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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SurgicalSteel" data-source="post: 240733" data-attributes="member: 5611">drow...Well, I have had a player play a drow (my brother), I forced him to use ECL, he wasn't good at fighting (he was a scout, and a good one).  Unfortunately, he wasn't good at finding traps and was incinerated on level 1 of Forge of Fury (a dungeon which deserves its name, and then some...another story for another time).So much for the drow, then he made a halfling.ECL crippled his character, and in my opinion, the cure is worse than the disease.  A fourth level character with 10 HPs...what a friggin joke.To Drizzt, and the discussion proper...I was into the realms when no-one was (when it first came out) because I was a new DM, and FR came out right when I started DMing.I am the first person I know of who read the book that started it all: the Crystal Shard.(I am not stating this to enhance myself, my point is that I was under no influence, it was totally obscure and unknown, I got the book because I was making FR "my world", and I liked Darkwalker on Moonshae")Drizzt was cool in 'Shard.He was a nice guy who could fight very well.He was the antithesis of a thug or bully.He was "human", fallable, but insightful and unpredictable.He was repeatedly almost killed in the first book [first by a Yeti (a friggin' Yeti?!, who even uses them?), then by a barbarian chieftain, then by a frost giant named "Biggrin", then by a unique demon, then by a wizard].All of the opponents in the story were interesting characters (which began to change in later books), he was mortal, and DANG!! was it exciting.Then...suddenly...Drizzt turned into an unkillable preaching freak.And THAT was when it got stupid.What do I say?Read the 'Shard, forget the rest.Most of my friends have come to that conclusion themselves, without my help.As my brother said, "Crystal Shard was a fluke.  When you look at everything else that Salvatore wrote, none were nearly as good, though there were some pretty good moments or scenes occasionally."His judgement was little more harsh than I was willing to make, but the substance is pretty much dead on, IMHO.</blockquote>

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