In a message dated Sun, 21 Jul 2002 8:10:02 PM Eastern Standard Time, Kat <tsarren at alyra.org> writes: [Feist's Midkemia books] > I read Feist's Riftwar Saga in my early teens, and have > yet to re-read it... was it really that bad? Also, the > Krondor books and the other two (Prince of the Blood and > The King's Buccaneer, I think) that come between Riftwar > and Serpentwar sagas range from being blase to downright > bad. The Riftwar was pretty good, though I disliked the ending to _Magician_, and all the following books made that ending worse. When _Rage of a Demon King_ was announced, my first thought was "Pug finally realises that Macros is the archvillain and kills him." Unfortunately, that didn't happen. On a positive note, the Empire trilogy he co-wrote with Janny Wurts is pretty good; most people prefer it to anything either wrote solo. > The PC game Betrayel at Krondor, otoh... wow, that > was a great RPG. I'm a purist: I reserve "RPG" for games where you can truly roleplay, and so far I haven't seen a single-person game that manages that (Star Control 2 and Ultima 5 come closest). But BAK is definitely one of the all-time great fantasy adventure games, and I really love how magic was handled (spell effectiveness proportional to mana used). Too bad the spells implemented were horribly unbalanced. --KG