Comments on: Cage Match 2010, Round 3: 8) Ged versus 17) Drizzt Do’Urden

By: GED

GED — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 12:56:23 +0000

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By: dpomerico

dpomerico — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 15:54:06 +0000

Poor Ged–he just gets no respect, I think.
But good for Drizzt–the drow has some skills, and is now in the Final Four, where he faces possibly his greatest foe yet: Rand Al’Thor.
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By: alicelouise58

alicelouise58 — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 13:13:38 +0000

He pondered his fortunes up to this point. Drizzt knew that he had incredible good fortune to this point. His next opponent might not allow for that.
Rand al’thior seemed a demi-god. Drizzt, of course, had defeated such before but, not quite on the scale of Rand. In his home world all of his abilities had served him at least with adequacy.
What to do? He read the accounts of past matches over the last few ten day periods and Rand’s own history. Cadderly had found one such account of Rand at Edificant.
Al’thiors strengths were many.
!. He was a fighter/mage. Both skill sets were of equal brilliance. In Faerun one was primary but, the other usually was secondary.
It was if he had the abilities of Gromph, Alustriel, Zak, and Artemis Entrieri in one being without limits.
Weaknesses:
1. He was missing his left hand and had a wound that wouldn’t heal. Bedeviling that flank might help.
2. It was said Rand was mentally unstable. This had not helped the previous contestants; Drizzt morosely thought.
3. Balefire? Could there be a limit? Don’t count on it.
He needed his Companions he thought with anguish. But you don’t have them! Drizzt stopped his previous self pitying musings. The details of the past ten day encounters came to him.
The first he had been resistant to the woman’s magic. When her mate/Lover? came to rescue her, it was as a wild Berserker not a warrior. Drizzt had easily accessed the Hunter and prevailed.
The second, he wanted to live. Was that monstrous construct even a being? It was dumb luck. The words Hail Mary Pass came into his head. Aegis Fang did work but why and how he didn’t know. Regis had suggested that the construct went out of Cage and was disqualified. Whatever, Aegis Fang was ruined and if he survived this he didn’t know what he’d say to Wulfgar or Wulfgar to him. Would that were his only worries…
ENOUGH!! The Hunter was starting to take over. Time was of the essence. The match started in a few hours…
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By: Redgum

Redgum — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 12:38:07 +0000

Ged will own the Drow. I can’t believe The Shrike was defeated, but I digress.
Surely Cullen is an incubus, or is the feminine form a slight on the sparkly one?

By: Redgum

Redgum — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 12:31:01 +0000

Ged will own the Drow. I can’t believe The Shrike was defeated, but I digress.
Surely Cullen is an incubus, or is the feminine form a slight on the sparkly one?

By: Liam

Liam — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 06:59:55 +0000

Disagree. Drizzt is a total Marty Stu character, as most D&D characters are. The DM loads them down with a full kit of magical equipment (aka Drizzt’s anklets of speed, his two magical swords, his powerful astral ally), they make them “special” and “renowned” in every way, on and on. For a D&D campaign it makes total sense. I’m also not saying I didn’t enjoy the Drizzt books myself, they were all quite entertaining. However Drizzt quite simply cannot compare to the depth of characterization apparent in Ged.
He’s also, by now, the most powerful and wise mage in his world. Does some lowly swordsman, no matter how talented, really stand a chance against that? Drizzt wins all of his fights because that is how D&D books are supposed to go, the underdog hero wins against all odds against spectacular opponents in flashy heroic battles. Ged, by comparison, won his battles through fortitude, accumulated wisdom, and ingenuity.
Also remember that in the books he uses his power with extreme restraint, believing that a wise wizard does not interfere unless it is necessary. Where he has used his power you can see how extremely competent he is. Driven by necessity, there is no question that he would overwhelm Drizzt utterly.
He could name Drizzt, and thus hold sway over him. This has been the most common argument. No Drizzt is likely not his “real” name, but remember that Ged is a master namer, and can divine the name of a person intuitively (and has done so on many occasions).
Ged also has command over his own shape, and could morph into any manner of mighty creatures. Perhaps he could take the shape of a dragon, and crush the puny little Drow. Or change into a giant bird, and drop rocks on him.
He also has control over the elements. He could blast Drizzt with overpowering winds, cause the earth to rise up and swallow him, crush him with waves, call upon the trees to grab him, and on and on. He could also call upon any number of these or more to shield himself from the Drow’s measly physical attacks.
Also remember that Ged, AS A CHILD, tore through the barrier between life and death and let forth a horrible evil creature of great power who, as a child, he defeated. Drizzt may be a peerless swordsman, and I would champion him against Jaime Lannister any day, but the highest mage in earthsea?
Not a chance

By: objectsession

objectsession — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 04:45:13 +0000

“When it comes to Dungeons and dragons characters they are of course ridiculously overpowered”
whaat!? you think the dungeons and dragons characters (raistlin and drizzt) are ridiculously overpowered compared to the other characters here?
“But it is still so sad to see good wellwritten characters go down against skindeep cardboard characters whose only purpose is to be cool and tote around overpowered abilities and items.”
is this something you experienced first hand from reading dungeons and dragons books? referring to characters in d&d books (which is several hundred books at least, i think) as overpowered sounds wrong to me. in part, the d&d books are meant to demonstrate how the rpg rules would play out in a narrative, but if anything, that makes sure that they are *not* overpowered. wizards (until recently, i guess) were limited by spells per day, had to take time to cast spells, etc.
further, there definitely seems to be a range of character power and a progression of power over the span of a d&d book or series, partially due to the fact that d&d is built on a level progression. and as far as i know, d&d books tend to use the character party model. several characters have to work together to achieve a goal.

By: Dragonpwny

Dragonpwny — Tue, 30 Mar 2010 04:15:15 +0000

All these wizard/mage people with their true name stuff =/ I just doesn’t seem logical to me that anything would have a “true name” that you could just say and it would be destroyed. But then nothing in fantasy is logical so…hah hah. I haven’t read anything about Ged or Kvothe but it doesn’t seem like an interesting story when they can win so easily. But I guess I’ll find out when I do read those books

By: Jared

Jared — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 19:10:29 +0000

Drizzt has a high chance to win. He has killed powerful mages, a dragon, and a demon as well. Im not even counting all the dark elfs he killed to get out of the Underdark. Drizzt would have a good chance to win. He studys the enemy, and in the end, rarly loses.

By: Raven

Raven — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 16:53:09 +0000

Icingdeath is not the sword’s true name, Drizzt picked that name halfway through the series. The sword was name Twinkle when he got it, but I somehow doubt that that is the true name of anything.