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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9515461" data-attributes="member: 18">What would that even do for it? Let them make the fights bloodier? I can't see anything else.They're fundamentally really tame stories with the most stereotypical possible characters. Drizzt's personality is &quot;Generic Good Guy people are unfair to&quot; (unlike the Underdark stuff, where there's more nuance - though not much), Bruenor's personality is &quot;Generic Dwarf&quot;, Wulfgar's personality is &quot;Generic Dwarf (Younger)&quot; which might a be a good gag except Discworld did it way better with Carrot (who may be a loose satire of Wulfgar and similar characters on a certain level), Regis' personality in the three IWD books (not the bizarre later turn he took) is &quot;Generic Comedy Coward&quot;, and worst of all Catti-Brie, who doesn't even appear at all until the second book (!!!), has the personality &quot;Generic Love Interest&quot;, right down to being frequently helpless and getting kidnapped.There's nothing wrong with liking those stories - everyone likes some pretty lame and cliched media really! But let's not pretend these are stories with potential appeal or traction with a wide audience in 2024 or later. They were dated by the time they came out, and did not age well.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 9515461, member: 18"] What would that even do for it? Let them make the fights bloodier? I can't see anything else. They're fundamentally really tame stories with the most stereotypical possible characters. Drizzt's personality is "Generic Good Guy people are unfair to" (unlike the Underdark stuff, where there's more nuance - though not much), Bruenor's personality is "Generic Dwarf", Wulfgar's personality is "Generic Dwarf (Younger)" which might a be a good gag except Discworld did it way better with Carrot (who may be a loose satire of Wulfgar and similar characters on a certain level), Regis' personality in the three IWD books (not the bizarre later turn he took) is "Generic Comedy Coward", and worst of all Catti-Brie, who doesn't even appear at all until the second book (!!!), has the personality "Generic Love Interest", right down to being frequently helpless and getting kidnapped. There's nothing wrong with liking those stories - everyone likes some pretty lame and cliched media really! But let's not pretend these are stories with potential appeal or traction with a wide audience in 2024 or later. They were dated by the time they came out, and did not age well. [/QUOTE]

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