>>94017426
He's not even level 20 is he?

>>94017426
not by a fucking mile lol
he's maybe top hundo but thats being charitable

>>94017426
I used to know, but I forgot.

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>>94017426
Not on my watch
https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Gareth_Dragonsbane

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>>94017426
>>94017487
Doesn't really matter to be honest. Anyone notice how none of the overpowered meta npcs whether hero or villain are never martials? It's always casters. Elminster, Szass Tam, Manshoon, Larloch, Mordenkainen, Blackstaff, Vecna. Always casters.

>>94017523
d&d has always had wizards at the top of the food chain for better or worse. if you can survive past early bullshit as a wizard you're well on your way to being god

>>94017426
No. We know his STR stat after all.

>>94017523
>>94017595
What about a caster with a sword

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>>94017523
One thing I've always loved about the Iron Kingdoms is that one of the most powerful humans alive was a monk, and evil deposed king who's the big bad in their first campaign was in fact a fighter.

It has a lot of powerful fighters running around as well, though in fairness it has a lot of character who are very much frontline wizards/gishes

>>94017618
Elminster had a sword in his 3.5 stat block iirc.

>>94017708
He was multi class in 3.5e with quite a few levels in fighter and bard, yeah.

>>94017734
>bard
No, I'm pretty sure he's a wizard/archemage/cleric/fighter/rogue, with the cleric/fighter/rogue part being his backstory from Making of a Mage.

>>94017734
>>94017740
Those levels wouldn't really do anything though. Weird.

>>94017426
Yes

>>94017426
According to Greenwood he's like #8, but that was a hundred years before the current setting date, so he's probably moved up several spots just because 5-6 of the people above him were human and would plausibly be dead by now if they don't have longevity magic to survive the century.

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>>94017708
>>94017734
>>94017740
I hunted him down to check
A truly pointless inclusion that sword is, he's terrible with it

>>94018373
Good work, anon. Now, kill him. I'll see you later

>>94018373
>cr39
Why does anybody bother playing in this setting when Elminster can clear literally any problem up to and including gods.

>>94018429
He's fucked off doing his book shit

>>94018429
There's a reason that they don't bother to set any major adventures in Waterdeep, the Dales, or Cormyr.

>>94017436
In the 2e FR setting box he was an 18th level ranger, in 3e he was a multiclass with Fighter 10/Barbarian 1/Ranger 5. In my opinion the 2e Drizzt should have just been a Mielikki-worshipping fighter with a neat statue of a big cat.

>>94018429
From the grey box to the 2e box the whole point of Elminster was that he took care of shit that threatened Faerun as a whole, not some local squabbles. His tower in Shadowdale had GTFO signs posted like it was Scrooge's money bin, if anyone actually knocked on the door his scribe (Lhaeo) would tell any petitioners that Big E was away/on another plane/having a nap etc., now get the hell out. Case in point #1: when Shadowdale was attacked a big fuck-off dragon, he sat in his tower whilst Sylune (the other local high-level mage) had to suicide-bomb the bastard by breaking a staff of power. Point #2: when the Tuigan came calling and Azoun started calling up people for the not-Desert Storm coalition, he told Vangerdahast (and Azoun) to bugger off, he only dealt in bigger shit than some horse-riding barbarians on a rampage.

>>94018451
>suicide bomb
She actually got stronger from that according to Greenwood, she evolved into something superior and a next-stage of Mystra's grand design. Which is apparently making everybody into insubstantial spirit slaves of her Weave.

>>94018429
He's not even the most powerful non-outsider caster in the realms, Daurgothoth had CR50

>>94017523
Erevis Cale.

>>94019107
Most of that comes from his being a dragon, as a caster he's only like 25th level, Elminster is much stronger. Ioulaum would be a better argument, but Ioulaum is stated to be weaker than Elminster because he is "out of practice" fighting.

>>94017426
Fucking King Azoun IV was a level 20 Fighter and didn't die until he solo'd a highly toxic dragon and succumbed after slaying it.

