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Aust Grimshadow
Acolyte
USA
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 Posted - 18 Mar 2003 : 14:03:55
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After just finishing the Darf Elf Trilogy, which i was very pleased with btw , I was wondering what else is out there. I have only read books by Salvatore and i was wondering what other FR authors you guys might recommend. Thanks.
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Edited by - Alaundo on 18 Mar 2003 14:51:00
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Lord Rad
Great Reader
United Kingdom
2080 Posts |
Posted - 18 Mar 2003 : 14:49:25
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| Id check out the novel list if i were you. Id highly recommend the Sembia series and the War of the Spider Queen series. |
Lord Rad
"What? No, I wasn't reading your module. I was just looking at the pictures"
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Bookwyrm
Great Reader
USA
4740 Posts |
Posted - 18 Mar 2003 : 14:49:57
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| Wordlessly, Bookwyrm gets up, walks over to a shelf, and pulls out a book. He drops this in Grimshadow's hands; it is quickly followed by another and another and another. He then walks away, muttering something about putting this information into a FAQ page . . . . |
Hell hath no fury like all of Candlekeep rising in defense of one of its own.
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Edited by - Bookwyrm on 18 Mar 2003 16:44:04 |
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zemd
Master of Realmslore
France
1103 Posts |
Posted - 18 Mar 2003 : 19:36:18
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| You should read this post. And tell us if Lord Entropy really had to run away |
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Bookwyrm
Great Reader
USA
4740 Posts |
Posted - 18 Mar 2003 : 19:38:27
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That was the second one I gave him. Too bad about Entropy, though. He doesn't know what he's missing.  |
Hell hath no fury like all of Candlekeep rising in defense of one of its own.
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zemd
Master of Realmslore
France
1103 Posts |
Posted - 18 Mar 2003 : 19:47:51
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| Oups, i thought it was book that you were refering too, so i didn't look... my mistake |
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Bookwyrm
Great Reader
USA
4740 Posts |
Posted - 19 Mar 2003 : 02:41:48
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Oy. When in-character, threads are books, Zemd.  Get with it!  |
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The_Mirt
Acolyte
USA
45 Posts |
Posted - 19 Mar 2003 : 20:22:52
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Aust I would recommend any books by: Ed Greenwood, Troy Denning, and Elaine Cunningham, Almost all FR books and authors are great (The exception I have found is Brian Thomson, His books were increadiably stupid) But these are my favorites, other that Salvatore.
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Lord Rad
Great Reader
United Kingdom
2080 Posts |
Posted - 19 Mar 2003 : 22:15:27
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Originally posted by The_Mirt
Aust I would recommend any books by: Ed Greenwood, Troy Denning, and Elaine Cunningham, Almost all FR books and authors are great (The exception I have found is Brian Thomson, His books were increadiably stupid) But these are my favorites, other that Salvatore.
Which books did Brian Thomson write? What do you mean specifically that were "stupid"? |
Lord Rad
"What? No, I wasn't reading your module. I was just looking at the pictures"
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zemd
Master of Realmslore
France
1103 Posts |
Posted - 19 Mar 2003 : 22:37:31
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The Mage in the Iron Mask
Mulmaster -- a center for commerce and industry . . . where an innocent man is imprisoned, his identity obscured bye a magically forged iron mask.
Mulmaster -- benevolently ruled bye a council of nobles called the Blades... whose leader, the High Blade, brutally murdered his own father in order to succeed him on the throne and whose marriage to the Tharchioness of Eltabbar draws an uneasy alliance with the Red Wizards.
Mulmaster -- nicknamed "the City of Danger"... the next stop on Volothamp Geddarm's research trip for his upcoming Guide to the Moonsea, and maybe his final resting place when the bailing out of a friend from the Mulmaster prison embroils Volo in a sinister plot that threatens the tenuous political stability of all Faerūn.
I can say if it is stupid, i didn't read it. 
