Jan’s Comments (group member since May 13, 2018)

Jan’s comments from the Di & D Reading Group group.

I'm going to miss out on this one. I have to read so much for my thesis on digitalilzation of tabletop rpgs that I don't read for fun afterwards :/

Uh, uh, I'm done too :P Though I cheated with audible.

The book made me think that maybe the sliding scale we measure RPGs with: railroad vs sandbox and Game vs Storytelling. I never thought of RPG stories as being focused on character or on plot and that you take away from one, to fuel the other. I am really enjoying this one so far (halfway through).

It is exploring human feelings, I needed that right now.

favorite line so far
(view spoiler)["We make each other angry." "I can stand a little anger, can you?" (hide spoiler)]

I have to say that I originally didn't want to give it a look but than the 5 minute listen on audible got me. I'm only two hours in and what I already love is the natural reaction of the tin smith to the jinn.

Not: "Magic? I never heard of magic, explain to me like I'm as old as I act right now..."

, but: "Oh, so magic is real. to what degree and in what form, mind you?".

I have to say I stopped in the middle of it and was waiting for the discussion on di&d if it got any better in the second half.

If I'd want character depth I'd read some fiction where the characters go through some stuff.

I hoped to get some actual information, since I have to write scientific thesis at some point in my media studies and it better be about rpgs. The only thing the book did well is set the setting in which the whole stuff happened.