3catcircus
Adventurer
Razz said:It's getting ridiculous, honestly. I can't pick up a Realms novel without some RSE happening in it anymore. It's not even about the characters in the novels anymore, it's about them stopping, cushioning, or failing from stopping the RSE.
Isn't that something PCs in the Forgotten Realms GAME is supposed to be doing!?
If I don't read the novels, however, I'm lagging sorely behind in Realms lore only to pick up the next Realms sourcebook and find the whole setting turned upside-down. Thanks to the novels.
I like Realms novels that go more into the characters, the land, the people, and the history of the Realms. What these characters go through in reaction to the world, its dangers, and its joy. Not a novel that seeks to destroy those aspects before they can even be told!
It's as if Realms novels are turning FR into another Dragonlance. One cataclysmic catastrophe after the next, like atom bombs exploding in different portions of the Realms. (leaving Kara-Tur, Maztica, and Zhakara completely in ignorance of it all, too, places that really need more novels set in to attract more of an audience)
It is a matter of the "You got your novel in my RPG! *You* got your RPG in my novel!" issue. Bottom line - I don't want the RPG setting to have to conform to the novels. The novels should conform to the RPG setting.