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Message: <blockquote data-quote="CrusaderX" data-source="post: 120843" data-attributes="member: 808">I enjoyed Dragonlance mainly because I was 12 or 13 when the first novel came out.  It was probably the first novel I bought on my own, mainly because I was regularly playing D&D at the time, and the Larry Elmore cover art was so damn pretty (yes, I had a crush on Goldmoon).  I was rather new to fantasy (I didn't read Tolkien until my college years), and I really cared for the DL characters.I've read the first two trilogies, and a few short stories, but never read any of the novels not written by Weis and Hickman.  I've thought about reading Dragons of Summer Flame, and the Weis and Hickman books following it, but have chosen not to.   One of the main appeals that Dragonlance has for me is the nostalgia factor involved, of being 12 years old and reading about these characters going through a struggle but ultimately winning in the end.  Call me old-fashioned, but I like the idea of Caramon and Tika and Tanis and Laurana and Riverwind and Goldmoon living happily ever after, and I'm satisfied to keep them that way in my mind.So in a nutshell, I liked Dragonlance because I liked the characters.  I've since found fantasy literature that I like a whole lot better (Tolkien, Martin, Moon, etc), but the memories of a 12 year old D&D-playing fantasy fan make Dragonlance a nice nostaligic memory for me.  Nothing more, nothing less.</blockquote>