A Game of Thrones and Game of Thrones the Board Game?

A Game of Thrones Game of Thrones the Board Game?

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Roll playing games can become very intense especially when the participants know the back-story to the characters and the settings, people get very passionate about A Game of Thrones: The Board Game Second Edition. Here is a quick over view or review that gives a brief insight into the hit that has captured the imagination of both men and women.




Game of Thrones a TV Series






Game of Thrones a TV series produced by HBO as a miniseries based on a fantasy series of books under the name of A Song of Ice and Fire, from award-winning author George R. R. Martin can weave a fine tale, what with the long string of novels, short stories, and television adaptations credited to his name.

With a Game of Thrones book, however, A Song of Ice and Fire, Books 1-4 (A Game of Thrones / A Feast for Crows / A Storm of Swords / Clash of Kings) 'A Game of Thrones grabs hold and won't let go. It's brilliant. with multidimensional characters that you love, hate to love, or love to hate as they struggle for control of a divided kingdom. It is this very vitality that has led it to be adapted as the HBO miniseries "Game of Thrones."
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A Song of Ice and Fire
According the Bantam Books, the publisher of the series, more than eight million copies of the series has been sold in the United States; more than 18 million copies have been sold throughout the world. The series has been published in about 20 different languages and fans all point back to A Game of Thrones being the novel that started it all

Perhaps the most interesting facet of the Game of Thrones book is how Martin manages to create a world that is fantastical and realistic at the same time this comes across in the series too. While the setting has hints of magic, dragons, and otherworldly creatures and forces, these are used more to enrich the world and the characters struggles, rather than to serve as the driving forces of the story

A Game of Thrones
The series starts off in a wintry forest north of a huge wall that separates the untamed north from the "civilised" land known as the seven kingdoms. The wall guards the rest of the world from the lands on the far north. It is 700 feet high, spans through a continent and is made completely of ice, manned by the Night's watch. The Wall was built to keep out the creatures that are supposed to emerge from the northern forests during particularly hard winters, winters that are decade long, winters that are extremely cold. But they have not been seen in a thousand years and most people think of them as being just legends, stories to frighten kids at bedtime.

 However, in the first scene we see they are not imaginary, UN-dead creatures with a hatred for all living things. The first few minutes shows dismembered bodies of men, women and children and then one of the un-dead beheading a ranger from south of the wall on a scouting mission. The White Walkers are coming. Harry Potter put your wand away and run.

Most of the series concerns three families. The dour but noble Starks headed by Sean Bean (Surely he must be a dab hand at the swordplay at this stage.) The Lannisters headed by Lena Headley. She is queen to Robert Baratheon, a once proud warrior and friend of Ned Stark (Bean) who is now gone to seed.
He has no interest in his royal duties or his marriage-of-convenience wife Cersie. She also despises her husband and is having an affair with her twin brother..... yep, you read that right.


The other family is a brother and sister: Dany and Viserys Targaryen. They are the last of their family. Their father was the previous king. He and all the rest of the family were killed when Robert assumed the throne. They fled to another country across the sea deep to the south.

Viserys is dying to get his throne back and marries his sister to a local tribal chieftain in exchange for use of his large tribal army in regaining the crown.

The fantasy elements are kept to a minimum. (That will change as the seasons for the hit TV show progresses, and the main characters develop and grow.) The creatures behind the wall are only briefly seen throughout the season, but their presence is looming as season two progresses to being threatening in season three. Magic is mentioned but is never really seen (but has a presence in season two), and seems only to be the appliance of science and medicine in a medieval fashion.


There once were dragons but they are now thought to be extinct. The only trace that is left are bones and fossil eggs. Dearneys Targaryen. She is the last of the House of Targaryen, which was placed in exile long ago. Someone had given her three dragon egg fossils, which she nurtured and eventually hatched. Targaryen's main goal throughout this story line is to reclaim the Iron Throne which is rightfully hers.

Instead season one main focus is the rivalry between the Starks and the Lannisters and the scheming
of Viserys.

A Game of Thrones is just that - this is not a story where the good guys are safe. Any character can be killed off at any time for any reason or none at all it would seem as characters play to their strengths. Plots thicken and become more intricate, as throughout series two and three new loves and alliances are forged and broken and a more mystical element enters the story line.

 A power struggle between four main families, the Baratheons, Starks, Lannisters, and Targaryens, who are vying for control of the Iron Throne in much the same way as civil wars have been fought in almost every nation, that has called itself civilised. It has an element and feel of the English Civil conflict, the War of the Roses.

A Game of Thrones book has become so popular that the HBO miniseries was born, it has been a great success to the suprise of many, and credit has to go to the HBO bosses, who allowed production to be on the scale of a small movie, giving the whole thing great body and depth. This in its self allowed the audience to invest into the characters emotionally and made people want to tune in to find out how they survived the next chapter.

Here is what the author has to say on the HBO TV Series A Game of Thornes and subsequent books, (series one - the background, series two - A Clash of Kings, Series three - A Storm of Swords, A Feast of Crows and A Dance With Dragons) George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire series has become, in many ways, the gold standard for modern epic fantasy. Martin--dubbed the "American Tolkien" by Time magazine--

This has exposed a whole new audiance that would never visit a certain section of a book shop or even a book shop to look at things in a slightly different way. A Game of Thrones has sprouted a Comic book series that has been adapted from the story lines, as well as Card Games, Role Playing Games, Board Games and at least Five Video Games and more things related to A Game Of Thrones will surely follow.

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