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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8622055" data-attributes="member: 18"><p>Seriously yeah.</p><p></p><p>If you take a D&D novel and just a sample of random fantasy novels published around the same time, the D&D novel is pretty much always going to come off looking worse. It's actually quite impressive how consistently mediocre-to-terrible D&D merchandised novels have been. The law of averages would normally mean that there would be some pretty good ones in there, but I can't really think of any, and I have to admit, I read a lot of them.</p><p></p><p>There are some with plots you could steal, but it's like, why bother? It might have made sense back when those novels were, inexplicably, NYT bestsellers back in the '80s and '90s, but much as I may love the ridiculous Azure Bonds, I don't think there'd really be any benefit to using that story (and indeed, it's so weird and convoluted that it wouldn't make much sense).</p><p></p><p>I think the closest you could get would maybe be Drizzt for the name recognition, but he's a terrible personality-free-zone of a character, his companions are some of the most boring and generic D&D characters to have ever existed (pretty much all of them being stereotypical examples of their kind), and really all he has going for him is a magic panther which would probably cost an awful lot in CGI.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 8622055, member: 18"] Seriously yeah. If you take a D&D novel and just a sample of random fantasy novels published around the same time, the D&D novel is pretty much always going to come off looking worse. It's actually quite impressive how consistently mediocre-to-terrible D&D merchandised novels have been. The law of averages would normally mean that there would be some pretty good ones in there, but I can't really think of any, and I have to admit, I read a lot of them. There are some with plots you could steal, but it's like, why bother? It might have made sense back when those novels were, inexplicably, NYT bestsellers back in the '80s and '90s, but much as I may love the ridiculous Azure Bonds, I don't think there'd really be any benefit to using that story (and indeed, it's so weird and convoluted that it wouldn't make much sense). I think the closest you could get would maybe be Drizzt for the name recognition, but he's a terrible personality-free-zone of a character, his companions are some of the most boring and generic D&D characters to have ever existed (pretty much all of them being stereotypical examples of their kind), and really all he has going for him is a magic panther which would probably cost an awful lot in CGI. [/QUOTE]
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