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Zarithar
Acolyte
USA
5 Posts |
 Posted - 04 Jan 2008 : 16:09:43
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| Darkwalker of Moonshae. Although I enjoy the pseudo-Celtic feel of the setting, I found the writing somewhat stilted,and FR did not really suck me in until I read The Crystal Shard. |
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I Am Not A Bear
Acolyte
Canada
14 Posts |
Posted - 04 Jan 2008 : 17:02:00
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| Cormyr, I think. |
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riot the outsider
Learned Scribe
USA
121 Posts |
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monknwildcat
Learned Scribe
USA
285 Posts |
Posted - 08 May 2008 : 21:14:07
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| Crystal Shard. My youngest brother convinced me to give it a read while home on break from college. |
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Aulduron
Learned Scribe
USA
343 Posts |
Posted - 09 May 2008 : 01:37:57
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| Either the Crystal Shard, or the Avatar series. |
"Those with talent become wizards, Those without talent spend their lives praying for it"
-Procopio Septus |
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BARDOBARBAROS
Senior Scribe
Greece
581 Posts |
Posted - 09 May 2008 : 07:27:36
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| Homeland (R.A Salvatore) |
BARDOBARBAROS DOES NOT KILL.
HE DECAPITATES!!!
"The city changes, but the fools within it remain always the same" (Edwin Odesseiron- Baldur's gate 2) |
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Tarsakh
Acolyte
Germany
1 Posts |
Posted - 14 May 2008 : 13:37:03
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| Darkwalker on Moonshae |
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Nevar
Acolyte
Canada
4 Posts |
Posted - 16 May 2008 : 06:55:24
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| I'm the same as SirUrza, I started with The Crystal Shard and was hooked from then on. My next series was the Dragonlance dragons trilogy where I got totally hooked on Raistlin. I love evil archmages! The realms need sooo many more evil archmages! |
Meteor swarm first and ask questions later! |
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Jorkens
Great Reader
Norway
2950 Posts |
Posted - 16 May 2008 : 10:30:42
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Originally posted by Nevar
I'm the same as SirUrza, I started with The Crystal Shard and was hooked from then on. My next series was the Dragonlance dragons trilogy where I got totally hooked on Raistlin. I love evil archmages! The realms need sooo many more evil archmages!
There weren't exactly few. At least before the Spellplague. |
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J D Dunsany
Learned Scribe
United Kingdom
180 Posts |
Posted - 16 May 2008 : 11:23:45
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| I think the first FR novel I read was 'The Mage Hound'. |
"How content that young woman looks, don't you think? How content, and yet how flammable." - Lemony Snicket, The Unauthorized Autobiography |
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Danny Glick
Acolyte
USA
18 Posts |
Posted - 25 May 2008 : 03:29:43
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| Crystal Shard. Good Lord, I has no idea at the time that I would wander the Realms for 200+ more novels. |
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danbuter
Seeker
USA
74 Posts |
Posted - 28 Jun 2008 : 02:09:41
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| Darkwalker on Moonshae. Not too long after I read my shiny newly published FR gray box. :) |
Nothing beats the gray box!
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DragonReader
Senior Scribe
USA
371 Posts |
Posted - 29 Jun 2008 : 15:55:45
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| Darkwalker on Moonshae for me as well... |
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Gwydion669
Acolyte
USA
14 Posts |
Posted - 30 Jun 2008 : 08:32:26
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| Darkwalker on Moonshae (eagerly snapped up when it first came out). Wouldn't recommend it as a starting place for others, though. Has a more "Celtic" than "Faerunian" feel ... if that makes any sense. |
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TheEasilyDiseased
Acolyte
Canada
5 Posts |
Posted - 14 Sep 2008 : 05:10:25
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| My first would have been Spellfire, that was what got me started in the realms. |
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Christopher_Rowe
Forgotten Realms Author
USA
879 Posts |
Posted - 14 Sep 2008 : 14:00:18
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| For the first four or five years I bought and read them all as they came out. So, yeah, Douglas Niles' Darkwalker on Moonshae. |
My Realms novel, Sandstorm, is now available for ordering. |
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Nilus Reynard
Learned Scribe
Canada
137 Posts |
Posted - 15 Sep 2008 : 10:51:23
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Darkwalker on Moonshae for me also.
I recall finding it in a used bookstore when I was 14, and thought "Forgotten Realms?....I think I have heard of that before. Eh, why not, its only $2.25" I was a buy that would lead to the filling of bookshelves.  |
Nilus Reynard
Doom Master of Beshaba, Hand of Despair.
P24 Hm CN
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Iliphar1
Learned Scribe
Austria
133 Posts |
Posted - 16 Sep 2008 : 15:59:05
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Prince of Lies, it totally hooked me, so I still read FR books
I have acutally read Vampires of the Mist and Knight of the Rose before, but haven't realised, it was about Ad&D back then :-) |
'You see dead bones? ... I see an army!' Ezechiel 37 |
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Iluvrien
Acolyte
United Kingdom
49 Posts |
Posted - 22 Sep 2008 : 14:45:53
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I was beyond fortunate...
I was browsing for Random Fiction (as I tend to, being a bit of a bibliophile) and happened across a hardcover of the fantasmical Ms. Cunninham's Daughter of the Drow.
Well, you can imagine how quickly that got me hooked on Realms fiction... not least because I followed it up with Songs and Swords and then Found Ed (queue epiphany music) in the shape of the Old Mage series. And after the Lady of Scorchstone Hall scene in Temptation I knew that here were two authors I was going to pursue voraciously.
