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I am So late to the party here, but I have just started reading Dragonlance, starting with Chronicles. ... and just wanted to thank you so much for this amazing piece of work. THANKS !!!

Thanks for that, very concise for a 2 hour video lol I must take the opportunity to suggest to any readers brought here by Weis and Hickman: Their Death gate Cycle is awesome.

As with many others the legend of Huma was my entry into Dragonlance and is still my most favourite book in the entire Bookline

Time for an update!

Well done on putting this together, im only about halfway through your video. I started off reading The Legend of Huma, then Kaz the Minotaur, when I was 6 years old and kept up with all novels as they were released in the 80s and 90s. One caveat id like to inject: Soulforge was a complete money grab at the time and most fans were extremely disappointed with its reproduction of basically the same story already told from the Test of the Twins and references from other books. Everyone I knew shared the same disappointing sentiments regarding Soulforge, and we began to have concerns in the direction Dragonlance was heading.

now in 2022 dragonlance destiny, and Dragonships of Vindras in which era is?

According to Richard Knaak, Legend of Huma and Kaz are no longer considered canon.

The Elven Nation Trilogy was my first time reading the DragonLance books been trying to catch up ever since 😆 and recently found the Forgotten Realms books so many books so little time 😢

I read a lot of the books growing up. Started with Dragons of Summers Flame, and went backwards. Legend of Huma, I second, as one that stands out among the others. One of the better books that I remember well. I also read Weis' and Hickman's other series which were pretty good. I would have liked more of their Science Fiction trilogy.

Wondering if the OG is in fact, Chris Pierson. Amazing how much he knows and how fondly he speaks of Chris's works. Of course, he could just be a big fan. Curiously, there exists only this one video on his channel. In any case, does anybody know why the Kingpriest series is so expensive? Wowzers - eBay sellers want blood! Guess I'll be reading those electronically unless they are reissued.

You did an excellent job with this! Hats off to you!

It should be noted that Fistandantilus Reborn actually continues in a Forgotten Realms novel

You should update your video and talk abou the latest set of books!

Thanks for doing this video! The first DL novel I ever read was Stormblade. I found it as a young teen in the mid-80s while exploring the bookcase in a middle school classroom. I loved it, and it led me to seek out the Chronicles. The rest is history! Every few years, I go back and reread the books. Your video has reminded me it's time again!

I’ve got close to 80 DL books. The “holy six” are the best, of course, but I like pretty much all of the classic era 1984-1995) and the series which continued on into 1996. I’m not much of a fan of the books after that. There are a few gems though. Great video here and an excellent guide to reading the books. I started in June 1984 with Autumn Twilight and was hooked. I still have all of my DL books and enjoy reading them again. Also, from the AD&D perspective The Atlas of Krynn, The Artwork of Krynn as well as Leaves from The Inn of The Last Home are very handy to have. The original AD&D DL hardback players guide is very good.

Excellent Video !

I wish this included dragons of deceit

I would also like to hear your thoughts on the new series released Dragons of Deceit and Dragons of Fate

This was not only informative but also oddly calming and chill, cheers!

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I really wish that they would work with a high end animation studio to make a season or two to tell the individual stories of the characters and nations. Then work with a major motion picture studio to make the shared stories or Chronicles into L.O.T.R. level movies. There is so much content to work with and make into many shows and movies. I would really like to see this before I die....

I read all the Forgotten Realms novels and just did it kind of half Hazard and really didn't have any major issues going back and forth on the timelines. I just made sure I never interrupted a Trilogy or series and didn't really worry about it. I am so confused trying to decide where I want to start this Dragonlance adventure for the first time that it's starting to get annoying. Quite literally when it comes to all the books written in the setting, every account I've read is different. The only ones in the most agreeance out of all the hundreds of books are the so called holy six, the Chronicles followed by the twins. That is usually, out of the 20 plus things I've read from different sources, most anybody ever fully agrees with for the most part. Literally for a month I have been trying to study this every once in awhile when I get a free moment and think about it and all I do is get more and more confused. I did find a website that gives you a way to read it in three different ways, by publication, by series, and by era, and by series pretty much sounds like what I did with Forgotten Realms. It's got the holy six first and then it goes to tales 1 and 2 and then Heroes and then on and on and on however it's listed and lists every book. Sounds good to me. If anybody's interested here it is: www.tlbranson.com/dragonlance-books-in-order/

That s a fantastic job you've done ! Thank you very much !

The Legend of Huma was the first Dragonlance novel I ever read, at about age 12. I remember sitting on my Grandma's patio in a deck chair and reading it for hours, stopping only to lament that I was getting closer to the end...ah, the halcyon days of a pre-internet attention span! I loved it, and I spent the next couple years devouring everything from the 'classic' era of Dragonlance. I was loyal, however, to the original Companions and did not venture beyond their generation (although read the villains books, etc. - anything from that era) but never read Chaos/War of Souls etc. I stopped reading them at 14, but at 45, I feel I'm old enough to take a nostalgic trip down memory lane and have been collecting old copies from eBay, striving to find copies with the original artwork. It's turned into a rather nice hobby.

