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Magician: Apprentice (The Riftwar Saga, #1)
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Magician: Apprentice > MA: Data dump...you got the cutest little, daaaata dump...

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John (Taloni) Taloni (johntaloni) | 5193 comments ...to the tune of "Babyface" of course...

Am about 25% of the way in to Magician: Master. We now have the whole worldbuilding data dump. Fairly artfully done too.

I'm amused to see that this series now straddles Fantasy and SF. "You thought it was a straight up Fantasy...guess what! We've got suns, planets and a realistic-seeming set of orbital mechanics in the story now!"


AndrewP (andrewca) | 2667 comments John (Taloni) wrote: "...to the tune of "Babyface" of course...

Am about 25% of the way in to Magician: Master. We now have the whole worldbuilding data dump. Fairly artfully done too.

I'm amused to see that this seri..."


If you read all 4 of the Riftwar books it get's even better. There is a whole multiverse out there going right back to the Big Bang.


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John (Taloni) Taloni (johntaloni) | 5193 comments So, I will finish Magician: Master and probably Silverthorn. But I thought that was the end of the trilogy. What's the fourth?


AndrewP (andrewca) | 2667 comments It's only a trilogy if you read the original single volume 'Magician'. The fourth book in the US version is A Darkness At Sethanon.


Trike | 11190 comments There was a short-lived MMO that used the riftworlds mechanic. It had a lot of promise but the execution was not exciting.

Throwing all these genres together the way City of Heroes does would be fun, if they could only get away from standard (read: tedious) RPG design.


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