AE, I ran FR campaigns for about 10 years, but got out of all of that a couple years ago. Just not enough time with everything else in my life. Yeah, its surprising who is into all of that, when you look at the diversity of people from different walks of life.
No it doesn't. Especially when all the other guys bring crap loads of junk food. You get no sleep and are tempted to each crap the entire time. I wouldn't mind getting a game going again, but my old group has spread out so much, and we used to hate trying to bring new players in unless we could teach them ourselves. Most players are not serious role-players, if they have experience with RPG's and can actually screw your campaign up. Right now my old group (the one's that I have any contact with now out of the 14 or 15 that came in out of the game for any length of time) is spread out over Dallas, Houston with one in Kileen, one in Austin, and me alone in College Station. Oh well.
Salvatore is the shiznit. Any new books in the series lately? Last book I read was seige of darkness or starless night, can't remember which came first.