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I kind of got splitting Hobbit into two films, a lot of the stuff that took half a page needed fleshing out, but three films was pushing it.

I read voraciously as a kid. Mostly sci fi and fantasy, so Jules Verne, Robert Heinlein, HP Lovecraft, Mark Twain, Madeleine L'Engle. All the classics like Black Beauty, Dracula, Frankenstein. I found the Hobbit delightful, and Lord of the Rings was a fun read when I was 11 but later reads were a slog. I loved the Swallows and Amazons series as a kid, but another series that lost it's appeal as an adult.

I loved early Heinlein, but the later books got weirdly sexual. Still fun stories, even if the endings never landed. He seemed to want to tie all his stories into one timeline where everyone had sex with everyone else no matter the biological relationship

I find Arthur C. Clarke very hit or miss. The first book in each series is good and intriguing, the rest not so much. Rendezvous with Rama was amazing, the rest of the series went downhill very fast. Anne McCaffrey was a childhood favourite, and my mother loved her books too. Pern went downhill after White Dragon and dragondrums though, and much of her later work is basically her son with her name on the front. He's not a good writer. David Eddings is still a personal favourite, I'm currently re-reading The Elenium/Tamuli. You can tell when his wife started co-writing though, as the early stuff (Belgariad and Elenium) is a lot less complicated and fun than the later ones (Mallorian/ Tamuli). As a standalone book The Redemption of Althalas is really fun and a great riff on time travel and changing history to put things in place to help when you get back to your own time. And just to be controversial, I don't rate Lord of the Rings at all. I find them horrible to read despite having a really great story, and much of what a modern writer would consider essential is relegated to throwaway lines. "Gandalf, how did you escape the Balrog?" "I did a thing" OK, moving on."............. "Gandalf, what happened there?" "Oh there was a massive battle that raged for days". "OK sounds like it was a good job we missed it".

Don't beat around the bush, say what you think 😛

Hi If you can remember any character names, or global, or account login (not password) Message me and I'll see what I can find

I have 2 macros for different screens. Or you can just type them in, they aren't complicated. Set up your screen and size and layout how you want for the monitor. To save it you type /wdwsavefile filename so in my case /wdwsavefile HD and /wdwsavefile 4K Then to load it type /wdwloadfile filename so in my case /wdwloadfile HD and /wdwloadfile 4K Easy as Pi 🙂

something of a necro thread..... You couldn't comment on a recent donation thread? 😛

I see a lot sent to Heracleo that were sent in February and claimed and deleted, then a lot to CyFighter that were sent in November that were claimed and deleted. I see nothing with blank attachments

You can always pop onto the forums, top right is a large box with the current up to date server populations

please. please. I need a holiday. The GM team is kept in a basement and only allowed out on alternate leap years. All is fine here. Nothing to see.

Stuff that's definitely Public Domain is allowed, stuff that's partially Public Domain aren't. So some countries have 50 years from date of first publication, America has 95 years. Then there is the 70 years from the death of the author. Doc Savage will (possibly) be PD in 2029 or 2030, but there is still some doubt as the copyright was renewed in the 60's, and Tarzan is PD as the first few books entered PD in January 2024. My advice? Avoid this minefield and create something that's similar but different. Doc Delilah is an obvious Doc Savage tribute for instance. There is nothing from stopping you making a pulp era character based on Tarzan or Doc Savage or any number of popular characters from the 30's. TV does it all the time. Just keep the level of similarity far enough away that you fall under the tribute/parody rule. As for Trademark, that's a whole different kettle of fish. We generally don't allow other peoples trademarks as a rule. Wendy is fine. Wendy's isn't. Old MacDonald is allowed, MacDonalds isn't. While a controller dressed in spandex would never be mistaken for a restaurant chain we still don't allow it. Hope that clears up any confusion.

people still hang around to farm Adamastor? Do they know you only get rewards for him every 18 hours?

I had the same. I had the name on Defiant and someone else had it on a different server and they were demanding I give it to them. They apparently had it on every shard except Reunion and wanted the set. It was a big fat no from me. Later as a GM we would get the occasional ticket demanding we took a name off someone and it was always a flat out nope. You can ask someone nicely if they will give it to you, or even offer them lots of inf, but they have every right to keep the name and no is a complete sentence 🙂

For a lot of people they had names on live they can't get because someone else got in first. Hopefully this will help at least some of those players. Unless the player holding the name got the alt to 50, then it's sad faces all round.