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>>94017523
This makes logical sense given how the devs developed every edition of D&D. Martials just got better at hitting things consistently with weapons, and most editions they couldn't even be good with weapons that weren't from their focused group, and at best their damage scaled from being able to swing "faster" (more attacks per turn) with maybe an extra static low single digit number (+1-8 at most) tacked on to their 1d8/1d10. The most Godly level 20 martial could do 4d10+32 potential damage a round if they hit every attack (which statistically against any enemy tougher than a leather wearing low level bandit they weren't guaranteed to do). And that's all they get to do, they have no powers beyond being middlingly good at mundane combat.

Contrast with how casters get genuine world altering powers as low as level 5+, with spells that do more damage than even the most veteran level 20 martial. Sure, they can't swing all day, but they don't fucking need to: combat is over with just one casting, and at level 10+ combat doesn't even begin because prepared casters are untouchable by martials at that point.

It's like comparing the most talented jr. high quarterback in some Midwest pop. 4k nowhere town to a mid-20s best of the best first draft pick quarterback with 4+ Superbowl rings under his belt. There simply isn't a comparison, even the NFL guys worst day will top the jr high kid's best by leagues. As such, in D&D settings, it'd be ridiculous for martials to be the big dogs or the movers and shakers. They can't stand up to even mid level casters or non-mundane threats. Your average level 3 ethereal ghost that can't be touched with nonmagical equipment will fucking murderize any level 20 martial not equipped with his +x Blade. It's a wizard's world.

>>94024010
Martial's cuck fantasy.

>>94017426
Atemis Enteri was better in Drizzt's own book series.

>>94024434
I don't recall Artemis ever beating Drizzt in a straight-up fight. He needed special advantages for each victory.

>>94024526
He beat him once and killed him

>>94017436
He was 18th level when he graduated from melee magthere (ir whatever is called), so he should be higher now
I think he should be +24th fighter/monk given that's his father's level and they should be equal
>i. e. powerscaler autist

>>94024640
wasn't that the time Jarlaxle's psychic friend aided him in battle against his will so he could drop his vegeta-esque behavior of surpassing drizzt?

>>94019107
Interestingly in the grey box Khelben was more powerful than Elminster. Big E was a 26th level magic-user, the Blackstaff was 26+th level.

>>94023329
It would be interesting to see a three-way match between Drizzt, Azoun (20th level cavalier in 1e, 20th level fighter in 2e) and Duke Eltan, the CO of the Flaming Fist. According to his grey box writeup, Eltan is a 20th level fighter, tooled up with:
>greenstone amulet (mind blank plus immunity to various other mind-control spells)
>plate mail +2 and cloak of displacement +2 (AC -3)
>rings of absorption (like the rod, sucks in spells) and anti-venom
>girdle of storm giant strength and gauntlets of ogre power
>hammer of thunderbolts, silver dagger +2, silver longsword +2, intelligent short sword +1
Hilariously the book actually mentions that normal high-level people wouldn't be cutting about with all that magical gear but Eltan is 1) the commander of a major mercenary company and 2) someone who knows there are people itching to kill him and loot his stuff (such as murderhoboing PCs).

The best anything in a Greenwood product is always Elminster.

>>94017426
In 3.5 he had str 13
No stats for him in 5e but I bet he still isn't the strongest

>>94018429
Because like any old, powerful wizard, Elminster is absent-minded and will often leave a job done half-assed or unintentionally make it worse over the long term. Case in point, his refounding of the Harpers got subverted by the elf CIA under his nose and by the time he got wind of what had happened he threw his hands up and washed them of the situation.

>>94028492
others competente drow fighters, jarlaxle and zak (drizzt's father) are CR 15 and 16 respectively
drizzt shouldn't be far higher than those

>>94027248
>24th fighter/monk given that's his father's level
What the fuck? His father is an epic level character?

