![]() ![]() Uncountable players created their own characters based on Salvatore’s character, to varying degrees of success. There was a time in the early 90s when clones of Drizzt showed up in D&D campaigns around the world. The character of Drizzt is immensely popular. I imagine Drizzt is as real to Salvatore as anyone he knows. Since then, Salvatore has spent a vast amount of time with that drow ranger. The characters didn’t cooperate and it became the beginning of a legacy. It was supposed to be Wulfgar’s story, but it became Drizzt’s story instead. In one interview, he mentioned that while writing The Crystal Shard, Drizzt just kept elbowing himself into the centre of the story. And I believe it makes my characters more believable, more real, when I write that way. I understand them as a real, living being, instead of just a puppet that does whatever I want. Because it means the character has truly come alive in my head. They say things I never intended, take actions I didn’t plan, and generally make the entire process more difficult.Īnd when it starts to happen, I start to smile. I know what’s going to happen in every scene, what the conflict is, how the characters are going to react, how the scene will resolve and (hopefully) hook the reader into sticking with the story into the next scene (and the next, and the next, etc.).īut then I get to a scene and start doing the actual writing, and suddenly I find the characters taking on a life of their own. What I mean is, I fully plan out my novels before I write a single word. The writer is in charge, and the characters are merely figments of his or her imagination. This often confused me for obvious reasons. Inside the Bookīack when I was a much younger lad, I often read interviews with various writers, and would occasionally see a writer mentioned that a character had taken over a book, or refused to behave, or forced changes to the storyline. ![]() But that’s exactly what has happened.Īnd it’s what I’m writing about this week-when a character takes over your writing, either from inside the book or out. It was not Salvatore’s intention to make Drizzt the star of the book, nor was it expected that Drizzt would become such a long-running, successful character. What’s important to remember is that originally, Drizzt was supposed to be a sidekick for the barbarian character Wulfgar. I didn’t have an original copy from back in the 80’s, so I bought a more recent Kindle version. I had fond memories of The Crystal Shard, so it made its way onto my list of books that I read to my son. Someone is still buying and reading them. These days, it’s quite common for players of D&D to make fun of Drizzt and the style of his character, but the reality is that the books have been incredibly popular for 28 years. Drizzt has appeared in no less than 31 novels, and every single one of them has made the New York Times Best Seller List. The Crystal Shard propelled Drizzt to the status of legendary hero in the eyes of fans of the Forgotten Realms. A few of my friends had read it, and it came highly recommended. Salvatore back in 1989, the year after it was published. I originally read The Crystal Shard by R.A. #Legacy of the crystal shard the accursed tower seriesBesides the well-known Dragonlance series by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman, the most famous D&D character of all time is a certain drow elf named Drizzt Do’Urden. Since the first authorized novels in the early 1980s, there have been literally hundreds of D&D novels published in the intervening years. And over those years, the D&D and property has been used for a lot more than just roleplaying games, including video games, a few (terrible) movies, boardgames, t-shirts and other clothing, an animated children’s television show, and a crazy list of strange products during its fad years (such as a D&D-themed woodburning kit…seriously).īut one particular long-running and obviously successful tie-in to the D&D property is the line of novels. The roleplaying game Dungeons & Dragons has been around a rather long time, going through multiple editions (commonly considered five, if you don’t count Original, or the various versions of Classic, etc.), two different companies, and countless writers. ![]()
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