If you are nobody then you have no naval. .

Yah and i bought and read about all of them

Darkness and Light was the first dragonlance book I read. Sturm and Kitiara travelling to the moon with a group of gnomes lol. After that I jumped around like crazy with whatever I could find at the library. Read everything out of order, but it all kinda came together regardless. I did manage to at least read the core trilogies together, as by then I had enough money to buy the books.

Thank you, good sir! You did a fantastic job here! Back in the 90's - 00's I read a couple dozen of these and was lately toying with the idea of going back and listening to the audio books on my daily commute, but wasn't sure where to start and which ones to emphasize. This is very helpful! In my opinion, a novice reader should start with the original trilogy, but since I more-or-less remember what happens in that world, I think I'll restart with Legend of Huma and build my way up chronologically through my favorite books back to the War of Souls.

I found some of these books for sale at Barnes & Noble. The Margaret Weis Website also has a few. Where else can I look for these books?

So I recall reading one book I thought it was Strum or Tanis as the main character. He befriends I think a hobgoblin and at one point in the story the hero finds the goblin hung. What he says at that point is something about how he will never forget the sight. I am going crazy trying to recall what book this took place in and no it was not from Drizzt I never read any of his books. Any thoughts? I know there was same racial bloodline hate mentioned and about how he should not have such feelings for the creature. Once again it was not R. A Salvator and almost feel like it was another one of his slightly stolen or plagiarized stories.

Very well done! ✌️🥳

You are a saint for putting this together. Are you planning to make a similar video about the Forgotten Realms novels too ?

At first i wanted to turn this off...looks boring and bland...glad i didn't, such a wealth of useful information. Thanks for doing all that!

This is just a great video. Thank you 🙏

I've been needing this map for years to find out what books I missed!

Growing up the Chronicles trilogy was my Lord of the Rings. RIP Sturm and Flint.

Thanks for this highly detailed review. As much as I love Dragonlance, most of those extra books are very bad written. Dont even get me started on contradictions between them. This could easily be prevented by creating a simple chart for major events and timelines. They didnt event did that. Such laziness and disrespect! Is some novels some authors even was not knowing eye color hair color of some major characters and most of the books have bad literature. Maybe some of them havent even read the main novels. They had so much potential and a great world in their hands. Lets see if latest trilogy from Weis and Hickman will carve a new way.

As a relatively new but huge dragonlance fan I desperately needed this video thank u

Excellent video... Great Job.

WOW!!!!! This is AMAZING!!!!! Thank you so much for putting this together! Considering the excellent quality of this video, I can't believe it's the only thing on your channel. I hope you do more!

Thank you for this video, as a collector I've got about 95% of Dragonlance books. This showed one's I've never seen so thank you so much. Loved the video.

I was really hoping that I would be able to get to know how many books I missed about Kang's Regiment. Sadly, it seems that Doom Brigade, Draconian Measures, and the FIVE short story books that have the plight of the Regiment between the two books are all that have been published. I would have really enjoyed picking everything up again if that had been the case. I've read the greater majority of the books listed here from the Classic era, along with the short stories and Kang's Regiment from the Fifth Age, but the only books I recall ever reading from the Age Of Mortals is the War Of Souls trilogy. I do recall buying the minotaur trilogy, but my sister is the one who read them. She had a rather UNhealthy fixation with Kaz and, by extension, the Kaziganthi Minotaurs as a whole.

This video was a trip down memory lane. I read almost all of these when I was a kid, they made me a lifelong reader. Thank you!

Man this was really insightful. Gonna check out the holy 6.

Thanks for the work and time you put into this, as a new reader of these I was lost as to where to start and continue. This has been a big help. I have finished the "holy six" and I'm hooked.

I suggest Legend of Huma first then the original chronicles. Its the best book of Dragon lance ive ever read and sets up why dragons are such a big part of this story and the importance of the lance.

Why wouldn't one start with Meetings and then go to Preludes and THEN go into Chronicles? I only read Chronicles

This is amazing!! I wish there was one for Forgotten Realms.

This is such a beautiful story etc , this and lord of the rings are hands down the archetype for every fantasy world.after . I used to live the novels , never got into D&D but used to love reading the books . Very close parallels to lord of the rings like the kinder (hobbits lol) but still stood on its own with the story and the draconian race being basically the orcs and foot soldiers of evil . I really wish the would do a live version adaptation or at least a series . There's so much great source material and as long as they don't take to many liberties it would be epic .

Awesome work!! I never really got past the Holy six (plus Tales) as Darkness and Light felt like a real disappointment. I've just reread Chronicles for the first time in 30 years and I'm going to try a few of your other recommendations.