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Roboginger
Acolyte
USA
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 Posted - 01 Dec 2011 : 21:10:19
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Hello all I'm new around here,
Would anyone mind suggesting a FR book, a little more on the dark side.
I have read all the legend of Drizt and most of the Elminster books,and a few random other ones as well. looking for something a little darker or more geared towards adults.
Was thinking about the Haunted Lands series.
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
36965 Posts |
Posted - 01 Dec 2011 : 21:50:07
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| The Erevis Cale books are rather popular with a lot of folks, and are darker books. Ditto for the War of the Spider Queen series. |
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The Sage
Procrastinator Most High
Australia
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The Red Walker
Great Reader
USA
3567 Posts |
Posted - 02 Dec 2011 : 03:50:00
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Originally posted by Roboginger
Hello all I'm new around here,
Would anyone mind suggesting a FR book, a little more on the dark side.
I have read all the legend of Drizt and most of the Elminster books,and a few random other ones as well. looking for something a little darker or more geared towards adults.
Was thinking about the Haunted Lands series.
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Bloodwalk by James P. Davis |
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Dennis
Great Reader
9933 Posts |
Posted - 02 Dec 2011 : 03:55:39
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Definitely The Twilight War Trilogy by Paul S. Kemp and The Haunted Lands Trilogy by Richard Lee Byers. There are reviews on those novels here. And of course, you can check out the Book Club section. If you have specific things you want to know without stumbling upon some major spoilers, feel free to ask. |
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HardKano
Learned Scribe
Canada
158 Posts |
Posted - 03 Dec 2011 : 03:59:52
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| Thanks for the subject Roboginger, i was asking myself the samething ... and thanks for the answers |
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James P. Davis
Forgotten Realms Author
USA
244 Posts |
Posted - 03 Dec 2011 : 06:55:01
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Good suggestions all! And I'll go ahead and throw my name/books in the ring mostly because, well, I don't know how not to write dark. Blood, ghosts, nightmares, and bloody skulls...in that order actually. 
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"Everybody is a book of blood; wherever we're opened, we're red."--Clive Barker
FR: RotD2:"Possessions"
Wizards:Bloodwalk
Citadels: The Shield of Weeping Ghosts
Wilds: The Restless Shore
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Yoss
Learned Scribe
USA
259 Posts |
Posted - 03 Dec 2011 : 13:53:32
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Originally posted by Wooly Rupert
The Erevis Cale books are rather popular with a lot of folks, and are darker books.
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Tarloc
Acolyte
USA
37 Posts |
Posted - 03 Dec 2011 : 15:23:35
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| you will not put a cale book down. dark.......yet heroic. or hell call it revenge, cale rocks. until he died(still in de-nile)(not the one in egypt either) cycle of night save us all |
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Dennis
Great Reader
9933 Posts |
Posted - 03 Dec 2011 : 15:45:29
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Cale might still be alive. |
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Tarloc
Acolyte
USA
37 Posts |
Posted - 03 Dec 2011 : 15:56:03
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| thanks dennis. any of the other 4e novels any good? read blades of moonsea, haunted lands, brotherhood griffon, circle skulls(was ok), sovereignty, neverwinter(and all dri-zit forever) and half the older novels. looking for something to pick up at barnes today. keep in mind i only play fighter types in my campaigns |
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
36965 Posts |
Posted - 03 Dec 2011 : 22:23:27
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Originally posted by Tarloc
you will not put a cale book down. dark.......yet heroic. or hell call it revenge, cale rocks. until he died(still in de-nile)(not the one in egypt either) cycle of night save us all
I myself am not a fan of Erevis Cale. |
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Tarloc
Acolyte
USA
37 Posts |
Posted - 04 Dec 2011 : 00:49:21
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| wooly you seem like a paladin lover. or u like the more contemporary version of hero? the goodguy. not that its bad by any means. to each his own |
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Dennis
Great Reader
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Posted - 04 Dec 2011 : 05:34:21
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Originally posted by Tarloc
you will not put a cale book down. dark.......yet heroic. or hell call it revenge, cale rocks. until he died(still in de-nile)(not the one in egypt either) cycle of night save us all
I myself am not a fan of Erevis Cale.
One doesn't have to be Cale's fan to enjoy the trilogy, I guess. Riven and the others have as much screen time as Cale. Well, at least in Book 2 [the only one I read]. |
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
36965 Posts |
Posted - 04 Dec 2011 : 06:23:05
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Originally posted by Dennis
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Originally posted by Wooly Rupert
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Originally posted by Tarloc
you will not put a cale book down. dark.......yet heroic. or hell call it revenge, cale rocks. until he died(still in de-nile)(not the one in egypt either) cycle of night save us all
I myself am not a fan of Erevis Cale.
One doesn't have to be Cale's fan to enjoy the trilogy, I guess. Riven and the others have as much screen time as Cale. Well, at least in Book 2 [the only one I read].
Well, I didn't enjoy the Erevis Cale trilogy, either. I'm very much in the minority, there. |
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Erik Scott de Bie
Forgotten Realms Author
USA
4598 Posts |
Posted - 05 Dec 2011 : 02:11:08
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Originally posted by Tarloc
any of the other 4e novels any good?
Try the Ed Greenwood Presents Waterdeep. I'm told they're quite enjoyable . . . even the one by that ridiculously tall de Bie guy.
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'Tis easier to destroy than to create.
Author of a number of Realms novels (GHOSTWALKER, DEPTHS OF MADNESS, and the SHADOWBANE series), contributor to the NEVERWINTER CAMPAIGN GUIDE and SHADOWFELL: GLOOMWROUGHT AND BEYOND, Twitch DM of the Dungeon Scrawlers, currently playing "The Westgate Irregulars" |
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Tarloc
Acolyte
USA
37 Posts |
Posted - 05 Dec 2011 : 06:06:29
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| dark and empty cale, i wish these novels came out faster. im taking your word on downshadow, ridiculously tall guy. great to chat with author first. off world partly but how are the abyssal plagues, anyone? |
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