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<blockquote data-quote="Rechan" data-source="post: 4414517" data-attributes="member: 54846">Guy the OP was quoting here.I meant shoot Drizzt in the face with a gun that fires badgers, not kill off all drow. My introduction into Fantasy was &quot;The Crystal Shard&quot;. I read the Drizzt series through &quot;Servant of the Shard&quot;. I had read far too many of the books before Drizzt's &quot;stoic angst of a good, wonderful, rainbow-crapping peacenik goodie two-shoes&quot; struck me. I could no longer get through those sap-saturated essays without a shot of whiskey. Never wrong, never hurt, never makes a mistake. The guy touched a unicorn for God's sake; I expected the next novel involved him walking on water. His whole issue of &quot;Wandering the world as an outcaste&quot; also seems a little off, given that there's this goddess called Eilistrae who has a whole gaggle of Good Drow that Drizzt could just go hang out with, but that would kill his &quot;Snowflake&quot; cred. And the Drow race has gotten a bit... played out. They got too popular, too over-exposed, and have really lost their luster. Now they come off as the &quot;Too Cool for School&quot; bad &quot;Oh I'm so eeeevil&quot; type.Sidenote: It's funny. I actually did make a Drow character for a freeform game. Except that he was a right nasty bastard. And he was using an illusion spell to pose as a blind surface elf, because he was on the run for murdering several priestesses.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Rechan, post: 4414517, member: 54846"] Guy the OP was quoting here. I meant shoot Drizzt in the face with a gun that fires badgers, not kill off all drow. My introduction into Fantasy was "The Crystal Shard". I read the Drizzt series through "Servant of the Shard". I had read far too many of the books before Drizzt's "stoic angst of a good, wonderful, rainbow-crapping peacenik goodie two-shoes" struck me. I could no longer get through those sap-saturated essays without a shot of whiskey. Never wrong, never hurt, never makes a mistake. The guy touched a [I]unicorn[/I] for God's sake; I expected the next novel involved him walking on water. His whole issue of "Wandering the world as an outcaste" also seems a little off, given that there's this goddess called Eilistrae who has a whole gaggle of Good Drow that Drizzt could just go hang out with, but that would kill his "Snowflake" cred. And the Drow race has gotten a bit... played out. They got too popular, too over-exposed, and have really lost their luster. Now they come off as the "Too Cool for School" bad "Oh I'm so eeeevil" type. Sidenote: It's funny. I actually did make a Drow character for a freeform game. Except that he was a right nasty bastard. And he was using an illusion spell to pose as a blind surface elf, because he was on the run for murdering several priestesses. [/QUOTE]

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