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Bookwyrm
Great Reader
USA
4740 Posts |
Posted - 20 Mar 2003 : 00:13:39
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| I did. And . . . it's not the best. Not as bad as the Maztica books, but in the same vein (taking something from our world and translating it over). |
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The_Mirt
Acolyte
USA
45 Posts |
Posted - 20 Mar 2003 : 00:45:48
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He also Wrote 'Once Around the Realms' That one is... bad, I will give you a example: He was on a Flying Carpet thing (Made of Feathers), over Evermeet. It started going down like a Plane because it got Wet.. He drifted into Waterdeep... Its like 3,000 MILES! He did it in like 20 minutes...
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Bookwyrm
Great Reader
USA
4740 Posts |
Posted - 20 Mar 2003 : 01:39:32
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| That was one of the first non-Salvatore Realms books I read. It was . . . unusual. Of course, I didn't know how far apart such places were at the time. I didn't get my Atlas until I had read through most of my brother's collection. (This was around . . . um . . . I think 1995.) |
Hell hath no fury like all of Candlekeep rising in defense of one of its own.
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Lord Rad
Great Reader
United Kingdom
2080 Posts |
Posted - 20 Mar 2003 : 07:59:34
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quote:
Originally posted by The_Mirt
He also Wrote 'Once Around the Realms' That one is... bad, I will give you a example: He was on a Flying Carpet thing (Made of Feathers), over Evermeet. It started going down like a Plane because it got Wet.. He drifted into Waterdeep... Its like 3,000 MILES! He did it in like 20 minutes...
~Mirt
Ah, I see
::tosses Once Around the Realms onto the fire::
Id heard the novel was probably the worst FR novel, but stuff like THAT is just taking the biscuit! |
Lord Rad
"What? No, I wasn't reading your module. I was just looking at the pictures"
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Mumadar Ibn Huzal
Master of Realmslore
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Posted - 20 Mar 2003 : 09:00:29
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::picks Once Around the Realms out from the fire::
tsk, tsk, tsk Rad, this doesn't become a scribe. Throwing tomes and scrolls into the like this. No matter the content, it doesn't deserve burning.
::waves soot-stained admondishing finger::
Besides, there's always tidbits of Realmslore hidden in works like these, even if some parts are not totally represented accurately. |
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Bookwyrm
Great Reader
USA
4740 Posts |
Posted - 20 Mar 2003 : 09:03:23
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| Yes, after all, it is a "tale of Volo" no? Perhaps it should be looked at as a collection of tales of the Realms, but strung together in a highly fictional acount. |
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Lord Rad
Great Reader
United Kingdom
2080 Posts |
Posted - 20 Mar 2003 : 10:23:28
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Originally posted by Mumadar Ibn Huzal
::picks Once Around the Realms out from the fire::
tsk, tsk, tsk Rad, this doesn't become a scribe. Throwing tomes and scrolls into the like this. No matter the content, it doesn't deserve burning.
::waves soot-stained admondishing finger::
Besides, there's always tidbits of Realmslore hidden in works like these, even if some parts are not totally represented accurately.
::hangs head in shame::
Youre quite right Mumadar, I dont know what came over me  After all, ill buy ANYTHING with an FR logo on it
I just despair how the powers that be at WotC approve such works and allow them to go to print. Im not going to judge this book any further as I havent read it, but I havent heard one good comment on it from anybody so it must be pretty bad. I hate to think that something such of this is making a mokery of the Realms and damages all the hard work that other others have written on certain areas. |
Lord Rad
"What? No, I wasn't reading your module. I was just looking at the pictures"
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Mumadar Ibn Huzal
Master of Realmslore
1338 Posts |
Posted - 20 Mar 2003 : 11:57:48
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It is definitely not a master piece Realms Novel, but I wouldn't discard it either. For me it has been one of the first books to read on the Realms, and I choose it mainly to get a quick overview of the regions, the setting and the flavor. Aside from the incorrectness of some details, the book does accomplish what it sets out to do: to give a tour of the Realms in the form of a story.
