What do you think? I think that the Realms is one of the most amazing fantasy worlds ever conceived (it's the ONLY thing that Ed Greenwood has done that I like) but I have a soft spot for Krynn, it was the first fantasy world I really got into and Weis and Hickman have a way of writing about AD&D which IMHO is still unparalleled in terms of scope.

Curious as to what others think.

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I love the Forgotten Realms series. Just finished Icewind Dale Trilogy. What an excellent book.

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that is a particullary hard choice. I started out with krynn but faerun seems to span a larger area and variety of novels. But saying that, I have read practically every Dragonlance novel out and have only read mostly just salvatores books and a few others in the forgotten realms side of things.

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I have never read Dragon Lance, but I love FR... but The Dark Sun is another fave. I played it a lot on paper few years ago, it was great, would be great if they made a Infinty game about it.

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I would have to agree with you Memnoch, Dragonlance is good, but that mostly due to the colorfull characters and thoose are in the Faerun too, so well.. Sorry Dragonlance.

I find the dragons of autumn and thoose book to be great, one of the first thing i read from the Dungeons and Dragons world ever, and the Brothers majorie was also good. Though when I read Magicians apprentice I thought that was more "true" to a DoD world than Dragonlance and than I stumbled upon Drizzt in Baldurs Gate and then i found some books of Salvatore. Well I do really like Faerun.

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Dragonlance is best with Forgotten Realms a second best. Both are far and away better than any of the other worlds.

This is a hard question. I like both alot, but for varying stories Forgotten Realms is probably better due to the larger world. I liked most of the stories from both and argh, I can't decide. This is like saying "Who's more surly, Bruenor or Flint?" There just isn't an answer!

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<sigh> Let's put it this way. If BioWare had made a Dragonlance computer game, my favourite would be Dragonlance. But, well, they didn't.

Tancred

Come on, guys! Bloody well make games!

<sigh> Let's put it this way. If BioWare had made a Dragonlance computer game, my favourite would be Dragonlance. But, well, they didn't.

Tancred

Come on, guys! Bloody well make games!

Seems to be a echo problem lately.

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Seems to be a echo problem lately.

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I have not read dragonlance books so I dont know. The covers always having a dragon on them and the fact that its called dragonlance give me the impression theres nothing BUT dragons and I would rather have the tons of varied characters in forgotten realms. I read a little of a book about the origin of raistlin and I liked it so if you could recommend the quintisential dragonlance book I will give krynn a chance.



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I definitely reccomend dragonlance. i may prefer forgotten realms but dragonlance is a close second behind. and not by fay is it all about dragons. the name dragonlance is actually a nmae for a weapon used against dragons in the book.

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I love the Forgotten Realms the best . In DragonLance PnP human characters are limited to a certain level by the Gods where as in the Forgotten Realms you are not limited by what level you can go up to.

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There is nothing in the Forgotten Realms books that can touch The Chronicles of the Lance Trilogy and the Twins Trilogy for a sweeping epic, earthshaking storyline, clear-cut good and evil, and incredible characterization. The closest Realms set would probably be the Avatar Trilogy, but those Dragonlance books were awesome. Unfortunately after those 6 books everything was pretty piss poor. I haven't read the Souls Trilogy yet. But the Realms world has amazing scope for variety because it's so big.

To summarize:

Krynn of the DRAGONLANCE Saga has its epic struggle, the dark gloom of the RAVENLOFT setting is rich with brooding horror, Elminster's FORGOTTEN REALMS homeland has the vast sprawl of ancient empires, and Athas of the DARK SUN world reeks of gritty survival.

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Most of the stuff I have read is the forgotten realms stuff, and that's the area I prefer. So many great characters, lots of different areas. A more traditional fantsy setting. I just got into it more than the creepy style of Ravenloft or the more epic style of Dragonlance. It's the most detailed of the worlds too, which adds to it's appeal. It sounds like there's some tough times ahead for the realms though, from things I've read. We haven't got too many of the brand new books here in Oz yet, so I haven't seen many of the signs of the grittier world yet.

If you can find it, there is an Annoted version to the Chronicles of the Lance series (that's the Summer, Winter, Spring trio, right?) that is very good reading. Tells you the author's thoughts while writing/playing the PnP games, etc. The Author's account of when they sent Tanis down the well with Goldmoon's Staff at the beginning of the adventure they rolled was priceless. http://www.tgeweb.com/cgi-bin/ubb/no...iles/smile.gif

BK