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| mastermustard |
Posted - 19 Apr 2015 : 21:48:08
I've been collecting FR and then Eberron novels since I was a kid; An Icelandic foreign exchange student, who was staying at my family's house, introduced me to D&D back in 2002. Unfortunately, today I finished reading the entirety of the collected works for both settings, and now that the release schedule has been cut back, and in Eberron's case, halted entirely (to be resurrected later, I hope), I feel that a void has opened up in my life.
Thus, the searh for a new property to get lost in begins. Do you guys have any recommendations? Also, any suggestions for which books to begin with on other d&d setting novel lines?
Thank ye |
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| Wooly Rupert |
Posted - 20 Apr 2015 : 16:47:16
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Originally posted by sylvain
So I would give a big +1 to Dragonlance which has been adapted for D&D.
A minor quibble: Dragonlance was a D&D setting first, and they went back and did fiction afterward.
One of the interesting anecdotes about Dragonlance: Larry Elmore chose to depict Raistlin with gold skin, simply because he thought it looked cool. Weis went to Elmore and asked about the gold skin, and found out there was no story behind it. So she had to come up with an explanation for it... Pretty much Raistlin's entire story came from just trying to come up with an explanation for Larry Elmore's whim. |
| sylvain |
Posted - 20 Apr 2015 : 16:19:16
The problem with D&D is that allot of literary fantasy simply doesn't adapt well with it. Lord of the Rings, A Song of Ice and Fire, Conan etc. none of it works with D&D as D&D is simply to 'high magic'.
So I would give a big +1 to Dragonlance which has been adapted for D&D.
If you want something similar to Game of Thrones, take a look at Birthright. |
| sfdragon |
Posted - 20 Apr 2015 : 06:24:24
some of the pathfinder books are a good read. |
| Wooly Rupert |
Posted - 20 Apr 2015 : 05:27:36
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Originally posted by hobbitfan
Stephen Donaldson: 1st 2 chronicles of Thomas Covenant. Do NOT read the third trilogy. Also fair warning: adult themes.
Thieves World by various. Great short story collections but they go alittle ape-you-know-what towards the end.
DeathGate books by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman
Dragonlance books by the same. Add novels by Doug Niles, Richard Knaak but avoid almost everything else in that line especially Jean Rabe. No NOT read any of her DL books.
Terry Brooks Shannara series if you line Tolkien but only read about the first 2 series. Around 8 books I think.
I'll echo the vote for the Death Gate Cycle. 
I enjoyed The Sword of Shannara, until the time I re-read it after reading The Lord of the Rings for the first time. Since then, I've wondered how Sword even got published -- it's good, but if you've read The Lord of the Rings, then you've read The Sword of Shannara. There are so many common elements betwixt the two that it's not funny.
Also, I remain very bugged by the way the characters react to the prophecy made by the shade of Bremen. Their reaction is so far out there that I almost wonder if it's an editing mistake. |
| Wooly Rupert |
Posted - 20 Apr 2015 : 05:22:29
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Originally posted by hashimashadoo
It's a bit of a trope nowadays but I ADORED the Song of Ice and Fire series before it was adapted for television as Game of Thrones.
I find I cannot discuss the books with anyone I know these days because then they yell at me about the TV series.
One of my mothers-in-law (yes, I have two. And my brother-in-law's in-laws are basically a third set) decided I needed to watch the Game of Thrones TV show.
She decided this whilst I was seated on the couch in their living room.
On one side of me was my wife, who doesn't really like violence on TV or in movies. On the other side of me was my wife's grandmother, 90+ years in age.
As if that awkward scenario wasn't enough, I was also keeping an eye on my son, who was still shy of a year old, and happily exploring a house with no pretense of having been baby-proofed.
Needless to say, I did not particularly enjoy that experience!  |
| Artemas Entreri |
Posted - 20 Apr 2015 : 03:55:15
Malazan Book of the Fallen! |
| hobbitfan |
Posted - 20 Apr 2015 : 01:41:02
Stephen Donaldson: 1st 2 chronicles of Thomas Covenant. Do NOT read the third trilogy. Also fair warning: adult themes.
Thieves World by various. Great short story collections but they go alittle ape-you-know-what towards the end.
DeathGate books by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman
Dragonlance books by the same. Add novels by Doug Niles, Richard Knaak but avoid almost everything else in that line especially Jean Rabe. No NOT read any of her DL books.
Terry Brooks Shannara series if you line Tolkien but only read about the first 2 series. Around 8 books I think.
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| Artemas Entreri |
Posted - 20 Apr 2015 : 01:12:44
Ravenloft and Dark Sun were pretty good. |
| hashimashadoo |
Posted - 20 Apr 2015 : 00:53:49
It's a bit of a trope nowadays but I ADORED the Song of Ice and Fire series before it was adapted for television as Game of Thrones.
I find I cannot discuss the books with anyone I know these days because then they yell at me about the TV series. |
| Wooly Rupert |
Posted - 19 Apr 2015 : 23:30:58
If you've not read any of the Dragonlance books, get the Chronicles and Legends trilogies by Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman. They've written a lot of non-D&D stuff, too, that's really good.
Beyond that, I'd need to know more about your reading preferences, and how willing you are to go past them, before recommending anything. |
| Delwa |
Posted - 19 Apr 2015 : 22:37:51
If it's books and stories you seek, I'll recommend anything by Stephen R. Lawhead. I love his Song of Albion and Pendragon Cycle series. His Bright Empires series just wrapped up, and I'm anxious to finish it. |
