I remember when I was about 14 until I was eighteen in the Nineties that I would always go to Waldenbooks every week and pick up a five dollar Dungeons and Dragons novel for DRAGONLANCE, THE FORGOTTEN REALMS, RAVENLOFT, or DARK SUN. Between this and the STAR WARS Legends books, I think I must have read two hundred of these novels. Some of them were terrible but others were really entertaining.
My favorite books of this time period were THE DRAGONLANCE LEGENDS books by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman due to their focus on Raistlin Majere the perfect antihero wizard as well as his romance with Crysania the Cleric of Paladine. They were not just good D&D fantasy but good fantasy period. I also really enjoyed the FINDER’S STONE trilogy by Jeff Grubb (who did a lot of really funny Forgotten Realms fantasy).
There were a lot of really good books from this time period, though, and I made a few lists on my website talking about my top ten favorites. I, STRAHD was a bit gamey in places but really good if you loved vampires and MORDENHEIM was an underated Frankenstein-esque tale of a Doctor who kept ignoring the various supernatural signs that the gods were very real and not pleased with his work on reanimating the dead.
Does any one have any experiences or books they remember well of that ilk?
by CT_Phipps
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Absolutely! I still go pick up my Dragonlance Chronicles and Legends books to read again about once a year.
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I read The Dragonlance Chronicles and The Icewind Dale trilogy and in StarWars, Thrawn trilogy, the Bounty Hunter trilogy, Shadows of the Empire while on deployment in the Army. I plan on reading some of the Ravenloft books soon
I haven’t yet- do any of them in particular hold up if we read them today?