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Message: <blockquote data-quote="BB Shockwave" data-source="post: 6673065" data-attributes="member: 6799257">There is a dwarf by that name? LOL. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Me, I was rather more annoyed by how easily these guys beat wizards - and often how they used spells that frankly, never existed in D&D. But still, the books were enjoyable - until that one which was about nothing but Wulfgar moping at an inn and then making off with some girl or such. Then Drizzt and co. came up against some pirates - which I found hilarious, after dragons, demons, crystal shards, drow matrons and assassins, really, PIRATES? That's like if they went to fight a bunch of orcs... oh wait, they DID that later. It was almost as if Salvatore realized the party was overpowered and hit them with some level drain until they got demoted to first level.  Things only got a bit more interesting after Crenshinibon had to be destroyed, but the road leading there led through a boring Jarlaxle/Entreri, best buds novel.Then he pretty much abandoned the characters to instead give a sob story origin to Enteri (making that guy uninteresting too) and do a pointless arc about Jarlaxle getting some "insta-dracolich/gargoyle/mummy"-creating portable castle to conquer some kingdom - which he quickly abandons on a whim. This story also featured two copper dragon sisters who live in a city in disguise, help Entreri and co. and one actually has sex with him. Umm, yeah, NO. I care nothing for 4E and its alignment system, but Salvatore, please READ a bestiary once in a while, Coppers are nothing like that, they'd have probably made Enteri THINK they found him attractive, let him strip out of his clothes and then teleport him naked into the middle of a town guard building just to mess with an obviously evil character. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f600.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":D" title="Big grin    :D"  data-smilie="8"data-shortname=":D" />I just read now a short comic too that he wrote with his wife(? - Gina Salvatore, or daughter?) caled Cutter. It is a weeeird unexplained-origin story about some ancient drow dude with a sentient and evil two-handed sword, who oddly (and again, without explanation) is living on the surface with some grey-skinned elves (moon elves?) He has a son and daughter, and to inherit the sword he manipulates his dauighter to kill her brother, then escape, taken over by the sword - through Obould's orc territory, into the underdark, where the old dude sacrifices his own wife to escape and somehow convince the daughter to try and control the sword... and then they are welcomed with open arms into some newly built drow city - The End. WUT? What was THAT about?</blockquote>

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