It’s been a long-held belief that Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman’s Dragonlance novels are superior to all other Dungeons & Dragons novels. Although I’ve frequently admitted being a bigger fan of the Forgotten Realms books growing up, upon re-reading Dragons of Autumn Twilight for the first time in 30+ years, I…

Why is the Blue Crystal Staff’s crystal red in the 2000 anniversary illustration?

Raistlin rules. His story in the “Twins” series is entirely badass. 

Yep, Jeff Easley did the second major version of the covers and Stawicki the third. Neither of them had that Elmore magic, though.

The book that introduced me to my all time favorite fictional character, Laurana.

I literally think that Kiefer Sutherland phoned it in. He probably got the script, called the studio and just read his part on the phone, followed with a send me the check.

This was the first book I read after the Lord of the Rings in 5th grade (I think?) and it turned me into a fantasy fan for life.

I’ve read and reread The Dragonlance Chronicles a number of times in my life. I credit them for really getting into D&D as a pre-teen. These were my favorite books back then. That Elmore cover just fees so cozy to me. As an adult rereading them I can still find them pleasurable but flawed. The last time I read them I…

Upon reading the title to the article I could not help but immediately think of Otik’s Spiced Potatoes which feature quite often in these books. I’ve thought on more than one occasion to make them.

Rob, minor correction: Larry Elmore did that original cover.

Been thinking about revisiting these recently. I remember the Scholastic Book Fair versions of this particular saga (broken up into more, shorter books) were my introduction to the world of fantasy literature in elementary school.

Honestly, the dream job at this point would be to retire somewhere with legal weed and…

So there’s was a straight-to-DVD animated adaptation of the book released in 2007 that looks like it was made in 1997 or so. The 2D animation looks like the old X-Men cartoon, and the CG looks like a later PlayStation game. Also, the only things that seem to be CG are the bad guys? Enjoy the trailer, if you dare.

“I’m afraid of Aphemians”

Quite a few of the Forgotten Realms trilogies are actually stand-alone novels with a duology-sequel tacked on when the first book didn’t crash and burn, and others are trilogies only in the most incredibly loose sense (this does improve later on when they realised each FR novel was going to sell ~300,000 copies…

Unbelievably, five of the eight actors in that photo are dead.

I re-read the first one a year or so ago. It wasn’t . . . bad, but it wasn’t the great novel I remembered. The bigger problem is that after the first six or so books it just really isn’t that good anymore.

I adored Dragonlance at a certain age. But... I also adored the Sword of Truth and Xanth around the same age, both of which are (different kinds of) horror-shows. I wonder how much of the earlier books hold up? I mean, we all hated Summer Flame and the War of Souls trilogy, but what about like, Autumn Twilight? I have…

Yeah, after Dragonlance: The Second Generation and Dragons of Summer Flame, let alone all of the later-books after that... why would I want any of this?

“Tasslefoot” ?!?!

I’m sure I’ve read this book, as I read nearly all the Dragonlance books back then. Although I tried to stick with main characters and their side adventures.