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<blockquote data-quote="Drowbane" data-source="post: 3948239" data-attributes="member: 23396"><p>My first exposure to the Realms was <em>Darkwalker on Moonshae</em>. Looking back I don't think it occured to me at the time that the FR were another setting for "that D&D game" I'd played a hand full of times with my older brother's group... a few years earlier.</p><p></p><p>Fast forward four years: I had my own (A)D&D (2e) group, a bookshelf full of FR (and Dragonlance, and non-D&D related fantasy) novels, and played exclusively FR mixed with a dash of Spelljammer and Planescape.</p><p></p><p>I've been a geek for fantasy as long as I can remember. I dimly recollect seeing some old kung fu movies (chinese sword & sorcery types) and was hooked from then on... I was probably 4-5yrs old. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite9" alt=":eek:" title="Eek! :eek:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":eek:" /> edit: probably why I never got the whole "get yer karate-men outta my fantasy!!"-thing. All hail Bo9S!</p><p></p><p>To date, I've read (nearly) every book Salvatore has written about everybody's favorite Drow Ranger. I've also played about half a dozen different Drow PCs (all in 2e... 3e was unkind to elves in general and to drow in particular). Most were some shade of Neutral or Evil... or both. The only Drizzt-clones I've ever seen were in Online RPGs. My single Good drow PC had issues, he waged a "holy war" on his own kind. One of my 2e DMs eventually declared him the "Chosen of Shevarash"... (not that he gave out any sort of mechanical benefit for it <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite7" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue :p" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":p" />)</p><p></p><p>Jhanus "drowbane" Nasadra (chose his drow family name from a list of such... sure it turns out that my "bloody pissed off inky-elf", as another PC put it, was a lost son of the 1st House of Ched Nasad)... it has been said that I can talk non-stop about this character... </p><p></p><p>edit: I haven't yet gotten around to reading the Thousand Orcs tril.</p><p></p><p>As to the rep of "gaming fiction"... The internet is chock full of worthless opinions on subject matter of all kinds... how is this any different?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Drowbane, post: 3948239, member: 23396"] My first exposure to the Realms was [I]Darkwalker on Moonshae[/I]. Looking back I don't think it occured to me at the time that the FR were another setting for "that D&D game" I'd played a hand full of times with my older brother's group... a few years earlier. Fast forward four years: I had my own (A)D&D (2e) group, a bookshelf full of FR (and Dragonlance, and non-D&D related fantasy) novels, and played exclusively FR mixed with a dash of Spelljammer and Planescape. I've been a geek for fantasy as long as I can remember. I dimly recollect seeing some old kung fu movies (chinese sword & sorcery types) and was hooked from then on... I was probably 4-5yrs old. :o edit: probably why I never got the whole "get yer karate-men outta my fantasy!!"-thing. All hail Bo9S! To date, I've read (nearly) every book Salvatore has written about everybody's favorite Drow Ranger. I've also played about half a dozen different Drow PCs (all in 2e... 3e was unkind to elves in general and to drow in particular). Most were some shade of Neutral or Evil... or both. The only Drizzt-clones I've ever seen were in Online RPGs. My single Good drow PC had issues, he waged a "holy war" on his own kind. One of my 2e DMs eventually declared him the "Chosen of Shevarash"... (not that he gave out any sort of mechanical benefit for it :p) Jhanus "drowbane" Nasadra (chose his drow family name from a list of such... sure it turns out that my "bloody pissed off inky-elf", as another PC put it, was a lost son of the 1st House of Ched Nasad)... it has been said that I can talk non-stop about this character... edit: I haven't yet gotten around to reading the Thousand Orcs tril. As to the rep of "gaming fiction"... The internet is chock full of worthless opinions on subject matter of all kinds... how is this any different? [/QUOTE]
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