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Link to the Wasteland! Mua-ha-ha! Bought a book. Was awesome.

What sort of personality does he have?

I always imagined him to be Mooshi.

and copy/paste from that link....


*****
I went to Borders downtown to buy RA Salvatore's latest
Artemis book and get it signed. Really cool. He didn't read from
his book, but he answered questions and talked about future things.

- he's in a game studio as creative director with Mcfarlane as
art director, and Schilling as CEO or something. He said he wants
their first project to be a MMORPG because that's where he sees
fantasy fiction heading. It's called Green Monster games.

- the next Drzzt book is written and should be out next year maybe
October/November but hopefully by August if they'd let him release
then.

- Artemis vs. Drzzt : someone already won that fight at
the end of Silent Blade, he says, but he also loves to listen to
people argue about it.

- he likes that Drzzt has become an RPG cliche, and he talked about
jokes online that make fun of Drzzt clones, and Drzzt clones he
sees running by in Everquest and Everquest 2.

- he hates that all Drow seem to be good these days because when
he was a DM, players ran at the sight of Drow. They were the best
things ever, he says, because even if you killed a Drow you couldn't
loot their stuff since it disintegrated.

- he didn't want to kill Chewbacca. That was an executive decision
that he was hired to implement. He said it worked because the
Star Wars universe was no longer safe for favorite characters, but
he still regrets it.

- when I told him I only really read his fight scenes he told me that
I would look forward to a really awesome fight scene...in next year's
book. AUGH!

- he signed my book by telling me to "Beware Master Kane" or
something like that. A spoiler??? AUGH!

EDIT:

- On giving characters names. His flippant response was that he hit
a bunch of keys and hoped that enough vowels came up. His real
response was that he hated naming characters. His favorite name
for a character, ever, is the lovely Dwarven name Dagnabit. He
needed a minor character for an epilogue in one of the earlier
novels so he came up with Dagnabit. An editor phoned him and
said "Dagnabit? I missed that one. Dagnabit?" To get this guy
again, he wrote another Dwarven character and called him Pikel
(he pronounced it Pickle). Same guy calls him up and asks "Pickle?"
"No, his name is Pike-L, like the weapon." At the end of the story
he reminds us that Pikel has green hair. So it's really pickle.
*************

Awesome that he's involved in a game, smart guy.

Hmmm, don't think McFarlane really matches Salvatore's style though.

Malfred, can you really link to your own thread as if you ripped it from somewhere else? It's not like we're stealing Brimstone's rumors from Warseer. It's linking to your own post, in the Wasteland, for God's sake.

Just doing my part to attract heretics to their new home.

Salvatore does the "regular Joe" act better than G-dubya. He's got a Boston accent,
a sense that what counts is that people read his writing (as opposed to any notions
of "art"), and wants to smack people around for using the term "Campbellian hero."
There were only 20 people at the signing so he spoke to each person and (I think) he
tried to write something in the book for each person there.

For me he wrote the Master Kane thing because I told him I liked his fight sequences.
Master Kane is apparently a super monk in this book.

Salvatore is by far my favorite author, and I've always wondered what I would talk about if I ever met him. It's cool that everyone there got to spend some time 1 on 1 with him. Glad to hear that there is a new Drizzt book coming, though I do gotta say that I'm psyched that he's finally fleshing Entreri's past out with this book.

I'd ask when does Drizzt make little grey babies with Cattie Brie.

I knew I should have asked him a question!

What?

What the hell does this mean?

Who's Salvatore?

Who's McFarlane?

What does this have to do with anything?

Ok. Let's do the whole "relevance" thing.

RA Salvatore = fantasy fiction author.
Fantasy fiction authors = imaginary worlds.
Imaginary worlds = 40k, WHFB, gaming.
40k, WHFB, gaming = Dakka Discussions

McFarlane is the owner of McFarlane toys, which people have used to convert
Dragons and stuff on the boards. They're also incredibly detailed and cool.

Perhaps the name you that was most OT was Schilling, which you missed. But he
owns the game company so that's fair game.

somebody let me know the next time he or timothy zahn does a signing anywhere in the greater chicagoland area.

 

Years ago, when TSR still was around, they had an account with AOL. One night in the official DnD chat we were talking about the GREAT fantasy authors....Moorcock, Leiber, Smith, Howard, Vance, Tolkien, Lewis, Norton.....and someone asked me what I thought about RA Salvatore.

So I typed....Salvatore sucks, he couldn't write a book if posessed by the spirit of William Faulkner.

Just as I hit, enter, TSR Salvatore entered the room...yup that was him.

I chuckled.

Sorry....don't wanna start a flame war, just had to share my one encounter with him. He was gracious about it.

Now when I wrote the first scathing review of the last Dragonlance book on the DL newsgroup, Tracy Hickman wrote a whiny rant. I think the failure of that book to do well in sales justified by review.

There are moments that I hate Salvatore. But when the weapons are drawn, and
the magic comes to bear, I find the adventures far better than whatever crazy
Elminster stuff Greenwood came up with.

If I want poetic writing, I'll read Ursula Leguin.

And just a note: I finished Road of the Patriarch today and holy crap is RA Salvatore
random.

"Let's fight the Citadel of Assassins!

"Let's fight the paladin king!"

"Let's fight the pervy priests!"

It's like he's writing his adventures based on an encounter table.

I am just waiting for the day somebody picks his stuff up for animation. His fights would really be something to see

Maybe Studio Madhouse, that would be nice, they seem to be doing alot of US stuff lately (Highlander animation)

He doesn't want an animated film for Drzzt, which is too bad.

There was a comic done though, but I haven't seen it. Only the covers, and it looked pretty generic.

Yeah, the graphic novel series for Homeland, Exile and Sojourn are ok. However, you miss
a lot of what was great about an RA Salvatore novel which is the fact that he writes good
action sequences. Suddenly someone's drawn it for you and it doesn't seem to work quite
as well anymore.

At least that's my opinion.

I really hate the Ed Greenwood stuff since it seems that his main characters are trying to be human by crying on every other page.

 

I liked Leguin until I read Tehanu? Is that it? The one Sparrowhawk book that was very anti-male.

Green Angel, yeah that would be Tehanu. If you read her stuff, however, she's
not really anti-male so much as open minded in general. Tales of Earthsea has some
interesting stories, and her science fiction often has different sexes (and some I
never heard of!). But as always she writes whatever she writes like poetry.

Shh! You're not supposed to SAY that!

Grabbed my picture from Jester's tripod. So here's the pic.



As always, I'm the hot one.

So many pens...

They're number 15 pens.

You are not your job, Felix. The day you take that ID badge from round your neck is the day...your wife will be the sole provider.

Mmmmm, sole.

You forgot the "i" Jester....

The badge is specifically treated by Key 23 to reflect in a person's mind whatever it is
I tell them. So for you, I will be the FBI, or Female Body Inspectre. I always wanted to
be an incubus.

Father of Cambion, I adjure thee by the Living God! May a clutch of corpse-flies nest in your genitals!

I would have searched the net for a counter curse, but I fear the power of
the Key. Simply typing it would have transmuted words into power on millions
of desktops everywhere.

And I am a picky incubus.

Pinkubus.