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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JML" data-source="post: 9778575" data-attributes="member: 7053956">I was reading quite a lot of the Dragonlance and Forgotten Realms books during the peak years, and while they're mostly enjoyable, there certainly is a fair amount of variance in the overall quality and it became easy to start sorting out by sticking to authors you knew a bit and liked. Weis & Hickman, Salvatore, Cunningham, Knaack, Baker, established themselves as ones that were potentially great but at worst fun. Having recurring characters was generally a positive, I think?There's some charm to the early Gord the Rogue books by Gygax, but also some significant flaws. Makes it hard to get interested in trying to track down the books he co-wrote with Dille. And Estes' Greyhawk books were a real disappointment, unless you're a particular fan of the bumbling barbarian genre.I have friends who swear by the Ravenloft and Dark Sun novels, but I never went there.There definitely writers in all of the fiction who followed the class structures and rules and were clearly trying to apply some game logic and so forth to tie more closely to the game and world, and others who either didn't know or didn't care. YMMV on which style was more successful?</blockquote>