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Message: <blockquote data-quote="reanjr" data-source="post: 2922381" data-attributes="member: 20740">Part of this is that when the original concept came about, Riverwind and Goldmoon were supposed to be the heroes of the story.  But the dev team decided to focus more on some of the other roles and for (I believe) the entire first book and beginning of the second, the novels were following the adventure path.  Once they caught up, Weis and Hickman had a bit more control over what was going to happen.  It was a fairly unique way of writing a novel.In addition, the writers tried to fit in all the characters from the adventures but found that while 8 main characters and host of minor characters works well for a game, it's not so easy to fit that many characters into a novel of such a short length.  I remember an anecdote that Weis totally forgot to write Elistan into a major chunk of story and had to go back and get him back in.  With all the characters and plotlines going on, and Elistan being a boring character (Weis said this) she just forgot about him.  Like that player who sits in the corner and rarely interacts with the party or the familiar that is never around for fireballs but appears when the wizard needs to spy on someone.</blockquote>