xanthemann |
I loved this series and I felt my heart drop when I heard Robert was dead.
One of my favorites was when Aahz convinced Skeeve to try out for court mage. Brilliant use of illusion spells!
I have used it in campaigns before.
In later books, Guido and his cousin Nunzio, infiltrated the Postilium army. The description of their experiences in the service was so very accurate!
Mark Hoover |
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All time favorite moment was when Skeeve was fighting Big Julie's army and Aahz goes out into the fray in disguise but gets captured...long story boring Skeeve thinks his dear mentor's been killed.
I've always liked my silly books with a touch of realism and grit. Suddenly, right in that next chapter, Skeeve just wasn't a kid anymore. Oh sure, he'd act like it from time to time, but he just simply WASN'T one.
Then my second fave is the end of that next chapter. He starts dealing with the army; HARD. His spells and cohorts really started damaging the enemy directly and it was pretty BA. Then at the end they regroup and start planning their next attack; Skeeve asks his group for a sword and hears "here kid, take mine." And HUZZAH! Aahz is back!
Good Times.
I've not used any of it in my games; not Gleep or Bunny, Not Massha or Vic the vampire, not even the Woof Writers though I have a lycanthrope campaign underway. No, somehow (for me anyway) that would cheapen my own coming of age alongside Skeeve.
Rest in peace, weary accountant-turned editor-turned-author; you will be missed.
Mark Hoover |
I never saw the lad's drinking problem coming ever. I liked his genie though (was it Kevin?). The book I always found hardest to get, even as an adult was the Big Game between Veh-Gus and Ta-Hoe.
I did adopt one thing from the Myth series. Whenever anyone asks about something in the future I always reply dryly: "We'll burn that bridge when we come to it." It's now part of my common parlance.
Other lines I've stolen:
Big Crunch like Smash!
I never refuse a fifth.
(one of the chapter quotations) Holy Batsh** Fatman! I mean...
xanthemann |
I once tried to do what Robert did with Thieves World and pass a campaign in process to another GM and work it around until it got back to me, but it kinda went south. I guess I should have screened the GMs better and/or set some more descriptive guidelines.
For the next campaign I am making some 'Myth' characters. Oh yes! Never mind the the Aahz behind the curtain when you go to visit Skeeve the Great!
Orthos |
I did adopt one thing from the Myth series. Whenever anyone asks about something in the future I always reply dryly: "We'll burn that bridge when we come to it." It's now part of my common parlance.
THAT'S where I got that!!! I've been using that for years and had forgotten where I got it from.
I've been reading the Myth Adventures comic done by the Foglios, same people who do Girl Genius. If you aren't aware of it check it out!
Kirth Gersen |
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I had a PC with Leadership who picked 2 of the better guys to be bodyguards: named 'em Guido and Nunzio, and when they died, continued the trend with Anthony, Rocco, and so on.
Houstonderek desperately wanted a D-hopper for his character, and I obliged him only partially thus far.
I have no problem making the Bazaar at Deva the home plane for Mercanes.
Mark Hoover |
Phil Foglio + Tananda = the only reason I became interested in the whole series. She was an assassin with HUGE talent.
That being said after adolescence I went back and re-read everything done in the novel series up through the mid nineties. And then read them again...and have nearly destroyed them all reading them over and over.
I have tried reading the new stuff but my heart's not in it these days. Time and a place I guess. Just went back over Phil's Myth art; that is simply how I will ALWAYS picture these characters.