"Trevor Goodchild" on gab was mentioning that dragonlance holds up pretty well as a fun read. As teenager my friends and I just loved it. And I think the archetypes of Tanis, Raistlin etc were quite well drawn.
Has anybody read it lately?
Also: Same question, but with the "dragonriders of Pern"
The earlier series were great. I find Dragons of Summer Flame and everything thereafter to be annoying and not as great.
The latest DL is woke feminist trash. The authors were forced to write it like that to conform to Wotc's feminist ESG policies.
Earlier Forgotten Realms, Dark Sun and Spelljammer books were also very entertaining. By earlier I mean all the 2nd edition rules (TSR) books. The 3rd Ed books were meh but the most recent ones are woke trash.
Dragonriders of Pern is also a fantastic series. Crystal series isn't too bad either. I haven't read anything else from AM.
The earlier FASA era Shadowrun and Battletech books were also very entertaining.
Dragonriders of Pern is always a good read, and kind of refreshing with the brutalist feudal setting (especially as it goes on, and you get explanations for why society backslid so hard. Plague and population crash sure as hell could be expected to make Holders jealous of their breeding females ...
The setting is probably why the movie has been in Development Hell for so long. And they can't accuse the author of sexism, either.
Yes. They’re fun and the characters are, for the most part, likeable and memorable. The original trilogy, and the Ralstan and Cameron books are extremely fun reads. Its funny because the archetypes and trope characters of yesteryear have been gone so long thanks to deconstruction and subversion, that a knight in shining armor like Sturm Brightblade is incredibly refreshing.
I’ve stopped reading any fantasy, horror, or SciFi published after 2012 and it’s caused reading to become my go to hobby again. Stuff like Dragonlance, Dragon Riders of Pern, Book of Swords, Book of the New Sun, Heroes Die, and the Hyperion Cantos by Dan Simmons absolutely destroy anything published in the last decade. Reject modernity, embrace tradition.
The season cycle was great, but the rest of the setting is kinda meh.