{"id":43,"date":"2003-07-28T23:04:00","date_gmt":"2003-07-28T23:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=43"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T08:00:00","slug":"the-dragonlance-novels-by-margaret-weis-and-tracy-hickman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/2003\/07\/28\/the-dragonlance-novels-by-margaret-weis-and-tracy-hickman\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dragonlance novels, by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the used bookstores near me has a couple carts outside where they put $1 books.  One buck.  There&#8217;s pretty much no book that&#8217;s not worth a buck.  So every time I walk by there, and scan the cart to see if there&#8217;s anything that catches my eye.  One day there was.  The first six Dragonlance novels, the Chronicles trilogy and the Legends trilogy.  For those of you who weren&#8217;t nerds in the eighties, the Dragonlance books were basically a straight-up extension of Dungeons and Dragons into novel-writing.  The novels play out as a role-playing adventure and, in fact, are based in large part on the role-playing games of the authors.  So you&#8217;ve got your group of adventurers (a half-elf, a kender (aka halfling) thief, a mage and fighter set of twin brothers, a cleric) at a local inn, and a wacky event happens &#8211; in this case, a barbarian man and woman get arrested.  Off you go on your adventure!<\/p>\n<p>But Weis and Hickman do a good job of developing characters that we care about, and of developing the world to make it interesting.  So interesting, in fact, that a <a href=http:\/\/www.wizards.com\/default.asp?x=books\/dl\/novelguide>whole slew of other novels<\/a> have been based in the same world.  Anyway, so when I saw these books for a buck at that store, I had to buy them as a remnant of my childhood.  I didn&#8217;t even mean to read them particularly.  But I was bored last week, and picked up the first one, and was drawn right back in, and ended up re-reading all six.  Good solid fun. <\/p>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the used bookstores near me has a couple carts outside where they put $1 books. One buck. There&#8217;s pretty much no book that&#8217;s not worth a buck. So every time I walk by there, and scan the cart to see if there&#8217;s anything that catches my eye. One day there was. The first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-scifi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}