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Who is your favorite hero?

How well do you know your FR Authors? Every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, you can expect an update to the author roundtable, featuring many of our best Forgotten Realms authors’ answers to the world’s most important questions, right here on this blog. Submissions for new questions welcome through private message. 

Ed Greenwood (author of The Sword Never Sleeps): The shy, unassuming sort who steps up in crisis and does what he/she believes “any normal person would.” Except that most, of course, don’t.

Mark Sehestedt (author of The Fall of Highwatch): Again, just talking fictional . . . that’s quite a long list for me. But on the list you’ll find Frodo, Samwise, Gandalf, and Aragorn from The Lord of the Rings; Fiver and Hazel from Watership Down;

What do you hate that most people like?

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Elaine Cunningham(co-author of The City of Splendors): The Beatles.  (Friend Elaine)

Ed Greenwood (author of The Sword Never Sleeps): A lot of recent pop music, and almost all reality television shows. I base the “most people” on the perceived sales and spread of such things; I very much doubt that “most people” includes “most sane people.”

Richard Baker (author of Avenger): Basketball. I’m a huge baseball and football fan, but as far as I’m concerned there are no sports played between the end of the Superbowl and baseball’s Opening Day.

What is the best kind of dragon?

How well do you know your FR Authors? Every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, you can expect an update to the author roundtable, featuring many of our best Forgotten Realms authors’ answers to the world’s most important questions, right here on this blog. Submissions for new questions welcome through private message. 

Rosemary Jones (author of City of the Dead): Topiary. At least I have a warm corner in my heart for topiary dragons after writing City of the Dead. In opera, it’s Fafner, of course.  When playing D&D, so far the best kind of dragon has been a dead one:  the live ones keep trying to eat me! (Friend Rosemary)

Elaine Cunningham(co-author of The City of Splendors): One that’s in a very deep state of hibernation. (Friend Elaine)

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Who’s your favorite villain?

How well do you know your FR Authors? Every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, you can expect an update to the author roundtable, featuring many of our best Forgotten Realms authors’ answers to the world’s most important questions, right here on this blog. Submissions for new questions welcome through private message. 

Elaine Cunningham(co-author of The City of Splendors): Elaith Craulnober. Yes, this choice is obnoxiously self-referential, but I really do love the pointy-eared little bastard. (Friend Elaine)

Ed Greenwood (author of The Sword Never Sleeps): Irene Adler, “THE Woman” in the Sherlock Holmes tales. However, ask me on another day and my answer might be different. I like villains for different reasons.

Richard Baker (author of Avenger): Wow,

What would you be surprised if people didn’t know about you?

How well do you know your FR Authors? Every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, you can expect an update to the author roundtable, featuring many of our best Forgotten Realms authors’ answers to the world’s most important questions, right here on this blog. Submissions for new questions welcome through private message. 

Elaine Cunningham(co-author of The City of Splendors): Nothing comes to mind. I really don’t expect people to know stuff about me.

Ed Greenwood (author of The Sword Never Sleeps): That I like worldbuilding, and gaming, and fantasy. If they’ve heard of me at all, it’s probably in one of those contexts. I like to keep my career as an exotic dancer secr—oops.

Mark Sehestedt (author of The Fall of Highwatch