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charger_ss24
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 Posted - 02 Oct 2013 : 21:02:49
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Went out and bought The Godborn today, and also picked up The Legend of Drizzt Anthology. Looking through the previous books printed near the beginning, underneath the Neverwinter Saga, I see the title Icewind Dale, which was due Oct. 2012. Was that a misprint, or was that changed to what that book is now called Charon's Claw Just curious.
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Entromancer
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Posted - 03 Oct 2013 : 00:55:09
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| It is my theory that Icewind Dale had elements of Charon's Claw and The Last Threshold rolled into one. |
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BEAST
Master of Realmslore
USA
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Posted - 03 Oct 2013 : 04:22:28
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We've never been given an official explanation for that. It's kinda like how earlier copies of books in the "WOTSQ" series initially said that the final installment was set to be written by Mel Odom, but then it actually ended up being PSK. I don't recall ever hearing it explained what happened there--it just did.
My best guess is that Bob was probably already planning on sending Drizzt back to ID to mellow out a bit, or possibly to meet the reborn Companions again. I don't think he was planning on the "Neverwinter Saga" to take four books.
But then The Sundering took hold at WOTC, and it took some time to iron out the kinks in the planning for that, and he drug out the Drizzt books a bit more to bide time.
Or he just came up with more stuff that he wanted to tell, and it ended up taking more books.
I don't know, but Neverwinter felt slow to me. I couldn't shake the feeling that it was filler. |
"'You don't know my history,' he said dryly."
--Drizzt Do'Urden (The Pirate King, Part 1: Chapter 2)
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sfdragon
Great Reader
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Posted - 03 Oct 2013 : 16:01:25
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Originally posted by BEAST
We've never been given an official explanation for that. It's kinda like how earlier copies of books in the "WOTSQ" series initially said that the final installment was set to be written by Mel Odom, but then it actually ended up being PSK. I don't recall ever hearing it explained what happened there--it just did.
My best guess is that Bob was probably already planning on sending Drizzt back to ID to mellow out a bit, or possibly to meet the reborn Companions again. I don't think he was planning on the "Neverwinter Saga" to take four books.
But then The Sundering took hold at WOTC, and it took some time to iron out the kinks in the planning for that, and he drug out the Drizzt books a bit more to bide time.
Or he just came up with more stuff that he wanted to tell, and it ended up taking more books.
I don't know, but Neverwinter felt slow to me. I couldn't shake the feeling that it was filler.
well Im glad Im not the only one.
it seemed slow to me as well..... like there was no enjoyment in in the author writing them... |
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Thieran
Learned Scribe
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Posted - 03 Oct 2013 : 18:57:03
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Originally posted by sfdragon
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Originally posted by BEAST
We've never been given an official explanation for that. It's kinda like how earlier copies of books in the "WOTSQ" series initially said that the final installment was set to be written by Mel Odom, but then it actually ended up being PSK. I don't recall ever hearing it explained what happened there--it just did.
My best guess is that Bob was probably already planning on sending Drizzt back to ID to mellow out a bit, or possibly to meet the reborn Companions again. I don't think he was planning on the "Neverwinter Saga" to take four books.
But then The Sundering took hold at WOTC, and it took some time to iron out the kinks in the planning for that, and he drug out the Drizzt books a bit more to bide time.
Or he just came up with more stuff that he wanted to tell, and it ended up taking more books.
I don't know, but Neverwinter felt slow to me. I couldn't shake the feeling that it was filler.
well Im glad Im not the only one.
it seemed slow to me as well..... like there was no enjoyment in in the author writing them...
If I am not mistaken then BEAST referred to Neverwinter only, not the whole tetralogy.
Anyway, I also agree with him... |
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Icewind Dale?