>>94018429
Yeah, why doesn't Elminster just put Toril in a bottle?

>>94017426
One of Candlekeep's Q&A sessions has a list of Ed Greenwood's top 10 fighters of the time. To give you an idea of what peak fighter looks like in the Realms their feats include stuff like vaulting onto the top of a flagpole anime style or staggering through an inn wounded leaking blood everywhere and killing everyone in their way to find a healing-potion cache.

IOW, the Realms 'peak fighter' is superhuman compared to IRL realism, but somewhere around level 10-12 in D&D 3.5 stats rather than 15-20.

>>94028769
NTA but in the 2e Menzoberranzan box, Zaknafein was a 24th level fighter. The biggest badasses after him were Uthegentel del'Armgo (20th level fighter) and Dantrag Baenre (18th).

>>94028769
>>94028842
Most of the dissonance around Realms epic characters is an artefact of the change between 2e (the system the setting was built in) and 3.5e. In 2e hit points basically capped around 10th level. If you read the early novels this is pretty clear; characters who'd mow down armies (like the martials in the Malazan series) when statted in 3.5 are scary but relatively grounded; they're basically all 10th level.

>>94028721
so you think in 5e his str is suddenly 31?

>>94028868
FR was mostly built around 1e, but your logic is sound: when a fighter got, at most 14 (if we're talking about a fighter with 18 CON who rolls a 10 at every level up) till 9th level and 3hp thereafter, the total of HP a high level character has is much lower than in the post-2e editions. Duke Eltan, who I used as an example earlier, is somewhat of an outlier because he's explicitly stated to have 179 hp but there's no mention of where he's getting the extra few dozen of them.

>>94028452
Elminster got weaker after his 3,5e peak, in 4e he was just a lv19 controller and I don't think he's improved that much for 5e?

>>94028926
He doesn't have stats in 5e, because nobody wants him in their campaign

>>94028778
Based reference

>>94028832
>staggering through an inn wounded leaking blood everywhere and killing everyone in their way to find a healing-potion cache.

That sounds pretty awesome, not gonna lie.

>>94028926
In 5e, what little is known of his statblock and abilities is that he doesn't need concentration to maintain multiple spells, he can cast any spell he wants as an action from 1st to 9th by drawing it directly from the Weave, and he can do it an unlimited amount of times.

He's unbeatable.

>>94017426
His build is dog shit.

>>94028769
Not that surprising when the average insignificant matron mother is like cleric 19 with increased CR from being drow.

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>>94017426
Isn't he a monk now too
I have no idea what his current build even is. He is like a Fighter/Ranger/Barbarian/(Monk ?). It's a mess

>>94024010
>Laughs in 2e dart throwing
At one point you could interupt wizard spells just by throwing darts and they were fucked.

>>94033150
5e Drizzt is a 15th level Champion Fighter with the Outlander background. Chris Perkins had Drizzt's official WotC statblock at a live game at some PAX event, deleveled to 8th for balance purposes in the game.

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>>94017426
>>94017487
Stand aside, PEASÁNTS. El segador de la muerte is coming through...
https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Shuruppak

>>94033203
>level 30
>his god is dead so he just travels around as a wandering murderer
Hilarious character.

>>94033202
>not only is he lower level than in 2e/3e but also stuck as a Champion
It's not easy being Drizzt.

>>94033216
Don't pretend you would act any different if YOU suddenly lost your comfy Chosen status

>>94033238
It's just like +12 to one attribute
The mystra attribute isn't even a caster stat lol

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What does he see in this basic bitch?

Were the accusations about brownface against Salvatore justified?

>>94017426
No.

>>94033231
15th level in 5e is meant to be higher status than it was in 3e or 2e, since you don't have unlimited leveling any more. Elminster used to be 29th level wizard, his 5e stats are 20th level wizard for example.

>>94034167
Except 15th level in 5e is weaker than 15th level in 3e or 2e.

