Reader Question Day #34

Manwe asks:

One last thing, seeing as how you liked the old D&D games so much: what did you think of the Neverwinter series? Personally I liked NWN2 much more than I did the first. How do you think they compared with the BG series?

I’ve had the discs for NEVERWINTER for over eight years now, but I’ve never gotten around to playing them, alas. I do like the soundtrack, though, which I got off GOG.com.

DWC asks (note there are minor spoilers for SOUL OF SERPENTS and SOUL OF TYRANTS):

And now I am in the middle of “Soul of Serpents” and in chapter 10 as our heroes are riding past Tristgard, Lady Rachel is remembering the last time she was at that fair town. It reads “Here she had seen Mazael take a half-dozen crossbow bolts to the chest, surviving only by a miracle.”  When in fact in chapter 3 of “Soul of Tyrants” it says “A crossbow quarrel slammed into Mazael’s left shoulder, another into his leg, still another into his gut.” Just wanted to point that out.

I actually rewrote that bit three or four times. At first I had Rachel recall exactly that Mazael was hit in the left leg and shoulder. Except that seemed oddly specific, since the battle at Tristgard was a very unexpected and chaotic, and it seemed weird that Rachel would remember it so precisely. (Like when five people witness a traffic accident, they’ll usually have five different accounts of what actually happened.) So I had Rachel remember that Mazael had gotten hit a half-dozen times by crossbow bolts and had somehow survived, rather than the specific details of what had happened.

Still, the next time I update SOUL OF SERPENTS, I might adjust that passage a bit more.

Many people ask (paraphrased):

How is SOUL OF SORCERY coming?

I’m currently editing chapter 33 of 36. So if all goes well, the book will be out in early September!

-JM