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feygan
Acolyte
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 Posted - 31 Aug 2004 : 13:20:59
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Ok it's a shameful thing to admit but until a week ago i'd never read a single FR novel, yet have been playing the realms for around 15 years or so.
So with a mountain ahead of me i figured that starting in the beginning was a good place. However where the "beginning" is has me a little stumped??
Do i go with whats the chronological beginning with publish date or FR date??
So far i started with the moonshae trilogy since its was the first FR book published, but should i be going for the FR dates?
Opinions invited to allow me to get the most out of the novels thanks.
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Lord Rad
Great Reader
United Kingdom
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Posted - 31 Aug 2004 : 13:39:46
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A shameful thing indeed 
Check out similiar topics (perhaps use the search function), as this question has been asked and answered a number of time. Theyre in there somewhere amongst all the other scrolls. |
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"What? No, I wasn't reading your module. I was just looking at the pictures"
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SiriusBlack
Great Reader
USA
5517 Posts |
Posted - 31 Aug 2004 : 16:24:27
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Originally posted by feygan
Ok it's a shameful thing to admit but until a week ago i'd never read a single FR novel, yet have been playing the realms for around 15 years or so.
You sound like you're in attendance at one of those twelve step meetings. "Hi, I'm feygan and I have never read a FR novel.
Group: "Hi Feygan!"
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Do i go with whats the chronological beginning with publish date or FR date??
I'd vote neither. You said you game in the Realms. Thus, what part of the Realms did you find fascinating when gaming? And what parts did you clearly not like? |
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
36797 Posts |
Posted - 31 Aug 2004 : 16:50:31
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I first read the novels pretty much in the order published, but that's only because I was buying them as they came out. 
Now, when I re-read them, I pick and choose, according to whim. |
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Edited by - Wooly Rupert on 31 Aug 2004 16:54:35 |
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Steven Schend
Forgotten Realms Designer & Author
USA
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Posted - 31 Aug 2004 : 22:27:49
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Somewhere on the WotC site (as I know I wrote it long ago and far away) was a chronological listing of novels up through 1999/early 2000 noting when they happened on the FR timeline. That might be one guide to reading the novels, if you're more interested in going by canonical historical flow.
If anyone knows the links to that fiction listing by time, you're a better person than I am right now....
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SiriusBlack
Great Reader
USA
5517 Posts |
Posted - 31 Aug 2004 : 22:44:20
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Originally posted by Steven Schend
Somewhere on the WotC site (as I know I wrote it long ago and far away) was a chronological listing of novels up through 1999/early 2000 noting when they happened on the FR timeline. That might be one guide to reading the novels, if you're more interested in going by canonical historical flow.
If anyone knows the links to that fiction listing by time, you're a better person than I am right now....
Steven
Is this the article? |
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feygan
Acolyte
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
36797 Posts |
Posted - 01 Sep 2004 : 00:47:49
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Originally posted by SiriusBlack
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Originally posted by Steven Schend
Somewhere on the WotC site (as I know I wrote it long ago and far away) was a chronological listing of novels up through 1999/early 2000 noting when they happened on the FR timeline. That might be one guide to reading the novels, if you're more interested in going by canonical historical flow.
If anyone knows the links to that fiction listing by time, you're a better person than I am right now....
Steven
Is this the article?
Wow, they've updated that page since I last looked... Thanks for sharing that link!
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VEDSICA
Senior Scribe
USA
466 Posts |
Posted - 01 Sep 2004 : 02:03:04
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| Feygan to the Nine Hells with chronological order,and all that jazz.Go get Forsaken House,and read it.If that doesn't bring you back for more, then I don't know what will. |
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SiriusBlack
Great Reader
USA
5517 Posts |
Posted - 01 Sep 2004 : 03:06:42
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quote:
Originally posted by Wooly Rupert
Wow, they've updated that page since I last looked... Thanks for sharing that link!
You're welcome stranger. Do I know you? The name is familiar but I don't recognize the avatar.
I think at one time Elaine Cunningham had a link to a part of the article from her web site. I know the WOTC article has been useful to this scribe on more than one occasion. |
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SiriusBlack
Great Reader
USA
5517 Posts |
Posted - 01 Sep 2004 : 03:11:07
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Originally posted by VEDSICA
Feygan to the Nine Hells with chronological order,and all that jazz.Go get Forsaken House,and read it.If that doesn't bring you back for more, then I don't know what will.
