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I picked up the Solomon Kane rpg. ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
womzilla wondered why it had taken people so long to come up with the idea of doing this. I suspect that the timing is related to the fact that a new trade paperback edition of all of the Kane stories and fragments, prose and poetry, came out not that long ago. I would never have been interested in the rpg if I hadn't read most of that book.
I took it as a review copy, intending to review the stories for The New York Review of Science Fiction, but returned it, having enjoyed reading the stories, but realizing that I could not do the kind of review that NYRSF needed. That review was done by Darrell Schweitzer, who has the background in that kind of pulp fantasy, the love for it, and the wisdom and understanding to describe its weaknesses as well as its strengths, both in terms of the writing and in terms of the racist elements.
womzilla wondered why it had taken people so long to come up with the idea of doing this. I suspect that the timing is related to the fact that a new trade paperback edition of all of the Kane stories and fragments, prose and poetry, came out not that long ago. I would never have been interested in the rpg if I hadn't read most of that book.I took it as a review copy, intending to review the stories for The New York Review of Science Fiction, but returned it, having enjoyed reading the stories, but realizing that I could not do the kind of review that NYRSF needed. That review was done by Darrell Schweitzer, who has the background in that kind of pulp fantasy, the love for it, and the wisdom and understanding to describe its weaknesses as well as its strengths, both in terms of the writing and in terms of the racist elements.