Steven Brust and AD&D characters in Jhereg

[themoniker]

Originally published at Distractions. You can comment here or there.

One of the nice things about ICon in recent years is how one of the book sellers (Tzomet Sfarim?) arranges a big display of all of the author guest of honor’s books. I think I first noticed this when Neil Gaiman was the GoH, but it persisted when Carol Berg was here, and I noticed

Comments

[toxic_hedgehog]

When i was reading the books there were moments i just wanted to put the book down and laugh, especially at Morrolan. He's an elf and a sorcerer and a fighter and a witch and has a soul-eating weapon of doom and is friends with the empress and is friends with the goddess and he has a floating black castle. And he has a name that starts with "Mor". Sounds like the character you always wanted to play when you were 14 but the GM didn't let you. :)

[themoniker]

Even worse, he sounds like the GM's pet NPC - the character no one would let you play, unless you were the DM yourself...

[themoniker]

They are short, but we all know they really should be tall, like the elves in Tolkien, Moorcock, and all the other fantasy stuff the people playing D&D (as opposed to the people who created D&D) care about.

I always played them tall

[gryphonk]

Never remembered they were tall.