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Originally posted by Night Stalker:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by Luvian:
I jusd read Silverfall, Stories of the Seven Sisters, by Ed Greenwood. There was probably enough cheese in that book to feed every starving childrens in the world for a year... 
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Let me guess ... they all had an affair with Elminster .....</font>[/QUOTE]They almost all end up naked at some point, and for no reason, too. But no, we only see Elminster once in this novel.
It's just the way he write. One of the sister is a mage, got all of her protection dispelled, gagged, tied, had her wrists broken, was put in a big bag with rocks, thrown in a river, and she survived, but he does not even tell us how. One scene she is drowning, the next, she is at a ball, (wearing so little clothing that even today she would get arested for public indecensy, unless you consider wearing some jewelry the equivalent of being fully clothed) so I guess those kind of life threathening things are so common it's not even worth explaining, right?
I hate his "spells" too. He often write things like "And the extra powerfull demi-god/dragon/beholder charged, but was instantly incinerated by magical energies." What is that spell, exactly? It would be no problem, but he
always pull off things like this, and we never even see the characters casting protection spells,
ever. It get annoying when it's the 50th time something get destroyed by an unknown invisible spell. Most of the time, the characters are just walking while things blow up and get desintegrated around them. If he's so lazy he can't even spend some time to have his characters cast actual spells, he might as well stop writing.