"Game of Thrones board declined" Topic

Proposed board did not receive sufficient support to be viable. TMP link

And there was much happiness and much rejoicing.

I blame Seasons 7 and 8.
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When you fall short of 30 support votes by 21…. 🙄🤷

Not to mention George kind of wandering off from Books 6 and 7.
He started GoT as a book that would or could never be made into a movie. In that he succeeded!

It is a bit like yesterday's fantasy series

Never saw it, so I don't think I missed much…

Is this the first time a board has failed? I can't remember one.

Possible we're reached a point of diminishing returns on specialized boards.

Sorry OFM. I think you're right: a conclusion in the books would have made a difference in how the existing books were viewed. At this stage, I don't see it happening in Martin's lifetime. If he could, he would have. I bet at some point, his publishers will commission an ending, which may or may not be tied to the TV ending. But there's not a lot of talent at Martin's level, and they mostly don't play in one another's sandboxes. The two or three who might pull it off are about Martin's age, too. They're not likely to undertake that sort of project.

And we already have an ending written by second-raters.

There is no Lord of the Rings Board, so why one for Game of Thrones?

I recently started a Pre Poll Discussion thread on "AllThings Tolkien". Mit probably has a better chance than this one.

And we already have an ending written by second-raters.

You are being kind.

I try to be, OFM. Besides, it's modern Hollywood. If you didn't grade on a curve, who would pass?

Don't think I've ever seen anyone Gaming of Thrones at cons or stores around here, even before the show fizzled out.

I remember seeing pics of some very impressive looking GoT armies over on LAF, on the Medieval board there, as I don't frequent any fantasy boards -- nothing against them, just not my gaming genre. I think it was posted there because the gamer in question was using Perry 15th Century figures to build various armies from the "Seven Kingdoms". I remember wondering how widespread the enthusiasm for raising and gaming with such GoT armies was both over in the UK and here in the USA. I do most of my gaming at home on my own table, but I do get out from time to time to local gaming groups and even a convention or two, but as miniMo says, I don't know that I have ever actually seen a GoT miniatures game being played. Years ago, when the GoT TV series was a pop-culture phenomenon, I remember a gamer friend one of my kids brought over when they were in middle school or early on in high school for a NWF or Second Afghan War game saying my rocky hills could serve as "The Wall" or the "Frostfangs Mountains" of the North… which I took as a compliment. I did ask if he had read the books or just watched the show on HBO, and he had actually read the books, which kinda impressed me, just because I knew there were a lot of them and they weren't thin.

Someone is making miniatures for a game, and they keep adding to it.
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So, someone must be buying and playing.
Those personality figures look mighty nice. I do hope the actors are getting NIL money.

Over at BGG, GoT does pretty well in the plays department for a miniatures game, so someone is playing it.

Unfortunately, George RR sat down with the two show runners early on, and outlined the core story. That way, the show could drop certain characters without much impact to the main plot.

So although the writing was rushed and not nearly as clever/impactful as it could be, the final deaths of key characters is exactly what George had planned. And the new King is the character he planned on, etc. And our final scene or a certain unhappy person banishing himself north of the wall? That too was planned.

So even though George RR is never going to finish his series, it won't matter. After he dies I am sure the publishers will commission someone to take his notes and make an ending couple of novels out of them. But we already know what he had planned. And no way will his heirs allow anyone to change his vision.