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I thought the same as well. When i frequently followed sub-forums of Third Age Total War and Stainless Steel, it was mostly dead. But it seems someone revived the mod recently. ( probably after the TV series. )
Oh dear. He's probably already getting new ideas for atrocities given the average CK2 player makes most AGOT nobles look like pansies.
GRRM has always had a positive relationship with his fans so I doubt he would turn cruel all of the sudden. If he knows of this though it'd be pretty awesome to hear a comment from him. He'd probably feel pretty honored, really.
He claimed that the Red Wedding was the hardest chapter he's written so far for the series. As far as I know, you don't get that sort of events in CK 2.
He's opposed to fanfiction, both because he thinks it weakens his copyright, and it's not good practice for new writers. Fanart is kosher (and I presume everything else is).
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I'm really looking forward to the TellTale's GOT game, actually. I love what they've done with the Walking Dead (and I don't even like that series very much TBH).
Perhaps they didn't like the words they used like Westeros, or it gave a false image to the series and decided they wanted to put an end to it. Lets hope they love this one enough to hang on to it.
Most people seem to ignore that bad considering the ammount of fics for the series such as Ned Stark lives part 1 and 2 or Line of the Cruel etc
Kind of a shame. A similar event is one of the many reasons for why the kalmar union failed and it would be interesting if similar could be pulled off in CK2 and lead to the realm crumbling apart into civil war.
I usually play as Ironborn. Reaving, plundering, slavery, castrations, assassinations, tyranny, kinslaying, kingslaying, unlawful executions, drowning entire noble houses just for lulz... But i would love to have event with murdering guests on weddings. Or oldschool poisoned feasts.
The Red Wedding did not just take out Robb Stark and his mother. To me, it is more important that much of his accompanying army was killed along with them. That is easily in excess of 3000 soldiers.
Personally, I believe Martin doesn't want to enforce that ban. He makes his feelings known, and that is it (for the most part).
Personally, I believe Martin doesn't want to enforce that ban. He makes his feelings known, and that is it (for the most part).
He could try, but thats one of those unenforcable kind of bans that'll only earn him bad PR and ire.
I'm a bit confused as to what precisely it is that he means. For one I thought it was trademark that had to be sued over all the time to avoid losing it and not copyright. Secondly is he confusing ordinary fanfic with people trying to write stories using his intellectual property and then trying to get money for it?
Call it values dissonance, but the Red Wedding is exactly the sort of thing Sun Zi would have advocated to Tywin had he existed in Westeros. We Chinese had at least one precedent whereby a banquet was used as an assassination ground (the Hong Men banquet during the Chu-Han War after the Qin Dynasty fell, where Xiang Yu tried to have Liu Bang killed during that banquet). Of course, we also had historical folklore of a Qin general burying alive ~400,000 soldiers after the other side surrendered (Bai Qi after the Battle of Changping, against Zhao soldiers). Also, Ned Stark would have been considered a great failure as a leader, for he allowed his realm to fall into ruin.
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I think you can do fanfiction if you don't seek to make money out of it. I also recall he said that he did not want anyone to continue ASOIAF when he is done (or dead) for some reasons, so yeah. This is not really what I was talking about though.
That's probably because he feels no one can know the setting and characters as well as he does. Which is more or less true for settings with a single responsible author I suppose. That and a fear of the quality being bad no doubt.
As I understand it, his position isn't that he will aggressively seek out and remove any and all fan ficition.
It basically comes down to, if you are capable of writing a detailed, compelling and rich story with well developed characters and story arcs using his characters and setting, than why not use those talents to create your own setting and characters.
It basically comes down to, if you are capable of writing a detailed, compelling and rich story with well developed characters and story arcs using his characters and setting, than why not use those talents to create your own setting and characters.
If he dares to die before he finishes the books AND does not prepare that someone else finishes it (á la Robert Jordan) I will personally go and defile his grave xD