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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kerakus" data-source="post: 1698155" data-attributes="member: 20951">Dragonlance and breaking the contract...I think a series of books holds to the same contract principle as a single book.  The first few books, you learn to expect certain things.  Again, breaking the contract in a good way that takes the series in an interesting new direction can work, but sometimes it just all goes wrong.Dragonlance, for example.  Chronicles and Legends got me into the fantasy genre and D&D.  They form the cornerstone of my fantasy mindset the way Tolkien does for most people.  But I never got a chance to read Dragons of Summer Flame until a couple years ago....and it is one of those books I wish I had never read.  It seems, to me, that Weis Hickman wrote the book with the specific intent of killing the setting.  And the book itself breaks the expectation contract by setting up a potentially interesting epic battle with Chaos in the beginning...and then ruins it completely with cheesy deaths for heroes from the original series, letting evil overrun the world and allowing the main bad guy to get taken down by dumb luck and a kender.  It is my belief that the book was written because Weis and Hickman wanted to ruin their world for TSR.  I have never read anything Dragonlance published after Dragons of Summer of Flame, nor do I intend to.Q</blockquote>