So I just read an article about an upcoming Neverwinter Nights game, the series of which is heavily based on D and D, and part of the writing will come from New York Times bestselling fantasy author, R A Salvatore, creator of the heinously named and terribly cliche character, Drizzt Do Urden.

Normally, I'd just let something that bothers me slide. But as a fan of RPGs, and some fantasy literature, I can't turn my head without being eye-[censored] by the incredibly annoying name of this poorly conceptualized and ever present character. Every website, magazine article, and wikipedia page having anything to do with fantasy mentions this travesty at least once.

He's the only good member of his race. He's got a mysterious past, is an undefeated dualist, and wields magical weapons, named Twinkle and Icingdeath. Twinkle. And. Icingdeath. If someone tried to kill me with a sword called Twinkle, I'd laugh at him until he went away.

The more I learn about him, the more I hate him. Not least of which is for his popularity. I can only picture legions of pimply 15 year olds struggling to bathe and thinking "I wish I was as cool as my hero Drizzt."

It all just sounds like a hackneyed character from a version of fantasy I hate, something akin to Tolkien wrapped in Saturday morning cartoons and written by a man so steeped in the money of idiots that he takes his bloated imaginary world seriously.

I imagine 90% of the people reading this are talking in Jim Gaffigan's voice and saying "Hey, I like the Icewind Dale series." Maybe some of you will get defensive. I respect your right to enjoy it. Just know that you are reading a boy's fantasy version of Twilight.

If adolescent males are the target audience, and there's nothing you can do about that other than read something else and play something else (although, with videogames, you tend to run into the same problems).

PS: You can kill him in BG if you like.

Because Twilight is real? :blink:

Also, it's amazing to see how badly one person can so ignorantly say someone is a...uhhh... oh here, "pimply 15 year olds struggling to bathe and thinking "I wish I was as cool as my hero Drizzt." " , and that everything they may like is completely stupid. Sort of sad actually :shrug:

:blink:

Look, I know of the character, don't like the character, and that's it. That's as far as it goes.

By letting Drizzt get to you, Drizzt wins.

You're entitled to your opinion. That's all I'm saying cuz I'm not getting into a flame-war with someone over a literary character.

R.A. Salvatore is a good author.

Drizzt isn't a Mary Sue. R.A. Salvatore can actually write. His plots don't wind themselves around petty, trivial cravings. No, that is not a "boy's fantasy version of Twilight".
But what am I doing here, haters gonna hate, I can say whatever I want. ^_^

Salvatore's best book, Vector Prime. Read it, nao.

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