He wrote Kaz the Minotaur also, so his credentials are definitely unassailable.
― jmm, Wednesday, 12 March 2014 20:53 (ten years ago) link
the wikipedia page on raistlin majere describes him as possessing "relative depth"
― ♛ LIL UNIT ♛ (thomp), Wednesday, 12 March 2014 22:56 (ten years ago) link
From a few weeks back but it's a good read
http://www.avclub.com/article/first-dragonlance-novels-gave-dungeons-dragons-new-205614
And basically hits the nail on the head re: Raistlin.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 1 August 2014 20:24 (nine years ago) link
joe abercrombie* : weis/hickman :: arch deluxe : big mac
(or grrm or scott lynch or patrick fuckin rothfuss)(adding swearing and embarrassing fedora sex to your rollicking childrens adventure story takes away a lot more than it adds imo)
― adam, Friday, 1 August 2014 20:48 (nine years ago) link
(in re: My reading preferences now lean more toward George R.R. Martin’s A Song Of Ice And Fire series—the source of the aforementioned Game Of Thrones—as well as other contemporary fantasists like Joe Abercrombie, Patrick Rothfuss, and Scott Lynch.)
― adam, Friday, 1 August 2014 20:49 (nine years ago) link
Yeah the guy's current path is more than a little "Uh...you COULD expand a bit."
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 1 August 2014 21:05 (nine years ago) link
i thought it was interesting how much he harped on the unoriginality of krynn as a setting as i find krynn to be much more amorphous and suggestively drawn than say the lazy 1-to-1 mapping of the forgotten realms or something (tho i did prefer FR to dragonlance once upon a time tbh as i came of age during the drizzt do urden era)
― adam, Friday, 1 August 2014 21:53 (nine years ago) link
Bump
― (rocketcat) 🚀🐱 👑🐟 (kingfish), Wednesday, 9 November 2016 05:07 (seven years ago) link
Cataclysm time?
― jmm, Wednesday, 9 November 2016 05:09 (seven years ago) link
Of a sort
― (rocketcat) 🚀🐱 👑🐟 (kingfish), Wednesday, 9 November 2016 05:15 (seven years ago) link
I named my tabby cat Tika.
― g-kit, Saturday, 22 July 2017 10:13 (six years ago) link
I'm playing my first ever d&d game this weekend and bought Autumn Twilight for prep, to get et into the spirit.
I'm pretty sure I read one of these as a kid but god knows which one, there were 1000s by the time I got there. I wouldn't call it great so far, but it's super fun and readable. I lasted longer with this than Glen Cook, say.
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 17 October 2017 22:58 (six years ago) link
shout-out to Dragonlance for predicting the entire 2000s nerd-jock dichotomy with Raistlin and Caramon including the nerd's slow descent into bitterness and evil— sads mikkelsen (@corgzone) January 31, 2019
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 31 January 2019 05:04 (five years ago) link
Figured we'd end up here:
Fantasy writers Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman (of Dragonlance fame) have sued D&D publisher Wizards of the Coast. Complicated allegations, but the gist is they were writing a new Dragonlance trilogy and WoTC said it would not approve further drafts, "no reason was provided."— Cecilia D'Anastasio (@cecianasta) October 19, 2020
Weis and Hickman's complaint references rewrites following controversies around WoTC re: cultural insensitivity/bias in content and corporate culture. If anyone has more information, my DMS are open. https://t.co/jIeK7Yk4sH— Cecilia D'Anastasio (@cecianasta) October 19, 2020
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 19 October 2020 15:16 (three years ago) link
hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
― shout-out to his family (DJP), Monday, 19 October 2020 15:21 (three years ago) link
I expect that once the details of this come to light, there will be plenty of facepalms for everyone
Although as the person who posted Taz Takes A Tentacle upthread, I am no position to judge the poor choices of others
― shout-out to his family (DJP), Monday, 19 October 2020 15:25 (three years ago) link
We're all in this together.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 19 October 2020 15:28 (three years ago) link
I don’t really understand the background here – fuckery at WOTC aside, why did the problems with one product (magic the gathering) result in the cancellation of another?
― Chuck_Tatum, Monday, 19 October 2020 16:00 (three years ago) link
as I said, I expect facepalms all around
― shout-out to his family (DJP), Monday, 19 October 2020 16:01 (three years ago) link
Annnnnd all is resolved
https://io9.gizmodo.com/that-new-dragonlance-trilogy-from-the-series-classic-au-1846125826
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 25 January 2021 21:44 (three years ago) link
― shout-out to his family (DJP), Monday, October 19, 2020 11:25 AM (three months ago)
dying
― rob, Monday, 25 January 2021 22:25 (three years ago) link
A legend that lives on.
― Ned Raggett, Monday, 25 January 2021 23:46 (three years ago) link
give me Otik's spicy potatoes STAT
― ian, Tuesday, 26 January 2021 00:05 (three years ago) link
Rob Bricken's (very great) column on old D&D novels, which has mostly been looking at Forgotten Realms stuff and a few side notes too, has, after dispatching one of the first spinoff novels, gotten around to starting the original trilogy:
https://gizmodo.com/dungeons-dragons-novels-revisiting-dragons-of-autu-1847446582
Unsurprisingly he says it's the best of the books he's read so far, which, yes.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 17 August 2021 16:31 (two years ago) link
Everything about the Raistlin bullying is OTM
― a gentle push against my Wonder Bread face (DJP), Wednesday, 18 August 2021 00:48 (two years ago) link
Really is!
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 18 August 2021 01:19 (two years ago) link
i'm sure i've mentioned this before, but just to reiterate, I once read a Margaret Weis series that was, if anything, a *more* fascist take on Star Wars
also the protagonist was named Dion Starfire
― mookieproof, Thursday, 19 August 2021 01:33 (two years ago) link
Bricken gets around to book two of the original trilogy
https://gizmodo.com/dungeons-dragons-novels-revisiting-dragons-of-wint-1847942044
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 3 November 2021 19:57 (two years ago) link