Dreaming Cities includes exceptional advice for creating plots and settings in the Urban Fantasy genre as well as a complete rulesset and 3 good settings, including the brilliant Small Folk.
Post originally by woodelf at 2005-05-09 11:51:39
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"Dreaming Cities is the fourth in Guardians of Orders excellent series of genre-books for the Tri-stat system. Like the previous installments, it is a complete rulebook, genre advice, and settings (in this case three) in one. "
Huh? What're the 2nd and 3rd? I even just took a look at GoO's website, and don't see any Tri-Stat dX products listed except the core book, Ex Machina, and Dreaming Cities? Slip of the keyboard, or do you know something i don't?
Post originally by woodelf at 2005-05-09 18:10:33
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SmartChimp wrote:
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I am taking a stab and saying Silver Age Sentiniels and BESM?
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Might be what he meant, but it's wrong. Both of those (1) predate Tri-Stat dX, so empirically couldn't be a dX book, and (2) don't share the scaling-die, toolkit approach. And since the reviewer specifically referred to the scaling-die part, i doubt that's what he meant. And if you just want to include all Tri-Stat games (dX or otherwise) from GoO, you'd have way more than 4.
I'm still curious to find out if this is just a braino, or if there's something i don't know.
Post originally by William A. Peterson at 2005-05-09 19:43:33
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Just FYI, Mercedes Lackey has done a LOT more with 'Urban Fantasy' than just 'The Fire Rose' (though that was very good!).
'Sacred Grounds', the Diana Tregarde 'trilogy', the Eric Banyon stories, the various 'Elemental Masters' tales...
She's got a tremendous wealth of source material that I would dearly love to see tapped!
She also has a number of co-authors (Ellen Guon, Mark Shepard, and others) who have written their own novels, set in one of her other worlds, or in other worlds of a similar nature...
So, I was VERY disappointed that they didn't at least make a stab at doing some of these worlds! {Le Sigh!}
Another excellent author for this sort of thing is Jim Butcher, whose 'Dresden Files' have recently hit the seventh novel...
Harry Dresden is the only Wizard that you're going to find in the Chicago Phone Book...
and the only one on retainer to the Chicago Police Department...
but that doesn't mean that he's the only one in town! And he's certainly not the only Supernatural Being in the area...
Imagine a cross between Doctor Strange, Sam Spade, and Spider-Man, and you've got a fair idea of what Harry is like... :->
Post originally by PhishStyx at 2005-05-09 21:23:55
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Actually, my guess is that the reviewer is counting <I>Tekumel</I> and <I>A Game of Thrones</i> as the 2nd & 3rd, not that this is really accurate either since both are licensed properties not genre books.
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