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<blockquote data-quote="Pagan priest" data-source="post: 644512" data-attributes="member: 7650">Keep the fictionDon't use bits and pieces of a book and call it a short story.I've been reading Dragon continuously since it was in single digits, and in that time I have read a lot of good fiction.&nbsp; I have also read some bad stories as well.&nbsp; The one thing that has consistantly annoyed me has been excerpts of novels.&nbsp; I end up feeling as if I had been tricked into reading several pages of advertising.Now, if a story ties into a larger novel, but is completely self contained, that's fine.&nbsp; A story about the Forgotten Realms that relates to a series of novels could be good.&nbsp; For example, consider a story that is set in Daggerdale and has a group of folk in Dagger Falls set out for adventure, freeing a hamlet from bandit raiders.&nbsp; If the novel series then starts a year later, and goes on to describe this group becoming a major force for good and justice in the Realms, freeing all the Dalelands from the pervidious puppetmaster, Elminster, all is fine and dandy.Somebody mentioned earlier in this thread about game mechanics, and fiction that uses different rules of magic not be appropriate.&nbsp; I disagree... if it is a good story then the &quot;rules&quot; of the universe are irrelevant.&nbsp; Bad fiction that uses the D20 conventions of magic is still bad fiction.&nbsp; Good fiction AND game stats would be nice when it can be done, but don't shoe horn things into a rigid format.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Pagan priest, post: 644512, member: 7650"] [B][I]Keep the fiction[/I][/B][I][/I] Don't use bits and pieces of a book and call it a short story. I've been reading Dragon continuously since it was in single digits, and in that time I have read a lot of good fiction. I have also read some bad stories as well. The one thing that has consistantly annoyed me has been excerpts of novels. I end up feeling as if I had been tricked into reading several pages of advertising. Now, if a story ties into a larger novel, but is completely self contained, that's fine. A story about the Forgotten Realms that [I]relates[/I] to a series of novels could be good. For example, consider a story that is set in Daggerdale and has a group of folk in Dagger Falls set out for adventure, freeing a hamlet from bandit raiders. If the novel series then starts a year later, and goes on to describe this group becoming a major force for good and justice in the Realms, freeing all the Dalelands from the pervidious puppetmaster, Elminster, all is fine and dandy. Somebody mentioned earlier in this thread about game mechanics, and fiction that uses different rules of magic not be appropriate. I disagree... if it is a good story then the "rules" of the universe are irrelevant. Bad fiction that uses the D20 conventions of magic is still bad fiction. Good fiction AND game stats would be nice when it can be done, but don't shoe horn things into a rigid format. [/QUOTE]

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