Morten Brattbakk wrote:
> On 26 Jun, 06:44, Matthew Amsel <matthew.am...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
>> Oh, one more thing. There's a lot of talk about core vs non-core books.
>> It's a myth. Krynn was built organically, by ancient history as well as
>> by WotC decreed plotline progression. Not all "core" books are worth
>> reading, and many "noncore" books are absolutely essential to the
>> setting (elven nations, legend of huma, several others). There's little
>> or no quality correlation either. I've watched it grow over the years
(I
>> started reading it back in 1991-ish), and was struck by how much some
of
>> the so called extraneous stories truly helped shape the world.
>
> You have a point, however, I do not fully agree, things are more
> nuanced that. Certainly, it is true that Elven Nations is better than
> War of Souls, and you can find many other examples. But there are also
> way too many of the noncore books that are both poor and fail to be
> "essential to the setting" simply because they contradict it instead.
>
I fully agree with you on that point. Much of the Villains series
(except Toede) should never have been written. Same goes for a whole
bunch in the Warriors, Meetings (though Kindred Spirits was pretty
good), even some of the Preludes.
> You could, of course, have the same objections about many of the later
> core books as well, such as DoaNA and WoS. Call me cynical, but when I
> am asked about Dragonlance from fantasy fans who are interested, I
> recommend the Chronicles and Legends and say that unless you really
> fall in love the setting, you should leave it at that. I must admit
> that when I had the library at the school where I worked the last few
> years buy DL books, I only had them buy Chronicles and Legends.
> (Which, to my pleasure, were and are widely read and enjoyed by the
> students there. Several copies were bought to meet the demand.)
Nice. Gotta love school libraries - when they bring in good books,
better believe the kids'll come. And I do have similar objections to WoS
and DoaNa (quality not great, WAY too much retconning - I mean Skye
being non-krynnish? Where does that come from?)
All in all, DL has plenty of good books, and plenty of bad. My thrust
was that there isn't necessarily a correlation between "core"/"good" and
"non-core"/"waste of time"
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