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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Willowhaunt" data-source="post: 2236188" data-attributes="member: 22961">I'm not looking for nobel prize winners or literature that will be taught in College English classes twenty years from now, if I wanted to read that I'd take a college english class.  I'm jjust trying to avoid the books that have ridiculous product placement or clumsy real-world analogs (Bruenor on clerical "life support" and Wulfgar and Cattie-Brie debating euthanasia made me cringe). I really wanted to like Forsaken House, but it seemed that Rich Baker wrote that with the Player's Handbook open on his desk at every page. I could almost feel WotC sitting over Rich's shoulder as he wrote...I couldn't even figure out if he was good because there was so much that was obviously forced by WotC...I haven't read any of the Greenwood books yet, but Spellfire is sitting in my "to read" pile. I'm looking forward to checking out more by Elaine Cunningham, as I read a short story by her (The one about Liriel as a child from "Best of the Realms, pt. 1) and she seemed to be the best of the authors that were featured there. I'm wary of Phil Athans because he wrote the Baldur's Gate novels. Maybe my caution is unjustified because I imagine he wasn't given much freedom in writing those, but the time I spent reading the BG novels is hours of my life I can never have back...I never, ever wanted to read about "Abdel" making out with vampires. Ever.Never, ever. -Willowhaunt</blockquote>

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