D&D 5E Out of the Abyss - No Drizzt afterall?

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[Remathilis]

Judged as literature, yeah, they're pretty damn bad.

Fortunately, I don't think Salvatore was aiming for "literature" so much as "unabashedly entertaining". So saying he doesn't stack up against, say, Steinbeck is to miss the point, much like saying a "Fast & Furious" movie doesn't stack up against "Citizen Kane".

Well, yeah. My point was not to compare Crystal Shard to Great Gatsby, but that because it doesn't meet that level doesn't make it trash either.

 

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[delericho]

These types of books continue to get published all the time- you may just not be familiar with non-genre works.

I'm familiar with a fair amount, yes, but I can't claim to have read every book ever.

 

[delericho]

And I explained why *I* don't like Salvatore's Drizzt series. I don't think anyone would argue that it is great literature (ahem, "Harvard reading list"), and I don't think it's very good genre writing either. It's competent IP-writing (you know- someone churning out someone else's intellectual property).

Um... he's only using someone else's IP in the sense that WotC technically own it. Drizzt and co were Salvatore's own creation, just as surely as D&D was Gygax's.

 

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[delericho]

Fair enough- but I'm somewhat surprised that you'd think that those books wouldn't get published, then.

I didn't say that. I said I wasn't convinced "The Great Gatsby" and "To Kill a Mockingbird" would get published today. Because the one is very much a product of its time and because I fear the other would be crowded out by other, lesser, courtroom dramas.

 

[delericho]

He's only using someone else's IP in the sense that ... someone else owns the IP? /rimshot.

Yes, absolutely. When George Lucas provides consultation for Disney on the new Star Wars, is he also working on someone else's IP?

 

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