Crossbows in the firelight
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@Tim said in An Age of Kings:
After LotR, Lion, Witch, Wardrobe, etc and playing Fighting Fantasy books, that was the first fantasy novel I managed to read in small town 'rapa. IT was the second book, of the second trilogy, but I was hooked!
I have been a DnD nerd ever since
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@Machpants is that DragonLance? Raistlin and his cleric bit on the side?
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@Paekakboyz said in An Age of Kings:
@Machpants is that DragonLance? Raistlin and his cleric bit on the side?
Yup Crysannia, after he turns her rumpy pumpy offer down - back in time.
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@Machpants said in An Age of Kings:
@Paekakboyz said in An Age of Kings:
@Machpants is that DragonLance? Raistlin and his cleric bit on the side?
Yup Crysannia, after he turns her rumpy pumpy offer down - back in time.
Time of the Twins was my first DragonLance novel and I was hooked immediately. Raistlin is a fucking badass.
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@No-Quarter fuck yeah. Such great stories and characters, a nice mix of the tried and true D&D tropes but with actual development etc. Cool how if you know about the gaming system for Dragon Lance (ie max out at level 18 or was it 20?) that challenging a god is mental.
Raistlin was such a fucking boss.
I reckon a lot of D&D related writing is underrated. I love the Drizzt books and the Icewind dales setting.
Will also out myself as a huge RPG, D&D slut ha ha. But I haven't actually done any IRL gaming for ages - all limited to pc games, largely due to time.
My mate put me onto an NZ group of gamers who live stream their sessions. I checked it out and they were pretty entertaining.
Thread hijack over... unless Tim rolls a 20! critical
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This. Thread. Is. Fucking. Rad.
Those fantasy type pictures were some of the first shit to give me tingles in my dangly bits.
Fucking loved Dragon Lance as a kid (although read as an adult and found them a bit simple). Read heeeaaaaps of Forgotten Realms stuff ( i think there are still a few on mum and dad's book shelf).
Also 80s heavy metal rules.
These fucking books man. Fantasy. Sex. All the things 13 year old boys need.
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massive jugs and nips. Oh, and swords. Umm just gotta nip offline for a bit fullas.
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@mariner4life might see if TR Jnr is interested in those books, covers will pique his interest at least...might get him away from Fortnite/Apex for a few minutes...
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Somewhere, probably on a base on the dark side of the moon, Tim is looking down approvingly on our bants!!
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This is the cover of the first Raven book i read. It's really difficult to see what made me grab it off the shelf
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@mariner4life said in An Age of Kings:
This is the cover of the first Raven book i read. It's really difficult to see what made me grab it off the shelf
Please tell me they adapted that into a film 🙏
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Lamentations of the Flame Princess is an old school renaissance game, based on Original DND. But man the art with it is pretty mental
With adventure modules such as
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@taniwharugby I tried the boy on Dragonlance but he didn't really get into it. Good luck.
My mum picked up "Dragons Of Spring Dawning" for a mate of mine's birthday in the first year of high school. I consumed it, realising that there were 2 books preceding it in the original trilogy, and got them as well.
At one point I'd saved something like $250 working on the family farm, and out in Hicksville there weren't many bookstores carrying that stuff. That year, my brother did work experience down in Sydney so I fucking blew the lot on every DL book I could buy. Think I ended up with 21 of them on that trip.
And then, after the Legends trilogy I got stuck into some of the others and... Well, besides the Heroes (Legend of Huma was epic) and the Elven/Dwarven Nations books, a lot of it fucking sucked. Simple facts from the originals were missed. Minor details and other bits fucked up. Like these new authors hadn't even read my beloved Chronicles! Shunts.
Eventually I just couldn't keep up with all of them and the money making machine rolled on without me
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If you guys can get your hands out of your pants long enough to use a mouse you might want to check out husband and wife Boris Vallejo and Julie Bell’s website borisjulie.com . Boris used to do cover art for the Savage Sword of Conan comics ( which could feed this thread itself for weeks) back in the 70s. Julie , well here’s Julie’s work, I think it’s on topic:
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