Best FR Paperback Novel?

[diaglo]

...turned away from it back in the day would consider giving it another try. There is a lot of new blood in the line (and all the excellent authors of old remain), and the new books have a distinct voice.

what if you own some of the older 2ed gaming material and really want to go back and tie-in Cale? what would you suggest?

i seem to recall reading about a certain thieves/assassins guild in other sources.

 

[drascade]

IMO Dawn of Night is better than Twilight Falling. The Scions of Arrabar trilogy by Thomas Reid has been pretty good too. The Yellow Silk by Don Bassingthwaite. It seems to me that most of the new books are more like a DnD session, almost as if you are reading a game log. A guy I game with hadn't read any of the FR books and he asked which one he should start with so i gave him Twilight Falling

 

[PaulKemp]

what if you own some of the older 2ed gaming material and really want to go back and tie-in Cale? what would you suggest?

i seem to recall reading about a certain thieves/assassins guild in other sources.

Diaglo,

Do you mean tie him in from the perpsective of a stat/class write-up? Or tie him in from a history-continuity perspective? The former would be mildly difficult, but doable for anyone versed in the 2E materials. Since 2E did not contemplate anything other than a "dual classed" character, at least for humans, Cale would be a thief who later dual classed as a cleric. He probably would also have an appropriate "kit" from the rogues handbook, though I couldn't say which one, as I haven't looked those books over in some time.

From a continuity perspective, that would be easier, since I've worked to keep Cale's backstory consistent with what has gone before (even in the 2E supplements). He was a member of the Night Masks during the reign of the "Faceless," later fled to Selgaunt, where he joined the Night Knives ("Night" sure appears a lot in FR thieves' guilds, no?). He now is an independent and servant of Mask the Shadowlord, a bit of a pawn in the brewing divine war between Mask and Cyric. You could fit Cale into the timeline anywhere along that "event continuum," depending on your interest.

I'm not sure I answered your question. If not, clarify a bit for me and I'll have another go.

 

[diaglo]

I'm not sure I answered your question. If not, clarify a bit for me and I'll have another go.

you answered my question. it was in two parts. both the mechanics from a game/edition side and from the source material/ continuity of the stories in the FR.

edit: although i like to speculate and could have on the question myself. it makes it much easier to actual ask the author.

 

[BadMojo]

Meanwhile, it sounds as if you started in on "Twilight Falling" before reading the Cale story in "Halls of Stormweather," and the Cale novel, "Shadow's Witness." That's fine -- TF stands alone pretty well. But if you enjoy the Cale trilogy, you may also enjoy going back to those earlier books (they are part of the Sembia series) and getting a feel for how Cale ended up where he did in TF.

Indeed, I did start with Twilight Falling but soon after I started reading it I put the first two Sembia books on my Amazon wish list.

Good stuff!