P
Or how about "Realm of the Felldark Queen"?
That is obviously the final volume in the trilogy!
Hmmm...looking at the "Council of Thieves" adventure titles, I think I found a new least favourite title: "The Infernal Syndrome". As I said before, I prefer adventure titles that don't sound like Star Trek episodes.
Since over two years have passed, I now have another couple of contenders for my least favourite title.
But there have been some good ones in the meantime:
The Thousand Fangs Below
Trial of the Beast
Broken Moon
Night of Frozen Shadows
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Since the switch to Pathfinder, my favorite titles have been:
What Lies in Dust
The Varnhold Vanishing
Blood for Blood
Racing to Ruin
Ashes at Dawn
and The Empty Throne.
I have not like Stolen Land, because every time I read it, my inside voice reads the title to sound like "Trojan Man!" from the radio adds.
Other misses:
Mother of Flies (too many 'f's too close)
Sound of a Thousand Screams (you mean, like that effect in The Good, The Bad and The Ugly?)
The Thousand Fangs Below (And The Perfect Disguise Above! Wait, there's no desert in the jungle.)
Wake of the Watcher (Don't remember the watcher being all that central. Perhaps if there was a funeral to attend, but that was some adventures earlier.)
Looking further ahead, everything in Skull & Shackles sounds decent, except maybe The Island of Empty Eyes (C'mon guys, let's go lift a moai!)
Hello, Veector.Hi, my name is delabarre, and I have...
<hangs head>
...a complete set of 2E Al'Qadim boxes and books...
...and a City of Brass box set...
...and I was a patron on Wolfgang's Six Arabian Nights book...
Me too! Welcome to the club!! :D
(waitaminute, I just quoted a 2 year old post, didn't I)