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The Dual Wielding Ranger: How Aragorn, Drizzt, and Dual-Wielding Led to the Ranger's Loss of Identity
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<blockquote data-quote="auburn2" data-source="post: 8243388" data-attributes="member: 6855259"><p>More old books <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p><p></p><p>Drizzt is mentioned in FR5 The Savage North, including stories of his adventures in IWD and is documented to be a 10th level Ranger. The Savage North was published in 1E in 1988 and Salvatory was not an author.</p><p></p><p>This means not only was the TSR staff aware of Drizzt, they were writing about him in the FR setting, independent of Salvatory, prior to 2E.</p><p></p><p>Considering that this campaign manual was released at the same time as CS, this means as a point of fact that the TSR staff was working with and consulting Salvatory about the character, with enough detail to put him into print. While this does not prove that Drizzt was the inspiration for TWF, it certainly shows that Drizzt was a TWF Ranger in 1E, the only TWF Ranger ever written about by TSR in 1E and the time of that writing coincides with the development of 2E. Those things are all irrefutable fact.</p><p></p><p>Considering he is the only Ranger being written about by the TSR staff at the time 2E was being developed, it is safe to assume his character heavily influenced the 2E Ranger even if we can not prove it was specifically the inspiration for TWF.</p><p></p><p>As such, I stand by my opinion based both on this data and as someone who was playing heavily at the time and saw the developments real time as they happened (and thought then what I think now). IMO Drizzt is why the Ranger class was given TWF. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="auburn2, post: 8243388, member: 6855259"] More old books :) Drizzt is mentioned in FR5 The Savage North, including stories of his adventures in IWD and is documented to be a 10th level Ranger. The Savage North was published in 1E in 1988 and Salvatory was not an author. This means not only was the TSR staff aware of Drizzt, they were writing about him in the FR setting, independent of Salvatory, prior to 2E. Considering that this campaign manual was released at the same time as CS, this means as a point of fact that the TSR staff was working with and consulting Salvatory about the character, with enough detail to put him into print. While this does not prove that Drizzt was the inspiration for TWF, it certainly shows that Drizzt was a TWF Ranger in 1E, the only TWF Ranger ever written about by TSR in 1E and the time of that writing coincides with the development of 2E. Those things are all irrefutable fact. Considering he is the only Ranger being written about by the TSR staff at the time 2E was being developed, it is safe to assume his character heavily influenced the 2E Ranger even if we can not prove it was specifically the inspiration for TWF. As such, I stand by my opinion based both on this data and as someone who was playing heavily at the time and saw the developments real time as they happened (and thought then what I think now). IMO Drizzt is why the Ranger class was given TWF. ;) [/QUOTE]
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