[FR] Avatar trilogy...who says it's bad?

[Napftor]

I've seen many a poster who has bashed the whole Time of Troubles crisis in the Forgotten Realms. Now, from this I also assumed that the novels were much maligned as well. So I'm looking through the RPG novels at my local book stores the other day and saw some of these books. Picking up Waterdeep I expect to see 5th printing or something. BZZT! Wrong. 9th printing. At the next store I spot Tantras. Hmm, I think, do we follow suit here? No! 15th printing!

So my question is, with an apparent unending print run, how can this series be so hated? Someone's reading it. A hell of a lot of someone's still are. Heck, I enjoyed the trilogy so much I may go back for seconds.

What say you about this red-headed stepchild of FR trilogies??

 

[Eternalknight]

I've read the trilogy twice, and I like it. It was, in fact, the first Reams novels I read.

 

[BigFreekinGoblinoid]

I've seen many a poster who has bashed the whole Time of Troubles crisis in the Forgotten Realms. Now, from this I also assumed that the novels were much maligned as well. So I'm looking through the RPG novels at my local book stores the other day and saw some of these books. Picking up Waterdeep I expect to see 5th printing or something. BZZT! Wrong. 9th printing. At the next store I spot Tantras. Hmm, I think, do we follow suit here? No! 15th printing!

So my question is, with an apparent unending print run, how can this series be so hated? Someone's reading it. A hell of a lot of someone's still are. Heck, I enjoyed the trilogy so much I may go back for seconds.

What say you about this red-headed stepchild of FR trilogies??

So by your logic, Danielle Steele, Pokemon and Survivor must be good too right? There is REALLY no accounting for taste is there?

My problem with the FR Novels ( and many other TSR/WotC books ) is the charachterization - there isn't much. Many books read like a bad hack & slash campaign log with detailed damage/critical charts being utilized. Some books may be a good read, but this is not good literature really.

 

[Crothian]

I found them amateurish and uninspired, but no worse then most of the TSR novels. Although that really isn't a compliment.

 

[arwink]

I didn't mind them, but I first read them when I was sixteen and I retain a fondness for the trashy fantasy novels of my youth.

I'll probably re-read them at some point and develop a new position sooner or later.

 

[jgbrowning]

I've never even heard of them... Do I count even more against them than people who don't like them?

joe b.
*if its about drow... GOOD drow... it sucks*

 

[Aaron L]

I despised those novels. These bumbling adventurers that just helped defend our town SOMEHOW managed to kill Elminster. Yeahm right. And Storm Silverhand, if she is that much of a bitch I am very afraid what the bad guys in the Realms are like.

 

[rounser]

I think their memory has been tarnished by the modules accompanying them, which apparently made some bad design decisions, and also by the fact that they represent the Time of Troubles, which is also not universally very well liked.

 

[arwink]

*if its about drow... GOOD drow... it sucks*

It's not. Its the novelisation of the adventures that were used to explain the changes in the realms between 1e and 2e. They killed off some gods, introduced wild magic, etc.

No drow at all, from what I remember.

 

[jgbrowning]

It's not. Its the novelisation of the adventures that were used to explain the changes in the realms between 1e and 2e. They killed off some gods, introduced wild magic, etc.

No drow at all, from what I remember.

Well then, they rock!

joe b.