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Message: <blockquote data-quote="William drake" data-source="post: 3353492" data-attributes="member: 49143">Drizzt!!!!!!!!! who cares how his name is spelt, I could call him "perfect Drow" and it work just the same.I hate "Perfect Drow" just like I hate everyother pulp-made fantasy garbage that is spewed out every few cycles. Its simple and ease and filled with way to many verbs, and action-words; and you can't just lump "perfect Drow" in with Conan, because Conana was writen by a few different writers, and only a few of those stories were good as well. The bad writers did the same thing that Salv does: loading your hero down with ego, outcast but in a cool, Im not wrong way, ya know "they dont get me", two swords, DAY WALKER. I think people have issues with when you make a weakenss around a race, and then you make one guy who doesn't have it, and that guy always turns out to be the GOOD GUY...not what youd think. The one evil drow who's not afraid of the light, or hurt by it, soe he instead uses it to kill his rivals and take on those who live beyond his borders. Kill and dominate all humans an dwarves and other races alike.But it's not just "perfect drow" all of R.A's charcters are the steroytype pulp that people who know nothing else read, its what they except and enjoy. I say that these charcters are 2 dimensions, and therefore, arn't really real, they are as empty as the paper they are writen on. Their pefections and verb-beaten attack combos bore me or shun me away from them to the point that I don't relate or care about them. reading about them is like playing a video game, but in this I'm not playing, I'm just watching as for 200 or more plages the hero wale on anything moving. Now I know there's alot of talking, but I just don't care about it, its typical, and boreing.But, inspite of it all, I don't Blame R.A, he writes what most D&D players are after: weapons, armor, gold, the powers, and to min-max their heros untill they are perfect mulitraced beings that should crash in on themselves becasue of the amount of reality they is bending around them by theirow existence. These are the characters that reality wishes to spit out or vomit up but the DM won't allow it because the guy whos a halfdark elf, half dragon, with two swords, and four arms, who can fly and breath fire, and is a 20th level wizard is two awesom to kill.These are R.A's readers, and I have a feeling that he pumps it out becuse readers read it. As for "the perfect elf" I will have respect for him when he dies. Every GOOD hero, needs to die, if they don't, then they lose that bit of tragedy and mortality that follows all great heros. As long as he keeps winning, he will never be good enough for me.Another question that I've always thought "wouldnt all, or most of the drow, make it a personal mission to kill the one who's turned against them? Wouldn't 'The perfect Drow' be constantly hunted by lords of his ownrace who can equip and train legions of specialzied fighters to track him and kill him, even daylight cant be too much of a prob if you've got all the money to just by all the gear you need to ignore sunlight?"I keep my list high: Beowolf "and hes not the lame ass barbarian in R.A's stories"                          Elric *a real evil elf*                          Muad Di`b "from the Dune Series"and others, just to name a few. R.A's work just doesn't cut it.</blockquote>

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