I just finished reading Timothy's Zahn's Star Wars trilogy. About to start his duology now.
I also play RPGs. My favs are the Fallout series and Planescape Torment. The Ultima series wasn't bad.
Is the Arena series any good? I tried playing Daggerfall a bit, but I got sick, literally. For some reason I'd keel over after playing for half an hour. I'd feel like throwing up.
PattonFan, it's all well and good that you play computer RPGs, but did you ever play the pen & paper variety, preferably at school at lunchtimes?
Arena's the first game of the Elder Scrolls series - haven't played that one. Daggerfall's OK, but far too buggy for my liking. Morrowind is much, much better though.
I have Fallout - wasn't too keen on it, though, so I didn't play it for long. Planescape Torment rocks the hizouse though!
I wanted to play pen and paper. To be honest the "roleplay" part scared me off. I've seen some people play it before. The way they screamed and carried on, it just seemed a little too nerdy for me. I worry too much about how people see me to play pen and paper RPGs.
Problem when I played P&P D&D was that I was the only one who really knew all the rules, and so I was the DM, which isn't much fun. I always wanted to just be a PC, but NO, I had to be DM... sigh.
I thought the series was pretty good. My mate reckons they are good too. The good things about the series is that it has all the main characters in it, and it leads into the duology and I think onto the New Jedi Order Series as well. At least thats what I've been told.
I found the series a lot better than the other Star Wars books I've read, simply because of the familiar characters. I also liked Timothy Zahn's writing style. The books were really easy to read. He doesn't get bogged down in all the details like some other writers I've read or tried reading (Robert Jordan for one).
Do you know anything about the series? Do you know any of the plot lines or when the series is set? Which Star Wars books have you read so far? If you have read some of the books in the future, you might already know what will happen in this series.
In any case II reckon you should just grab it from the library. Have a quick read, see how it goes.
Spiff if you were one of those guys that played D&D at school..i probaly beat you up once ...if we went to the same school...whoch i thourghly doubt...bloody nerds
or a old Gamebox thingey that ya got ya mummy to put in the bin for ya.....who's gonna get it outta the bin for ya?? you wouldn't wanna get ya heands diry would ya
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