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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
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 Posted - 04 Jul 2005 : 20:06:58
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Well, who knows? Sure, the stated intent is to stick with non-big name authors, and Undermountain has certainly seen a lot of coverage (including a horrible novel).
But...
The Cities series has featured some non-big name authors. And Waterdeep is the most covered place in all the Realms. But we've still got the Waterdeep novel coming out from Ed and Elaine. |
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Reefy
Senior Scribe
United Kingdom
892 Posts |
Posted - 05 Jul 2005 : 00:23:13
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| Sounds interesting, could also have plenty of potential for adventuring companies to feature, which I have to say I'd like to see more of. |
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Erik Scott de Bie
Forgotten Realms Author
USA
4598 Posts |
Posted - 05 Jul 2005 : 05:47:01
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*Cough* *Cough* I really shouldn't say anything else. I REALLY shouldn't. *Cough*
Tiny, wee details per my understanding (not necessarily official):
1) each novel does indeed focus, in some respect, on a particular dungeon, which need not necessarily be one previously covered in Realmslore;
2) Undermountain, to my knowledge, is not necessarily out of the running. All I can say is, well, I am not writing about it.
All of that said, I have no idea what other dungeons are going to be focused upon, whether they're old, new, known, or unknown -- only my own.
And having said that, I'm not going to say anything about my own dungeon of choice, or the characters, or anything else. Kinda that NDA thingy.
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Erik Scott de Bie
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Alaundo
Head Moderator
United Kingdom
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Posted - 05 Jul 2005 : 08:48:42
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Originally posted by Erik Scott de Bie
*Cough* *Cough* I really shouldn't say anything else. I REALLY shouldn't. *Cough*
Tiny, wee details per my understanding (not necessarily official):
1) each novel does indeed focus, in some respect, on a particular dungeon, which need not necessarily be one previously covered in Realmslore;
2) Undermountain, to my knowledge, is not necessarily out of the running. All I can say is, well, I am not writing about it.
All of that said, I have no idea what other dungeons are going to be focused upon, whether they're old, new, known, or unknown -- only my own.
And having said that, I'm not going to say anything about my own dungeon of choice, or the characters, or anything else. Kinda that NDA thingy.
Cheers
Well met
Oh, this NDA thing is over-rated. Worry not, Erik, feel free to spill the beans  Seriously, many thanks for this information, it's greatly appreciated and i'm quite excited about this series. Just a shame it is limited to a set number of novels. It would have been nice to have been ongoing (as would the Cities series), like the Harpers series and cover many of the dungeons of the Realms.
Hmmmmm, perhaps we should open up a new scroll on The Dungeons if any wish to discuss further  |
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SiriusBlack
Great Reader
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Posted - 05 Jul 2005 : 11:57:08
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Originally posted by Alaundo
Hmmmmm, perhaps we should open up a new scroll on The Dungeons if any wish to discuss further
I'll second that idea. |
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Jindael
Senior Scribe
USA
357 Posts |
Posted - 05 Jul 2005 : 12:26:15
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This is fantastic news! I rather like the concept of having Dungeons being a theme. It has a lot of appeal and a lot of potential for great realmslore.
And special congrats to Smyther for successfully predicting the next series. Got a line on some Lottery numbers for me? |
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Erik Scott de Bie
Forgotten Realms Author
USA
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Posted - 05 Jul 2005 : 17:54:22
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Originally posted by SiriusBlack
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Originally posted by Alaundo
Hmmmmm, perhaps we should open up a new scroll on The Dungeons if any wish to discuss further
I'll second that idea.
That is a grand idea -- not sure how much info you'll get, since as far as I know I'm the only one who's announced a novel in the Dungeons (I think I'm one of the first in that series), and I'm staying fairly quiet about it, seeing as how it's such a long way off.
But speculation and rumor and whatnot is always fun. Go for it!
Cheers |
Erik Scott de Bie
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Author of a number of Realms novels (GHOSTWALKER, DEPTHS OF MADNESS, and the SHADOWBANE series), contributor to the NEVERWINTER CAMPAIGN GUIDE and SHADOWFELL: GLOOMWROUGHT AND BEYOND, Twitch DM of the Dungeon Scrawlers, currently playing "The Westgate Irregulars" |
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Alaundo
Head Moderator
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Posted - 05 Jul 2005 : 18:37:35
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Originally posted by Erik Scott de Bie
That is a grand idea -- not sure how much info you'll get, since as far as I know I'm the only one who's announced a novel in the Dungeons (I think I'm one of the first in that series), and I'm staying fairly quiet about it, seeing as how it's such a long way off.
But speculation and rumor and whatnot is always fun. Go for it!
