In 2008, Paramount released a Direct to Video Animated Adaptation based on Dragons of Autumn Twilight. To be honest, I don't think I'd really recommend anything from either setting particularly highly, they may have had quite a few entertaining books but there are much better fantasy series out there.The Dragonlance world has turned into a major setting with many authors writing stories for it- in total, at time of writing there are more than 200 novels comprising it, not including anthologies, manuals and various other extras. I liked Salvatore's series (although it went on way too long) and some of Elaine Cunningham's and Jeff Grubb's books in the setting. There were plenty of awful Forgotten Realms books as well (anything by Ed Greenwood or Scott Ciencin, for a start) but more that were reasonably good (I wouldn't say any of them were particularly great). The best of the Weis & Hickman books (particularly the trilogy focusing on Caramon and Raistlin) were better than any of the other books in either setting but most of the non-W&H Dragonlance books I read were awful (Jeff Grubb's Lord Toede and Richard Knaak's The Legend Of Huma being the exceptions). It's been years since I've read anything from either setting, but at the time I thought the Forgotten Realms probably had better books overall than the Dragonlance series.
In short, the big difference between the two is that there are far more powerful wizards running around in FR and they are far more powerful than those in DL. It was also supposed to be a "low magic" setting, in that magic wasn't used as much and things like magic items weren't common, but I don't think that lasted very long. In real terms the only difference in functionality is that DL specifically limited the power level. DL had the Cataclysm, but FR had the Crown Wars, Netheril, the Fall of Myth Drannor, etc.Īs for magic, I don't see a big difference between DL and any generic AD&D setting. On the history side, FR has a longer running deeper history than DL, at least as far as back when I read DL.
The second is that there are a huge number of uber-powerful NPCs who can (and do) just pop up all the time and do what they want and there's nothing anyone else can do about it. It's not really a single world, it's a jumble of different worlds, pantheons and ideas thrown together.
Many of the spinoffs are terrible in both worlds.įR suffers from two big problems. Both are hit and miss as far as quality goes. I read a fair bit of both at one time or another.
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