In the FRA hardcover there's the story about a group of adventurers traveling the Realms. The idea behind that was also to provide a flavor of the setting. IMO the novel does a better job then the story in FRA. |
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Yasraena
Senior Scribe
USA
388 Posts |
Posted - 21 Mar 2003 : 07:57:48
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Originally posted by Aust Grimshadow
After just finishing the Darf Elf Trilogy, which i was very pleased with btw, I was wondering what else is out there. I have only read books by Salvatore and i was wondering what other FR authors you guys might recommend. Thanks.
Dark Elf Trilogy? It should be called the Dark Elf Saga. There are several more books in the series Aust, and they just keep getting better and better. The latest one is 'A Thousand Orcs' and if you thought Drizzt and Co. were in some serious s**t before, you ain't seen nothing yet.
As far as other authors, Ed Greenwood (Spellfire Saga and Silverfall)and Elaine Cunningham (Daughter of the Drow books) are two of the better ones for FR. Also if you liked the Drow setting of the Drizzt books, check out the 'War of the Spider Queen' novels. Bob Slavatore didn't write them, but he's supervising/editing them, and so far, the first two authors have got Drow society DOWN. |
"Nindyn vel'uss malar verin z'klaen tlu kyone ulu naut doera nindel vel'bolen nind malar."
Yasraena T'Sarran
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zemd
Master of Realmslore
France
1103 Posts |
Posted - 21 Mar 2003 : 13:29:00
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Dark elf Trilogy stands for Sojourn, Exile, and ...
<zemd goes in her room to check>
... Homeland. In the wrong order |
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Bookwyrm
Great Reader
USA
4740 Posts |
Posted - 22 Mar 2003 : 05:03:25
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Yeah, there isn't a real name for the Drizzt books. I hate that. I think that any series, whether it's a duology or something the size of the Realms, should have an overall title. I like how, with the repackaging of some of the books, Wizards has fixed that -- Songs & Swords, Shandril's Saga, etc.
Hear that, all ye authors!? Name 'em! |
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zemd
Master of Realmslore
France
1103 Posts |
Posted - 22 Mar 2003 : 14:45:20
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| Let's tell it's the Drizzt's Saga |
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Bellua Aeneus Lacerta
Senior Scribe
USA
428 Posts |
Posted - 22 Mar 2003 : 15:55:55
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| Diary's of an outcast drow. |
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San Raal
Acolyte
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Posted - 02 Apr 2003 : 15:33:26
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Whaddya think? Will there be a Menzoberranzan after Book VI??!
I couldn't get my hands on any WotSQ-series book yet, but I've been hearing bad news for my menzoberranyr NPCs.
...and does anybody know, when it is set? 1374?
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Yasraena
Senior Scribe
USA
388 Posts |
Posted - 02 Apr 2003 : 21:12:34
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| Well San Raal, let's just say that it doesn't look good for Drizzt's home city. They may be down, but they're not out. (YET anyway) I'd really advise picking those novels up. Some very cool reading there. |
"Nindyn vel'uss malar verin z'klaen tlu kyone ulu naut doera nindel vel'bolen nind malar."
Yasraena T'Sarran
Harper of Silverymoon |
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Arthur
Acolyte
USA
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Posted - 04 Apr 2003 : 03:30:41
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Listen Grim, Salvatore and the Drizzt books are great, but there are
some real gems out there. If your interested, go to the bookstore
and pick up anything with a FR logo on it, belive me you will not be
disatpointed.
Just my opinion. |
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Malice
Seeker
USA
83 Posts |
Posted - 10 Apr 2003 : 00:28:34
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| Before I came here, I had never heard of the FR novels; I just think that it's amiazing how I couldn't have known about them before this! But they were definately a great find at the bookstores! I was amazed with how many FR novels there are! |
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