Cheers
Well met. 'tis done. I hereby present the new discussion scroll. |
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koz
Seeker
USA
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Posted - 23 Jan 2007 : 08:04:52
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| I voted ranger. I doubt that there will be any further novels based on class though. Not that I wouldn't like there to be. I have noticed that the four class series cover the basic adventuring party. Usually there is a fighter, priest/cleric, thief, and wizard. I don't know if this was WOTC plan or not but it seems like since that was the original party formation that maybe the class series will have come to an end. I hope I am wrong. I think there are a lot of stories to be told about the other classes. |
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DragonReader
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USA
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Posted - 24 Jan 2007 : 14:49:35
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| I wouldn't mind seeing a Barbarians series. As for the other category. How about Pirates? |
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Kiaransalyn
Senior Scribe
United Kingdom
762 Posts |
Posted - 24 Jan 2007 : 15:13:58
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Originally posted by Alisttair
Ok so we had the Rogues series and the Priests series. We will be getting the Fighters and then the Wizards. Which class series do you want to see most come afterwards??
The Adepts.
I voted for others. As I'd quite like to see a book or two focussing on adepts. I've been thinking abut a story about how a goblin adept strives to protect his tribe from predations of more civilised races for some time. |
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Rinonalyrna Fathomlin
Great Reader
USA
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Posted - 24 Jan 2007 : 22:54:57
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I think some classes got lumped in with the "basic" classes that had a series named after them--for example, Son of Thunder features barbarians even though the series it is placed in is called "The Fighters".
And I have to agree that it's unlikely there will be any more "class novels" anytime soon. |
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Victor_ograygor
Master of Realmslore
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Rinonalyrna Fathomlin
Great Reader
USA
7106 Posts |
Posted - 25 Jan 2007 : 02:01:43
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Originally posted by Victor_ograygor
Personally, I’d like to see a focus on Bards.
A Rogues novel--specifically The Yellow Silk--features a protagonist bard. |
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quajack
Seeker
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Posted - 26 Jan 2007 : 22:25:25
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I may be alone here, but I'd love to see a stand alone novel that doesn't belong to any series. One that just, you know, stands alone. Imagine buying a FR book with unique graphics and fonts on its spine.
It could sit on your book shelf along with other oddities such as The Shadow Stone, Once Around the Realms, and The Glass Prison. |
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MerrikCale
Senior Scribe
USA
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Posted - 27 Jan 2007 : 02:18:46
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| My hope is ranger. But I'm not sure if there is enough diversity to explore a group of novels. |
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scererar
Master of Realmslore
USA
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Posted - 27 Jan 2007 : 03:46:45
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| Since WOTC has done the 4 main core classes, it might be cool to branch out into others. How about paladin. ranger would also be cool. |
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Ergdusch
Master of Realmslore
Germany
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Posted - 27 Jan 2007 : 10:38:55
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I doubt that we will see any other class novels at all, actually! The other classes are too similar in one way or the other with the classes that we have read about so far that I see little interest personally to read about them...... so I voted others.
Of course we all know by now that it will be 'Dungeons'. So who will start the next poll - with dungeons and cities published or in the works, what will be next? Oceans, Lands, Mountains or even Forests?
Than again, the next serie might focus on something totally different again, such as RACES! That'd be great, truth to be told, getting some insight to the underrepresented and often forgotten short folks, dwarves nad halflings! Wouldn't you agree??? 
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Murray Leeder
Forgotten Realms Author
Canada
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Posted - 27 Jan 2007 : 15:57:12
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Originally posted by Rinonalyrna Fathomlin
I think some classes got lumped in with the "basic" classes that had a series named after them--for example, Son of Thunder features barbarians even though the series it is placed in is called "The Fighters".
And I have to agree that it's unlikely there will be any more "class novels" anytime soon.
In fact, my recollection of the events is that I was invited to do "the barbarian novel" for the Fighters series, which turned out to be Son of Thunder. So I think barbarians were intended to be dealt with in that series from the beginning, just as there was a bard novel in the Rogues. |
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Acolyte
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Posted - 27 Jan 2007 : 21:25:34
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Originally posted by Ergdusch
I doubt that we will see any other class novels at all, actually! The other classes are too similar in one way or the other with the classes that we have read about so far that I see little interest personally to read about them...... so I voted others.
Of course we all know by now that it will be 'Dungeons'. So who will start the next poll - with dungeons and cities published or in the works, what will be next? Oceans, Lands, Mountains or even Forests?
Than again, the next serie might focus on something totally different again, such as RACES! That'd be great, truth to be told, getting some insight to the underrepresented and often forgotten short folks, dwarves nad halflings! Wouldn't you agree???
