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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kichwas" data-source="post: 1305942" data-attributes="member: 891">Now see...Everything MM said in his first post is an opinion of the flavor of the setting. He's not attacked the facts like the first idiot to post here.So I can agree to disagree with him, but that's about it. He's had the decency to keep to things he can validly judge for himself.The book -does- read bland. At least it does for me as well, and that's been one of my chief complaints over it. The thing is, when I make myself get through it I find it amazing in the wealth of ideas it contains and how 'solid' of a world it turns out to be. Once I understand what's going on in it, I find it very easy to put together complex plots that interact on so many levels without breaking down and without the world ever once 'showing it's seams'.And in later product, the writing has been less difficult to get through, but the quality has stayed just as high.Reading Kalamar is a little like reading Gygax. It's hard to do, but David Kenzer and Gary Gygax are two people in a world apart from a lot of these 'young kids' writing today - they have integrity to what they write. They have the decency to make sure they do solid research and can vouch for every word they put down.I think that's why Kalamar also gets a lot of people who like 'old school' Greyhawk - the two worlds stand out as the only ones in the DnD world to seem to have research done on them to ensure good solid maps, cultures, and political histories.They and their authors have integrity, and that really counts for something. David Kenzer & co aren't as hard to read to as Gygax (who I joke with my group - suspecting he keeps a theasuarus in his pocket just to find the longest word or phrase to use for any possible thing he may write), but he's not writing at the third grade level seemingly used by so many oher authors today either.</blockquote>

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