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Is Drizzt destined to become a Classic?
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not really it all comes down to presentation and showmanship. You just have to present the numbers to your advantage and then move along before someone looks too close.gfunk said:Heh, the Net once again reveals itself to be the supreme research tool. Maybe they should re-tool that old saying,
"There are lies, damn lies, and the internet."
Orius
Unrepentant DM Supremacist
Dark Jezter said:
Yep, you're probably right. I don't allow drow PCs IMC, and good-aligned drow are exceedingly rare. However, it has little to do with RAS or Drizzt. It's more a matter of not liking how the drow are used in general in FR, and the whole existance of Eilistraee and her attempts to "redeem" the drow. The FR article in Dragon #315 was about the only part of the magazine I didn't like. IMC, Eilistraee is dead, and Lolth tolerates no rivals. Drow are almost all evil, and those who aren't get hunted down. They're the villainous race they were meant to be from the moment the were introduced to D&D.
Turjan
Explorer
The statistics given in http://www.bestwebbuys.com/books/greatest/alltime are quite obviously wrong, because they have several periodicals in the list. The sales figures contain books that looked different every year and were sold over decades.
Well, the point was that LotR was a classic before Peter Jackson made the film. And this point has been unambiguously proven.
Well, the point was that LotR was a classic before Peter Jackson made the film. And this point has been unambiguously proven.
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Orius
Unrepentant DM Supremacist
Dark Jezter said:
Well, those clones are usually based on standard D&D PC races. Drow isn't an allowed race in every campaign, often because of Drizzt, but also because drow have innate spell resistance and so on that makes them a little more powerful than the normal races.
Remember, when Drizzt clones started popping up in late 1e/early 2e, there were no ECLs like we have now.
Alzrius
The EN World kitten
I don't think that Drizzt will ever be considered a classic character that will become a "must read" for people who like sword & sorcery novels. I say this not out any dislike for the character (I've read every book about him gladly), but because his character isn't original.
"Classics" to me are works that are the best of their particular archetype; the questing barbarian (Conan), the Lonely Wanderer (Elric), and others are the ones who best personified character types in S&S literature. In that regard, Drizzt doesn't measure up. It's not that Salvatore's writing isn't good, it's just that it's not better than these, and it's nothing that hasn't been done before.
Drizzt is a good character, but his is a character we have seen before, and done just as well by other authors. Because he doesn't rise above similar literary beings, he won't become a fantasy classic.
"Classics" to me are works that are the best of their particular archetype; the questing barbarian (Conan), the Lonely Wanderer (Elric), and others are the ones who best personified character types in S&S literature. In that regard, Drizzt doesn't measure up. It's not that Salvatore's writing isn't good, it's just that it's not better than these, and it's nothing that hasn't been done before.
Drizzt is a good character, but his is a character we have seen before, and done just as well by other authors. Because he doesn't rise above similar literary beings, he won't become a fantasy classic.
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