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Erikor
Seeker
Norway
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 Posted - 06 Apr 2023 : 00:12:52
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I played Baldur's Gate and Shadows of Amn, and suddenly found "Elminster In Hell" for sale online. This was awesome, a book about a cool and mysterious character in games that I loved so I bought it. After that I bought a couple more Elminster books (I knew very little of the lore at the time but I still wanted to read about it), but then I couldn't find more books that could be delivered to Norway so after a while I forgot about the books. Until one day a co-worker told me about the Drizzt-books. This was many years later and now I could order from Amazon or bookstores from around the world. I bought the first Drizzt trilogy and after that I've read as much as I can.
I love that after years of reading I still have several books left.
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TomCosta
Forgotten Realms Designer
USA
937 Posts |
Posted - 06 Apr 2023 : 02:51:37
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| Started with the very first Darkwalker on Moonshae and read every book up till the 4E era, upon which I've only read sporadically. |
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
36735 Posts |
Posted - 06 Apr 2023 : 03:09:51
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| I don't recall the exact year... But the Avatar books were still new, and it was the "From the publishers of the Dragonlance saga!" blurb that had caught my attention. |
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Gary Dallison
Great Reader
United Kingdom
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Seravin
Master of Realmslore
Canada
1228 Posts |
Posted - 06 Apr 2023 : 21:45:17
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| Likely in 1989 with Pool of Radiance, Azure Bonds, Spellfire and the Avatar trilogy |
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Thauramarth
Senior Scribe
United Kingdom
728 Posts |
Posted - 07 Apr 2023 : 06:50:23
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| First book I got was Spellfire, and I remember getting it just after buying the 2nd edition PHB, so that must have been 1989? That ledcme to buy the Old Grey Box, still one of the best game buy decisions I ever made. Next up was the Crystal Shard, and the rest followed. |
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Ashe Ravenheart
Great Reader
USA
3240 Posts |
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Lord Karsus
Great Reader
USA
3734 Posts |
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Delnyn
Senior Scribe
USA
834 Posts |
Posted - 09 Apr 2023 : 16:24:42
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| I started in 1989 with Pool of Radiance. Next was Crystal Shard. |
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KraziJoe
Acolyte
USA
17 Posts |
Posted - 13 Apr 2023 : 22:02:18
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| Late 80's I forget the original book I read. Maybe Azure Bonds, since I played the game on my C64 or maybe Spellfire. I was heavily engrossed in Fantasy due to Bards Tale, Might and Magic games and Sword of Shannara books as well as the Xanth novels and of course, DragonLance. |
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Seravin
Master of Realmslore
Canada
1228 Posts |
Posted - 20 Apr 2023 : 23:45:11
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Originally posted by KraziJoe
Late 80's I forget the original book I read. Maybe Azure Bonds, since I played the game on my C64 or maybe Spellfire. I was heavily engrossed in Fantasy due to Bards Tale, Might and Magic games and Sword of Shannara books as well as the Xanth novels and of course, DragonLance.
Wow...your C64 days tie back to mine. Except I had the C128 and the amazing music that came with Ultima V. But I definitely played the gold box games (Pool of Radiance, Azure Bonds, Hillsfar, Secret of the Silver Blades) and of course Bard's Tale 1-3. |
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BileDemon
Acolyte
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Posted - 04 Jun 2023 : 23:52:03
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Around 30 years ago the first Drizzt novels were given to me, borrowed from a library, the german version.
It was not until 2021 when I discovered there were even more novels, now thankfully as ebooks and in english, so I started reading again, with the Twilight Giants series. Don“t know why, but one day I was looking up the term Ettin(probably because I played the Al-Quadim game back then without knowing it was in the same setting, haha!  ), stumbled across the Forgotten Realms Fandom and found the list of novels there, and I couldn“t stop reading! Good decision. |
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Varl
Learned Scribe
USA
284 Posts |
Posted - 28 Jun 2023 : 01:51:02
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Earlier this year. I started with the Harper series and I'm almost done. I only have Thornhold left, and I'm only halfway through it and I'm all in. I have to say Bronwyn has her hands full, particularly after what happened to the paladins of Thornhold. Brutal! Let's just say the faith of Cyric has totally piqued this DM's attention now. When gamers say the monsters aren't the real monsters in D&D, I have a clearer understanding who is.  |
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bloodtide_the_red
Learned Scribe
USA
289 Posts |
Posted - 28 Jun 2023 : 04:59:42
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By the Stones.....I was there in the Time Before Time. Reading Dragonlance novels in the late 80's. And all the comics had TSR adds of "on the 3.725 day we rested" with a vague "coming soon from TSR"(and some of these adds were upside down because...the 80's). Then next month we got a tiny picture of Darkwalker on Moonshae 's cover. Then next month bigger, until we got the full page "terror in the isles" ad.
And Darkwalker on Moonshae was "from the publishers of Dragonlance" and had a "Forgotten Realms logo" on the cover....except the "Forgotten Realms" (AKA the Old Gray Box for 1E) had not come out yet. |
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