Real Sword Coast?
Real Sword Coast?
Baldur's Gate is built on a series of books? or something.. Anyway, where can I get more information about it? Would like to read about Drizzt, etc..
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Chade Fallstar
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Well, if you want to read about Drizzt start from the 'Darkelf trilogy' written by R.A Salvatore. The books are Homeland, Exile & Sojourn. The saga continues with 'Icewind dale trilogy' though it's written earlier (Drizzt was originally a support character for the IWD trilogy books). After that the story continues in 'The Legacy', 'Starless Night', 'Siege of Darkness', 'The Passage to Dawn' (which isn't written by R.A Salvatore thought the book says so), 'The Silent Blade' & 'The Spine of the World'. I haven't red the last two but I think they're mostly about Wulfgar & his adventures.
Just look up R.A Salvatore from any search engine and you should have a thousands of matches.
[This message has been edited by Chade Fallstar (edited 12-14-2000).]
Just look up R.A Salvatore from any search engine and you should have a thousands of matches.
[This message has been edited by Chade Fallstar (edited 12-14-2000).]
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Pheew! I guess that you could just type +"Sword Coast" -Baldur -Gate -BG -Baldur's in your search engine and hope for the best.
Baldur's Gate takes place on a world called Faerun, an RPG world originally created as an campaign module for the AD&D game. It proved so succesful and popular that the gaming company ended up creating quite a lot of expansion modules to that gaming world. In the end it became the propably most detailed and expansive RPG game world in existance. A lot of books have since been written that takes place in the fictional world, the books of Drizzt are one popular example.
The Sword Coast is a small part of Faerun, and actually a very anonymous part as well (Until recently that is), that was only featured in a few modules and adventure packs, as far as I know.
Since this area was so sparsely "developed" it was seen as ideal for purchase by Interplay from the current owners of Faeruns copyright, Wizards of the coast. By choosing a relatively unknown part of a very wellknown gameworld they had their hands free to do almost whatever they wanted without feeling forced to live up to more expectations than... well... than usual I guess.
I suggest you search for Faerun and Sword Coast together if you want to know more about these things. Since Sword Coast nowadays equals Baldur's Gate you will only end up with row after row of computergamereviews I fear.
Baldur's Gate takes place on a world called Faerun, an RPG world originally created as an campaign module for the AD&D game. It proved so succesful and popular that the gaming company ended up creating quite a lot of expansion modules to that gaming world. In the end it became the propably most detailed and expansive RPG game world in existance. A lot of books have since been written that takes place in the fictional world, the books of Drizzt are one popular example.
The Sword Coast is a small part of Faerun, and actually a very anonymous part as well (Until recently that is), that was only featured in a few modules and adventure packs, as far as I know.
Since this area was so sparsely "developed" it was seen as ideal for purchase by Interplay from the current owners of Faeruns copyright, Wizards of the coast. By choosing a relatively unknown part of a very wellknown gameworld they had their hands free to do almost whatever they wanted without feeling forced to live up to more expectations than... well... than usual I guess.
I suggest you search for Faerun and Sword Coast together if you want to know more about these things. Since Sword Coast nowadays equals Baldur's Gate you will only end up with row after row of computergamereviews I fear.