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The Something Awful Forums > Main > General Bullshit > Bad Fantasy Books (Dragonlance, Pern, Xanth, and more)
 
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Yvershek
Nov 15, 2000

and there are no
diamonds in the
mine

Empty Sandwich posted:

Let's start there:

The Campaign

Hickman and his wife had an idea. "Dragonlance," they said. "What if Dragonlance?"

And then just after that, TSR said, "Hey... what if indeed Dragonlance?" And they paired Hickman with Weis.

But the way they wrote the novels was by running a goddamn Dungeons & Dragons campaign. Every character is therefore a kind of Mary Sue.

But it's worse than that. Have you ever set foot inside a game store? If you have, then I'm sure that some cheerful but unpleasant guy has buttonholed you to tell you about his character in his favorite game.

This is the entirety of everything in Dragonlance. And they're not just telling you about their own characters. They're telling you about the other players' characters, like Raistlin, mentioned above but I have to work up to him for reasons involving both research and anger management.

And it's still worse than that. These stories sold millions of copies. These adventures sold... whatever a whole bunch of copies is a lot for adventures. There were computer games, sorta.

Large chunks of America, perhaps large chunks of the world, were paying money to read a Cliff's Notes version of a group of people's epic D&D campaign.


This explains so drat much.

How many woman characters would be so drop dead gorgeous that entire towns would stop everything whenevet they arrived? I can remember the lady who became the first cleric and the one who became an Elven general.

Oh yeah, Tannis. "Man, I can never decide between these two smoking hot babes"

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Yvershek
Nov 15, 2000

and there are no
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 Just remembered Raistlin used his godlike magic powers to move to the only location that a Kender wouldn't wander into. A cursed and haunted tower in the middle of a city was the only thing safe from them.

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Yvershek
Nov 15, 2000

and there are no
diamonds in the
mine

GI_Clutch posted:

I lost my copy of The Color of Her Panties in junior high. Thankfully, the next day I saw it resting against the chalkboard in Mrs. Perez's room during either health class or English and I was able to grab it. I was surprised she didn't freak out over the title/cover with two topless women on it. I didn't think I was ever going to see if again.

Trap sprung for her.

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