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<blockquote data-quote="BlackMoria" data-source="post: 3826018" data-attributes="member: 424">And completely the fault of TSR and WOTC.Salvatore, when he wrote the first novel featuring Drizzt, intended him to be minor character in that story, by Salvatore's own admission.&nbsp; Fans got 'Drizzt on the brain' and TSR told Salvatore to write more about Drizzt.&nbsp; Several novels later and Drizzt was starring in his own long running series....Ed Greenwood doesn't write Elminster novels out a Mary Sue complex. He is told to write them and he does if he wants to get his novels printed.&nbsp;&nbsp; Once again, the public gets fixated on some characters and asks Ed to write novels about those characters, which become popular, requiring more novels about those same characters.&nbsp; On and on.Ed on Candlekeep has said many times, as a author, he doesn't have much say about what novels he writes.&nbsp; TSR/WOTC give him a general outline of the story and what characters and he does the novel based on that outline.&nbsp; Ed has pitched a few outlines of his own and has quite a number refused and a few were accepted.Novels about the Realms are 'managed' on high by WOTC.&nbsp; Each novel's outline and characters must be approved by the WOTC first and the author as a certain amount of artistic license of how to satisfy the outline but only so much.FR novelists are not writing Mary Sue self gratifications, as many believe them.&nbsp; FR novelists write what WOTC tells them to write.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="BlackMoria, post: 3826018, member: 424"] And completely the fault of TSR and WOTC. Salvatore, when he wrote the first novel featuring Drizzt, intended him to be minor character in that story, by Salvatore's own admission. Fans got 'Drizzt on the brain' and TSR told Salvatore to write more about Drizzt. Several novels later and Drizzt was starring in his own long running series.... Ed Greenwood doesn't write Elminster novels out a Mary Sue complex. He is told to write them and he does if he wants to get his novels printed. Once again, the public gets fixated on some characters and asks Ed to write novels about those characters, which become popular, requiring more novels about those same characters. On and on. Ed on Candlekeep has said many times, as a author, he doesn't have much say about what novels he writes. TSR/WOTC give him a general outline of the story and what characters and he does the novel based on that outline. Ed has pitched a few outlines of his own and has quite a number refused and a few were accepted. Novels about the Realms are 'managed' on high by WOTC. Each novel's outline and characters must be approved by the WOTC first and the author as a certain amount of artistic license of how to satisfy the outline but only so much. FR novelists are not writing Mary Sue self gratifications, as many believe them. FR novelists write what WOTC tells them to write. [/QUOTE]

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