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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mkarol" data-source="post: 283230" data-attributes="member: 3738">3e, namely the FRCS, inspired me to get to know the Realms better also, so I started to read the novels also in a ‘flavorful’ way:Icewind Dale Trilogy:  Okay, but feels like reading a transcript of a mega D&D session.Darkelf Trilogy:  Really enjoyed this; felt D&Dish (2e), but still original or provocative.Avatar Trilogy: <achem> well, at times it was passable, but in general not so hot.  At times I had to pull my hair out to get through parts, the worst being the last paragraph of the last book.  Shoot me.Now I am reading _Elminster: Making…_ and the first few pages I liked a lot… very flavorful in the FR sense, but the book has gotten pretty, um, rag-tag I guess….  More random than anything;  But it is Elminster (well, sorta) and you have to expect this being walking around just doing things without reason or repercussion.As for why D&D books are not as good as “standard” fantasy fiction; I think it is because the authors start with two feet in the hole so to speak.  They loose creativity because they are writing not only about someone elses world/history/gods/events, but also because someone else wrote the _rules_ for how things work.  How many times have you, while reading a D&D book (whether it is in the Realms, Dragon Lance, Dark Sun, Greyhawk, wherever…) said “A rouge can’t use a Long-sword! (2e)” or “a week in the Realms is 10days not 7!”?  The authors know they have to work in aspects of what the readers expect although the author may not be comfortable writing about it.</blockquote>

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