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Matt James
Forgotten Realms Game Designer
USA
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 Posted - 25 Aug 2012 : 02:58:46
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Recent interview Bob did with the folks at Google.
http://loremaster.org/content.php?269-RA-Salvatore-Charon-s-Claw- Neverwinter-Saga-Book-III -Authors-at-Google
Bob talks about needing information for canon purposes and speaks about asking, anonymously, for information on Jarlaxle. I wonder if it was Candlekeep :biggrin:
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Edited by - Matt James on 25 Aug 2012 03:00:01
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Dark Wizard
Senior Scribe
USA
830 Posts |
Posted - 25 Aug 2012 : 04:04:08
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| This is a great interview. Almost not really an interview format, more a monologue, which is even more information. Thanks for sharing this, Matt. |
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Caolin
Senior Scribe
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Posted - 25 Aug 2012 : 04:46:49
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| Wow, this guy is just a natural story teller. Makes sense that his novels are so great. |
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Matt James
Forgotten Realms Game Designer
USA
918 Posts |
Posted - 25 Aug 2012 : 14:02:07
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| He gave out a lot of juicy nuggets as well. Bob's a great guy. If you ever get to a convention that he'll be at, you'll find him very approachable and kind. |
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Markustay
Realms Explorer extraordinaire
USA
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Posted - 25 Aug 2012 : 17:42:40
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Wow, its getting harder and harder to dislike people. I may have to go hangout on some Twilight forums just to keep my hate-ometer high. 
So the same books that got him hooked on reading got me hooked (The Hobbit and LotR), and he also drove a Cougar (mine was a '68 - the car of the year - so I edge him out on that one). Scary how I have more in-common with him then I would have ever thought. He names all the same series I was reading at about the same time (then again, anyone our age still into the genre was probably reading those).
I think his initial response of "I don't" was probably more honest then he meant to be (I won't say to which question, because I am sure most of us here caught it). He is completely honest about not knowing the canon (which is great), and his explantion for it makes perfect sense (no-one could possibly know ALL the canon surrounding prolific IP's like FR or SW).
He seems like a pretty cool guy, and I appreciate his candor. Good stuff - thanks for posting the link. |
"I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me" --- Dudley Field Malone
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BEAST
Master of Realmslore
USA
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Tamsar
Learned Scribe
United Kingdom
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Posted - 26 Aug 2012 : 14:38:10
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For the record, my inventory of Jarlaxle's kit could probably outdo all those wiki guys'!
Whose to say yours wasn't the one mentioned! :) |
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
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Thauranil
Master of Realmslore
India
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Posted - 26 Aug 2012 : 15:50:30
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| Cool video. thanks for sharing. |
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Ryan
Acolyte
USA
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Posted - 26 Aug 2012 : 18:30:42
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| Ya, that was pretty awesome. Just adds to what I already liked about him, great guy. |
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BEAST
Master of Realmslore
USA
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Posted - 26 Aug 2012 : 23:26:12
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Originally posted by Tamsar
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Originally posted by BEAST
For the record, my inventory of Jarlaxle's kit could probably outdo all those wiki guys'!
Whose to say yours wasn't the one mentioned! :)
Heheh. You might be onto something there . . .
He says that he used wiki's (presumably wikipedia) to help him out when writing Servant of the Shard, published in 2000. But technically, wikipedia didn't come out until 2001. So actually, I think he may have used my inventory from his own message board more recently, to refresh his memory for Promise of the Witch-King (2005) and Road of the Patriarch (2006).
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"'You don't know my history,' he said dryly."
--Drizzt Do'Urden (The Pirate King, Part 1: Chapter 2)
<"Comprehensive Chronology of R.A. Salvatore Forgotten Realms Works"> |
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Great RA Salvatore video
