Liriel Baenre?

[diaglo]

Interesting. I'm torn between thinking that DocMoriarty is being rude and abrasive and finding myself forced to agree with him. Which, let me tell you, is uncomfortable.

i am in complete agreement. i don't necessary dispute what Doc said just his choice of words.

I haven't read Salvatore in awhile, pretty much for the same reasons that people have mentioned -- the goodness of the simple story held together by a bunch of fun fight scenes got overwhelmed by the badness of "drow are cool and evil" with occasional helpings of "dwarves are comic relief".

I like Cunningham's other stuff -- the fun and quirky romance of Danilo and Arilyn is good romantic-comedy-adventure fodder on a Sunday afternoon -- but the Liriel stuff never caught on with me. I read the first novel and one of the short stories in some anthology, and never bothered with anything else. It just wasn't doing it for me.

i read all of the novels. but that may just be out of habit. or to see where WotC/TSR will go with the game stuff. don't for one minute think that stuff in the novels doesn't leak into the game source material and vice versa.