oyster@uwmacc.UUCP (Vicious Oyster) (01/14/86)
In article <178@oberon.UUCP> tanael@oberon.UUCP (Ronalyn Tanael) writes: >Anyone out there in net land want to give a review of Weis's & Hickman's >Dragonlance series or Gygax's Adventures in Greyhawk? I am interested in >these books, but don't want to waste my time if they are just crude adapt- >ations of the D&D game. I've read the first Dragonlance book, and in my opinion, it never really made the transition from D&D episode to bona fide novel. The characters were fairly one-dimensional, the plot was what you'd expect from running a D&D scenario, and even the action was easily mapped into D&D terms. I found the last point to be mildly interesting, but not enough to want to jump into the second book, which has been sitting on my shelf for 6 months. (But then again, Lord of Light sat on my shelf for 9 months before I had the desire to read beyond the first page. I just finished that one. It's not the masterpiece (for me) I was lead to expect.) - Joel ({allegra,ihnp4,seismo}!uwvax!uwmacc!oyster)