Dragonlance was the first fantasy novel series I ever read so it holds a special place in my heart. The Chronicles Trilogy was the first in a series of 10 core books. There are probably well over a 100 books set in the Dragonlance world but these are the ones you need to read.

Chroncicles Trilogy:
Dragons of Autumn Twilight
Dragons of Winter Night
Dragons of Spring Dawning
Legends Trilogy:
Time of the Twins
War of the Twins
Test of the Twins
Transitions to next generation:
Dragons of Summer Flame

The War of Souls:
Dragons of a Fallen Sun
Dragons of a Lost Star
Dragons of a Vanished Moon

I especially recommend the Legends trilogy, they are the only books I know to mix time travel and fantasy. Also, they are about Rastlin and Caramon, by far the most compelling characters.fantasy226 s1 comment CJ58 51

Someone played a dungeons and dragons game (which is based heavily on Tolkien's books) and then decided to write down what their characters did and publish it. And while dungeons and dragons is great fun for those playing it, everyone has had to suffer through players who labor under the mistaken impression that their adventures are just as interesting to everyone else as they are to the player...

"So then, , you know, this Orc came out of the weapons room but I rolled a 20 and I threw my +5 sword and it went right through his shield and practically killed him. And so then, , Arabella threw a level 23 fireball spell at him while Tantros cast an ice spell at the Orc's feet, and so he was, you know, frozen to the floor, , when the fireball hit him...."fantasy149 s2 comments Markus478 1,861

Hear the sage as his song descends
heaven's rain or tears,
and washes the years, the dust of the many stories
from the High Tale of the Dragonlance.

Three centuries have passed since the Cataclysm, where burning mountains fell from the sky and the gods of old abandoned their mortal worshippers. When a group of adventurers come together at the Inn of the Last Home after five long years on their own, they endeavour to begin a search for what has been lost. But darkness awaits them on their journey, and lightning from a cloudless sky, the horrors of war return to the magical world of Krynn.

It's a wonderful feeling when you're able to get immersed in a fantasy story and after a while realise that you started reading the exact right book at the exact right time. Dragons of Autumn Twilight was such a book for me. After reading several huge bricks containing complex tales, all the while also reading tons of historical texts, I needed something light and easy. I picked this book, after having considered it for more than a year, and I couldn't have been happier with that choice.

The Dragonlance series is one of the pillars of modern fantasy, and even though it contains any number of overused tropes, it also produces new ones; tropes that have been used by numerous newer fantasy series since the publication of this book back in 1984.

There are, of course, quite a few downsides to the book. Most of them are in some way connected to the fact that it is really simple. The story is very straightforward, the world is not as developed as most other fantasy worlds, and the writing is not impressive in any way. This could in many ways be considered a YA fantasy, but even so, it was a whole lot better than every single YA book I've ever read before.

I also should mention that I found the book to be a lot funnier than even what seemed to be the authors' intention. Some characters, Fizban the senile mage, were obviously just introduced as comic relief (and it worked perfectly), whereas others had hilarious sides to them, the dwarf Flint Fireforge and his extreme aquaphobia. Perhaps it went a bit too far with the immeasureable stupidity of gully dwarves and the evil goblins' utter uselessness in combat, but hey, it made me smile, so I'm not complaining!

One aspect of the book I enjoyed quite a bit more than I had expected, was characterisation. According to most of the I read before starting this, the characters were generic, shallow and one-dimensional. I could agree with the first of those to some extent, but certainly not with the latter two. Some of these characters, Tanis Half-Elven and Raistlin Majere, were really interesting (though not on the level of my favourite Fizban). They were not among the best fantasy characters I've ever encountered, but I d them, and that's all that matters. The only complaint I can come up with is that the book is too short for the reader to really get to know them, but with so many other books to read from this world, I suspect that won't be a problem for very long.

This was not a brilliant book and it had lots of flaws. But what matters to me is that I really enjoyed reading it. To be honest, this rating would be way too high if I was considering the objective quality of the book. But who cares about objectivity?2015 dragonlance dungeons-and-dragons ...more98 s JonathanAuthor 5 books91

Wow (not a good wow). I just read some of these and ratings. I have to raise my hand and be the voice of reason. The public deserves this.

Let's get something straight here: these books are unreadable for anyone older than 15. I love fantasy and I don't have an issue with the world building or the story here. In my , I sometimes excuse poor writing, characterization and other literary elements when the author does other things extremely well. Most novels have multiple flaws and their relative importance to each reader will dictate how much enjoyment is sucked out of the read.

