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<blockquote data-quote="hawkeyefan" data-source="post: 7139790" data-attributes="member: 6785785">Cool, thanks! I had a rough idea of some of that, but never read the books. Sounds kind of like the story of a PC in a lot of ways....a slow steady progression of power and escalating risks and threats. I've read a good number of the Drizzt novels, and they are similar. Drizzt never saves the world in the earlier novels....he usually is only saving himself and/or his friends. The original trilogy is very similar to a D7D campaign in my view....they do wind up saving Ten Towns at the end of the first book. Later they reclaim Bruenor's ancestral home from the drow. Things like that. I don't know about some of the later novels.....but Drizzt's life within the fictional world has a very small scope. He's not known worldwide or anything like that. I actually thought that was one of the things that was handled really well....his reputation grows a bit over time, but still nothing out of line with what you'd expect.I know Elminster is certainly more involved in the major Realms shake up type stories. I think most notably the Avatar Trilogy. But even in that, his role is really more of a support character. A big part of the plot is thatthe main characters are accused of killing Elminster when it appears he is killed. Of course, he turns out to be okay, and shows up later on, but still, the story is that of the main characters. I don;t know how the plot of the associated modules was....my bet is that he is used more forcefully in those, but I never read them.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="hawkeyefan, post: 7139790, member: 6785785"] Cool, thanks! I had a rough idea of some of that, but never read the books. Sounds kind of like the story of a PC in a lot of ways....a slow steady progression of power and escalating risks and threats. I've read a good number of the Drizzt novels, and they are similar. Drizzt never saves the world in the earlier novels....he usually is only saving himself and/or his friends. The original trilogy is very similar to a D7D campaign in my view....they do wind up saving Ten Towns at the end of the first book. Later they reclaim Bruenor's ancestral home from the drow. Things like that. I don't know about some of the later novels.....but Drizzt's life within the fictional world has a very small scope. He's not known worldwide or anything like that. I actually thought that was one of the things that was handled really well....his reputation grows a bit over time, but still nothing out of line with what you'd expect. I know Elminster is certainly more involved in the major Realms shake up type stories. I think most notably the Avatar Trilogy. But even in that, his role is really more of a support character. A big part of the plot is thatthe main characters are accused of killing Elminster when it appears he is killed. Of course, he turns out to be okay, and shows up later on, but still, the story is that of the main characters. I don;t know how the plot of the associated modules was....my bet is that he is used more forcefully in those, but I never read them. [/QUOTE]

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