 Good recommendation even if it sounds like a wrestling promo. |
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VEDSICA
Senior Scribe
USA
466 Posts |
Posted - 01 Sep 2004 : 18:03:11
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| SB it kind of does sound like a wrestling promo. |
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SiriusBlack
Great Reader
USA
5517 Posts |
Posted - 01 Sep 2004 : 18:57:26
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Originally posted by VEDSICA
SB it kind of does sound like a wrestling promo.
Thank you for taking it in the spirit it was intended. |
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VEDSICA
Senior Scribe
USA
466 Posts |
Posted - 01 Sep 2004 : 22:58:32
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| Oh I'm easy going like that SB.It's just funny because I was watching wrestling last night for the first time in a long time,and it just brought up all the interviews they were doing.So I put a wrestlers voice in my post,and found it funny. |
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Lina
Senior Scribe
Australia
469 Posts |
Posted - 02 Sep 2004 : 10:50:31
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WHAT!!! Never touched a FR book till now!
For me I got onto the books before the games.
There's really no chronological order to read FR novels as most series are totally unrelated. But the Avatar Series is a must read as a few novels refer to this event back in time which affected all races on Faerun. Also take a look at the novels listed in Candlekeep's main site. |
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Valdar Oakensong
Learned Scribe
United Kingdom
159 Posts |
Posted - 02 Sep 2004 : 22:34:41
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| Do what I did, start with the Moonshae Trilogy, then the Icewind Dale Trilogy, then spend lots of money catching us up as you will be caught hook, line and sinker. I am the totally opposite way, been reading the books from the beginning(Dragonlance as well) but had no like minded people to play D+D with. |
Guns don't kill people, magic missiles do. |
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
36797 Posts |
Posted - 03 Sep 2004 : 00:28:14
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Originally posted by Valdar Oakensong
I am the totally opposite way, been reading the books from the beginning(Dragonlance as well) but had no like minded people to play D+D with.
Ditto for both parts of this statement... I started with Dragonlance, and currently haven't any like-minded people to game with. |
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Valdar Oakensong
Learned Scribe
United Kingdom
159 Posts |
Posted - 03 Sep 2004 : 13:57:44
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I have thought about PBEM but does it actually work and is is any good?
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Ditto for both parts of this statement... I started with Dragonlance, and currently haven't any like-minded people to game with.
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Guns don't kill people, magic missiles do. |
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Kuje
Great Reader
USA
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Posted - 03 Sep 2004 : 19:07:21
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Originally posted by Valdar Oakensong
I have thought about PBEM but does it actually work and is is any good?
Well as a DM who has been running a PBEM for over a year let me give you my experiences. :) I also have 2 other PBEM's that haven't been going on as long. I tend to dislike play by posts that are usually played on a message board, or also chat games. After playing and running a few chat games, those types are hard on the eyes because you have to keep up with the scroll and having everyone answer at once.
Combat tends to be a lot slower, so some times it's easier for the DM to just get a email with a lot of combat actions from the PC's and then plung them into the story after rolling.
The roleplay, though, is a lot better. For many of us, text is easier to describe then voice.... If that makes sense. Plus you get more time to think about your actions.
I tend to send updates once a day if there are four or more PCs in the game. Usually the players reply once a day as well, or some of them reply more then that if we are doing a one on one email game.
The problem is that a lot of players tend to dry up after awhile, either the game isn't what they like, or it's slow, or they just stop replying in general. :)
If some one is going to start a dragonlance email game, I'd be interested in joining. :) We should take this to ethereal mail, or an off topic board, because Alaundo is going to yell at us. Grins innocently at the Master Scribe. |
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Valdar Oakensong
Learned Scribe
United Kingdom
159 Posts |
Posted - 03 Sep 2004 : 20:48:25
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Not too familiar with DL stuff, I have read the first 3 trilogies printed years ago. Here is a site you might like, lots of people from the 'keep are there.
www.worldsofdnd.com
Thats enough for now, I can hear the swish of a staff of irritated moderator
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If some one is going to start a dragonlance email game, I'd be interested in joining. :) We should take this to ethereal mail, or an off topic board, because Alaundo is going to yell at us. Grins innocently at the Master Scribe.
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Alaundo
Head Moderator
United Kingdom
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Posted - 04 Sep 2004 : 10:21:15
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Originally posted by Valdar Oakensong
Not too familiar with DL stuff, I have read the first 3 trilogies printed years ago. Here is a site you might like, lots of people from the 'keep are there.
www.worldsofdnd.com
Thats enough for now, I can hear the swish of a staff of irritated moderator
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If some one is going to start a dragonlance email game, I'd be interested in joining. :) We should take this to ethereal mail, or an off topic board, because Alaundo is going to yell at us. Grins innocently at the Master Scribe.
Well met
Thanks ye, Valdar
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