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Sanishiver
Senior Scribe
USA
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 Posted - 02 Nov 2006 : 02:06:34
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I'd like to see some kind of 'involved fat fantasy'* for the Realms, if only because it'd let Ed do more than give us a paragraph or half-page sized bits of plot/story that are easily forgotten about and then become maddening later when (I) won't be able remember them as the story progresses and touches on these tidbits again.
I'll confess to not having read all the Realms fiction of late, but evenso I'm not left with the feeling that things are moving along too fast or have changed too much in the last 3-4 RL years; certainly not on the level of the only true RSE that's ever seen print (Time of Troubles).
Thus I don't mind the big, but localized (IMNSHO) events that've occurred of late. More of the same is fine with me (and if they can write it in Cormyr and make it a fat fantasy book with lots of interesting characters and information about the place, all the better).
I wouldn’t particularly care to see the Realms ‘step back’ to the Gray Box days and then be ‘filled in’ with tons of non-game lore ; quite frankly it’d suck to be stuck with lots of overly detailed lore that for the most part isn’t useful to but a handful of DMs, not to mention missing out on a lot of the cool stories and events that’ve happened in the setting.
Contradictory? Maybe. See if you can parse the difference.
J. Grenemyer
*Faerar, I didn't know you had it in you. |
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Never, ever read the game books too literally, or make such assumptions that what is omitted cannot be. Bad DM form, that.
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Edited by - Sanishiver on 02 Nov 2006 02:10:52 |
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KnightErrantJR
Great Reader
USA
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Posted - 02 Nov 2006 : 02:21:39
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I have to throw this one out there . . . for a LONG time DragonLance held pretty steady with the timeline just after the Dark Lady's War, and it REALLY felt like the setting, as a whole, was spinning its wheels. The more prequels they published, the more contradictions they came up with, and the more it felt like the setting had stagnated.
Granted, part of the problem was you had a lot of people that weren't Hickman and Weis writting about the setting, and unable to pick their brains as well, but there are even internal consistancies by some of the main authors when they try to keep writing about the same timeline over and over again.
To take this completely out of the venue of Fantasy/Game Related fiction, I loved David Brin's first "Uplift" novel, and got the second one. I was interested in it, but it was set at the same time as the first one. When I read another story by him, and it was still set at the same time, and didn't move forward in time, just showed another part of the same universe at the same time, I pretty much lost my enthusiasm for the books. |
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MerrikCale
Senior Scribe
USA
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Posted - 05 Nov 2006 : 13:06:44
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Originally posted by RodOdom
I don't mean to offend the writer or fans of "Blackstaff" but apart from the first few chapters I didn't enjoy the book at all. I found it a confusing jumble of events and characters. It was frustrating to me as a fan because something clearly important to the mythology was going on, but I couldn't follow what was happening.
There are several realms novels like that, but Blackstaff wasn;t as bad as others. In fact, I enjoyed it. |
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Concerning the direction of novels
