ra salvatore
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Dungeons & Dragons & Novels: Revisiting Artefact of Evil
Having treated myself to several good Dungeons & Dragons novels in a row — mainly the original Dragonlance trilogy and R.A. Salvatore’s The Halfling’s Gem — in the last few D&D&N columns, I knew that I must pay a price in return. That price was reading Artefact of Evil, the second Greyhawk novel by D&D…
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Dungeon & Dragon’s New Drizzt Books Will Work to Combat the Drows’ Racist Past
For years, Dungeons & Dragons has trafficked in the idea of specific racial traits assigned to its many species — a player picks a race, and they have specialised strengths, weaknesses, moralities, and ideologies. Some of those histories have, in turn, trafficked in racist stereotypes assigned to “othered” races, often with non-white skin. Changes have…
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Dungeons & Dragons & Novels: Revisiting Streams of Silver
The famous Drow ranger Drizzt Do’Urden returns for his second adventure in the Icewind Dale trilogy! Is it better than The Crystal Shard? Is the premise directly lifted from The Hobbit? Will Drizzt continue being the greatest badass in the Forgotten Realms? Will a female character appear for more than four pages and do literally…
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How R.A. Salvatore Helped Bring Icewind Dale to Games Again for Dark Alliance
Later this year, a familiar name to Dungeons & Dragons video game fans is finally making a return with the reboot of Dark Alliance, the beloved hack-n’-slash action RPG series. To do so, it’s bringing in some familiar D&D icons in the form of Drizzt Do’Urden and his legendary friends ” which also meant seeking…