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<blockquote data-quote="Greyson" data-source="post: 7647397" data-attributes="member: 15533"><p>Greenwood certainly deserves an abundance of credit for the allure, diversity and charm of the Forgotten Realms. It has been an amazing setting for Dungeons & Dragons over the decades. I have loved playing and DMing in that playground (the ill-conceived Spellplague is the exception). But gosh, what a terrible novel writer. For a self-ascribed, former "child prodigy," Greenwood has put out some truly bad efforts - and TSR and WotC let him because of the name power. Why not, when they sold like bad romance novels? Shandril's Saga was not good and that trilogy is somehow better than that three book disaster we got in the Shadow of the Avatar series. I had to force myself to keeping reading <em>The Herald</em> to feel a sense of closure with The Sundering series. Ugh. There are other duds in between. When you love the Realms, though, you take the good with the bad.</p><p></p><p>In 2004's <em>30 Years of Adventure: A Celebration of Dungeons & Dragons</em>, Greenwood is quoted as saying it was 1967 that the notion of the Realms were created. He may have been closer to eight years old. I guess in the spirit of storytelling, all tales are allowed to get more fantastic over time. </p><p></p><p>Anyway, after Jeff Grub vetted Greenwood for TSR, the latter sent his FR stuff in. Erik Mona once related in an issue of <em>Dungeon</em> how the folks at TSR received Greenwood's hand-written notes wrapped in tin foil. It is a funny, quirky thing I can totally imagine.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Greyson, post: 7647397, member: 15533"] Greenwood certainly deserves an abundance of credit for the allure, diversity and charm of the Forgotten Realms. It has been an amazing setting for Dungeons & Dragons over the decades. I have loved playing and DMing in that playground (the ill-conceived Spellplague is the exception). But gosh, what a terrible novel writer. For a self-ascribed, former "child prodigy," Greenwood has put out some truly bad efforts - and TSR and WotC let him because of the name power. Why not, when they sold like bad romance novels? Shandril's Saga was not good and that trilogy is somehow better than that three book disaster we got in the Shadow of the Avatar series. I had to force myself to keeping reading [I]The Herald[/I] to feel a sense of closure with The Sundering series. Ugh. There are other duds in between. When you love the Realms, though, you take the good with the bad. In 2004's [I]30 Years of Adventure: A Celebration of Dungeons & Dragons[/I], Greenwood is quoted as saying it was 1967 that the notion of the Realms were created. He may have been closer to eight years old. I guess in the spirit of storytelling, all tales are allowed to get more fantastic over time. Anyway, after Jeff Grub vetted Greenwood for TSR, the latter sent his FR stuff in. Erik Mona once related in an issue of [I]Dungeon[/I] how the folks at TSR received Greenwood's hand-written notes wrapped in tin foil. It is a funny, quirky thing I can totally imagine. [/QUOTE]
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