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<blockquote data-quote="Herpes Cineplex" data-source="post: 1845138" data-attributes="member: 16936">Sit him down and say this: &quot;The FR novels are junk.&nbsp; No, seriously, they're really bad.&nbsp; As a campaign setting, it's lots of fun, but the novels they've written about it are utter abominations, and the authors should be imprisoned for their crimes against readers everywhere.&nbsp; For your own sanity, I urge you to never, ever consider anything written in one of those novels as being necessarily true in our game.&nbsp; If you have a question about whether something is true, ask me, and I'll tell you.&quot;I suppose you could tone down the language a bit (or, if you're me, make it harsher than Eric's grandma would approve of <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> ), but the basic message here is that he can read the novels for fun, but they are not to be considered a reliable source about the setting, and he should never assume that any detail that shows up in a novel has anything to do with the game.You might also toss him a copy of the Player's Handbook with the description of elvish racial qualities clearly marked, as well as a copy of the FRCS with the pages about elves, Silverymoon, and Evereska marked.&nbsp; Challenge him to point out the sentence where it says that all elves have an innate knowledge of the exact location of Evereska, and that if he can find that sentence, you'll allow his character to have it, too.&nbsp; If he can't find it, then I guess he'll just have to find someone who DOES know where Evereska is and learn it from him.&nbsp; ...mind you, that's just treating the symptoms, not treating the disease.&nbsp; Get him to understand that the novels are only superficially similar to the campaign setting, and you'll be better off.--actually, i quite like blackmoria's suggestion of not loaning any other books to himryan</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Herpes Cineplex, post: 1845138, member: 16936"] Sit him down and say this: "The FR novels are junk. No, seriously, they're [i]really[/i] bad. As a campaign setting, it's lots of fun, but the novels they've written about it are utter abominations, and the authors should be imprisoned for their crimes against readers everywhere. For your own sanity, I urge you to never, ever consider [i]anything[/i] written in one of those novels as being necessarily true in our game. If you have a question about whether something is true, ask me, and I'll tell you." I suppose you could tone down the language a bit (or, if you're me, make it harsher than Eric's grandma would approve of ;) ), but the basic message here is that he can read the novels for fun, but they are not to be considered a reliable source about the setting, and he should never assume that any detail that shows up in a novel has anything to do with the game. You might also toss him a copy of the Player's Handbook with the description of elvish racial qualities clearly marked, as well as a copy of the FRCS with the pages about elves, Silverymoon, and Evereska marked. Challenge him to point out the sentence where it says that all elves have an innate knowledge of the exact location of Evereska, and that if he can find that sentence, you'll allow his character to have it, too. If he can't find it, then I guess he'll just have to find someone who DOES know where Evereska is and learn it from him. ...mind you, that's just treating the symptoms, not treating the disease. Get him to understand that the novels are only superficially similar to the campaign setting, and you'll be better off. -- actually, i quite like blackmoria's suggestion of not loaning any other books to him ryan [/QUOTE]

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