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<blockquote data-quote="Mark Hope" data-source="post: 4896850" data-attributes="member: 27051"><p>The Prism Pentad, while not exceptionally well written, does portray Athas extremely well - as good as if not better than the game material. I'd recommend The Prism Pentad as premier source material for a DS game. <em>The Amber Enchantress</em> in particular gives a great look at life across Athas. Yes, they are metaplot heavy, but it spans a decade and is easily ignored if you don't like it. There is virtually no overlap between novels and game material at all as far as metaplot is concerned - only the very later DS material is impacted by the metaplot, and even then it's minimal. The whole "novels destroyed the gameworld" thing is kinda exaggerated for DS.</p><p></p><p>The Tribe of One have some wonderful desert descriptions and flora/fauna, but other than that I rated them very poorly as DS novels. <em>Broken Blade</em> was terrible. Really terrible. <em>Darkness Before the Dawn</em> had some interesting moments (a tohr-kreen and an attack by a cloud ray were highlights) but failed to deliver any real excitement.</p><p></p><p>The Pavek books (<em>The Brazen Gambit, Cinnabar Shadows</em>, and <em>The Rise and Fall of a Dragon King</em>) are excellent. Best-written of all the DS novels and capture the world and the environment perfectly. They stray from canon a bit but are fantastic all the same. They're based in Urik and feature a disgruntled templar as a central character, and also the sorcerer-king Hamanu in the third book. Highly recommended.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mark Hope, post: 4896850, member: 27051"] The Prism Pentad, while not exceptionally well written, does portray Athas extremely well - as good as if not better than the game material. I'd recommend The Prism Pentad as premier source material for a DS game. [i]The Amber Enchantress[/i] in particular gives a great look at life across Athas. Yes, they are metaplot heavy, but it spans a decade and is easily ignored if you don't like it. There is virtually no overlap between novels and game material at all as far as metaplot is concerned - only the very later DS material is impacted by the metaplot, and even then it's minimal. The whole "novels destroyed the gameworld" thing is kinda exaggerated for DS. The Tribe of One have some wonderful desert descriptions and flora/fauna, but other than that I rated them very poorly as DS novels. [i]Broken Blade[/i] was terrible. Really terrible. [i]Darkness Before the Dawn[/i] had some interesting moments (a tohr-kreen and an attack by a cloud ray were highlights) but failed to deliver any real excitement. The Pavek books ([i]The Brazen Gambit, Cinnabar Shadows[/i], and [i]The Rise and Fall of a Dragon King[/i]) are excellent. Best-written of all the DS novels and capture the world and the environment perfectly. They stray from canon a bit but are fantastic all the same. They're based in Urik and feature a disgruntled templar as a central character, and also the sorcerer-king Hamanu in the third book. Highly recommended. [/QUOTE]
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