I hate how these fantasy authors write about magic when they can't even cast any real spells. I mean, how can they know what it is really like to fireball a group of undead skeletons if they haven't done it themselves. 🤣
I'm about halfway through the story and, with many other fantasy books, I like to look up the lore and fan art to gauge the story a bit more and I can't even find a wiki on this 5 book series. This is probably closest thing I could find, which I feel is strange cause I actually find the story to be quite fun.
You're 100% right. Biggest problems with the genre: 1. Generic characters with no character growth, only stat/power growth. Make interesting characters. I don't want to read a boring, generic everyman player. Or a wish fulfilment stereotype. 2. The system should serve the story/characters, not the other way around. It should only be there to enhance. 3. For the love of all, don't just steal the standard RPG D&D fantasy world. Dreamer's throne is great because it is so mysterious and interesting as a setting. Everyone has seen standard D&D fantasy world to death. A least take a page from Sanderson and get a unique magic system or something. 4. Don't always take the obvious farmboy-quest route of standard fantasy, with characters fighting a monster and going on quests for everything. Again, this is a story not a game. Sometimes to more crazy route is the most interesting. Dreamer's throne is brilliant because the main character is a spymaster style character, which is always prone to control/trust/paranoia issues. Making him dependent on others by making him disabled is a brilliant move, and Seth commits to it. He doesn't cheat by giving him some magical fix or have endless Deus ex Machina moments. This starts paying off big time by the end of book 3 and all of book 4.
I thoroughly enjoyed the 80's mini-series. It was very well done and reading the book (tome?) afterwards filled in all the little details. I felt the same with the I, Claudius series and books by Robert Graves.
Feels like I have heard of those, I will have to look them up to be sure. All throughout the book I kept remembering bits from the 80s series and yeah, it made a lot more sense afterward.
Panels are cluttered and the story lacked flow, in my opinion. I enjoyed Von’s Haunted Castle review of this book. He pretty much hit the nail on the head.
*Richard More @3:17 > was a Ward of > William & Mary Brewster. Mystery > Early-17th-century England. Wikipedia: Richard More (1614 - c.1694 /1696) was born in Corvedale, Shropshire, England, and was baptized at St James parish church in Shipton, Shropshire, on 13 November 1614. Richard and his three siblings were at the center of a Mystery in early-17th-century England, that caused early genealogists to wonder why the More children's father, believed to be (Samuel More) would send his very young children away to the New World on the Mayflower in the care of others. > It was in 1959 that the mystery was explained. Jasper More, a descendant of Samuel More, prompted by his genealogist friend, Sir Anthony Wagner, searched and found in his attic...a 1622 document that detailed the legal 'Disputes' between Katherine More and Samuel More and what actually happened to the More children. > It is clear from these events that Samuel did not believe the children to be his offspring. To rid himself of the children, he arranged for them to be sent to the Colony of Virginia.[3] Due to bad weather, the Mayflower finally anchored in Cape Cod Harbor in November 1620, where one of the More children died soon after; / another died in early December and yet another died later in the first winter. Only Richard survived, and even thrived, in the perilous environment of early colonial America, going on to lead a very full life. [4] Richard became a well-known sea captain who helped to deliver to various colonies the supplies that were vital to their survival, travelled over Atlantic and West Indies trade routes and fought in various early naval sea battles. He and other Mayflower survivors were referred to in their time as "First Comers", who lived in the perilous times of what was called "The Ancient Beginnings" of the New World adventure.[5] Good for you.....Richard More > You overcame more'...haha... then we will every know!
It was two guys who have both been president and everybody already knows their personalities and what their plans are. Nobody was ever going to learn anything from a *debate*. So... yeah. It's all a show.
