For those of you who read fantasy novels...

[Dick Sirloin]

http://rinkworks.com/fnovel/


Brilliant!

 

[lizard]

haha that's pretty good.

 

[Ellestin]

Does your novel contain a character whose sole purpose is to show up at random plot points and dispense information?

Hehe... now that applies to 99% of heroic fantasy grub.

 

[Conspicuously Absent]

good fantasy novels are hard to find.

 

[Ellestin]

good fantasy novels are hard to find.

G.G. Kay is your man, up to "A Song for Arbonne" anyway, I haven't read the recent ones.

Tad Williams' first quadrilogy is pretty solid and endlessly imaginative too, but I guess he wouldn't complete the questionnaire

 

[Conspicuously Absent]

George RR Martin
R.A Salvatore
Terry Goodkind
and some other authors who i can't remember, i just know the books, lol.

 

[Dick Sirloin]

Terry Goodkind

He fits this questionaire to a fucking T. Especially these...

Does nothing happen in the first fifty pages?
Is your main character a young farmhand with mysterious parentage?
Is your main character the heir to the throne but doesn't know it?
Is your story about a young character who comes of age, gains great power, and defeats the supreme badguy?
Is your story about a quest for a magical artifact that will save the world?
Does your story revolve around an ancient prophecy about "The One" who will save the world and everybody and all the forces of good?
Does your novel contain a character whose sole purpose is to show up at random plot points and dispense information?
Is the evil supreme badguy secretly the father of your main character?
Is the king of your world a kindly king duped by an evil magician?
Does "a forgetful wizard" describe any of the characters in your novel?
How about "a powerful but slow and kind-hearted warrior"?
How about "a wise, mystical sage who refuses to give away plot details for his own personal, mysterious reasons"?
Do any of your female characters exist solely to be captured and rescued?
Do any of your female characters exist solely to embody feminist ideals?

 

[Demonspell]

Excellent synopsis of the types of Tolkien wannabe fantasy I try to avoid...