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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Scrivener of Doom" data-source="post: 5993239" data-attributes="member: 87576">[declaration of bias]I'm a fan of the Forgotten Realms from the original Dragon articles to the Old Grey Box and even the post-Spellplague version published for 4E (except for the map which I can truthfully state, without hyperbole, is the worst world map published for D&D ever). [/declaration of bias]I think Elminster is one of the weaker FR characters and I am surprised that he sells well enough to feature in a double trilogy. I've only read one Elminster novel and I would like that time back if at all possible. I don't like Elminster erotica either and I sincerely wish that wasn't part of the Greenwood oeuvre.I think Ed is otherwise a true creative genius and there is nobody else who can make a world come alive as he can. He is a master of both the big picture and the small vignette... but I wish he wouldn't write soft porn.As for Salvatore, he's a hack. I admit he is a successful hack but his formerly-praised fight scenes now seem like parodies of his earlier work and his system of naming - and of reducing NPCs to a speech impediment - make sure his work doesn't feel like it belongs to the Realms. The Realms does have some genuinely good authors now - Paul Kemp, Richard Lee Byers, Erik Scott de Bie, Rich Baker (I still cannot believe WotC retrenched him but kept some of the others) et al - and their characters are more interesting and believable than Elminster. I would run with one or more of them rather than a double trilogy of Elminster, especially if the whole purpose is to ensure that there is a sense that the Realms is being reborn.</blockquote>

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