Talk:Drizzt do'Urden

This seems a little unfair - the canon that Drizzt exists in is Forgotten Realms, which is DnD. Any major character has many of the traits that Drizzt is charged with. DigitalSocrates 18:24, February 24, 2011 (UTC)

It's not so much that he has these traits as a character in DnD, it's the treatment of Drizzt in his books and the sheer number of rules he flaunts. It's not that he's a drow ranger with a panther companion-- it's that he's a drow that goes against all the rules of being a drow, with a magical 10-foot long panther he summons from the Astral Plane. And it's not because he has a fancy sword named Icingdeath, it's because he just so happens to find in the horde of a dragon an obsidian-colored sword named Icingdeath that has the head of a black pantheron it-- of course, imppecably matching his existing motifs regardless of the probability. Heaven forbid it was awesome-powered, but plain. Or green, clashing with his color scheme.

It's not that he has all of the traits, it's that they seem just so explicitly crafted to make him awesome-- instead of an honest character going through an adventure and winning those spoils, they seem to be tailored to Drizzt's needs. As if the character was the Dungeon Master's pet.

Not to mention the precedent he set for all sorts of other DnD characters, DnD writers/fanwriters, and this babying behavior.

TLDR; It's not that he has all of this awesome stuff that is signature of any token DnD epic level character-- it's that it was given so plainly to him and so perfectly tailored to him, his motifs, and his general style and flair it feels like all of this stuff was meant to be in his hands, rather than hard-earned like any normal DnD character's loot. Thus, a Gary Stu. Aster Corbett 19:20, February 24, 2011 (UTC)

I was unaware that Icingdeath was Panther motifed. >.>

Argument relented. DigitalSocrates 20:15, February 24, 2011 (UTC)