Salvatore & EverQuest

The honorable R.A. Salvatore, perhaps the most famous fantasy writer of this generation, is enthralled with EverQuest. Out of anyone, he’d be the celebrity many of us I’m sure would choose if any were to have a fascination for the game. And so he does, and Allakhazam’s Magical Realm has an extremely detailed discussion with the creator of Drizzt, mostly about his EverQuesting. An excerpt:

Q: Why did you choose those particular classes?

A: I enjoy the tank, but I think warriors/monks are scummed in terms of solo’ability. When my monk was level 30, he could take an Iceclad cougar, barely, and only if he was near full health and had Mend ready to go. Even then, I often relied on FD, because Thurgadin is a long run! With my 30 wizard, a cougar is a matter of snare, boom boom boom boom c’ya. I’ve only gotten into trouble once in about fifty kills, and even then I just shadow stepped and gated. There’s not really a lot of balance between melee/caster classes, in my opinion, so I played a caster, which would allow me more solo’ability.

I picked up my first Salvatore book, Dark Legacy, at the time it was released, around 10 years ago… and it was extraordinarily entertaining.