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<blockquote data-quote="ProfessorPain" data-source="post: 4706383" data-attributes="member: 82012"><p>Personally I read novels to illuminate the game world, not the rules system. If you restrict a writer to the confines of the spell system and the character class system, I think you would get some pretty uninspired results. Making a literary character isn't the same as making a player character or NPC. That said, if they deviate too much; by completely changing the world or introducing contradictory explanaitons for how magic works, then that does irk me a bit. I haven't read a TSR or Wizards of the coast novel since the late 90s, but I enjoyed stories like the Crystal Shard, The Black Knight, Heart of Midnight, and the Avatar trilogy. You need to take these things with a grain of salt though, and not succumb to the nerd tempation to create canon out of them (i.e. &quot;...if you had read the the second novel in the X series you would know that King Y has been replaced by an evil Z...&quot;)</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="ProfessorPain, post: 4706383, member: 82012"] Personally I read novels to illuminate the game world, not the rules system. If you restrict a writer to the confines of the spell system and the character class system, I think you would get some pretty uninspired results. Making a literary character isn't the same as making a player character or NPC. That said, if they deviate too much; by completely changing the world or introducing contradictory explanaitons for how magic works, then that does irk me a bit. I haven't read a TSR or Wizards of the coast novel since the late 90s, but I enjoyed stories like the Crystal Shard, The Black Knight, Heart of Midnight, and the Avatar trilogy. You need to take these things with a grain of salt though, and not succumb to the nerd tempation to create canon out of them (i.e. "...if you had read the the second novel in the X series you would know that King Y has been replaced by an evil Z...") [/QUOTE]

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