I could not excuse the literary flaws in this book. They were repetitive, sharp and massive.

The characters are as flat as pancakes. At least pancakes have two sides. These guys are so utterly simple. I realize that this book was a relative trailblazer in the early 1980s, so it's hard to say that they are stereotypes. But they are stereotypes. The first 200 pages basically consists of gathering members of the Quest. They are picked up gum stuck to your shoe; there's no subtlety. As every typical fantasy element was gathered for the Quest, I wondered how this was different than LOTR, other than being crappy.

I thought it would be interesting to read the annotated version of this book so I could see what the authors were thinking. Normally this gives you insight into their thought process, how this plot line impacts the overall story or some background information for characters that might be interesting. Somehow the notations made it worse. My eyes almost rolled straight out of my skull several times as the authors' simple thought process was revealed to me the opening of a pack of Kraft cheese singles.

The writing is simplistic to the Nth degree. I've never encountered so many adverbs in a single tome.

I only got to page 350 or so, with my effort set to maximum. Perhaps pages 351 and beyond are genius but I'll never know. I'll live.

(As a gigantor caveat, I'll add that I would not discourage kids from reading this - it would be accessible and fun for them.)fantasy fiction98 s Mayim de Vries583 956

Disclaimer: My rating is purely sentimental. Dragons of Autumn Twilight is a read down the memory lane. If I were to rate it on the basis of my current standards and preferences, it would score 3 stars the most. As it is, it has been one of the earliest fantasy books I have ever read and it still engulfs me in the fuzzy warmth of initial wonder that there are other fantasy books beside the Lord of the Rings and that I can read them and love them as much as I . It’s also one of the three books sporting dragons that I truly , which I consider a feat in itself.

This book has one saving grace that simultaneously constitutes its greatest pitfall: it’s as classic as classics go. You will find here every existing trope and the novel doesn’t even pretend to deviate off the beaten tracks of the usual fantasy figures and cliches. In 1984 that was quite alright, over 30 years later, while the book passes the test of time, it loses some of its shine and allure. If you are a young reader and relatively new to fantasy, there is a huge chance you will it, otherwise, it can drive you crazy with predictability and a narrative bordering on a draft movie script.

Amid the rising tide of evil, dragons return to the world of Krynn led by the powerful Queen of Darkness, Takhisis. The humankind is lost, the gods of light have apparently abandoned men, the wisdom of the old ages is lost and there are no heroes to lead them into the battle. Luckily, in the Inn of the Last Home, a group of people is forced to form a party of unwilling and mistrustful allies forced by the circumstances. Their first quest is to save a powerful artifact from the power of darkness: goblins, draconians and other sycophants of the Lord Verminaard, one of the generals of the evil Queen.

Anybody who ever played the Baldur’s Gate will immediately recognise the standard composition of an adventuring party. You will have Tanis, the half-elf, torn between the two races of his heritage, Flint, the dwarf, Raistlin the frail mage and his twin-brother Caramon, your typical hack-and-slash warrior, the heroic paladin Sturm, Goldmoon and Riverwind, two barbarians, Tika, a buxom tavern girl and Laurana, a beautiful elven maiden.

The most innovative the book has to offer are two characters: Fizban, the wizard and Tasslehoff Bourrfoot, the kender. The first one, while being a derivative of your generic Gandalf- all-wise and mighty figure, has its own quirks that make him quite unique. Fizban disguises himself as a senile and not quite up-to-date with reality. Plainly speaking, quite crazy. Nobody knows how powerful he is, nobody suspects how vital a character for the forces of Light and nobody takes him seriously. His frequent discussions with trees and heated debates with other inanimate objects might have something to do with it.

Tasllehoff, on the other hand, is your generic derivative of a hobbit. Kenders are, small and annoying children. This race knows no fear and their definition of property is a little bit skewed. Tas is the main source of humour and comic relief in the book (even though his reflections on how small things make the difference is one of the wisest passages in the book).

The story is undoubtedly character driven. Indeed, forming the adventuring party takes most of the time and individual members need to reconcile with each other or find their way and place in the group. As the plot unfolds, the companions discover their true goals in the coming war and need to come to terms with their personal burdens, backstories, and destinies. Mind you, the story is naive (I have read more mature YA by contemporary authors) and presents an idealised vision of the world, but is fast paced and still able to grasp reader’s attention. You might give it a try.

