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Faraer
Great Reader
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 Posted - 04 Aug 2008 : 00:04:08
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Let's compare the current Realms novels approach, tying all the fiction to a single advancing 'present' -- if indeed that's it, since the book editors themselves haven't commented -- with the handling of other shared worlds, such as the multiple parallel eras of the Star Wars Expanded Universe.
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Jamallo Kreen
Master of Realmslore
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Posted - 04 Aug 2008 : 02:13:03
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Why the chosen headline, Faraer? Was there some pronunciamento from Hasbro about this? If so, that clanging sound you'll soon hear will be my wallet slamming shut, never to open aagain for any of Hasbro's "Realms" books after Paul Kemp's next Erevis Cale novel.
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Skeptic
Master of Realmslore
Canada
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Posted - 04 Aug 2008 : 02:14:59
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I'm not sure we'll never see fiction happening before the Spellplague, after all WoTC published KoMT triology.
Some flashbacks or short stories are quite possible IMHO. |
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Blueblade
Senior Scribe
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Posted - 04 Aug 2008 : 02:41:26
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Flashbacks and short stories are both possible, yes, I agree.
However, I believe someone heard a Wizards employee at a recent convention say that Ed and Bob were the only likely exceptions to the "new fiction all in the new-era Realms" rule.
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Faraer
Great Reader
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Posted - 04 Aug 2008 : 04:06:39
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Originally posted by Jamallo Kreen
Why the chosen headline, Faraer? Was there some pronunciamento from Hasbro about this?
For the benefit of the viewer, until this post, the subject of this thread was 'No more Realms fiction before the Spellplague'. I just added the question mark to avoid this confusion: there's been no definite announcement, just a few comments that make it seem likely. |
Edited by - Faraer on 04 Aug 2008 05:25:03 |
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
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Posted - 04 Aug 2008 : 05:05:36
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Considering WotC's track record for Realms fiction, I don't expect to see much more that's set pre-Sellplague.
And as much as I hate the Sellplague, I agree with that decision. As I've stated more than once, I've long felt that a failing of the Dragginglance setting was the fact that if Weis & Hickman weren't doing the War of the Lance or its spinoffs, nothing ever happened in the setting. It stagnated. Rather than explore new tales and new lands, they kept going sideways (into the pasts of the Companions) or backwards, to various points in the past that may or may not have any bearing on the present.
I disagree with every aspect of the Sellplague, but I want to see the setting keep moving forward (assuming I continue to follow it). The occasional side-trip into the past is welcome, but I think those should remain both occasional and side-trips. |
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Na-Gang
Learned Scribe
United Kingdom
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Posted - 04 Aug 2008 : 08:07:27
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Rinonalyrna Fathomlin
Great Reader
USA
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Posted - 04 Aug 2008 : 17:34:15
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| I haven't seen any specific statement from WotC saying they'd never do any novels set in the past, but I'm not holding my breath for them. From a business standpoint, I can understand why pre-Spellplague novels would be rare (if they get written at all!), but as a Realms fan, it does sadden me. |
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Hawkins
Great Reader
USA
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Posted - 04 Aug 2008 : 18:12:40
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| And I seem to remember Rich saying on the WotC forums that books would at least primarily be set post-Spellplague... |
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Kuje
Great Reader
USA
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Posted - 04 Aug 2008 : 20:15:08
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Originally posted by HawkinstheDM
And I seem to remember Rich saying on the WotC forums that books would at least primarily be set post-Spellplague...
As do I. :) |
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Aulduron
Learned Scribe
USA
343 Posts |
Posted - 06 Aug 2008 : 16:46:01
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Hawkins
Great Reader
USA
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Posted - 06 Aug 2008 : 17:31:02
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Originally posted by Aulduron
I was really hoping for some ancient history books, about the Crown Wars, beholders running Calimsham, or when dragons and giants ruled the world.
You're not the only one, and depending sales of various books, we may yet get them (but I am not holding my breath; lately WotC has shown itself to have taken Ability Drain to Intelligence, Wisdom, and Charisma). |
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Alaundo
Head Moderator
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Hawkins
Great Reader
USA
2131 Posts |
Posted - 06 Aug 2008 : 20:28:11
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Originally posted by Alaundo
Well met
I suppose a book on the return of Bane is out of the question then?!
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That event confused the hell out me when I first picked up the 3e FRCG. The last I knew (novel-wise) is that he was dead. And all of a sudden, boom! He's baaaack! |
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Jamallo Kreen
Master of Realmslore
USA
1537 Posts |
Posted - 16 Aug 2008 : 01:28:33
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I'm just finishing up the end of "The Threat From the Sea" quartet (trilogy plus anthology), and I find that there is still a vast range of Realms history and extant Realms fiction to keep me going for a long, long time. That said, I iterate: after Paul Kemp's next Erevis Cale book and (possibly) the first aboleth book (what's it called?), I will not be buying any new Realms fiction. I've had so many questions about aboleths crash against Otiluke's Impenetrable NDA Screen that I do want to see if that series is worth the years of frustration which I've endured trying to find out more about the blasted things; if it doesn't catch my fancy vis-a-vis aboleth history and physiology, though, *pop* back on the shelf it goes.
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No more Realms fiction before the Spellplague?
