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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ravellion" data-source="post: 3482309" data-attributes="member: 538">I read DL right after the LotR. I was *so* relieved that DL actually had some pacing. I must confess though that I later became a literature student, but I still find any novel longer than 300 pages cannot impress me. Especially all that 19th century crap! Yeck! So I specialized in drama <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> (but DL and LotR are both not that great from a literary standpoint, just for different reasons).But DL, oh DL! Those characters are still more alive in my head than any other, with the possible exception of Gatsby. Maybe Heathcliff (from Wuthering Heights - pretty much the only 19th century novel I like). Remember Sturm saying "Run? From this rabble?". Or in Legends, the alternate future where Raistlin had conquered everything: the vitriol, the rage, used by Raistlin in his words in the tower of high sorcery. I love Sturm and Raistlin.For gaming, I always had problems with DL though. I couldn't get my PCs to shine like the main characters did in the novels. But the novels definitely had their influence on my games, even in other campaign worlds.</blockquote>