This post is part of a series of posts in the D&D 40th
Anniversary Blog Hop Challenge. The
information in many of these posts is related to events that occurred primarily
in the1980’s. Since it is now 2014, I can not guarantee complete accuracy with
such a large passage of time but I will present the events and information as
best as I can recall.
Day 22: First D&D-based novel you ever read.
The first D&D-based novel I
ever read was actually a trilogy; the Dragonlance Chronicles by Margaret Weis
& Tracy Hickman. I do not recall a
lot of the details around that time; did I buy them all at once or one volume
at a time? What I do remember is that it
was summer time so there was no school to be worried about. I started reading until I went to sleep that
night.
The next morning, I got dressed
and then I started reading again. I
remember this so well because my grandmother was worried because I had “done
nothing but sit there and read all day” for several days in a row. I wanted to tell her to relax because this
was not 1940 but the modern world; there are plenty of modern conveniences that
make “working in the field all day” obsolete.
I stopped reading and asked,
“What do you want me to do?”, as I waited for an answer.
She got a puzzled look on her
face and replied, “Well…I don’t know.”, and went back to whatever it was she
was doing at the time.
I continued on and finished the
trilogy. I would go on to read several
more Dragonlance novels over the years.
For the most part, I think the Weis & Hickman contributions are the
best but there are others that are just as good. The one I currently need to buy and read is
the final volume of the Dark Chronicles trilogy.
I know some people do not care
for these books but that does not dissuade me from reading them. I choose not to get irritated or argue with
them – different strokes for different folks sort of thing. Not everybody is going to like everything I
do and the opposite is very much true as well.
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