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Finder's Bane (FR novel)

Discussion in 'Booktalk' started by Taluntain, Jan 7, 2002.

  1. Taluntain

    Taluntain Resident Alpha and Omega Staff Member ★ SPS Account Holder Resourceful Adored Veteran Pillars of Eternity SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) New Server Contributor [2012] (for helping Sorcerer's Place lease a new, more powerful server!) Torment: Tides of Numenera SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) BoM XenForo Migration Contributor [2015] (for helping support the migration to new forum software!)

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    [​IMG] Has anyone read it? I just finished it and it seemed pretty good for a FR novel. Too bad there was so little Planescape in it. I thought it'd be more but it was just a side trip. :nolike:

    Also, Finder is the most pathetic god I've ever read about. :D
     
    Taluntain, Jan 7, 2002
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    Beren Lovesick and Lonely Wanderer Staff Member Member of the Week Distinguished Member ★ SPS Account Holder Resourceful Adored Veteran Pillars of Eternity SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) New Server Contributor [2012] (for helping Sorcerer's Place lease a new, more powerful server!) Torment: Tides of Numenera SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!)

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    Well, I was a big fan of the Bard's Tale trilogy back in the 80s. In BT3, there's this goddess of love and beauty named Alliria, whom I saw as a sort of hybrid between Aphrodite and Galadriel. BT3's plot took a real tragic twist when her husband, Cyanis, related to my party that he was forced to watch Tarjan (the god of evil) slowly torture her to death. There was a website (no longer exists because he graduated from Columbia, which had been the host) that made its own adaptation of the Bard's Tale mythology to D&D 2nd edition rules. As it turns out, Alliria remains dead, "currently adrift in the astral plane." So I started a thread in the D&D forum called, "D&D cosmology and dead deities" in order to find out what sort of afterlife a deceased deity goes to.

    Tal recommended the book, "Finder's Bane", and Tal being Tal ;) recommended buying it through SP. Doing my part to help out with the expenses, I complied. I later discussed the book with Tal in a PM, and at his request, here are my comments:

    I can honestly recommend reading this book. Using Khazraj's Tolkien scale, I'd give it a 6, which from me is considerable praise indeed. And yes, Finder is not a very inspiring god to read about. Joel, Walinda, Jas, and the thoroughly evil Banelich are quite captivating characters to read about though.
     
    Beren, Jun 4, 2003
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  3. Taluntain

    Taluntain Resident Alpha and Omega Staff Member ★ SPS Account Holder Resourceful Adored Veteran Pillars of Eternity SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) New Server Contributor [2012] (for helping Sorcerer's Place lease a new, more powerful server!) Torment: Tides of Numenera SP Immortalizer (for helping immortalize Sorcerer's Place in the game!) BoM XenForo Migration Contributor [2015] (for helping support the migration to new forum software!)

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    [​IMG] Thanks!

    I just remembered that I forgot to tell you that Tymora's Luck is basically part 2 of the story... Same characters (and some new ones), different story - and more Planescape. I enjoyed it quite a lot. You can get it here: http://www.sorcerers.net/Books/index_fr2.php (bottom of the page)
     
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    This series of books sounds interesting -- I'll put them on my list.
     
    Spellbound, Jun 5, 2003
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