Re: Lokarnos gone!

From: Rob <robert_m_davis_at_lXTw_3OzzfyFQ3BEaoIVLhZJvBw7UEZCcSQWsbBnUgXJMG8uLRgusCfcHk8bx>
Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2007 14:08:31 -0000

Jeff:
> Would it make you happier if I cited from Beowulf, Volsungsaga,
Egil's
> Saga, Njal's Saga, the Shahnama, the Mahabharata (admittedly I am
only
> really familiar with the Bhagavad Gita), or the Upanishads for
heroic
> misdeeds? I admit I find your desire to have pure unsullied
> progressive heroes in an age of heroic and mythic struggle
perplexing
> - but that is an aesthetic choice.

Yawn. Showing off again Jeff? You'll start people thinking you're trying to make up for something.

>
> > I much prefer Greg Staffords Dragon Pass to yours Jeff.
>
> Have you actually read History of the Heortling Peoples - No,
because I am singularly unimpressed that the folk from Hendrikei and Heortland are so indistinguishable from their northern kin, contrary to the impression given in RQ3.

> Middle Sea Empire - Partly, but got bored with the esotera, which
is why I generally avoid Unfinished Works

> or Enclosure 1 or 2? No.

> Or how about Orlmarthingsaga or Taming
> of Dragon Pass? Now I like that stuff. A lot. A bit too Norse in
flovour for me, but near enough to my own Iron Age Briton as makes no difference.

> Can you even spot the difference between what Greg
> wrote and what I wrote in materials we co-wrote?

I don't know. But I suspect he knows where to put 'back drop' and how to write for heroic protaganists in fiction. Something you don't seem to. All in my opinion of course.

Rob