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Post by stuh505 on Apr 21, 2005 4:42:29 GMT
What does this mean, if you are ever "asked"?
The first 20 LW books are all cheap and cost usually under $5 still even though they are out of print...
the books 20-28 on the other hand cost $100 each, which makes it difficult for most people to read them...THESE should be the books on project Aon!
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Post by stuh505 on Apr 21, 2005 4:53:17 GMT
Ok, great way to kick it off in the forum I obviously didn't check to see that this had already been posted. I now see the answer to my question...it is because they don't have the license to those books! They list them, but it is for illustrations or something...a bit confusing at first.
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Post by Zipp on Apr 21, 2005 6:25:31 GMT
Plus, for the most part, the original series is considered a lot better than the New Order series.
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Post by stuh505 on Apr 21, 2005 13:42:48 GMT
That makes me feel a little better since I don't have them. I'm assuming that you did continue wherethe character left off simply because they are labelled 21+ ... I'm also assuming that they probably render all your current skills useless and start out with a higher level set...but do they let you keep your equipment? What makes them worse
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Post by outspaced on Apr 21, 2005 16:08:22 GMT
I quite like New Order. Did you know, their song Blue Monday is the highest-selling 12" single of all time?
;D
In the NO series of Lone Wolf gamebooks, you don't continue playing Lone Wolf, you roll up a new character entirely--one of the New Order Kai who have been taught by Lone Wolf and graduated to become a Kai Grand Master. You are then sent on missions that previously Lone Wolf would have been sent on, but he's too busy these days, so you have to do it instead. There are 4 new Disciplines for the series: Herbmastery, Bardsmanship, Astrology and Elementalism--three of which are obviously taken from the Grey Star books. On the whole, they seem a little rushed, and there is less of a linking narrative (though as they finished 4 books short, the overarcing plot might have been lost), but the best of them is on a par with the best of Lone Wolf--23: Mydnight's Hero is rated by Joe (and by me!) as one of his favourite Lone Wolf books.
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Post by Zipp on Apr 29, 2005 23:29:12 GMT
Unfortunately, the worst ones are sometimes compared to certain books of the Legends series...
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Post by Relenoir on Apr 30, 2005 1:11:53 GMT
I'd still say that any NO book is better than the worst of the Legends series.
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Post by Zipp on May 1, 2005 4:34:39 GMT
I thought Curse of Naar nicely tied things up. I mean, of course you haven't really gotten a "true ending," as both Naar and Lone Wolf live, but you've brought the situation back round to the "good guys" (I hate that term, I mean, you certainly aren't good to Naar's minions) and pulled off your greatest stunt yet: Breaking into Naar's inner chambers and surviving!
The New Order books don't get near as up close and personal with Naar. It is a nice return to the feel of the old days, when Lone Wolf was a fledgling kai, galavanting across the countryside, halftimes in disguise, but sometimes it seemed unnecesary. Of course, I did like how he was creating a contained plot with a new main villain and some new heroes. I'm pretty curious to see how he would've ended the series.
But to be honest, I think anything short of a total defeat of Naar, the death of Lone Wolf, or something totally out of left field, would not be enough to end such a long series.
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Post by Ghost Bear on May 1, 2005 13:08:34 GMT
Unfortunately, the worst ones are sometimes compared to certain books of the Legends series... I've never heard anyone make such a comparison. -GB
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Post by North Star on May 4, 2005 13:19:17 GMT
Of course, a total defeat of Naar in such a pivotal world as Magnamund would signify dominance of Good, not only over Magnamund, but eventually over all of Aon too. And if Dragonlance or the Star Wars Old Republic is anything to go by, we know what happens when you have total dominance of good.
NS.
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Post by Relenoir on May 7, 2005 3:53:53 GMT
Of course, a total defeat of Naar in such a pivotal world as Magnamund would signify dominance of Good, not only over Magnamund, but eventually over all of Aon too. And if Dragonlance or the Star Wars Old Republic is anything to go by, we know what happens when you have total dominance of good. NS. Yeah, somebody's gonna come along sooner or later and screw it all up because everyone gets lax! I thought Demolition Man, despite its shortcomings, was a pretty funny movie that made a point of the same thing.
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Post by North Star on May 8, 2005 22:03:52 GMT
After all, Good shines by having Evil to balance against. With the removal of Good, Evil just turns into destructive chaos and and with the removal of Evil, Good just slides into lazy neutrality.
NS.
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Post by Runeheart on Jun 18, 2005 6:13:20 GMT
Conflict is just such a better adventure then perfect good (removal of evil), imagine the story (ie Book 6). Go for a journey, meet nice polite people, stay in comfortable inn, talk to a sage, shake hands with the Dakomyd, take home Lorestone( sorry, borrow the Lorestone). What sort of adventure is that? On the topic, Mydnight's Hero, is the best New Order Book. Rune War is good in that you get to revisit old stomping grounds (as someone else, I know). My biggest disappointment was Book 26, in an earlier book I had seen Blood Mountain and always wanted to visit but it didn't seem to engage me like others (or I had too high expectations).Anyway, the best thing about the NO books is visiting lands in Southern Magnamund, wonderful!
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