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Rinonalyrna Fathomlin
Great Reader
USA
7106 Posts |
Posted - 22 Sep 2008 : 14:51:48
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| Welcome to Candlekeep, Iluvrien, good to see you here. |
"Instead of asking why we sleep, it might make sense to ask why we wake. Perchance we live to dream. From that perspective, the sea of troubles we navigate in the workaday world might be the price we pay for admission to another night in the world of dreams."
--Richard Greene (letter to Time) |
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Iluvrien
Acolyte
United Kingdom
49 Posts |
Posted - 22 Sep 2008 : 14:59:50
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It is good to be seen, especially by the likes of you, your Ladyship.
I shan't continue for fear of Extreme Thread Derailment but I will reiterate the assertion I made Elsewhere that you are camping out in the back of my brain... somewhere.
*bows deeply with a flourish*
One hopes to prove and asset to this, most august of communities.
Back on topic, I am heartily in envy of the young lady who shared a flight with Ed. I was interested to see how many people started out with Salvatore books. I only started reading those a fortnight ago (after having devoured other author's offerings for several years). the change in writing styles and ambient atmosphere is profound! |
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Jakk
Great Reader
Canada
2165 Posts |
Posted - 28 Sep 2008 : 22:21:50
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| Darkwalker on Moonshae for me too. I think I read that and bought the Gray Box in the same month. |
Playing in the Realms since the Old Grey Box (1987)... and *still* having fun with material published before 2008, despite the NDA'd lore.
If it's comparable in power with non-magical abilities, it's not magic. |
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Thielan
Acolyte
Australia
25 Posts |
Posted - 10 Oct 2008 : 02:14:59
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| It was the old hardcopy of the Legacy of the Drow Quartet for me. I knew Drizzt from Baldur's gate and picked it up thinking "a book about Drizzt? Awesome!" |
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storrs19
Acolyte
USA
6 Posts |
Posted - 20 Oct 2008 : 14:50:09
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Darkwalker on Moonshae. Yes, I am an old coot! I bought it new in June 1987 when I was between the 11th and 12th grade in High School. I was already a big Tolkien fan and also was acquring Dragonlance novels on a regular basis so I thought I would give FR a try. I have loved it ever since and still have all the novels that I purchased many years ago. I then got hooked on Salvatore when The Crystal Shard came out in 1988 and ever since he has been my favorite FR author with The Cleric Quintet being my favorite series of his.
I like how he wanted it to be about a monk but TSR wouldn't have that as monks were gone with the 2nd edition of AD&D. This fact really ticked me off as well as I had a 9th level monk who was my main character so I can feel his pain. I continue to play only the first edition of AD&D to this day for that reason. Monks rock! |
Fantasy Reader for 25 years and counting! |
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Nanron
Acolyte
USA
2 Posts |
Posted - 21 Oct 2008 : 00:41:56
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The first FR novel I read was Spellfire by Ed.
I liked the read so much, I have read the book many times.
I do find it funny how people either like or despise that book. |
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Stout Heart
Learned Scribe
USA
118 Posts |
Posted - 21 Oct 2008 : 13:20:02
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| If my memory servers me right it was either exile by R.A. or dream spheres by EC |
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Rinonalyrna Fathomlin
Great Reader
USA
7106 Posts |
Posted - 22 Oct 2008 : 00:03:57
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Originally posted by Iluvrien
It is good to be seen, especially by the likes of you, your Ladyship.
I shan't continue for fear of Extreme Thread Derailment but I will reiterate the assertion I made Elsewhere that you are camping out in the back of my brain... somewhere.
*bows deeply with a flourish*
Missed this--I just wanted to say thanks for the kind words. |
"Instead of asking why we sleep, it might make sense to ask why we wake. Perchance we live to dream. From that perspective, the sea of troubles we navigate in the workaday world might be the price we pay for admission to another night in the world of dreams."
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ranger_of_the_unicorn_run
Learned Scribe
USA
292 Posts |
Posted - 07 Dec 2008 : 16:18:51
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| My first FR novel was The Crystal Shard, but my dad owned a couple dozen others and I eventually got to the Elminster books, Darkwalker on Moonshae, and a couple others I can't remember right now. The first one that I picked up myself without having anything to go off of was Elfshadow. I loved it and went on to read the rest of the series, as well as picking up Starlight and Shadows. Now I actually own more Realms books than my dad because I really like reading the older ones and he doesn't have a whole lot of those. |
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
36968 Posts |
Posted - 07 Dec 2008 : 16:24:05
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Originally posted by ranger_of_the_unicorn_run
My first FR novel was The Crystal Shard, but my dad owned a couple dozen others and I eventually got to the Elminster books, Darkwalker on Moonshae, and a couple others I can't remember right now. The first one that I picked up myself without having anything to go off of was Elfshadow. I loved it and went on to read the rest of the series, as well as picking up Starlight and Shadows. Now I actually own more Realms books than my dad because I really like reading the older ones and he doesn't have a whole lot of those.
Wow, a second-generation Realms fan! That may be a first for us. |
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Brynweir
Senior Scribe
USA
436 Posts |
Posted - 07 Dec 2008 : 18:29:10
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Might be first posted here, but not necessarily a first and definitely not an only. My 9 year old daughter is also a fan. She even has a character running around at the Inn  . |
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First FR novel you read?
