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You should. Icewind Dale (game) tells a better story than any of the novels. I’ve lifted quite a bit from it for my tabletop game.

Micheal Moorcock coined the term, I think he knew what he meant by it.

I would agree with all of this. There were a few things I struggled with when I first played DA2. The first combat I entered watching...

This is more a description of what you like, rather than the generally accepted definition.

It’s really just The Crystal Shard (1988), the first and least bad of the Drizzt novels, that is set in Icewind Dale. The eponymous...

Well it depends on your perspective. I know very little and don't care about Drizzt. I know of Icewind Dale because it is part of the...

I don't find it that odd that the adventure would be placed after all the world stuff. I don't have the book though so maybe I am...

This. Oh my God this! 2nd edition settings tried to bludgeon you into the genre tropes with major changes to the game, almost always...

Hostilities cease once both sides realize Acme is supplying both sides.

You want to rule out one of the genre-defining novel series from the genre?! That swerves into mythic fantasy as much as sword and...

Yeah, but this edition war will be fought with giant rubber mallets.

It’s better than the vest majority of Star Wars not called Andor. Star Wars is fantasy, it’s not supposed to be realistic.

Elric isn’t so much a summoner as someone with Gate on their spell list. He is a noble not-elf trained in spellcasting and alchemy. He...

This is a case where public errata (for physical book users) and autoupdates (for VTTs/Beyond) make a lot of sense