Bored today, hm?

Best post I read today, take a laugh point.



*ranting*
Every novel with Striper. Crappy writing and a main character that caused so much harm in so many campaigns ("I want to play a shifter. They are sentinent, read the books of Striper!"). Great work, really.

Indeed. Even though the book saddens me, there have already been a couple good flavor things that I've yoinked - in particular, the descriptions of IDs.

Oooh ooh! I want to answer this one.

The book reminds me of every bad SR campaign I've seen, heard of, or been in.

The uber powerful main character. She's slinky, she's sexy, she's cooler than you'll ever be, she's a cat. Woooooo.

In fact, pretty much every character suffers from INFI-COOL syndrome. No one's just a guy. Everyone is some super smooth, mega mysterious, or perfectly plotted.

The massively overdramatic tone. I mean, at least twice, I've found myself unable to read a sentence without giggling a little. I can stop in the middle, pick the most overblown ending to the sentence, and usually be right.

One example that springs to mind is in the description of ... already forgot his name. The exec that Striper is hunting. He is on his Corporate Master chip, and thinking to himself. The funniest part is that the section was supposed to be overblown and over the top, because the chip is that way. But it took me to the end of the section to detect that this wasn't the normal style. At one point, the text read somthing like "He was the master, completely in control, the ultimate, but" and then the page ended. I thought to myself, "that is as it should be." And turn the page, what do I see? Yup, that phrase.

I can't tell yet if it's so bad it's good, or if it's just bad.

That makes alot of sense. Thanx Bull

If the novel was wizkid's Prep for a third run of Duals figures that would make the novel better for me. The characters in the book would make great NPC's but they would make AWESOME action figures.

I MUST HAVE a Beef Patty figure!

Emphasis mine

The way you use past tense, does this mean that this is not the case any longer? As in, were the sales bad and future plans shelved for now? Should I buy another copy of Drops of Corruption?

nyx smith bashing is so hot...

As a general rule of thumb, buying more copies of Drops of Corruption is always a good thing.

The decision to not continue publication of the novels was made by Roc, and Roc made that particular decision before the last two books came out. So sales could be improving (Aftershock showed up on the Locus gaming-related bestsellers list), but it wouldn't matter enough to get Roc back on board.

Once Roc dropped out, that left WizKids having to look for a new publisher if they so chose. However, last summer's layoffs removed the person most likely to find a new publisher, meaning there was very little interest left at WizKids in finding a publisher for a game that, for their part, was dead (meaning Duels).

That's the current situation in a nutshell. As I mentioned, a few steps have been taken to make a new arrangement, but offering any details of that arrangement or saying if I thought it had a chance of happening would be premature.

Jason H.

And I thought that so many campaigns were ruined by shapeshifter rules that would make them absurdly overpowered except for the fact that their only useful talent is the ability to get shot.

I fully agree

Dude, X-prime rocks!

to anyone who doesn't know who X-prime is go Here. Possibly the funniest SR fiction ever

Many people won't have bothered with the idea of playing a shifter assassin before Striper appeared on the scene.

But before we bring this even more OT, let's stop here.