Also in the series:

2. Dragons of Winter Night
3. Dragons of Spring Dawning 73 s Curtis Westman20 13

When I was nine years old, I wrote a short story about an elf and a mage traversing an imaginary world and banishing evil back to the depths from whence it came. I was proud of the story. I showed it to my family and they read it, and pretended it was great. They put it on the fridge.

I reread the story years later and it was a difficult decision whether I should laugh or whether the embarrassment was too much even for hysterics. I thought fantasy fiction had a formula that alternated between a short climax and a short resolution the regular, predictable oscillations of a wave pattern. that wave pattern, it seemed to go on and on so that a 20-paged story seemed to take forever to read. At nine years old, I thought this was an exciting, scintillating narrative. I thought it should be published. But it shouldn't have, I know that now.

It's a shame that the whole thing may as well have been plagiarized from this novel. They share the same structure, the same generic character models and the same laughably simplistic moralities that I could have been summarizing a 400-paged novel. And yet, my version didn't take five hours of your life. My version didn't make you sigh and look wistfully out the window as if to say, "since reading this book, time has passed inexorably onward, I have aged terribly, and yet I have learned nothing." The clouds float by and the traffic continues on the street, but a part of you has died. Un the novel, however, when pieces of your soul die, they stay dead. The same cannot be said for the major characters in Dragons of Autumn Twilight.

The plot reads as if played through a Dungeons and Dragons campaign. Not simply in the sense that it's disorganized and illogical, but also because the reader actually gets the sense that someone is rolling dice to determine the outcome. At various parts of the book that are meant to be exciting, the narrative devolves into explanations of the mechanics of the game. Raistlin is a mage, and thus must memorize his spells every morning if he is to use them throughout the day. Everyone is suddenly struck by fear and must roll 1d20 for a fear check (except the Kender, because he's immune). Tanis, as an elf, is able to see the aura of all living things, except past chapter 5 because it's too hard to keep talking about that ability for too long.

It's an ordeal to read. But I loved it when I was nine. I also had no idea what true hardship was.

I do now. It gives me a basis of comparison. There are many hardships I'd rather face than reading this novel again.read-in-201160 s Graeme6 8

I first read this book about the time it came out, when I was about 10 or 11... and recently found an identical, battered paperback copy at a thrift store. Dipping back into it twenty-odd years later, it has many shortcomings. However, it still takes me back to that time when I'd read under the covers at night with a dying flashlight, and fell asleep dreaming of wizards, warriors and strange, forgotten lands. 45 s Sade321 45


1.5 stars
I honestly believe that if I had read this book when i was way younger, I would have absolutely loved it.
Now though, PHEW!!!! It's kinda hard to overlook the toxic fragile masculinity, the idiocy, pointless pride and female idiot quota that makes up the companions who are to save the world. Quite frankly the only person who had a lick of sense in this book was Raistlin.

Riverwind aka Masculinity so fragile: How on earth did such a toxic character get written? This guy was supposed to be Goldmoon's le boo but apparently he couldn't handle her being his leader. How the heck do you fall in love with someone you clearly know will lead your people, essentially be your boss and start forming omg i fell in love with Goldmoon and not the chieftain's daughter? is this not madness???
...still you are now their ruler- bitterness had crept into his voice - and I will be husband of Chieftain
Goldmoon does the classic spineless female (I feel this is something authors in this genre loved to do) and tries to comfort him dude goes
"I was thinking about it last night. I've been gone so many years. My thoughts were of you as a woman. I did not realize- he swallowed and then drew a deep breath. I left Goldmoon. I returned to find Chieftain's Daughter"
Goldmoon tries to reason with him, telling him she had no choice as her father had fallen ill and couldn't lead and if she hadn't stepped up to the plate so to speak someone else would have taken over.
Know what masculinity so fragile did after this impassioned plea?
"Riverwind listened his face stern and unmoving. He stared at a point above her head. We should get started he said coldly. It's nearly dawn".
Dude kept disrespecting her at every turn until she finally asks for forgiveness for being Chieftain's daughter.
"Oh my beloved. I am sorrier than i can say that you came home to chieftain's daughter and not Goldmoon"
TF?????!!!!!!!
He also apologises but excuses his behaviour on the fact that she didn't tell him all that she had been through.. I'm just here TF??
At which point she agrees to rescind her title as Chieftain's daughter when their journey comes to an end. Of course he doesn't argue.
At every point when Goldmoon had an opinion that didn't go with his, this.. this... little turd would shoot her down in the rudest way. WTF???!!!
I really do not understand how this utterly, despicable chauvinist got hailed as one of the heroes.

