[UA] Warhammer Fiction

[Frank Lohmann]

"Tim Bisaillon" <knightbane at hotmail.com> wrote:

> >Speaking of which, have you read "Drachenfels", by Kim Newman? Now that's a
> >good plot idea - heroes defeat ancient horror. Twenty-odd years later, they
> >return to the scene when a play is put on about their adventures.
> 
> Sounds like a plot for "Return To the Temple of Elemental Evil" that I was 
> about to run.

Maybe, I don't know RttToEE. However, the clever (and slightly UAable) bit in 
that novel, IIRC, is that the play twenty years later is *still* part of the 
plot of the evil guy, so instead of seriously fighting the heroes twenty years 
ago (against which he would probably have failed), he chooses to fight the real 
fight against their proxies-of-sorts, the actors who play the heroes. Who, being 
only actors, wouldn't really have a fighting chance against him.

Anyway, my recollection of the novel is a bit blurred, although it was a good 
novel. There was something else the villain wanted to accomplish with this plan, 
and some of the actors turned out to be heroes themselves or somesuch. Ah, 
bugger it - just go give it a try yourself, it's definitively worth the read...

Have a nice weekend!
	Frank
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