Darth Richard II Posted March 4, 2016 Share Posted March 4, 2016 Games Workshop has been in fuck the consumer mode for a while. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peterbound Posted March 10, 2016 Author Share Posted March 10, 2016 Holy shit. This is as bad as I thought it was going to be. Can I skip the book, does it get better as the series progresses? I'm trying to muscle through it, but keep hating myself for not starting Daniel's new book. I'll give a better review when I'm done, but at this rate, it's going to be a while. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Richard II Posted March 10, 2016 Share Posted March 10, 2016 I'm surprised you've never read it. I was under the impression you read as much crap as I did in high school. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peterbound Posted March 10, 2016 Author Share Posted March 10, 2016 Shockingly, this one slipped under my radar. I did read the death gates books by them, but only because the first one came as an extra with the computer game for it. And the dark sword books, those were really bad, but never the dd books. I think I hated tie ins even back then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Richard II Posted March 10, 2016 Share Posted March 10, 2016 Oh man, Darksword is so bad I even hated it in high school. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jo498 Posted March 11, 2016 Share Posted March 11, 2016 9 hours ago, peterbound said: Holy shit. This is as bad as I thought it was going to be. Which book are you referring to? Still the first Dragonlance? It reads like an RPG script and it does not get much better. Regardless of this weakness I did like the characters and the story in general back then. The second "Twins" trilogy is much better in almost every respect, I seem to recall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Richard II Posted March 11, 2016 Share Posted March 11, 2016 Weirdly enough, the first trilogy isn't even technically a tie in by the normal standards, but I don't have the patience to type all that out on my phone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MisterOJ Posted March 11, 2016 Share Posted March 11, 2016 3 minutes ago, Darth Richard II said: Weirdly enough, the first trilogy isn't even technically a tie in by the normal standards, but I don't have the patience to type all that out on my phone. Yeah, didn't the original Dragonlance trilogy kickstart the whole brand? There wasn't any such thing as "Dragonlance" before the original trilogy, was there? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jo498 Posted March 11, 2016 Share Posted March 11, 2016 That's my understanding as well. But it was based on actual role-playing sessions before the books were written, wasn't it? There are also several gaps in the first trilogy, I seem to recall. Peterbound is too old and jaded for this gem... It's poorly written but it has some memorable characters and scenes and the plot is not bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
williamjm Posted March 11, 2016 Share Posted March 11, 2016 6 hours ago, MisterOJ said: Yeah, didn't the original Dragonlance trilogy kickstart the whole brand? There wasn't any such thing as "Dragonlance" before the original trilogy, was there? I'm not sure about the chronology of what got published first, but I got the impression the RPG and the novels were developed simultaneously - Hickman was in charge of designing the RPG and only ended up co-writing the novel after the original author got fired. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Richard II Posted March 11, 2016 Share Posted March 11, 2016 7 hours ago, Jo498 said: That's my understanding as well. But it was based on actual role-playing sessions before the books were written, wasn't it? There are also several gaps in the first trilogy, I seem to recall. Peterbound is too old and jaded for this gem... It's poorly written but it has some memorable characters and scenes and the plot is not bad. Well yes but if you use that logic then Bakker, Erikson, Jordon, and dozens of others are all tie ins. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peterbound Posted March 11, 2016 Author Share Posted March 11, 2016 1 hour ago, Darth Richard II said: Well yes but if you use that logic then Bakker, Erikson, Jordon, and dozens of others are all tie ins. and a shit ton others. However, Dragonlance does take place in the DD world, right? Same rule set and the such. Tie in enough for me. I could be wrong, but it's a tie in in my mind now, so there's no separating it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darth Richard II Posted March 11, 2016 Share Posted March 11, 2016 What gets me is when they have tie ins base don games based on books based on games. Based on other games. 40k and D&D have had a few of those. Or it like how the street fighter movie had its own game. I mean WTF people I have a hard enough time trying to rmemeber all my passwords stop confusing me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ebenstone Posted March 12, 2016 Share Posted March 12, 2016 I did a reread of book one along with Tor.com on my blog. It doesn't hold up as well as I'd hope, BUT there's some stuff there that you can see what they were trying to do with the story. It was the first of it's kind and you could see where they were struggling how to balance the RPG/storytelling elements. I started doing WINTER'S NIGHT too but stopped somewhere along the way with intents of getting back into it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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