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Lord Karsus
Great Reader
USA
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Alruane
Senior Scribe
USA
434 Posts |
 Posted - 17 Nov 2013 : 09:45:05
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| Ed Greenwood has my vote, he created my favorite character: Elminster Aumar. His storytelling is impeccable, and well done. |
" I wonder if you are destined to be forgotten. Will your life fade in the shadow of greater beings?"
~Joneleth Irenicus
"Wisdom? My dear boy, wisdom is knowing that you do not know everything. Wisdom is realizing, a wise man ALWAYS has questions. Not answers."
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The Arcanamach
Master of Realmslore
1882 Posts |
Posted - 30 Dec 2013 : 15:34:17
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I have a dream that one day, all game worlds will exist as one. |
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Seravin
Master of Realmslore
Canada
1298 Posts |
Posted - 30 Dec 2013 : 19:33:21
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Jeff Grubb should be on this list, for heaven's sake. Azure Bonds and The Wyvern's Spur are extremely great books and much much better in my opinion than any of the authors listed here. He gets the Realms nearly as well as Ed (my highest compliment) but unlike Ed is capable of telling a tight, well plotted story without having 200 named characters that are totally unessential to the plot (I'm looking at you, Swords of XXX books).
Oops, forgot to add Elaine and Bob are the best authors listed in my opinion, but Jeff Grubb is better for my tastes. Ed has his moments but is a better world builder than author, to me (I very much enjoyed Crown of Fire). |
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Drustan Dwnhaedan
Learned Scribe
USA
324 Posts |
Posted - 02 Jan 2014 : 07:35:27
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| I voted for Elaine Cunningham. (It's a pity there's no 'all of the above' option, since that's how I'd preferred to have voted. -__-') |
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Jeremy Grenemyer
Great Reader
USA
2717 Posts |
Posted - 02 Jan 2014 : 08:13:24
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I voted for Ed Greenwood. I get a lot of secondary use out of his novels in terms of mining them for Realmslore and information that I can use for my own fan fiction, for running Realms campaigns and for playing D&D.
Also, I agree with Seravin: Jeff Grubb should be on that list. Too bad de Bie and Evans can't be retroactively added in. |
Look for me and my content at EN World (user name: sanishiver). |
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Derulbaskul
Senior Scribe
Singapore
408 Posts |
Posted - 02 Jan 2014 : 09:45:16
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Yeah, it's unfortunate that this is a typical forum poll: it's badly designed and incomplete. That aside, I don't really like voting on authors in this sort of way on a board where many of those authors hang out.
Ultimately I decided on Rich Baker because even Ed said great things about Rich's Last Mythal trilogy. He also deserves bonus points for being (over a year ago now) the only WotC game designer who could also write a good novel. (Coincidentally, he was one of two good adventure designers as well.) |
Cheers
D
NB: Please remember: A cannon is a big gun. Canon is what we discuss here. |
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MrHedgehog
Senior Scribe
688 Posts |
Posted - 03 Jan 2014 : 20:50:19
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Lisa Smedman. Her stories are the most well thought out and her narrative structure is the most well constructed.
She is by far the most skilled writer amongst them...nobody even compares. |
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Nicolai Withander
Master of Realmslore
Denmark
1093 Posts |
Posted - 07 Jan 2014 : 00:12:50
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I voted for Ed of the Greenwood. Mostly for the fact that he is the creator. That kind of authory is far beyond "just" novels.
I must also admit, that I have only read works from Ed... and few at that. Just never realy became the reading type. Kind of a problem being a university student  |
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