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<blockquote data-quote="nute" data-source="post: 3366374" data-attributes="member: 10607">As I see it, if the setting as published in the gamebooks is engaging enough - I don't need to read a novel to enjoy it. In some cases, bad novels have pushed me away from a setting that I may otherwise have enjoyed. YMMV, but I hated the Dragonlance books. So much so that I couldn't get into the campaign setting at all. Part of that, though, is also due to the tunnel-vision narrowness of the setting. Good for a one-shot for fans of the books, bad for long-term anything. Conversely, I abhor the Forgotten Realms setting (even down to the typeface used on the FR gamebooks), but some of the novels have been kind of interesting. On the other hand, there are some settings I'd LOVE to see the backstory of written out in novels. Greyhawk, for instance (aside from those HORRIBLE Gord the Thief novels). Dangit, get us a good author to tell the stories of the Circle of Eight, the wars against Iuz, etc! To heck with this Elminster chump, gimme a novel with Mordenkainen as a central character and I'd be all over it like newbies on Exotic Weapon Proficiency (spiked chain). In short: I can't think of any situations where novels have made me MORE likely to enjoy a setting. As good as some of the Eberron novels are, the setting itself is better and captured my interest immediately.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="nute, post: 3366374, member: 10607"] As I see it, if the setting as published in the gamebooks is engaging enough - I don't need to read a novel to enjoy it. In some cases, bad novels have pushed me away from a setting that I may otherwise have enjoyed. YMMV, but I [i]hated[/i] the Dragonlance books. So much so that I couldn't get into the campaign setting at all. Part of that, though, is also due to the tunnel-vision narrowness of the setting. Good for a one-shot for fans of the books, bad for long-term anything. Conversely, I abhor the Forgotten Realms setting (even down to the typeface used on the FR gamebooks), but some of the novels have been kind of interesting. On the other hand, there are some settings I'd LOVE to see the backstory of written out in novels. Greyhawk, for instance (aside from those HORRIBLE Gord the Thief novels). Dangit, get us a good author to tell the stories of the Circle of Eight, the wars against Iuz, etc! To heck with this Elminster chump, gimme a novel with Mordenkainen as a central character and I'd be all over it like newbies on Exotic Weapon Proficiency (spiked chain). In short: I can't think of any situations where novels have made me MORE likely to enjoy a setting. As good as some of the Eberron novels are, the setting itself is better and captured my interest immediately. [/QUOTE]

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