Re: [DL] Not even pretending to be a DeadLands topic...

[Jeffrey Miller <jeffmill@amazon.com>]

On Fri, 1 Dec 2000, David Farris wrote:

> Okay...
> 
> gonna delurk again......
> 
> ::raises right hand:: I am a cetified Tolkien Fanatic  (or...maybe is that
> certifiable?) 
> 
> BTW...what gender issues? (Im nosy.....thats the historian in me).....Two
> of the most powerful people in Tolkien's universe were Luthien (in The
> Silmarillion) and Galadriel (but ya have to have read The Unifinished Tales
> to get more of the feel for her history). Then, of course, ya have Eowyn,
> who was a Shield-Maiden. (which, of course, meant there were others in The
> Mark that bore that title before The War of the Ring) She gets the
> Witch-King at the Battle of the Pelenor Fields....not too shabby
> considering the fact that not even Glorifindel could kill him. 

MM, yes, true... but where are the /other/ women? *shrug*

I'm not expert - fanatic, possibly, but not an expert :)

> Yes...it is partially nostalgia. Plus...some of the old modules are just
> plain fun. I run a bunch of them from time to time at Cons here in
> Tampa.....G1-3 Against the Giants, A1-4 The Slave Lords, S1 Tomb of
> Horrors.....the list goes on and on...until ya get to the non-Greyhawk
> based modules...which only a few are worthwhile, Ravenloft being the best

I love those old modules.. classics that set the genre, if nothing else.

Ravenloft... *shudder*  

-j-