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<blockquote data-quote="Alzrius" data-source="post: 8460629" data-attributes="member: 8461"><p>This is one of the few series that I bought in hardback form, mostly because I wanted to read it badly enough that I couldn't wait for the softcovers to come out. The fact that it released in hardcover at all is something of a giveaway as to how much WotC thought this series was a winner; most of their books don't get hardcover releases in the first place.</p><p></p><p>The fact that each book was written by a different author struck me as odd, if for no other reason than it was so unusual (I may also have gotten Double Diamond Triangle flashbacks, which surely made me nervous, though apparently not enough to put me off of the series). Did they do it because six books in a timely manner was too much to ask of any one author? Was it just a marketing gimmick, i.e. "if you have a favorite Realms author, they're here"? I feel like there was a deliberate purpose in mind, but I'm not entirely sure what it was.</p><p></p><p>As for the book itself, I agree that this one was done well. There are surprisingly few novels (at least insofar as I know) where the main characters are bad guys (though "anti-heroes," a nebulous term which I've come to interpret at "does the right thing using methods that most people wouldn't approve of," are a bit more popular), particularly when it comes to D&D. Ravenloft had some of the best (e.g. Lord Soth and Azalin), but these guys are well-presented in that manner too, even if Menzoberranzen's culture provides a ready-made background with regard to softening their actions by way of saying that they're products of their society. Also, it was nice to have the higher-end magic be so forthright; a lot of D&D novels seem to have a hard time with that.</p><p></p><p>Although, on that subject, I remain irritated that we never got game statistics for the stonefire bombs. The main characters from these novels all got their stats eventually presented in <em>Dragon</em> magazine (issues 302, 312, and 322), but the stonefire bombs never did. They're not hard to homebrew, but little things like that irk me, simply because they're such obvious oversights that you'd think someone somewhere would have done something about them.</p><p></p><p>I have some more thoughts on the overall progression of the series and its characters, but I'll bring those up as we get to the later novels.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Alzrius, post: 8460629, member: 8461"] This is one of the few series that I bought in hardback form, mostly because I wanted to read it badly enough that I couldn't wait for the softcovers to come out. The fact that it released in hardcover at all is something of a giveaway as to how much WotC thought this series was a winner; most of their books don't get hardcover releases in the first place. The fact that each book was written by a different author struck me as odd, if for no other reason than it was so unusual (I may also have gotten Double Diamond Triangle flashbacks, which surely made me nervous, though apparently not enough to put me off of the series). Did they do it because six books in a timely manner was too much to ask of any one author? Was it just a marketing gimmick, i.e. "if you have a favorite Realms author, they're here"? I feel like there was a deliberate purpose in mind, but I'm not entirely sure what it was. As for the book itself, I agree that this one was done well. There are surprisingly few novels (at least insofar as I know) where the main characters are bad guys (though "anti-heroes," a nebulous term which I've come to interpret at "does the right thing using methods that most people wouldn't approve of," are a bit more popular), particularly when it comes to D&D. Ravenloft had some of the best (e.g. Lord Soth and Azalin), but these guys are well-presented in that manner too, even if Menzoberranzen's culture provides a ready-made background with regard to softening their actions by way of saying that they're products of their society. Also, it was nice to have the higher-end magic be so forthright; a lot of D&D novels seem to have a hard time with that. Although, on that subject, I remain irritated that we never got game statistics for the stonefire bombs. The main characters from these novels all got their stats eventually presented in [I]Dragon[/I] magazine (issues 302, 312, and 322), but the stonefire bombs never did. They're not hard to homebrew, but little things like that irk me, simply because they're such obvious oversights that you'd think someone somewhere would have done something about them. I have some more thoughts on the overall progression of the series and its characters, but I'll bring those up as we get to the later novels. [/QUOTE]
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