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Message: <blockquote data-quote="takyris" data-source="post: 2299083" data-attributes="member: 5171">I agree. Which is why I didn't do so. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />I make no claims of knowing what will be widely popular 100 years from now. I can, however, comfortably hazard a guess as to whether an individual work won't be widely popular 100 years from now.Dragonlance won't be taught in schools -- which, while I accept and heartily endorse Voc's point that what's taught in schools isn't a mark of true quality any more than popularity is, still means that it won't get that university publicity that Virginia Woolf and Jane Austen are getting these days. And while the Chronicles are reasonably popular (and very well-known within the gamer-geek world), they don't have the mass of appeal that Holmes, Conan, Savage, Hobbits, or Aslan do -- heck, they might sell better, but the folks above are so well-remembered at least partly because they were the big fish in the little pond of the time, creating a new genre or showing themselves to be remarkably fine examples of a genre with few competitors. Dragonlance, on the other hand, is one fantasy series among a whole lot of other fantasy series. It's great that it's based on D&D -- that's why I read it -- but 100 years from now, that's not going to be a selling point for anyone but very old roleplayers. If it weren't based on D&D, what would differentiate it from all the other fantasy in the very big fantasy-fiction pond?  (Sure, not as big as I'd like, but a heck of a lot bigger than it was 100 years ago.) What's going to make people 100 years from now choose these books instead of Tolkien, Martin, Gaiman, Hobb, Keyes, Modessit, Lackey, Britain, or anyone else? I'm not saying the aforementioned authors are better, but if you ask in general fantasy-reader circles and not gamer-specific-circles, I believe all of the above (except maybe Britain) outsell the Dragonlance Chronicles.The only thing different about the Dragonlance books is the D&D basis, and I doubt that's going to keep it going for anyone but historical gamer-geeks a hundred years from now.</blockquote>

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