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<blockquote data-quote="Mercurius" data-source="post: 6228737" data-attributes="member: 59082"><p>The novels are to the FR kind of like what a bad cover picture is to a book: potentially distracting if the art is poor and you let it bother you, but ultimately has no bearing to the content of the book itself....that is, aside from the degree that the novels impact the setting as published in RPG books.</p><p></p><p>People love the gray box because, aside from the inclusion of the Moonshae Isles, is entirely unsullied by the novels. The later books, including the hallowed 3e hardcover, are impacted by the Time of Troubles, but that was relatively minimal. Interestingly enough, with the 4e it was actually the other way around, afaik - setting design guided and influenced the novels.</p><p></p><p>All in all the novels don't bother me. I read the Moonshae books, the early Drizzt books and one or two of the earliest novels, but I out-grew them in the early 90s in my late teens. I think I got turned off by two things: reading <em>Legacy, </em>or which I became entirely sick of reading about how kewl Drizzt was, and one of the Greenwood novels in which a sex scene between Elminster and the Simbul was just laughable. I'd rather read Tolkien's out-takes about Gandalf and Galadriel getting it on, or the adventures of Elrond through Gay Middle-earth (Gayrond?).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mercurius, post: 6228737, member: 59082"] The novels are to the FR kind of like what a bad cover picture is to a book: potentially distracting if the art is poor and you let it bother you, but ultimately has no bearing to the content of the book itself....that is, aside from the degree that the novels impact the setting as published in RPG books. People love the gray box because, aside from the inclusion of the Moonshae Isles, is entirely unsullied by the novels. The later books, including the hallowed 3e hardcover, are impacted by the Time of Troubles, but that was relatively minimal. Interestingly enough, with the 4e it was actually the other way around, afaik - setting design guided and influenced the novels. All in all the novels don't bother me. I read the Moonshae books, the early Drizzt books and one or two of the earliest novels, but I out-grew them in the early 90s in my late teens. I think I got turned off by two things: reading [I]Legacy, [/I]or which I became entirely sick of reading about how kewl Drizzt was, and one of the Greenwood novels in which a sex scene between Elminster and the Simbul was just laughable. I'd rather read Tolkien's out-takes about Gandalf and Galadriel getting it on, or the adventures of Elrond through Gay Middle-earth (Gayrond?). [/QUOTE]
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