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<blockquote data-quote="humble minion" data-source="post: 8622474" data-attributes="member: 5948"><p>Yeah, same. I devoured every Forgotten Realms novel that TSR published between the ages of 13 and 19 or so, then gradually expanded my horizons. I tried to re-read some of them again 10 years later, and just couldn't. There's exceptions (Lynn Abbey's Dark Sun stuff for example), but mostly they're targeted at teenagers, and as an adult who's read far beyond the TSR walled garden, they just don't stand up. I gave them all (dozens of them) away to a charity shop years ago, hopefully some other kid can pick up my copy of Crystal Shard or whatever and be as blown away as i was.</p><p></p><p>But this does NOT stop them being good for what they're intended to do. Drizzt and Raistlin and the rest probably got more teenagers into D&D than any other marketing factor other than word of mouth. And D&D teenagers are where lifelong D&D customers come from.</p><p></p><p>As for making a movie of any of these books - well, there's a few that could work. Azure Bonds for example would needs some tweaking, but it could be done. But I think it's tempting to over-estimate the depth and sophistication that's required here. You can do a lot with direction, effects, and acting performances to turn a fairly by-the-numbers story into an engaging crowd-pleasing film. Like every other genre filmmaker in the past 15 years, WotC are clearly using the MCU as their model here, and the novelisation of any given MCU film ain't gonna win any Nobel literature prizes either. But this hasn't stopped them earning money by the container-ship-load.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="humble minion, post: 8622474, member: 5948"] Yeah, same. I devoured every Forgotten Realms novel that TSR published between the ages of 13 and 19 or so, then gradually expanded my horizons. I tried to re-read some of them again 10 years later, and just couldn't. There's exceptions (Lynn Abbey's Dark Sun stuff for example), but mostly they're targeted at teenagers, and as an adult who's read far beyond the TSR walled garden, they just don't stand up. I gave them all (dozens of them) away to a charity shop years ago, hopefully some other kid can pick up my copy of Crystal Shard or whatever and be as blown away as i was. But this does NOT stop them being good for what they're intended to do. Drizzt and Raistlin and the rest probably got more teenagers into D&D than any other marketing factor other than word of mouth. And D&D teenagers are where lifelong D&D customers come from. As for making a movie of any of these books - well, there's a few that could work. Azure Bonds for example would needs some tweaking, but it could be done. But I think it's tempting to over-estimate the depth and sophistication that's required here. You can do a lot with direction, effects, and acting performances to turn a fairly by-the-numbers story into an engaging crowd-pleasing film. Like every other genre filmmaker in the past 15 years, WotC are clearly using the MCU as their model here, and the novelisation of any given MCU film ain't gonna win any Nobel literature prizes either. But this hasn't stopped them earning money by the container-ship-load. [/QUOTE]
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