me: it's dumb how many #dnd campaigns start with each character introducing their whole backstory to these people they just met
me 5s later, talking online to someone i've never met: and i vowed on that day on that sixth grade school bus to become a champion of justice and protec
@SlightDashOfColour
i've never read dragonlance but i feel like i've absorbed so much of it just through osmosis
The books (at least for the Chronicles trilogy) are an oddball because they're based on this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragonlance_modules_(DL_series)
So they have a lot of groaner tropes from a party-based campaign that in turn came from Tolkien.
The books also share one similarity with LOTR: both series are notable for their worldbuilding rather than the plot or characters, which TBBH have been eclipsed by a million imitators who innovated better and has done more to craft characters who aren't walking archetypes.
Not panning the series though, because spent my early teens reading them and have an irrational fondness for some of the characters quite out of proportion to the skill of writing displayed by Weis and Hickman.
But objectively most notable works in the last 2 decades are better and there are tons of choices for readers these days, even in the YA space.
@ebeth
The tavern meeting is so cliche it hurts. You can partially blame Dragonlance for not even vaguely attempt to try something anti-tropish when those books came out. 😂