>>94017436
these days he beat up demon princes singehandeltly and is about to become a super monk god so he should be a epic level character

and he should also finally leave the story because he turned so boring since he found enlightenment

>>94017426
He's not even the strongest drow in the forgotten realms. He just has plot armor.

>>94018349
Wouldn't it stand to reason that another 5-6 humans would take their place above him?

>>94017607
Isn't there an item he can use to fix that?

>>94033406
She's white. Whites are most desirable.

>>94034167
5E levels are the same as 3E levels except with subclasses layered on top.

He's the 6th best per Greenwood

>>94035591
>She's white. Whites are most desirable.
Not white anymore.

>>94017426
Not even Salvatore claims that

>>94033406
>brownface
how? because she was reincarnated as one of those nomads, but then it turns out she just got her old normal body back and wasn't brown at all?
>like the book goes on how she is way different from the others and fairer and with different hair
>same with Burenor, and Wulfgar, they look the same they did 100 years ago
Regis changed the most of all the companions, actually getting an upgrade

>>94037649
White woman appropriating brown people culture. It was a whole thing for a few months.

>>94037740
Oh, bullshit

>>94038749
IIRC Salvatore apologized and has not mentioned the reincarnation thing at all since then to brush it under the carpet.

Is he Drizzt because he's the strongest swordsman of the Forgotten Realms, or is he the strongest swordsman of the Forgotten Realms because he's Drizzt?

>>94038877
The latter

>>94035573
>another 5-6 humans
Or the accumulation of skill throughout the century would be enough that the new humans showing up to take a spot would still be behind him. He gets to continue learning, training, and honing his skills for more time than most humans do.

>>94039170
Anon, humans are the peak mary sues. They are always better just because the writers says so.

>>94039219
That's not always the case, bub

>>94039238
Elminster is the greatest...

>>94017426
No, the 28th million clone - I mean "original character" - of him is

>>94039469
El hasn't been a force for anything since 2e

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>>94017426
It's racist to even talk about the guy, haven't you heard?

Even the very mention of a person of dark skin is haram and forbidden to the inferior white kind. You should be ashamed of speaking above your station, porcelain complexioned serf.

>>94033203
I've been playing too much Path of Achra, I misread this as Shuppurak.

>>94041116
you mean R.A. 'I hate Eilistraee and Drizzt should be the only good drow so he can be special' Salvatore changed his opinion?
Like I've read through so many of the Drizzt books and one thing which stood out to me above all else
besides his juvenile depictions of sex(uality) was the complete lack of Vhaeraun and Eilistraee, it's like they didn't exist
WotC should take Drizzt away from him and give him to a better writer who respects the lore

>>94043367
Given WotC has multiple times tries to remove Eilistraee from the setting, I think you're asking for a Monkey Paw there.

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>>94043422
I don't even get it, as far as I recall the only hate for Eilistraee and the other dark seldarine seems to be coming from WotC
meanwhile it seems the actual players are either ambivalent or think it is neat to have other gods for drow, other than Lolth
>Eilistraee even gets to be one of the gods you can pick in BG3
I'm not sure what is going on with WotC and their hateboner for every drow god which isn't Lolth

>>94043509
Eilistraee is on the shit list for being to openly sexual.
Vhaeraun is a casualty of Wizards want to simplify down the lore.

>>94043592
>openly sexual.
I know being attractive and a nudist offends women and evangelicals, but it still annoys the shit out of me that this makes her considered "sexual"

>>94043592
>Vhaeraun is a casualty of Wizards want to simplify down the lore.
Which is funny, because in their desire to simplify the lore, they overcomplicated it like never before. Because now every single fucking drow god that ever existed is now active in FR. To the point Vhaeraun became redundant and Crawford happily axed him.
As for Eilistraee, she's on Crawford's shitlist, because she fucks with his new and improved elven lore from MToF, that everybody hates, because it's clearly Crawford's magical realm.
It amazing how many problems WotC create for themselves by trying to "fix" things that never needed fixing in the first place.