And given how absolutely terrible it was, I can't see it as anything other than a deliberate move. That said, Razorfist had a compelling counter-argument that it was just an authentic miss, because they can't out-fundraise Trump in the next 3-4 months and there might not be a Democrat (outside of Kamala, deeply unpopular) willing to take that beating. I don't agree but I don't think he's wrong...I'm still mostly convinced they're going to replace Biden, just not sure with whom. We definitely don't live in the FDR era of hiding a president's illness, that's for sure.
@portmanjohn1 I've definitely checked out of the day-to-day of it. I keep my ear to the ground but I'm more focused on local stuff and my family and such.
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I *do* understand the technical details of cryptocurrencies and NFTs. Cryptocurrencies are a fascinating technical solution in search of a problem, but they are too inefficient to be practical for widespread use, which is why bitcoin evolved from an effective currency into a speculation vehicle. All tgey really are are extremely inefficient distributed databases. On the technical level, cryptocurrencies are (mostly, some use different techniques) "backed" by the cost of hardware and electricity required to maintain the ledger, though some have external personal or institutional backing--kind of like how US dollars are backed by the government's promise to let you pay your taxes with them. NFTs, on the other hand, have alway been insanely stupid.
Hello! I listened to the Audiobook during a very tough time at work just a month or two before I had to quit my job. I was i the same state of near-constant exhaustion and tribulations as Murtagh and Thorn, and getting to read the book at the time made it a very poignant, relatable and moving experience. I found the flavor/atmosphere of "not a horror story, but just as harrowing" from the second half of the book to be extremely destablizing in a GREAT WAY. I truly did feel afraid and anxious regarding that big big thing far underground, and all that goes with it 🙏 Thank you very much for your review! I enjoyed listening 🤗
@@GrahamBradley No need to be sorry about my job! 😁 It's over now, and Murtagh the kind of story that, when it matches your life circumstances at the time, makes the whole ordeal seem poetic and that much more worthwhile in hindsight! 😇 Have a great day!
Glad you've found carl. I dont know if youve hit the third or beyond book yet, but youre right about the tone getting darker in the second book. Since you take recommendations, this is not a litrpg, but was a series i found very good. The first book is "Sufficiently Advanced Magic". It might be good enough to pick up if you havent yet.
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Just showed the kiddos Wargames for the first time last week. I was surprised to find how little actual computer hacking / phreaking is portrayed in the movie, compared to my memory of it.
We have to remember before the Pilgrims arrived, there were other people here that came before the Pilgrims. To truly really understand America, like the Pilgrims, I would love to see a similar genealogy tree constructed for each of the major demographic founding family groups such as the Spanish, French, Native American, Dutch, African Americans, etc. A monumental task, for certain, but essential.
Reading Murtagh so I watched your Eragon review (hilariously informative). I’ll have to get Songbirds and Snakes next. Looking forward to the long form hunger games video
Ofc there is no arguing taste but I feel similarly. However what I find stranger still is that the litrpg genre is popular to be a thing. I couldn’t imagine reading lightly novelised MMO combat logs… but there’s quite a few ppl who do
What I've learned since this video (and since reading even more of them) is that it's a very devoted reader base, but not one of those genres that you can easily walk into from the outside. It makes for bad storytelling but there are still so many RPG fans that it has legs.
Yes, on the proper definition of decimation. However, apparently, many people use the word to mean 90% (or at least a whole bunch) are killed. I only found out that this wrong definition is so popular very recently.
