randomwizard

I have been complaining about Dragonlace the last couple of posts, but let me say something good about the concept. It is hard to make up an entire mythos of a fantasy world. It is hard to make up a bazillion names of places and characters. Just making up constellations of the world of Krynn is top notch world building. Tracy Hickman did a good job synthesizing a lot of different things to make a new world.

Although, some of the names are not great in my opinion, enough of them are.

Also, I read he put all this together in less than a year, and also started writing (with Margaret Weiss) the first novel. Even though I dislike the modules, coming up with the concept, getting others at TSR on board, deciding to have novels as tie-ins for the project...

Amazing idea.

#dnd #rpg #ttrpg #dragonlance

Apr 3 at 6:17pmWeb
Show threadPalin1d ago
@randomwizard my opinion is: the books are good, the modules are not.
Show threadcrb1d ago
@palin @randomwizard I really enjoy the books, they're comfort fantasy - and as world building for a AD&D campaign setting, fantastic.

The modules were fun, especially as my group had read the books and then playing the books was so fun. But, after that the best part of them were all the resources and materials that came with them.

I have had groups over the years that preferred pre-made characters/situations though, so there is a place - not specifically for me - but I've went the other way where everything is made up by the group and is homebrewed.
Show threadPalin1d ago
@crb @randomwizard Well I'm not saying the modules couldn't be fun, just they are not good adventures compared to some of the other stuff of the era; they always seemed to me just a bunch of combats and dangerous situations linked with tight railroads.
Show threadPalin1d ago
@crb @randomwizard just a note, as you can see from my nickname, I'm a huge fan of the series (at least those written by Weiss/Hickman) so I'm quite biased on the opposite side of what I'm saying.
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@randomwizard I tried to read the first book. I just can't. Maybe it gets better but this world is lost for me.