What is it about Drizzt that you just can't stand?

[jasper]

crystal shard junk fantasy fiction with a huge dash of D&D flavor.
Add in the next 5 books more junk food and more junk food. With characters using 55 pds war hammers etc.

then came clones, and clones and clones, clones, clones, clones, clones clones, clones clones, clones of clones.

Then clones cried when I mention. Other elves would probably shoot you on sight.
But I a good guy.
Hey they see a drow down town in river dale city. That rhymes with C which rhmyes with T which mean TROUBLE in right here in RiverDale city.
The drow is messing with the elf women. Hang em boys!

But if I wear a deep hood. etc.

plus the clones owners would never admit that it was just JUNK FICTION like the star trek books, and star wars books. Even worse because You could point to older junk ficition characters which was just like drizzle. You know the white hair guy with the cool black sword.

 

[kreynolds]

END COMMUNICATION

I gotta know. How old are you? With a tag like that I'm surprised you don't have a sig with something like...

All your base are belong to us!

 

[Xarlen]

I, for one, have never created said clone. Drizzt is 'Too Good', oozes it. No thank you.

If I'm going to play a drow, I'm going to play them Darker. Give me a worshiper of Vhaerun. Not as sadistic as Lolth, but certainly not 'Pure'. And, frankly, I prefer magic users (Even if the ECL will hurt a spellcaster). So, Forget a Drizzt clone.

And, Kreynolds, you never answered my question.

 

[kreynolds]

And, Kreynolds, you never answered my question.

Oh. Sorry about that. I completely missed it. Actually, I've never read Cunningham. Come to think of it, who is Cunningham?

To be honest, I'm not big on fantasy reading, more on fantasy writing (mostly to inspire the games I run). I'm pretty new to the fantasy genre of novels, so I don't have much exposure beyond Death of the Dragon (nice book) and Salvatore's work (haven't read the cleric series yet), oh yeah, and Paul Kidd's Queen of Lies (nice action book).

 

[Green Knight]

It's the clones that did it for me, though recently I've decided to give Drizzt a chance and order the first 2 trilogies from Sci-Fi Book Club (They loused up my original order a while back so I gotta re-order). The Drizzt clones, though. I got SOOOOO sick of them! One player I knew was so completely shameless in his rip-off. He actually DID play a Drow Ranger of Mielikki with 2 scimitars and a panther. Another one was more original, and played a Wood Elf Fighter/Thief with 2 katanas. Still annoying, though.

Not to mention everyone telling me how bad-ass Drizzt was. You know how tiring it gets when you got several people talking about a character's ability to kick ass as if that were the end-all and be-all of his character? All that's worth considering? Don Quixote wasn't exactly a great knight, but he's an INFINITELY superior character to Drizzt.

Anyway, like I said I'll be getting the books. Decided to divorce my feelings of the Drizzt clones from the character and give the books a try. I'm not expecting great literature, but I've found some Forgotten Realms to be pretty entertaining. I'm hoping for the same when it comes to Drizzt.

 

[Melkor Lord Of ALL!]

I am not a big fan of Drizzt, but I really like The Drow Society, agressive matriarchy is so perversive!

 

[Leopold]

when i was 16 i liked drizzt. he seemed like a very interesting character, always managing to save the day yet never getting respect (Jabber-jaw: No respect I tell ya!) that he desreved.

Now many years, fanboy adaptations, and novels later I have become over saturated with drizzt and the drow themselves. I used to love them. The GDQ series is the best series out there hands down. Noone can touch them for playability, modularity, and overall fun. Now the thrill is gone and all we are left with now is a watered down version of the drow, a hero that can't be killed, and who is guilt ridden and angry all the time for god knows how long. Hello, it's called therapy, someone give it to him so he can move on with life. I think RAS should just take all the material that says "Drizzt furrows his brow" and copy and paste into a 10 part series..that should kill the market.


Drizzt is overated, his abilities are ungodly, and he should be dead 10 times over but someone lives on. Is he a hero? Some may say, but I sure don't think so.

 

[Xarlen]

Death of the Dragon was pretty good, since Azoun dies and all. I liked the fact the creatures had to be Forgiven. Makes it hard to hate them, if they want retrobution. Though, 'Beyond the High Road' is the book before that, that tells the story of the seven creatures coming.

Elaine Cunningham. I think she's done a fabulous job with the Harper series. Elfshadow, Elfsong, Silver Shadows, Dream Spheres, and Thorn Hold. One of her characters, in the first four books, is Elaith Craulnober. A moon elf who is pretty much what it means to be a villain while being smooth, slick, and cunning. An evil elf who's trying slowly to reform himself.

I recommend her. Mel Odem is all right; his Threat from the Sea trilogy was good, if you can stand the main character's angst, but his newest book is dribble. The Sembia books are all right, but good prevails so hard it's annoying.

Ah well, there is my suggestions, Kreynolds, if you ever feel the need to read more fantasy in FR. Dream Spheres is a nice city based book, and I like city adventures.

Sorry to hijack the thread. We now return you to your regularly programmed Drizzt-bashing.

 

[Sepulchrave II]

Who?

I've never played in FR.
I've never read any books by Salvatore. I started one. Once. I can't remember what it was called, but I put it down after the first page. I like cliched, hack, pulp sci-fi and fantasy, but this was just...bland and mediocre.

I'd never even heard of Driz'zt until I started frequenting these boards.


Apparently, he is misliked.

 

[MaxKaladin]

It's the clones that did it for me, though recently I've decided to give Drizzt a chance and order the first 2 trilogies from Sci-Fi Book Club (They loused up my original order a while back so I gotta re-order). The Drizzt clones, though. I got SOOOOO sick of them! One player I knew was so completely shameless in his rip-off. He actually DID play a Drow Ranger of Mielikki with 2 scimitars and a panther. Another one was more original, and played a Wood Elf Fighter/Thief with 2 katanas. Still annoying, though.

Not to mention everyone telling me how bad-ass Drizzt was. You know how tiring it gets when you got several people talking about a character's ability to kick ass as if that were the end-all and be-all of his character? All that's worth considering? Don Quixote wasn't exactly a great knight, but he's an INFINITELY superior character to Drizzt.

That pretty much sums up my feelings on the matter. I don't hate Drizzt, but I'm so sick and disgusted with the copycats and the fanboys. With the copycats, its partially the lack of originality, but a lot of it has to do how they think I and others will be stupid enough to buy it when they make an angst ridden "good" drow ranger with twin scimitars and a panther companion and try to insist he's completely original and is nothing like nor inspired by Drizzt.

With the fanboys, it's all the fact that so many of them can't seem to see past how "bad-ass" he is. Or at least won't talk about anything else about him. He may not be the deepest character ever created, but there's more to him than that.