Tanis: This was supposedly the leader of the group. I guess they chose him because he was a sturdy fellow but hot damn if there ever was a bland character this would be it. He was just bleh. Take a fucking decision be bloody decisive for crying out loud but nope. Dude couldn't even make up his mind about his love life Ugh!!! I don't know about you guys but when shit happens and the author keeps telling you, your heroes is scared and hands are shaking and they're ready to piss their pants (okay probably overboard there) but yeah, you start looking at them okayyyyyyyyyyyyyy, can i get another hero please?

Sturm: Another despicable human being who couldn't think for himself. Absolutely did not this character simply because he was close minded little shit!! I absolutely could not understand why he hated Raistlin (maybe there's history there) and why at every turn he kept shouting that Raistlin had betrayed them.. Dude was dim honestly. Let's not forget the other times he would have gladly put the others in death's way just because his bloody knight oath or some shit that said don't retreat.. Dude if you want to commit suicide, please go ahead, but don't drag the others into it.

Tasslehoff Burrfoot: Fucking idiot character.

Flint: Now that i think about it. Flint was just there can't say his character got fleshed out so much. Reminded me of the dwarf character in Lord of the Rings though. So maybe you can substitute the two. Apparently dwarves have the same personality across books.

Goldmoon, Laurana and Tika: These were basically the 3 main female characters in the novel, with Laurana and Tika joining the group much later in the adventure. Goldmoon we already know, Tika is presented as a strong opinionated female character so i guess there's hope for her. Laurana is presented as the female who wants to prove to the guy she loves that she's all grown up and can fight. Miss me with that bull shit. but there you have it, the glorious female characters of Dragons of Autumn twilight.

All in all it wasn't a very enjoyable book. I did not the female characters were presented and there were instances were the continuation of scenes were off. That aside if you can stand the narration coming off you're watching a kid's program, chauvinistic characters, dim witted knights, bleh leaders, you may enjoy the book.
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La trilogia delle "Cronache di Dragonlance"
e' il racconto di un'avventura epica.

Siamo negli anni ottanta, i giochi di ruolo come Dungeons & Dragons hanno riscosso un enorme successo a livello mondiale e molti scrittori utilizzano le loro avventure al tavolo per poi riportarle in romanzi.

Le basi dell'ambientazione prendono spunto dal fantasy Tolkieniano e dalle caratteristiche di D&D, con nani ed elfi, cavalieri e chierici, draghi e magia, ma ogni elemento, anche se pieno di cliché viene ripresentato a corredo di una storia che raggiunge delle vette eroiche ed epiche.

I personaggi sono iconici, abbastanza stereotipati, seguono le classi e i ruoli del gioco ma come lettura, anche se semplice, risulta tuttavia piacevole. Una grande avventura dove l'amicizia e il sacrificio sono i temi preponderanti.

Anche se lo stile non è eccezionale e il lavoro di introspezione non troppo sviluppato, la vera forza della saga è la storia che viene narrata e i rapporti tra i protagonisti. Tiene incollati e procede spedita, catapultandoci in un mondo incredibile di avventure e gesta eroiche. Il risultato è una tra le avventure più iconiche del fantasy e ideale porta di entrata al genere.

Come si può dimenticare uno dei personaggi piu' affascinanti e famosi di tutta la letteratura fantasy: il tenebroso mago Raistlin, unico ed irripetibile?

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The "Chronicles of Dragonlance" trilogy
It's the story of an epic adventure.

We are in the eighties, role-playing games Dungeons & Dragons have enjoyed enormous success worldwide and many writers use their adventures at the table to then turn them into novels.

The basis of the setting is inspired by Tolkien fantasy and the characteristics of D&D, with dwarves and elves, knights and clerics, dragons and magic, but every element, even if full of clichés, is re-presented to accompany a story that reaches heroic heights and epic.

The characters are iconic, quite stereotyped, they follow the classes and roles of the game but as a read, even if simple, it is nevertheless pleasant. A great adventure where friendship and sacrifice are the predominant themes.

Even if the style is not exceptional and the work of introspection is not too developed, the real strength of the saga is the story that is told and the relationships between the protagonists. It keeps us hooked and proceeds quickly, catapulting us into an incredible world of adventures and heroic deeds. The result is one of the most iconic fantasy adventures and an ideal gateway to the genre.

How can we forget one of the most fascinating and famous characters in all of fantasy literature: the dark wizard Raistlin, unique and unrepeatable?fantasy saga-dragonlance weis39 s Melissa ? Dog/Wolf Lover ? Martin3,589 10.8k

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