4/11/2024 0 Comments Dragonlance chronicles audio books![]() Only problem is: the authors didn't do it. SCORING: Superb (A), Excellent (A-), Very good (B+), Good (B) Fairly Good (B-) Above Average (C+), Mediocre (C ), Barely Passable (C-) Pretty Bad (D+), Dismal (D), Waste of Time (D-), Into the Trash (F)ĭIALOGUE: B/B-/C/D (C ) STRUCTURE: B+ HISTORY SETTING: B (A to game designers) CHARACTERS: B+/B/B-/C/C- (C+) EVIL SETUP/ANTAGONISTS: B- EMOTIONAL IMPACT: B SURPRISES: A- LITTLE THINGS: A- MONSTERS: B (A- to game designers) PACING: B+ OVERALL STYLE: B FLOW OF WORDS: B+/C+ CHOICE OF FOCUS: B+ TRANSITIONS/FLASHBACKS/POV: B COMPLEXITY OF WORDS/SYMBOLISM/THEMES: B. ![]() MARKETING APPEAL: The DRAGONLANCE chronicles had the whole AD&D industry behind them TSR used this tale as a marketing ploy, using their fans and game designers (to set up the world) then, they took some above average writers to do the first trilogy Set up in a typical AD&D adventure (rag tag group of mixed adventurers off to save the world with promise of great magic, great evil, great good and an epic scale) the series took off as a bestseller royalties were probably astounding. Give them to your children to read you could do a whole lot worse.ĬONCEPT: A group of adventurers are chosen to help drive back the Evil from another world led by the Dark Queen. I don't think anything else done by Weis and Hickman comes close to these for me. You care about the characters, you cry with them, and you never want it to end. I grew up with them and the Dragonlance Legends and I will always remember them fondly.Įvery fantasy stereotype is there, you have a quest, you have the battles, you have betrayal, you have good and bad and evil, and most of all, you care about them. ![]() He was always the character that I loved. I remember, even after all these years, Tanis (the hero), Cameron (the warrior), Tasslehoff (kender, plucky, but good for comic relief), Flint (dour dwarf), Sturm (stern, unyielding knight), Kitiara (Kit!).but most of all, I remember reading about Raistlin with his ruined health, his bitterness, his sarcasm, his cruelty to his brother, and his hourglass eyes, and being mostly in love with him. I have not read them in recent years, and I have to confess that I am loathe to do so, because you can never go back, but they deserve 5 stars just for the warm memories I have of them, and how they made me feel as I read them. I have read, and reread, these books many, many times, for comfort, for memory's sake, for any number of reasons. No mean feat given I grew up in a small town in Malaysia! I have to give these five stars because my love of fantasy stems from my stumbling onto these, and reading them, as a teenager. Our newest project is creating the RPG for the wonderful TV series, Firefly. I am the owner of the company, Margaret Weis Productions, publisher of RPGs. My hobby is flyball racing with my dogs, Dixie, a border collie, and two crackhead Shelties, Joey the Thug and Clancy the Hooligan. ![]() The second book is Storm Riders, coming out from Tor in July 2013. I am currently working on the third book in the Dragon Brigade series, the Seventh Sigil. I graduated from the University of Missouri–Columbia and now live in Wisconsin with dogs, Max, Dixie, Joey the Thug and Clancy the Hooligan. I also wrote two paranormal romance novels, Fallen Angel and Warrior Angel, with my daughter, Elizabeth Baldwin. These include: Darksword, Rose of the Prophet, Star of the Guardians, DeathGate, Dragonvarld, Sovereign Stone, Dragonships, and the Dragon Brigade. I've written numerous novels and short stories set in the world of Krynn, as well as series in other, original worlds. Fantasy novelist who, along with Tracy Hickman, was one of the original creators of the Dragonlance game world.
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