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Posted May 29, 2011
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Landeril: Salvatore wrote good books.
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nondeplumage: That is a terrible thing, to try and dupe people into reading his pseudo-pulp crap.

I tried going back recently and rereading several books I liked as a teenager. The Magaret Weiss and Tracy Hickman Dragonlance and Death Gate Cycle books, Timothy Zahn's entirely too damn long Star Wars novels, and they just weren't any fun anymore, never mind that they're fine in technical writing detail, but there's nothing exciting about the tone. Contrast anything they've written with, say, the first three books of Stephen King's Dark Tower series, or the insanely...well, insanely insane and awesome Acts of Caine novels.

But I'm always up for a good game of D&D, preferably 3rd edition. I'm kinda surprised there isn't a turn-based game going in a thread here, honestly.
I would love to get one set up. o.o and I love Dragonlance too. More then Forgotten Realms actually.
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Landeril: Then again, I played EverQuest for a few years.
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Cambrey: So did I.

Have you read Ocean of tears ? That was really good. Stewart Wieck really understood the Everquest world and its wonderful lore.
No I've not gotten the chance to read it. :) But its been a while since I've been in the world of EQ.
Post edited May 29, 2011 by Landeril
Posted May 29, 2011
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Landeril: He is also part of the Everquest publishers :D
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Cambrey: Yes, unfortunately we owe him that Rogue's hour piece of shit. I now understand why most people I know avoid anything that comes from that guy.

FR are not unpleasant books for the most part, but easily forgettable.
I avoid him for other reasons.

Like killing off Chewbacca and ruining Star Wars books for me for many years.

But, y'know, everyone has their own reasons. I have a friend who lent me the graphic novels based on the first few Drizzt books, and I was just kinda "meh" despite them combining comic books and DnD, two of my favorite things in the whole world.
Posted May 29, 2011
Playing the Campaign with Drizzt as a companion is epic. :D
Posted May 29, 2011
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rasufelle: Like killing off Chewbacca and ruining Star Wars books for me for many years.
It was R.A. Salvatore who did that? Motherfucker.

Is he the one who killed off Mara Jade too?
Posted May 29, 2011
Forgotten Realms yes. Dragonlance, Eberron and Dark Sun no. The problem with AD&D was there were way to many settings.
Posted May 29, 2011
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rasufelle: Like killing off Chewbacca and ruining Star Wars books for me for many years.
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nondeplumage: It was R.A. Salvatore who did that? Motherfucker.

Is he the one who killed off Mara Jade too?
Not sure about Mara Jade, but Chewbacca? YES. Very first goddamn book of The New Jedi Order. And unfortunately, it set the tone for the entire series, with calamity after calamity occurring since.

Thank God they finally deemed the entire series non-canon and reset continuity to before it ever happened, though I still haven't found it in my heart to delve back into Star Wars books, with the occasional exception to reread "I, Jedi" or The Mandalorian Armor Trilogy.
Posted May 29, 2011
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rasufelle: snip
Shatterpoint.

Luke Skywalker and the Shadows of Mindor.

Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith.

There. I just redeemed the Expanded Universe for you. And yes, as shitty, as horrendous, as terrible and unwatchable and vile and despicable a movie Episode III is, the book is proper Greek Tragedy stuff (literally, as it even borrows a character introduction theme from The Odyssey), and it's a good read.
Posted May 30, 2011
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Landeril: I have been looking for a group since my old group fell apart. My Paladin is sitting too idle v.v
Go to penandpapergames.com & sign up. It has a search feature to find local players & dm's. That's how I found the games I play in. :-)
Post edited May 30, 2011 by ChaunceyK
Posted May 30, 2011
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nondeplumage: But I'm always up for a good game of D&D, preferably 3rd edition. I'm kinda surprised there isn't a turn-based game going in a thread here, honestly.
There was an attempt at GOG roleplaying on Google Wave long ago (I think the service is dead now, or at least read-only). What's needed is a good game master, players that don't quit when stuff gets boring, and a no-dice ruleset (dice are fickle on the 'net, much too easy to get a natural 20 with no way to prove or debunk it).
Posted May 30, 2011
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Landeril: Any fans out there? :D
Almost forgot to answer the main topic...I went through a period of a couple years where I was reading DragonLance novels non-stop, couldn't get enough of them. Loved Tasslehoff & Flint, especially the interaction between them. I've read alot of DL novels about the main party, and also the short-story collections set in the DL world (one of my favorite DL short stories being "The Wizard's Spectacles" or something like that). Never read any other official D&D novels, though. I just started with DL & kept going.

I have to mention another favorite author of mine, Greg Costikyan, for his novels Another Day Another Dungeon, the follow-up One Quest Hold The Dragon, and a solo book titled By The Sword. All are good solid fantasy novels, but he incorporates a sense of humor that's not so over-the-top that it'll leave a slapstick taste in your mouth.
Posted May 30, 2011
I am a huge fan of forgotten realms and dragonlance. Ed greenwood is awesome. If someone started a D&D game i would be in for sure. There was a thread on here but it died out a little while ago so i don't know if it is still going on for D&D games and others as well but it just didn't take off. There were enough people on there too. DM's and players.
Posted May 30, 2011
Yes, i am a huge fan of the Dragonlance and Forgotten realms settings. I play NWN 2 on forgotten realms servers, and i also roleplay online with a small group in forgotten realm setting, tabletop 3 dot 5 d&d. All that racism and mystic in the setting makes it very easy to dream away and just forget everything.

I love all the lore before 4 ed / spellplague. Any lore with the spellplague i think is junk.
Posted May 30, 2011
I was always more of a Hollow World fan myself....
Posted May 30, 2011
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Landeril: Any fans out there? :D
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ChaunceyK: Almost forgot to answer the main topic...I went through a period of a couple years where I was reading DragonLance novels non-stop, couldn't get enough of them. Loved Tasslehoff & Flint, especially the interaction between them. I've read alot of DL novels about the main party, and also the short-story collections set in the DL world (one of my favorite DL short stories being "The Wizard's Spectacles" or something like that). Never read any other official D&D novels, though. I just started with DL & kept going.

I have to mention another favorite author of mine, Greg Costikyan, for his novels Another Day Another Dungeon, the follow-up One Quest Hold The Dragon, and a solo book titled By The Sword. All are good solid fantasy novels, but he incorporates a sense of humor that's not so over-the-top that it'll leave a slapstick taste in your mouth.
Man! Flint dying made me mad! Then Tass died and it was all okay <_<
Posted May 30, 2011
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Landeril: Man! Flint dying made me mad! Then Tass died and it was all okay <_<
That was something almost refreshing about the DL novels...the characters weren't allowed to just live forever. Their deaths were written into the novels, rather than "And they lived happily ever after, eventually dying of natural causes...but we won't tell you about it, that'd be too depressing."
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