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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Levistus's_Leviathan" data-source="post: 8843334" data-attributes="member: 7023887">Yeah, I read the novels and thought that they were mediocre at best, and the setting never pulled me in or felt special while reading the books. It just felt like a Middle Earth rip-off that did a poor job of hiding its inspirations (not that I have anything against settings like that, I enjoyed Eragon quite a bit more than I enjoyed Dragonlance, but I felt Eragon did a better job of making the story and world interesting).[SPOILER="My Opinion of the Dragonlance Novels (Warning, I'm pretty harsh.)"]And around the same time I read the Dragonlance novels, I read other novels whose settings pulled me in even more (Mistborn, Eragon, Adventurer's Wanted, Lord of the Rings, etc). I just didn't feel immersed or connected to the setting. It was just Middle Earth but with even haughtier elves, chaotic stupid halflings, suicidally stupid tinker gnomes, and offensively stupid gully dwarves. I normally like Gnomes. Dragonlance almost made me hate gnomes and made me understand why other people hate gnomes.And most of the characters were bad or unmemorable. There were two or three warrior dudes that showed up regularly in the War of the Lance that I kept getting mixed up. When one of them died at the end, I didn't care because the books hadn't made me care about him.And I did think some parts of it were cool or good ideas, like Lord Soth, the Draconians, seafaring minotaurs, and having to save the world from a returned evil god after an apocalypse while riding on a shiny dragon with a magical lance. However, a lot of the parts were ruined either by their backstories or poor execution.Basically, I didn't really enjoy the books or think Weis and Hickman were good authors or worldbuilders. And the books were what drew most people to the setting material, right? Dragonlance just felt like a bad copy of the Lord of the Rings. And I read it fairly recently after I read a couple other series that stole a ton from Tolkien (Adventurer's Wanted, Eragon), which I thought were easily superior in practically every way. I remember thinking that a book written by a teenager (Christopher Paolini's Eragon) was better in writing and worldbuilding than a book that two adults wrote together (Weis and Hickman's Dragonlance).So you can understand why I'm not a huge fan of the setting or interested in getting the setting or adventure books. There are parts that I really liked (mainly the stuff that they came up with and didn't steal from Tolkien, like the Draconians and Minotaurs), but I didn't think the novels were good.[/SPOILER]Similar to Explorer's Guide to Wildemount in format. That seems kind of interesting. What town/city in the gazetteer did you think was the best?</blockquote>

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