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I'm reading the Forgotten Realms Novels- #202 The Howling Delve by Jaleigh Johnson (Dungeons 2)
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<blockquote data-quote="Alzrius" data-source="post: 9109296" data-attributes="member: 8461"><p>Back to a series that I've read, which by this point was getting pretty rare for D&D novels. Looking back, I think at least part of that was because by this point (i.e. nearing the end of 3E's life) most other campaign worlds besides the Realms were long since put out to pasture, both in terms of game books and novels. We'd get some more later on, but the downward trend was quite clear.</p><p></p><p>As with so many of these, time has blurred my memories, as I read them fairly quickly after they came out and never picked them up since, so I'm going to refrain from commenting on any of the major plot points for at least another book, but I do recall that this was basically Halisstra trying to get another continue. As I recall, it was waffling back and forth between deities that basically damned her before, and she apparently hadn't learned her lesson by this point. </p><p></p><p>The divine machinations were the sort of things that I'd have eaten up in the past, but at this point it was all too clear to me that they were setting things up for Fourth Edition. By itself that's not a bad thing – I really enjoyed the Haunted Lands trilogy – but this series had "cleaning house" written all over it. Lisa Smedman is a super-gifted author (I've said before how much I loved her Baba Yaga module back in AD&D 2E), but once I could see the corporate directive looming over things, I confess that a lot of my appetite (though not all of it) died.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Alzrius, post: 9109296, member: 8461"] Back to a series that I've read, which by this point was getting pretty rare for D&D novels. Looking back, I think at least part of that was because by this point (i.e. nearing the end of 3E's life) most other campaign worlds besides the Realms were long since put out to pasture, both in terms of game books and novels. We'd get some more later on, but the downward trend was quite clear. As with so many of these, time has blurred my memories, as I read them fairly quickly after they came out and never picked them up since, so I'm going to refrain from commenting on any of the major plot points for at least another book, but I do recall that this was basically Halisstra trying to get another continue. As I recall, it was waffling back and forth between deities that basically damned her before, and she apparently hadn't learned her lesson by this point. The divine machinations were the sort of things that I'd have eaten up in the past, but at this point it was all too clear to me that they were setting things up for Fourth Edition. By itself that's not a bad thing – I really enjoyed the Haunted Lands trilogy – but this series had "cleaning house" written all over it. Lisa Smedman is a super-gifted author (I've said before how much I loved her Baba Yaga module back in AD&D 2E), but once I could see the corporate directive looming over things, I confess that a lot of my appetite (though not all of it) died. [/QUOTE]
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