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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Slaygrim" data-source="post: 4007364" data-attributes="member: 59401">R.A. SalvatoreI'll write a complaint on him as he was my favorite author.I see a lot of people here dis on his comic relief, and while it isn't the greatest I never really thought it was bad.RAS has come up with some of the coolest character EVER... and has systematically made them pathetic.  Take Drizzt for example.  My all time favorite character.  What happened to him?  He used to be so cool, so daring, so carefree!  Now he is a freaking headcase!  Not only that, but since when did he go all "Paladin-like"?  This guy can't do a single thing wrong anymore.  And talk about emo...And then there is Artemis Entreri.  One of the best villains of all time!  Well, that was before he wrote Promise of the Witch-King.  I believe in that book Entreri ran away in a battle and screamed.  WTF?  Artie screams?  Yeesh...  I know there has to be some character developement but good lord, taking the fearless and master of self control and have him flee screaming?But those aren't my biggest complaints.  And neither is the "RAS keeps killing people and bringing them back" as most people tend to hate about his writings.  My biggest complaint is the near feminist writing style he has adopted.  All of the heroines are like the women we see on those damn sitcoms.  You know, the endless sitcoms where the husband is a bumbling fool who can't do anything right, and the wives are always so well grounded and have to come to the rescue all of the time, win all of the arguments, and basically be right in everything they do?  Yes, that's RAS.  From Catti-brie, to Kelsey, to Jilsephony, to Danica, etc.  They are BLEH characters.  No depth.  Just perfect little angels that can't do anything wrong, are right about 99% of the time, always act as the soother for all of the drama that goes on, etc.  Take Kelsey from the Spearwielders Trilogy.  She is a normal girl from Earth and suddenly she finds herself in that magical realm with the hero.  It doesn't take her long at all to stand up and fight villains and show amazing courage.  No flipping out or acting irrationally after finding herself in a magical world surrounded by creatures trying to kill her and her boyfriend?  Bleh!He needs more characters like Sydney.  You know, the one from Streams of Silver, the mage apprentice to Dendybar.  SHE was an interesting character.  Now he doesn't need to have the females be villains like Sydney, but show a little self centeredness, show that they can act irrationally at times.  SOMETHING outside of the perfect little angels.If Cat is still around by becoming a "mage" in the 100 year jump to 4th edition, I am going to be pissed.</blockquote>

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