>>94043626
Nah, she annoys Jeremy Crawford. He's gay. And jacking off to Corellon.

>>94043644
>Because now every single fucking drow god that ever existed is now active in FR
Vhaeraun doesn't exist anymore, but every drow god that ever existed is now active in FR? I'm sorry, I don't get it

>>94044212
Vhaerun was rewritten to be a completely different deity, because Crawford allegedly thought he's overlapping with Keptolo, who was introduced into FR for no reason. So Crawford rewrote him... and now he's overlapping with Selvetarm, so WotC just stopped using him.
All those problems WotC created themselves.

>>94044403
I love the fact that Ed Greenwood gets to ignore all this shit and write his own equally-official Forgotten Realms sourcebooks while also making inappropriate stateents about elf milk on social media. What a boss. My wettest gushiest fantasy is that I will one day have an IP contract as good as his.

>>94044428
He can write them, but whether WotC wishes to publish it is another story. They've been ignoring Greenwood for a decade now.

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>>94017426
Perfection

Eilistrae has always been on thin ice ever since the TSR days. Greenwood had to censor a lot of stuff about her which was part of her lore in his own campaign version of FR (the Greenwood-verse). For example the fact that male Eilistraean worshippers are encouraged to engage in a ritual known as "the Dance" where they physically become female and then get knocked up and bear children in order to get closer to their goddess was very soundly rejected back when Greenwood wrote the 2e entry on Eilistrae's faith. There's a bunch of stuff he had to cut for being too explicit or just too "lewd" for the mainstream so it's no surprise they have tried to axe the whole thing.

>>94044813
They DID axe Eilistraee in 4e. But the fan backlash was so great, that they quickly brought her back in 5e.

>>94017426
Bro got MOGGED by a jabbering idiot dwarf who made deliberately retarded decisions.
Dual. Wielding. Flails.
Every part of that is idiotic. But Anthrogate was going to fuck our elf man here apart.
>Muh magic items!
Yeah. The drow with socks of blinding speed, heavily enchanted swords and some wierdo +5 mithril hair shirt and pet magic spirit panther is also packing.

>>94044493
Perfection was that one /d/ thread where the OP image was a headless girl holding her head on a platter and the hat lined up perfectly. I'm still mad that I lost the screencap.

>>94044813
Tbh it never made much sense to me that she was still matriarchal, especially because she's supposed to be a) good and b) opposing her mother
Even less so because she still has a good relationship with her dad
I'm glad they reworked that part
>I don't mind some temporary gender bending but the whole giving birth seemed extreme
>Also who knocked them up when they're all girls?
>Ancient elven Dickgirl magic?

>>94045127
Because it's the Celtic fertility goddess shit. She's supposed to be a "mother goddess" for the drow and that works doubly for her priestesses.
She goes for matriarchy not because she hates men, but because she cultivates this idea of benevolent mother-priestess. Men can be literally anything they want in Eilistraeean society, so it's not like they are discriminated, but a priestess need to be female. You can be a warrior-dad though, in honor of Eilistraee's dad.

>>94044428
>>94044442
Greenwood has a gentleman's agreement as part of his contract back from the TSR days in which everything he writes gets automatic second tier canonicity which can only be superseded by the IP owners published materials. In return he refuses to speak on any topic explicity under NDA.

>>94046507
>in which everything he writes gets automatic second tier canonicity which can only be superseded by the IP owners published materials
Which WotC uses to full extent, because they couldn't care less about what Greenwood (or Salvatore for that matter) does with Forgotten Realms. And they don't even bother to inform him about FR retcons they are doing, so that Greenwood only hears about stuff like Bane no longer being a greater deity but some "quasideity" because some fan asked him how does that make any sense. Or Salvatore got to know that Jarlaxle is now bisexual from Crawford's tweet.
Sure, the contract says that WotC don't have to legally give a fuck about Greenwood or Salvatore, but it's shit behaviour on their part.

