From:	Arclight arclight@**************.com
Subject:	role of novels in SR universe
Date:	Thu, 15 Jul 1999 18:01:18 +0200

And finally, Jarmo Karonen expressed himself by writing:

[I like epic novels]

You know, within the first three novels I read,
2 dragons died, IIRC (Alamais and some feathered snake,
don't know the titles...). And I sat there, totally
startled, thinking something like "if I read 5 more
books, will SR have lost the dragon part?!?".
Though I liked the storytelling and characters,
I prefer -for gamemastering and reading- a lesser
level of "power", so to say. Not that epic novels
suck, I like the Dragonheart triology, but I think
a good story just doesn't need that. What would happen
if within every single novel, the heroes would save
earth, (meta)mankind, and the purity of magic?
It would bore most readers to death, IMO. Therefore,
a large quantity of the novels are "normal runs",
and these normal runs also make the epic ones stand
out.

> Would someone like to argue with me...?

Hmh, herewith you got my opinion. Go against it :)

> Jak: did I make myself clear...? My english can really suck sometimes...
> :(

I also typed this at the end of my first posts. I don't know if
I have improved since then, but stopped that because _if_ someone
doesn't understand me, he'll ask and I get another chance to explain :)

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