August 2006 Releases

[MulhorandSage]

Because he's been intentionally holding himself back for a decade?

Because this is the story he's wanted to write for three decades.

And Ed's fiction has greatly improved over the years.

 

[Ranger REG]

Tome of Battle : The Book of Nine Swords (D&D Supplement)
Hardcover: 160 pages
Publisher: Wizards of the Coast (August 8, 2006)
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0786939222/

Swords of Eveningstar : The Knights of Myth Drannor, Book I (The Knights of Myth Drannor)
Hardcover: 352 pages
Publisher: Wizards of the Coast (August 8, 2006)
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0786940220/

Dragons of Faerun (Forgotten Realms Supplement)
Hardcover: 160 pages
Publisher: Wizards of the Coast (August 8, 2006)
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0786939230/

Meh.

I'm not particularly excited. :\

 

[mhacdebhandia]

Meh.

I'm not particularly excited. :\

You never are, and you won't be until the announcement is either Greyhawk Campaign Setting hardcover or Oriental Adventures Revised: Now With 110% Kara-Tur Content!.

 

[Keeper of Secrets]

August 2006? I certainly hope they have something a little more interesting to debut at GenCon.

 

[qstor]

Ed's been wanting to write that one for years. I have a feeling it may surprise people who haven't warmed to many of Ed's past fidtion efforts.

IIRC the Knights are the PC's in his original long running campaign. It should be good. I have Elminster's daughter to read. Just haven't gotten around to it yet

I have to admit that I've enjoyed some of this non FR ficition more than his earlier fiction from WOTC/TSR.

Mike

 

[Faraer]

The Knights of Myth Drannor trilogy, starting with Swords of Eveningstar, is the big one as far as Realms novels go, one that anyone with any interest in the Realms will want to read: the core story of its greatest heroes. The tale of the Knights of Myth Drannor (along with that of the Company of Crazed Venturers) is the crucible and ur-story of the Realms, analogous to Greyhawk's castle and dungeons. Realms novels have danced around the Knights for all this time -- novels starring characters not intended as protagonists, novels not even written for the Realms in the first place or written by people with no feel for the setting, contrived and gimmicky trilogy ideas, Earth analogues, etc. etc. -- I've personally been looking forward to these books for 16 years and was delighted when they was announced: because Ed gets to write them, we get to read them, and for what it says about the Wizards books department's respect for the integrity of created worlds.

 

[Ranger REG]

You never are, and you won't be until the announcement is either Greyhawk Campaign Setting hardcover or Oriental Adventures Revised: Now With 110% Kara-Tur Content!.

More the latter than the former.

As for your smiley(?), what's with the hate? :\

 

[Nightfall]

I think he's just expressing more like "RAWR!" kind of thing...but I could be wrong, RR.

 

[the Jester]

The Knights of Myth Drannor trilogy, starting with Swords of Eveningstar, is the big one as far as Realms novels go, one that anyone with any interest in the Realms will want to read: the core story of its greatest heroes. The tale of the Knights of Myth Drannor (along with that of the Company of Crazed Venturers) is the crucible and ur-story of the Realms, analogous to Greyhawk's castle and dungeons.

This is exactly why I dislike the Realms: it's really not about the pcs, it's about the npcs (and perhaps the player characters from Ed's game) that are in the background. 3e has made great strides forward in this respect (imho), but the Realms still reeks of Elminster, Drizzt et. al. to me. :\

 

[MerricB]

This is exactly why I dislike the Realms: it's really not about the pcs, it's about the npcs (and perhaps the player characters from Ed's game) that are in the background. 3e has made great strides forward in this respect (imho), but the Realms still reeks of Elminster, Drizzt et. al. to me. :\

It was the Horde, Maztica and Marco Volo, all in quick succession, that ruined it for me.

Realms can be great, but the mass of information to absorb about it makes it a lot less friendly than it felt when it was first released... in those days, it was all about Cormyr and the Dales.

Cheers!