Any Chosens with a sword murk him

Why or how was Salvatore or any other not-Greenwood person able to publish FR books? What's the process there?

>>94047838
Nyt bestseller list gets you places

>>94047838
>Ed sold the setting to TSR under certain agreements.
>Ed loved that other people gave enough of a shit about his setting that he gratefully allowed people to work in it without much fuss.
>Elaine Cunningham in particular writes Elves in a way Ed love and so he lets her basically be the main writer for Elves in The Realms
>TSR wanted to start publishing more D&D novels
>Salvatore's books get way more attention that the rest of the FR media.
>Salvatore's popularity and ego allowed him to push the envelope of what the Realms was towards his own biases while Ed and the rest of the writers had to ignore, undercut, or work around his stuff.
>As Novel publishing fell more and more to the wayside all those other authors and Ed were no longer being asked to make books by Wizards
>Salvatore gets to keep making books because his sell so well
>The two unite in their rage at the 4e destruction of the setting sweeping away any previous animosity and serving as a cooling effect of Salvatore's ego towards the setting.
>Ed's wife gets sick and he steps away from FR at the start of 5e to care for her
>Salvatore keeps making books
>Ed's wife dies and fearing the specter of mortality starts to get back into official FR content, he is fully locked out by Wizards at this point.
>Ed uses his stored notes, and patron support to start releasing all his content for the setting before he dies, he said that if Wizards wanted him to write a book he would but is to busy otherwise.
>Salvatore's books keep selling well enough for them to keep being made

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>>94048076
after Lolth's Warrior (from 2023) there aren't any news about any new Drizzt books and that one webcomic which was supposed to come out around the 35th celebration of Drizzt- well, it is stuck in development hell, and I think the artist had to step back from it
>Brie didn't look anything like she was supposed to look in the few art pieces we got
>for one thing Brie was supposed to have Cattie's haircolor; not white
I wonder if Drizzt has finally concluded

>>94018741
So was it the same fate Gale was destined to after his own suicide bombing?

>>94017523
Tits

>>94048212
That art looks fucking awful. What's the name of this cringe style?

>>94050321
No, because Gale isn't an actual child of Mystra. Only Greenwood's special silver haired surrogate- mother figures are allowed to get privileges. And Elminster.

>>94048212
His contract with that publishing house expired, if a new one was started up Salvatore could write more probably, but last he said anything he was writing something else for a different contract.

>>94048076
>>As Novel publishing fell more and more to the wayside all those other authors and Ed were no longer being asked to make books by Wizards
This is because Wizards (and TSR before it was starting to lean that way) did not want to be maintaining an entire publishing house for limited fantasy fiction (they didn't have the funding or authors), which is why they ultimately cut the novel line. Those books never sold well enough collectively to make a profit besides Salvatore (who exploded in popularity from the start, Greenwood and others never even got close to him). By late-3rd edition they were already a net drain on resources, which is why in 4th edition they slowed and then eventually cut the novels entirely, they outsource them now to proper publishing firms.

Same fate as Dragon, Dungeon, and Polyhedron, all of which ended up being licensed and outsourced to others back in 2002.

>>94043367
>>94041116

Salvatore goes with the flow, particularly in that he's aware of the current cultural zeitgeist and isn't going to torpedo his livelihood. But from comments at signings over the years, for the majority of his time writing Drizzt he just didn't care about Eilistraee. Drizzt served Mielikki, not Eilistraee, and Salvatore liked - up until the last few years anyway - Mielikki just fine so people bitching about Eilistraee being "a better choice" than Mielikki rubbed him the wrong way.

>>94017426
>Is he the strongest swordsman of the Forgotten Realms ?
not according to Greenwood.
Also he's not even a gestalt character so my level 10 Ranger/Rogue could solo him easy

>>94050954
>What's the name of this cringe style?
it's called YourMum

>>94051347
R u 12?

>>94017426
Nope.