I would really like to see druids, im a big fan of the class and think they would make good stand alone books. And i was just about to say something about the lack(and by lack i mean none)of books about dwarves and its sad seeing as they are one of funniers more charismatic races and everyone loves them. |
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Erik Scott de Bie
Forgotten Realms Author
USA
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Posted - 28 Jan 2007 : 00:42:04
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Originally posted by Victor_ograygor
Personally, I’d like to see a focus on Bards.
. . .
And I would like to see some high level Npc in Forgotten Realms, form novels and other sources
It's a Fighters novel, I know, but a high level bard named Dharan Greyt is a VIC ("very important character") in Ghostwalker.
I've often heard that he's the best or, at least, most developed character in the novel.
Music is actually quite important to that novel.
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Erik Scott de Bie
'Tis easier to destroy than to create.
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Dargoth
Great Reader
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Posted - 30 Jan 2007 : 04:52:45
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Books on any of the following classes: Bard, Monk or Knight
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Archwizard
Learned Scribe
USA
266 Posts |
Posted - 07 Feb 2007 : 00:16:53
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I'm going to be weird and say: Psychics/Psionicists
Covering Psions, Psionic Warriors, Soulknives, Wilders, etc. |
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Rinonalyrna Fathomlin
Great Reader
USA
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Posted - 07 Feb 2007 : 18:31:01
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The House of Serpents trilogy isn't about psionics, but it features several psionicists and a lot of psionic use. And besides that, it's a great trilogy.
Anyway, I don't think psionics are common enough in the Realms to warrant a whole series about the subject the way the more "normal" classes did. |
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Wooly Rupert
Master of Mischief
USA
36779 Posts |
Posted - 07 Feb 2007 : 20:07:30
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Originally posted by Rinonalyrna Fathomlin
Anyway, I don't think psionics are common enough in the Realms to warrant a whole series about the subject the way the more "normal" classes did.
Not only that, but there's also the perception that psionics is more sci-fi than fantasy. Right or wrong, I can see this perception weighing heavily on the decision of whether or not to do a psionics series. |
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Victor_ograygor
Master of Realmslore
Denmark
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Posted - 07 Feb 2007 : 20:49:54
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Originally posted by Erik Scott de Bie
quote:
Originally posted by Victor_ograygor
Personally, I’d like to see a focus on Bards.
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And I would like to see some high level Npc in Forgotten Realms, form novels and other sources
It's a Fighters novel, I know, but a high level bard named Dharan Greyt is a VIC ("very important character") in Ghostwalker.
I've often heard that he's the best or, at least, most developed character in the novel.
Music is actually quite important to that novel.
Cheers
Okay are there any other places were I can find information on this man: Dharan Greyt |
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Archwizard
Learned Scribe
USA
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Posted - 08 Feb 2007 : 05:19:42
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Originally posted by Wooly Rupert
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Originally posted by Rinonalyrna Fathomlin
Anyway, I don't think psionics are common enough in the Realms to warrant a whole series about the subject the way the more "normal" classes did.
Not only that, but there's also the perception that psionics is more sci-fi than fantasy. Right or wrong, I can see this perception weighing heavily on the decision of whether or not to do a psionics series.
I'm just tossing it out there. The OP did ask what classes you wanted to see as a novel series next. I know psionics is too niche to really warrant even a full novel focused on it let alone a series of four. However, psionics is the next big category after the four classic D&D archetypes; after martial, skill, divine and arcane, the next most established other source of ability/power is psionics.
I'll definitely acknowledge the sci-fi spin on psionics with their use of pop-psychology and pseudoscientific terms, but I usually give psionics an eastern fantasy spin in my own campaigns, which is what we see with a lot of psionic materials nowadays. I would like to say that stranger things have happened, though in this case that probably doesn't apply. |
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Kajehase
Great Reader
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Posted - 08 Feb 2007 : 15:29:40
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Originally posted by Victor_ograygor
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Originally posted by Erik Scott de Bie
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Originally posted by Victor_ograygor
Personally, I’d like to see a focus on Bards.
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And I would like to see some high level Npc in Forgotten Realms, form novels and other sources
It's a Fighters novel, I know, but a high level bard named Dharan Greyt is a VIC ("very important character") in Ghostwalker.
I've often heard that he's the best or, at least, most developed character in the novel.
Music is actually quite important to that novel.
Cheers
Okay are there any other places were I can find information on this man: Dharan Greyt
Well...apart from asking Eric, nope. |
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yargarth
Seeker
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Posted - 09 Feb 2007 : 05:43:31
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| I think, like many others, that an adventureing book would be good. There are so many refrences to pirates and pirate kings and yet there are none that i know of that have their own book. Drizzt had his run in with pirates a while back but they were not the main focus. |
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Zaknafein
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Posted - 09 Feb 2007 : 05:47:25
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| rangers would be pretty cool i would think. them or bards would be interesting |
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