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I have been working my way through D&D/Faerûn content either that I've already read and am re-reading, or reading for the first time. No point in clogging up the Reading thread with this nonsense, so here we are.

Oh, and most of the Forgotten Realms stuff is rebranded as just Dungeons and Dragons as "Forgotten Realms" technically stopped being a thing in the mid-2010's when WOTC stopped their publishing wing and farmed out the content to Penguin Random House and Harper Collins Voyager instead.

Stuff I'm reading for the thread:

The LEGEND OF DRIZZT books - I own about half of them in the old MMPB form; and have read up to about Book 13 I think? but that was a while ago so I needed a refresh to go forward so I jumped back to LEGACY (book 7)...Please note that also Penguin are currently re-releasing them as softcover trades with new cover art that matches (solving my biggest issue with them, the MMPB font is TINY and they were excruciating to read that way...the new trade paperbacks are glorious with almost hardcover size font for an old bastard like me) and have released 10 so far. They will be doing all 33 of those in the new covers (3-4 in each release window which seem to come every 2-3 months or so?) and are up to book 10 so far, and then after the Penguin 33, then Harper Voyager (who have the rights to the last 6) will be re-releasing those ones too in the same cover style. Salvatore is jazzed that all 39 Drizzt books will be in one cover style and format finally (as a well known cover snob, I agree). I realize that these are not high fantasy or particularly complex, but they are like warm fantasy/ D&D hugs to me.

BRIMSTONE ANGELS (Erin M. Evans) - I have all of these. Most of them are in and around Waterdeep and Neverwinter. And the 9 hells of course. They are about Tieflings and Cambions after all.

THE FALLBACKS (Jayleigh Johnson) - These are recent D&D books with a new team of adventurers, I own the first one (BOUND FOR RUIN), and there is a second on the way (DEALING WITH DRAGONS). I don't expect them to be groundbreaking, but they should be fun little romps. They seem to be sort of Critical-Role-ish in tone. Not sure where they take place yet.

D&D Movie tie-in for DRUID'S CALL....love the character in the movie and want to know more about her.

RAVENLOFT has also been revived. Deliah S. Dawson has penned a new novel in the setting called HEIR OF STRAHD, so that's on my list too.


Forthcoming also: R.A. Salvatore has penned a new novel coming out later in the year that seems to focus on Drizzt's and new companions of the Hall, so I'm very curious to see where that goes and I really can't wait for it. It's called THE FINEST EDGE OF TWILIGHT.


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I never know where to put news about authors that doesn't really fit anywhere else, so I figured we may as well have thread for news about anyone who might be of interest to us.

This was prompted by a moderately sad post by Terry Brooks coming out of ECCM (Emerald City Comic Con). In short he's stepping back from his writing as at the age of 81 he's come to realize that his stamina, endurance, and faculties are starting to fail him and he's realized that he would not be able to keep up his pace (and I would hope that he'd just want to spend his time with his wife, kids, and grandkids at such an age). So he's stepping back, and has handed the reins of Shannara to another author who will handle the writing, and he will step back to an advisory capacity. That writer is Delilah S. Dawson (I've only read her Star Wars work, but I enjoyed it).

It's sad because I don't want to see an author I've enjoyed since my teen years age out of his job, but at the same time him realizing that he can't produce the same quality and speed of output anymore, and handing his series over to another author he trusts is incredibly thoughtful and forward thinking....this isn't a Robert Jordan "I'm dying, Brando please finish my series", it's just more of a realization that he wants his world to go on and he's happy to guide someone else doing it.

So tomorrow's release of GALAPHILE (a Shannara prequel, first in a new trilogy) will be the final Terry Brooks novel and everything going forward including the 2nd and 3rd GALAPHILE novels will be penned by Delilah.

So I'm sad he's stopping, but I'm happy he's chosen someone take over...and since the last few Shannar novels even Terry acknowledged weren't his best work, perhaps the fresh voice will reinvigorate the series.

Anyways, I had GALAPHILE on pre-order, so I'll be starting it tomorrow.

Hey Abyss, I split this off into the discussion forum as I felt it might be annoying people that it was in the happy thread. Let me know if that's offsides.