8 months late but came here after listening to your HWFTM, it made me laught, seeing this as i too am a 10yr truck driver cross the pond. And we are opposite, i absolutely love HWFTW, I have listened to the series 5 times now. And how you felt about HWFTM, where youvreally wanted to give it ago and tried to like it, is how i feel about DCC. But i am glad you found something in the genre that you enjoy. Safe road and Safe loads
He who fights with monsters did a lot better of a job than most litRPGs with character interactions and building an interesting cast, but the main character was too much of a narcissist and too OP with his abilities and too annoying with his being on top of every interaction he had and never being humbled in any way to anyone. It’s annoying seeing someone basically be perfect at handling people and situations and never having to deal with his own mistakes. It started to make all of his relationships feel meaningless when he’s constantly playing with people and never humbling himself and then the stat dumps and meaningless fighting finally made the whole thing too boring to care about. I’m beginning to think LItRPGs are a crunch for inexperienced writers to make something engaging without actually providence substance or meaning to anything. You can use it to spice up a meaningful plot, but it’s most often used to ignore even making an underlying plot. The only good LItRPGs I’ve read so far are Dungeon Crawler Carl and All the Skills by Honour Ray. Mother of Learning also comes to mind. It’s not a LitRPG, but it sort of encompasses what I’m looking for with a LitRPG and it’s one of the best things I’ve ever read. Interesting and flawed main character. Tons of intrigue and development. Super fun and interesting magic system. Great cast of characters. The first arc can feel a little slow, but it’s still really good and it just gets better as time goes on. Plus the world building is immaculate to boot.
Nothing kills enthusiasm like assigned reading. Take another crack at it. Get revenge on your teacher by enjoying the book, she clearly did not want you to, lol
Alphacore was the best, Isom2 then Isom i loved the artwork on Yaira but i didnt like Yaira story or the action it didnt flow right to me and it felt all over the place
There was definitely some jumpiness throughout, I thought it came together by the end even if the first two-thirds were a little more shifty than the other books. I liked how it overlapped with the Alphacore too, I want to see more of these characters in the same stories. Sounds like Goodyng drops soon...
I think the worst offense these kind of books commit is only having one character. I don't mean a literal solo adventure, I mean the protagonist is the only one who does stuff. Not talking about how the world doesn't change independently from the protagonist party, but the party itself doesn't do anything besides make more quests. They allegedly help, but protagonists are often so freakin busted that their assistance is miniscule. This is ignoring the "wow ur so cool" tropes. The thing that makes tabletop rpg stories good is the relationships between characters, not the enemies the protagonist mulches. There isn't a specified protagonist, making everyone at the table the protagonist. Fights require everyone in the party, and do not end with a single blow (unless it does). The fans of the genre really don't help, they tend to _expect_ the protagonist to be unbelievably powerful by chapter 3. Personally there are relationship archetypes that work while being in that position, such as "the mentally unstable op protagonist and the emotional support slave" in Shield Hero (before it becomes a harem), but executing that properly is hard. Basically, LitRPGs fail when they treat their characters like party NPCs that merely give exposition, their only character aspect is a single goal with a cliche personality tacked on, or they forget to have any ally characters at all due to drowning in the skill system.
As soon as the author became established (comfortable and respected), he was no longer a rebel, and stopped identifying with his previous works. He proceeded to sympathize less with the working class, and more with the existing power structure. His turn towards nihilism and deconstruction are typical of mainstream entertainment, a mainstream of which he is now a part.
There seemed to be a high amount, there's also a higher population in this timeline (18 billion?) But it didn't become a stumbling block to the actual story until the 4th book on, when 28th century characters started spouting off 21st century platitudes about it.
Are you one hundred thousand percent sure I have no books out, Brandon? Did you really put your entire batch of brainpower into "noticing" that? How certain are you that I have no books out, for whatever that's worth? Would you bet ten thousand dollars on that? After all I'm just an elitist truck driver who reads a lot of books, you must be one of those smart commenters who wins all the internet fights. How sure are you that I have no books out? Place your bets, buddy. Money where your mouth is, let's go.
Did it in my final two years in secondary school for the leaving cert. Something of its message settled deep inside me. Nearly 40 years ago. I think this is the first time in decades I've even heard this book mentioned. It struck some type of chord.....thanks.
I enjoyed the art more than the previous books, but I still don't like the buildings, each artist should have a different and look when it comes to drawing builds, but it looks the same as the previous books. The dialogue was the weaker than the other books. Too much monologuing from both antagonists and protagonists. Like it was trying to use up pages to fit in the 90 or 100 pages.
