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20955875 No.20955875 [Reply] [Original]

If you didn't read Dragonlance in the 90's, you ain't White.

>> No.20955980

>>20955875
Yeah, cuz I got out into the sun some.

>> No.20955985

Sharts and sandals

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>>20955875
I didn't because I had just turned five when they ended, but I'm going through Dragons of Autumn Twilight right now and it's alright.

>> No.20956065

>>20955875
das rite

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>>20955875
Dragonlance it's great and i'm tired of pretending it's not
It had great waifus too, even the books not written by Weis and Hickman had great women characters. except Crysania, fuck that btich.

>> No.20956117

Read it when it came out in the 80's, that makes me based

>> No.20956570

>>20955875
These books fucking sucked. Just a hodgepodge of the most stock fantasy tropes presented in the most banal way possible. The characters are written to be paragons of the archetype (character classes from the game) they represent but the authors don't really understand what makes these archetypes timeless. The "alignment system" from the game is a useful abstraction for determining NPC interactions, but when you try to use it in a work of fiction it just saps any possible depth any of the characters could have; they're just shadows of their alignments.

>> No.20957359

>>20955875
Why should I read them?

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>>20956117
My mom cried when Flint and Sturm died. Most of her cats were named after Dragonlance characters, even Bupu.

>> No.20957498

>>20956570
Tanis had some depth to him. so did Dalamar.
Carmon and Raistlin really developed over the first two series. Tas, Flint, Sturm, and Fizban were a bit thin but very likeable.

>> No.20957611

>>20955875
I read 'em in the early 2000s, what race does that make me?

>> No.20957833
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20957833

yeah, so you read the books, but did you play the video games?

>> No.20957864

>>20957359
Black hands typed this post.

>> No.20957912 [DELETED] 

are there any magazines that will send me physical issues each month for a subscription
sci fi or fantasy, but I prefer fantasy

>> No.20957930

>>20955875
>3 books
What, couldn't be bothered to finish the series?

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>>20955875
Read them then, re-reading now in chronological order.

>> No.20958396

>>20957480
Wow thanks for the spoilers, asshole!

>> No.20959604

>>20955875
I was not alive in the 90's

>> No.20959605

>>20958396
seethe and cope

>> No.20959662

>>20955875
> White culture is reading medieval fantasy.

>> No.20959929

>>20957498
I'll admit despite my criticisms that the part in the first book where Raistlin showed compassion towards the duregar actually made me tear up. Wish there were more moments like that in these books.

>> No.20960010

>>20957480
>>20958396
Spoiled it for me too. Should’ve avoided the thread.

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>>20957833
I remember playing Heroes of the Lance (the sega version) a lot when i was a kid
>Half-naked Takhisis on the cover
Based Clyde Caldwell

>> No.20961222

>>20955875
We don’t read at all.

>> No.20961272

>>20955875
i couldnt read in the 90s. I was only 16 at the time come on. it would be at least 3 years later that I became literate. and even then it was just passing enough for American public school.

>> No.20961282

>>20955875
You're right, I haven't read these shitty books and I'm brown.

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>>20957833
I watched a guy play it on stream and it was supremely comfy. Got me to check out the books.
>>20960833
Those old TSR artists were something else. Worth buying the OG books just to have the covers.

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>>20955875
I tried to read these books since becoming an adult and I couldn't do it. I had to stop after the first chapter out of embarrassment. Is there some way I could get back into them after learning to enjoy Proust and James?

>> No.20961791

Fantasy is for niggers now

>> No.20961906

>>20961743
Sure, last week I was reading John Dos passos and now i'm readin a Halo novel.

>> No.20961951

>>20960010
Hey, you wanna know who killed them...right?

The series has been around over 40 years. The joy is in the story telling, even if you know the outcome of one small section. It builds the anticipation.

>> No.20961960

>>20957833
ooh...Lord Soth, how could I have forgotten him.

Keith Parkinson, Larry Elmore, and Clyde Caldwell were masterclass artists.

>> No.20961972

>>20955875
What if I literally could not read in the 90s? Asking for a friend.

>> No.20961994

>>20955875
There's so much else to read and all I want to read are sff novels. Every time I stop reading them to read something else, I read nothing and spend time on the internet instead.
Wizard Knight is good.

>> No.20962076

>>20955875
>>20961994
you're similar in character and spirit to teenage girls addicted to twitter