Survivor Appendix E (5e) Authors- Ursula K. LeGWINS!

[Paul Farquhar]

Guilty secret:

I quite enjoyed Xanth, in a "hay due, I can see my brain melting" kind of way.

"A PUNE, OR PLAY ON WORDS"
-Death

 

[tglassy]

Survivor Appendix E (5e) Authors- THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE!

Dude, give it a rest already. People will have different opinions than you, and it doesn't make them a hater. You assuming people downvoting something because they are mad that something was successful is just wrong. That's not why at all. People have literally given other reasons. So please, stop with the whole "you're a hater if you don't like what I like" thing. It's getting old.

Nah. I’m within my rights.

Any reasons given are just excuses, and I know this because anytime there is a vastly popular option, people on this board give a thousand “reasons” as to why it sucks and should be destroyed. It’s pettiness. There is no other reason. Drizzt is hugely popular, the most popular character in all of DND. Period. He has more books than 90% of characters in just about every genre. And it’s damn hard to get just one book published. I know, I’ve been trying for a decade. But here Drizzt has over 2 dozen books out. Publishers only publish books if they can get enough sales to make their investment back, and Salvatore has had his his own freaking shelf at every bookstore for the last twenty years. The man is doing something right.

The only reason to downvote him first is out of a desire to be petty. Period. And I stand by that.

 

[tglassy]

Ahmed, Saladin 20
Alexander, Lloyd 22
Anthony, Piers 18
Augusta, Lady Gregory 20
Bear, Elizabeth 20
Brooks, Terry 21
Bulfinch, Thomas 20
Cook, Glen 24 - 2 = 22
Froud, Brian & Alan Lee 20
Hickman, Tracy & Margaret Weis 18
Hodgson, William Hope 20
Jemisin, N.K. 21
Jordan. Robert 20
Kay, Guy Gavriel 18
King, Stephen 17
LeGuin, Ursula 20
Lynch, Scott 20
Martin, George R.R. 14
McKillip, Patricia 20
Mieville, China 20
Peake, Mervyn 21
Pratchett, Terry 21
Rothfuss, Patrick 18
Salvatore, R.A. 14
Sanderson, Brandon 20 + 1 = 21
Smith, Clark Ashton 20
Tolstoy, Nikolai 18
Wolfe, Gene 20

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

Same, when I was a young lad. I thought they were hilarious. As I got older the stuff in it started to feel unsettling instead. Haven’t gone back since.

When I was much, much younger I enjoyed Anthony immensely. Blue Adept series, Incarnations of Immortality series, Bio of a Space Tyrant series, Macroscope.

Not Xanth, though, even I couldn't take the puns in that. And that ... that is saying something.

Anyway, I enjoyed him immensely way back in the day, but yeah, I have this bad feeling that if I re-visited his books, I wouldn't like what I found.

 

[Mr. Wilson]

Ahmed, Saladin 20
Alexander, Lloyd 22
Anthony, Piers 18
Augusta, Lady Gregory 20
Bear, Elizabeth 20
Brooks, Terry 21
Bulfinch, Thomas 20
Cook, Glen 24 - 2 = 22
Froud, Brian & Alan Lee 20
Hickman, Tracy & Margaret Weis 19
Hodgson, William Hope 20
Jemisin, N.K. 21
Jordan. Robert 20
Kay, Guy Gavriel 18
King, Stephen 15
LeGuin, Ursula 20
Lynch, Scott 20
Martin, George R.R. 14
McKillip, Patricia 20
Mieville, China 20
Peake, Mervyn 21
Pratchett, Terry 21
Rothfuss, Patrick 18
Salvatore, R.A. 14
Sanderson, Brandon 21
Smith, Clark Ashton 20
Tolstoy, Nikolai 18
Wolfe, Gene 20

 

[Flexor the Mighty!]

With luck Salvatore will be the first gone. The Driz'zt books are just over the top ridiculous and I can't get into it. But that isn't the problem, the problem is gamers in past campaigns who as a result think their drow is a Jedi!!!! Yes its not his fault but I don't need to be rational in this.

 

[BookBarbarian]

Ahmed, Saladin 20
Alexander, Lloyd 22+1=23 The fact that the protagonist is best represented by a bog standard fighter with no score over 14 is a testament to how good this truly is.
Anthony, Piers 18
Augusta, Lady Gregory 20
Bear, Elizabeth 20
Brooks, Terry 21
Bulfinch, Thomas 20
Cook, Glen 24 - 2 = 22
Froud, Brian & Alan Lee 20
Hickman, Tracy & Margaret Weis 19
Hodgson, William Hope 20
Jemisin, N.K. 21
Jordan. Robert 20
Kay, Guy Gavriel 18
King, Stephen 15
LeGuin, Ursula 20
Lynch, Scott 20
Martin, George R.R. 14
McKillip, Patricia 20
Mieville, China 20
Peake, Mervyn 21
Pratchett, Terry 21
Rothfuss, Patrick 18
Salvatore, R.A. 14-2 =12 ​Anytime I read about rolling scimitars over an opponents weapon (pretty much every fight in the series) my brain just glosses over the words.
Sanderson, Brandon 21
Smith, Clark Ashton 20
Tolstoy, Nikolai 18
Wolfe, Gene 20

 

[Sacrosanct]

I really enjoyed the original Dragonlance Chronicles in the 80s, but I'm afraid I can't get past how they kept calling a halberd a "hauberk". Two totally different things, although I suppose Flint cleaving a draconian with a hauberk would be an impressive feat. And Raistlin is pretty much the dragonlance version of Drizzt. Geeks sure loved their emo characters in the late 80s/early 90s. Also, kender. So I won't lose sleep if Weis and Hickman get voted out.

 

[tglassy]

I’ll admit, my first non-Tolkien fantasy book was a Dragonlance book about Raistlin’s origins. Got a soft spot for Dragonlance.

 

[Lord Mhoram]

Ahmed, Saladin 20
Alexander, Lloyd 23
Anthony, Piers 16
Augusta, Lady Gregory 20
Bear, Elizabeth 20
Brooks, Terry 21
Bulfinch, Thomas 20
Cook, Glen 22
Froud, Brian & Alan Lee 20
Hickman, Tracy & Margaret Weis 19
Hodgson, William Hope 20
Jemisin, N.K. 21
Jordan. Robert 20
Kay, Guy Gavriel 18
King, Stephen 15
LeGuin, Ursula 21
Lynch, Scott 20
Martin, George R.R. 14
McKillip, Patricia 20
Mieville, China 20
Peake, Mervyn 21
Pratchett, Terry 21
Rothfuss, Patrick 18
Salvatore, R.A. 12 ​
Sanderson, Brandon 21
Smith, Clark Ashton 20
Tolstoy, Nikolai 18
Wolfe, Gene 20