What is your favorite thing about Drizzt or Elminster

[Oni]

I've read so many threads people have posted here over the years (wow, its been a while), and I've seen so many complaining about all the things that they dislike most about Drizzt and Elminster. Well I figure for my entertainment I'd post this question. What is it that you like most about Drizzt or Elminster? If you don't have something nice to say I would request that you refrain from posting to this thread since you have probably had plenty of opportunity already to voice your dislike. So lets here it, what is your favorite thing about Drizzt or Elminster?

 

[BiggusGeekus]

Drizzit: the hair. Groovy, retro 80's hair.

Elminster: he wears jeans (established in an older issue of dragon ~75 or so).

 

[rounser]

Elminster: His tower. The signs on the path leading up to it are amusing, and Elminster's Back Door is a fine little adventure. There was something funky about the pond, too, IIRC.

Drizzt: The fact that you can get his magical scimitars in the CRPG Baldurs Gate. Highly useful.

EDIT: This is not to imply that I don't like the characters themselves; I just found that the above characteristics added to my gaming the most.

 

[Balsamic Dragon]

Drizzt: a vague attempt at a black (or at least dark skinned) fantasy rolemodel. We need more of these.

Elminster: ummmm, I got nothing here...

Balsamic Dragon

 

[Darkness]

Elminster is kinda cool, everything considered, and can be quite useful as an NPC wizard - e.g., as a mentor, teacher or ally of the PCs.

(I'd tone him down a bit, though; something around Wiz7/Lor6/Acm1 sounds about right for low- to high-level campaigns... Also, most of his backstory isn't really necessary, either. )

 

[d12]

Elminster - in a world as big as the Forgotten Realms, with lots and lots of powerful individuals running around serving gods who aren't afriad to stick their noses in the world's affairs, it only makes sense that a being this powerful would pop up. In other words, what I like about Elminster is that he fits in with the seting very nicely and gives a personal face.

Drizzt - A hero of action who also thinks about the morality of his actions. A really amazing fighter who still encounters things too powerful for him to deal with by killing them (Hephastus, for example). The character that got me excited about D&D and taught me to think a little more outside the box back when my first PC was named "Link."

 

[Oni]

bump

 

[Flexor the Mighty!]

They fact that they are in the FR instead of Greyhawk. Elminster in the old Dragon articles was cool, but that was before he was a chosen of a god and six millions years old, and a former woman, etc....He was just a sage in some world that wasn't a game setting yet.

Drizz't - Uh...he's...uh...I'll get back to you.

 

[dagger]

Mainly I like that neither of them overshadow the PCs in any of the campaigns Ive ever run or been in going back to the grey box set.....(of course Drizzt wasnt around in the grey box, but you get my drift)

Guess that means it not the setting that makes it happen but the DMs.....what a concept!

I am kind of neutral on Drizzt, I like the dwarf a lot better personally. I guess because I just like dwarves a lot.

 

[jollyninja]

yup, i like drizzt because without him, my 2 favorite dwarves would never have existed. and my favorite realms assassin never would have seen print.

elminster. his hat was cool. i miss it. a powerful force of good who has seen horrible things and yet has not been jaded by them. why does he not do it instead of the pc's? he doesn't want to, that's why. he's an old man.

the two dwarves are Bruenor Battlehammer and Tibbeldorf Pwent if anyone was confused.