>>94028832
it was top 10 swordsMEN in faerun
ed took that to mean male human swordsmen (not fighters in general, just guys that use swords) and only in faerun (so not evermeet for instance)
he said drizzt would have been about #6 on the list iirc if he wasnt an elf

>>94053871
What's worse is I bet most if not all those names he listed aren't anywhere in the books.

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>>94054011
Practically none of them are. Pic related.

He also added:
>If I now widen my reply further, to include elves, half-elves, dwarves, halflings, and gnomes (note that I’m still excluding shapechanging races and multi-armed intelligent “monsters”), I’d put Maethrammar Aerasume between Artru and Hammarandar, and Drizzt Do’Urden JUST behind Marlgrask.

Methrammar is at least in an actual book, but he's a Fighter 7 / Wizard 9 in 3e (Fighter 14 / Wizard 12 in 2e), which is a joke when placing him as second best in a setting where skill can actually be ranked by level.

>Is he the strongest swordsman of the Forgotten Realms ?
No but he's close. I stopped reading after Gauntlgrym but he fights Entreri to a standstill.
He fights that dwarf Athrogate who only wins because of his bullshit exploding mace.
He kills Errtu in book 4 out of like 20... absolutely insane desu
That was using the AD&D rules, but if it was in 3.5 he would probably have to be at least 25th level then.
Name a better swordsman in Faerun that has provably done better than Drizzt.

>>94059282
He also helps defeat Demogorgon

>>94043367
>besides his juvenile depictions of sex(uality)
Might as well gotcha movies from the 50s for their restrained depictions of the same.

>>94059408
That must've been after Gauntlgrym.
Honestly, after the Ghost King, I had no care for Drizzt fighting elemental evils or demon lords. Ghost King was cool because they basically lost. Pirate King was actually almost a good tragedy about trying to fight urban corruption. Orc King was a nice book about having to accept neighbors you don't like and actually potentially examining the "orcs are evil" thing in a new light, I actually liked how it approached fantasy tropes. That whole trilogy was a nice follow-up to Hunter's Blades which was sort of lame, and Silent Blade with the magic arena which read like fanservice cringe.

But Drizzt fighting demon lords? After Errtu, I'll pass. I hope Salvatore hasn't sold out and used Drizzt as a fighting dog to go after whatever the latest meme character WotC wants to promote is. Demogorgon because muh Stranger Things? sad if so. If not, still not that into it.

I did get to meet him a while back, which was nice.

>>94058815
Oh I bet two human females must be inserted, Ed. I bet they must.

>>94017426
No lol

>>94059282
>Name a better swordsman in Faerun that has provably done better than Drizzt.
Kas

>>94044921
>BAHAHAHA!!!
>beats up the MC
>refuses to elaborate
>rides off into the sunset on a demonic fireboar

>>94059448
I have the feeling you either got selective obliviousness or you just haven't read any of the books
>CSA on the first few pages of Gauntlgrym
>A lot of rape, most of it happening to Dahlia
>priestesses of Lolth constantly making out with each other and also with Lolth's wax-candle demons when they look like pretty drow women
>Attempted rape on Drizzt twice (I count Yvonnell because she tried to at least, and I can't believe Drizzt was done there for so long without her trying)
>Jarlaxle is supposed to be bi, but of course he only makes out with women, otherwise you might scare away those fragile white little nerds
>one gay character whose lover is only mentioned in passing and which you wouldn't even recognize if it wasn't pointed out like a couple books later, no kissing, no hugging

>>94061145
>Jarlaxle is supposed to be bi, but of course he only makes out with women, otherwise you might scare away those fragile white little nerds
Is he? That's a 5e retcon that Crawford made behind Salvatore's back.

>>94061145
>It's juvenile if it doesn't cater to fujos and barafags

>>94059590
Drizzt won vs athrogate; kimmuriel had to step in and stop the killing blow.

>>94061145
just awful
The series should have ended when Drizzt picked up Cattiebrie and carried her off at the end of the hunters blades