In your opinion.... Who is the best WotC author/best series? (WotC= Wizards of the coast, things like forgotten realms,or eberron)

I'm gunna say one of two, Either R.A. Salvatore(yes, i know, typical) or perhaps Paul S. Kemp, simply for making a not so typical, in-depth character. Series? Either The Erevis Cale Trilogy(Kemp) or The Sellswords trilogy(The new one by Salvatore, about Artemis Entreri, and of course the mighty fool Jarlaxle... and a stupid new dwarf for laughs)

Well, who's next?

The question should be phrased as "Who isn't the worst?"

Wow, Tashur. You sure love posting topics, but all I can say is that most of the WotC aren't exactly the best books in the world.

Everyone, please, read 'To Kill A Mockingbird', or another classic.

By the way, Tashur-Armin is awesome.

Or if you're interested in good modern fantasy, try someone like Robin Hobb or GRR Martin.

R.A. Salvatore is the man. Ed Greenwood is great, Elminster is a pimp.

David Gemmell is THE master of heroic fantasy

The big man is in the hall of heroes now and we will never get any more of his brilliant stories but what he wrote quite frankly craps from a great height on most modern fantasy.

I'll be going with 9Lives opinion in who isn't the worst of the WoTC writers.

TheManicMan R.A. Salvatore is the man. Ed Greenwood is great, Elminster is a pimp.

Scott Lynch's The Lies of Locke Lamora is an absolutely excellent read. Think Ocean's Eleven meets Robin Hood in a unique and very interesting fantasy setting. It's part one in an ongoing series, the second of which is just coming out in a few days (Stateside, it's already out in the UK).

The bright side of it being the first in an unfinished is that there isn't much of a cliffhanger, so it makes a fine standalone book, too!

Wheels of time...all FR material stinks.

That being said, of contemporary fantasy, Robin Hobb's trilogy of interwoven trilogies set in the Realm of The Elderlings will be some of my favourite books ever.

The latest, and recently finished, one was kind of lacklustre.

George R.R. Martin's Song of Ice and Fire books are fantastic. I like it because it has a more hard edge than your standard FR series books. I read a review that called the series beautiful and brutal. About somes it up.

I actually quite like the FR stuff, clear i am in a significant minority!

Yup. You are.

Really, the FR stuff is trite, and rubbish. It still gives me headaches due to people using the texts as published source material to cite examples from.

Jean M. Auel wrote fabulous books. The earths children series was so awesome to me. Phillip Jose Farmers The dungeon series....everyone but that last one which made me want to repeatedly hit things for reasons I will not say =P (Don't read the last one it kinda tries to ruin every single other book and just sucks for some odd reason). I tried reading FR books before but to tell you the truth =P I can't stand it. Another series I reallyed loved were the little Conan stories they were fabulous pieces of literature if you ask me.(The movies blew bigtime!)The Dragonlance series has some very good books IMO and some terrible ones =P.Hell I could list on forever and all but I'm not feeling up to that :lol:

Hmm, yeah. If I had to choose authors of "D&D" novels, it would have to be Wiese and Hickman and their first Dragonlance trilogy at the top. The writing slipped after that, but they weren't too bad. For D&D fiction.

I agree with Ommadawn (I actually got drawn into Dragonlance through those novels). Also, none of my opinions are humble (IMHO). I am an arrogant elitist with absolutely nothing to back it up. Just trust that I am right... :wink:

This should really have been in the Off-topic forum. That being said here's my 2 cents.

Game novels are generally tripe. You can practically 'hear' the dice rolls as you read their combats. Ugh.

Must be read: Guy Gavriel Kay, Stephen R Lawheed, Barbara Hambly, Dave Duncan, Joel Rosenberg, Matthew Woodring Stover, and of course the staples-- Howard and Lovecraft.

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TheManicMan R.A. Salvatore is the man. Ed Greenwood is great, Elminster is a pimp.

I'm sorry, where?

Erm.... how many times has that old geezer gotten laid? Countless. And he keeps going back to Mystra for more :D .

As far as easy fiction goes, a good Ian Fleming novel pwns just about everything written about FR.

Actually my personal opinon is that Faerun game novels are not nearly as bad as the other game novels. Not to say every single novel in Forgotten Realms is a instant classic, however I do find them all readable and quite a few mildly enjoyable. However what is "Good" is a opinon. For instance someone here mentioned To Kill a Mockingbird which in my opinon is a horrible novel and Atticus Finch needs to go jump in a creek :P. That said I guess I liked all the various writers that did the War of Spider Queen Series, it was nicely dark with some pleasant twists.