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From: oyster@uwmacc.UUCP (Vicious Oyster)
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Subject: Dragonlance mini-review
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Date: Tue, 14-Jan-86 11:55:22 EST
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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)