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<blockquote data-quote="Dire Bare" data-source="post: 8502369" data-attributes="member: 18182"><p>Fits in with the source material! It's pretty common for player characters at the table to come back from the dead, so why shouldn't it be mirrored in the fiction?</p><p></p><p>It was interesting how Salvatore did it . . . . each of the companions was reincarnated (<em>not as in the spell, but as in the actual meaning of the word</em>) as brand new babies born to new families, who looked remarkably similar to their previous incarnations. At some point in their lives, they regained their past-life memories, and now each of them had TWO lives worth of memories before they all set out to surprise Drizzt on his birthday (<em>kidding, kind of</em>). There were some novels that dealt with this transition, how each companion had to reconcile their old and new lives.</p><p></p><p>Also, while his best friends were all dead . . . Drizzt made new friends! Drizzt was in a dark place, so all of his new friends were dark people, I like to refer to them as the "dark companions". Once Drizzt was reunited with the original, reincarnated, Companions of the Hall, the cast of Salvatore's Dark Elf novels had become quite large!</p><p></p><p>Overall though, I do agree with you, I'm not a fan of characters dying and then magically coming back from the dead, even in fantasy stories based on D&D. But the reasons why Salvatore did this have to do with the restrictions placed on him by WotC's decisions, he basically was trying to make lemonade out of the basket of lemons WotC handed him. And, IMO, did a fairly good job at it.</p><p></p><p>Now that we're past the reincarnations in the story, the newer books just read like the status quo never changed, other than the character growth changes of Cattie Brie and Regis, and occasional references to their second lives (new families, etc). The books are still fun, the companions are still a fun group of heroes to read about.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dire Bare, post: 8502369, member: 18182"] Fits in with the source material! It's pretty common for player characters at the table to come back from the dead, so why shouldn't it be mirrored in the fiction? It was interesting how Salvatore did it . . . . each of the companions was reincarnated ([I]not as in the spell, but as in the actual meaning of the word[/I]) as brand new babies born to new families, who looked remarkably similar to their previous incarnations. At some point in their lives, they regained their past-life memories, and now each of them had TWO lives worth of memories before they all set out to surprise Drizzt on his birthday ([I]kidding, kind of[/I]). There were some novels that dealt with this transition, how each companion had to reconcile their old and new lives. Also, while his best friends were all dead . . . Drizzt made new friends! Drizzt was in a dark place, so all of his new friends were dark people, I like to refer to them as the "dark companions". Once Drizzt was reunited with the original, reincarnated, Companions of the Hall, the cast of Salvatore's Dark Elf novels had become quite large! Overall though, I do agree with you, I'm not a fan of characters dying and then magically coming back from the dead, even in fantasy stories based on D&D. But the reasons why Salvatore did this have to do with the restrictions placed on him by WotC's decisions, he basically was trying to make lemonade out of the basket of lemons WotC handed him. And, IMO, did a fairly good job at it. Now that we're past the reincarnations in the story, the newer books just read like the status quo never changed, other than the character growth changes of Cattie Brie and Regis, and occasional references to their second lives (new families, etc). The books are still fun, the companions are still a fun group of heroes to read about. [/QUOTE]
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