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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Majoru Oakheart" data-source="post: 6696044" data-attributes="member: 5143">Yes you did. Your post said the words "(so popular he deserves to be everywhere)". Insinuating that Hussar was trying to convince everyone that Drizzt "deserves to be everywhere". My point was that I don't think anyone is trying to convince anyone that Drizzt deserves to be everywhere. Different people like different things. Anyone who does not read the novels doesn't know who Drizzt is. I had to explain who he was to 2 members of my Sunday group. The public play game I run on Tuesday is mostly casual players. My guess is that nearly half of them have never heard of Drizzt. They'll write off the very short description of him in the PHB off as an example of the kind of character you could make without having any idea he is even from a novel. My point is that people who read his novels like him. Which is why they keep publishing more novels. But that the vast majority of D&D players don't actually read D&D novels. So he's popular among the group of people who read his book but that the idea that he is somehow so popular that his entire existence is disrupting every D&D table in the world is...hard to believe. As for Bilbo, before the movies came out, the vast majority of my friends had no idea who he was. You might know a lot of people that are avid book readers and therefore more of them know about these characters. Also, my point is that they AREN'T "pumping out a lot of Drizzt stuff". That he's popular enough to warrant having novels published and as a character he is probably the most well known D&D character. Which means you will find a mix of people who love him, hate him, and have never heard of him. But people are claiming that it's impossible to play D&D without him being mentioned in every book and that somehow WOTC is attempting to shove him down our throats. People were threatening to boycott this adventure because he might appear somewhere in it. What I'm saying is that all of that is full of crap and is the product of the imagination of someone who is so obsessed with their hatred over Drizzt that, when they see 2 mentions of him in 2 years, they think that counts as forcing him down our throats. The entire point is that hating IS taking it too seriously. That by using the word you are already saying "I'm taking this extremely seriously and I think it's important enough to hate. Everyone else should take this seriously too."</blockquote>

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