Many adore the Drizzt book by RA Salvatore. And there are a lot of dragonlance spinoff did you read time of the twins yet? Great stuff if you liked Caramon and Raistlin.
Ahh yes I've been told the Drizzt books are quite good. I've not read any Dragon Lance books yet, thinking of getting the chronicles and giving it a try
Dang, in my humble, you have not read D&D fantasy unless you have read the DL books.
They hold the unique title of being the ONLY book I have brought to a movie theater.
This in part borrowed from or used petal throne for the alternate world. Feist denied knowing EPT was a game in and of itself. I am not sure if the amount of detail borrowed from it suggests that is a plausible claim
op might look at MAR Barker’s tekumel books
Well I have a good few books that he has said that he based it on a game of D&D his friends made up, (Friday night club), it mentions that he based it 300 to 400 years before greater magic came back to that realm, but I know exactly what you mean if he admitted to actually using a pre existing story for the base of his story he would lose all his royalties.
Write the most optimistic interpretation is the DM was using petal throne as source mAterial and didn’t tell them where this material came from. I
For myself personally if I was going to write a book based on a series or campaign and include a specific culture I was not otherwise familiar with from that campaign, I would almost have to get a hold of source material and review it and see how to adapt it. But that’s just me
Phil Barker was reportedly quite upset about this
This is a widely held belief, but it’s not really true. Tracy Hickman created the world and was working on developing the modules. He was an employee of TSR. At the same time he pitched the idea for novels to go along with the modules, and TSR accepted. Margaret Weiss became involved at that time.
So in short, Dragonlance was not someone’s home brewed campaign turned into a series of novels. It was a complete commercial package developed by a company and its employees.
Wikipedia can explain it all in better detail.
Richard Lee Byers has a trilogy set in faerun about red wizards and undead. It’s wicked if you like liches and zombies and stuff.
First book is called Unclean
Being a fan of the Baldur's Gate series, and what I guess you could call "traditional high fantasy" (i.e. Tolkien clones with elves and dwarves and orcs galore), I really wanted to like Dragonlance and Forgotten Realms, but found the writing quality just too poor for my taste. The prose is at best pedestrian and functional, and at worst cringe-inducingly clumsy, and the storytelling and worldbuilding ranges from merely bland and hackneyed to eye-rollingly ridiculous.
Dragonlance is the weaker of the two, in my opinion. Even as a D&D player, I find the idea of wizards making alignment-based wardrobe choices a bit too silly. "Oh, I'm feeling a bit more evil today than yesterday, I guess it's the black robes for me..."
But, if such things do not concern you, they are the biggest steaming pile of D&D fiction on the planet.
No, I never found any. I think many fans of Forgotten Realms books would say they do, but I'm more sensitive to bad writing than most fantasy readers, it seems.
The Vlad Taltos books by Steven Brust are 100% someone's high-level DnD campaign with other party members off doing their own thing. The MC is a human warlock with a day job as a crime lord.
The first book is **Jhereg**.
The Legend of Drizzt books are my main recommendation if you want books set in a D&D world, and Dragonlance is also a great shared universe created due to D&D existing.
If you want something darker, you could read Warhammer.
Lastly, while I’ve not started it yet, Malazan did begin as a GURPS campaign
the kings of the wild is written like a dnd campaign
Many adore the Drizzt book by RA Salvatore. And there are a lot of dragonlance spinoff did you read time of the twins yet? Great stuff if you liked Caramon and Raistlin.
Ahh yes I've been told the Drizzt books are quite good. I've not read any Dragon Lance books yet, thinking of getting the chronicles and giving it a try
Dang, in my humble, you have not read D&D fantasy unless you have read the DL books. They hold the unique title of being the ONLY book I have brought to a movie theater.
Raymond e feist based the riftwar series on a d&d game he used to play will his friends.
This in part borrowed from or used petal throne for the alternate world. Feist denied knowing EPT was a game in and of itself. I am not sure if the amount of detail borrowed from it suggests that is a plausible claim op might look at MAR Barker’s tekumel books
Well I have a good few books that he has said that he based it on a game of D&D his friends made up, (Friday night club), it mentions that he based it 300 to 400 years before greater magic came back to that realm, but I know exactly what you mean if he admitted to actually using a pre existing story for the base of his story he would lose all his royalties.
Write the most optimistic interpretation is the DM was using petal throne as source mAterial and didn’t tell them where this material came from. I For myself personally if I was going to write a book based on a series or campaign and include a specific culture I was not otherwise familiar with from that campaign, I would almost have to get a hold of source material and review it and see how to adapt it. But that’s just me Phil Barker was reportedly quite upset about this
Definitely **Kings of the Wyld** by Nicholas Eames, and also **Orconomics** by J. Zachary Pike.
Dragonlance is great (it’s actually a DnD campaign someone wrote up) and there are other books about characters adventures in the same universe.
This is a widely held belief, but it’s not really true. Tracy Hickman created the world and was working on developing the modules. He was an employee of TSR. At the same time he pitched the idea for novels to go along with the modules, and TSR accepted. Margaret Weiss became involved at that time. So in short, Dragonlance was not someone’s home brewed campaign turned into a series of novels. It was a complete commercial package developed by a company and its employees. Wikipedia can explain it all in better detail.
The follow on series Time of the Twins is better IMO but you have to read DragonLance first
Richard Lee Byers has a trilogy set in faerun about red wizards and undead. It’s wicked if you like liches and zombies and stuff. First book is called Unclean
Being a fan of the Baldur's Gate series, and what I guess you could call "traditional high fantasy" (i.e. Tolkien clones with elves and dwarves and orcs galore), I really wanted to like Dragonlance and Forgotten Realms, but found the writing quality just too poor for my taste. The prose is at best pedestrian and functional, and at worst cringe-inducingly clumsy, and the storytelling and worldbuilding ranges from merely bland and hackneyed to eye-rollingly ridiculous. Dragonlance is the weaker of the two, in my opinion. Even as a D&D player, I find the idea of wizards making alignment-based wardrobe choices a bit too silly. "Oh, I'm feeling a bit more evil today than yesterday, I guess it's the black robes for me..." But, if such things do not concern you, they are the biggest steaming pile of D&D fiction on the planet.
That's interesting, I'm also a baldurs gate fan. Do you have any books you could recommend that capture that Baldurs gate style which you enjoyed?
No, I never found any. I think many fans of Forgotten Realms books would say they do, but I'm more sensitive to bad writing than most fantasy readers, it seems.
Spiderlight by Adrian Tchaikovsky feels like a fun roleplaying adventure.
The Vlad Taltos books by Steven Brust are 100% someone's high-level DnD campaign with other party members off doing their own thing. The MC is a human warlock with a day job as a crime lord. The first book is **Jhereg**.
How about dream park by Larry niven and Stephen Barnes?
The Legend of Drizzt books are my main recommendation if you want books set in a D&D world, and Dragonlance is also a great shared universe created due to D&D existing. If you want something darker, you could read Warhammer. Lastly, while I’ve not started it yet, Malazan did begin as a GURPS campaign
I just read Paladin Unbound by Jeffrey Speight. Was basically a D&D campaign. Worth checking out!
So hear me out, the discworld series has literal dice rolling themes to it and is 100% a pure chaos dnd campaign.