Caleb M. Powers > Recent Status Updates

Well, this is fun. Not sure if I caught this fully the last time I read Fellowship, but I found a thing I definitely prefer in the books over the movies: Gandalf escaping from Orthanc has great foreshadowing in the book, while in the movies it is basically a deus ex machina (though forgivable because it doesn't really solve a major problem, I suppose).

Some really good stuff in this one—I know I've read a couple of these before, but there are also some gems I hadn't hit yet.

I'm definitely enjoying the book, but I feel like I may need to read it again after this in print to really get some of the arguments—and read up on the philosophies and tragedy/comedy dichotomy Leithart is exploring in the book.

Feeling a tad lost.

Really enjoying it so far, but it's *really* specific. I may be able to grab pieces of this for other settings, but probably not much.

One thing that does interest me is the Infection mechanics themselves, because of something in the future of the Hellbreaker setting that might be fun to play with—we'll have to see how much can be ported.

Mostly content I've read already in The Burning Wheel Codex, but there is some fun new stuff hidden among the old. Just reached the actual breakdown of magic systems in Burning Wheel, so I'm pumped to read that next.