4/5

Sometimes as both a Dungeon Master and a player of D&D games, I need to read around and get some inspiration and mojo for my sessions. I decided to revisit and, hopefully this time, finish the original Dragonlance trilogy. Following Tanis Half-Elven and his band of comrades, the reader is transported to the world of Krynn where ancient deities are returning and a previously unknown draconic race is threatening the safety of the world's inhabitants.

- I'll preface with this: I really enjoy these book but I don't think they're for everyone. From discussions I've had with other fantasy fans, Dragonlance divides like marmite. As you would expect from a book based on D&D, this reads like a novelised home game. It is very episodic, you can almost tell when a session ended, there's a typical challenge to resolution to new challenge form to the plot, it's super easy to determine the classes of the characters. I like this and enjoy the ebb and flow but if you're hoping for a focused and smooth story, you won't find it here.

- As much as they fit into the clichés of classical D&D, I love the characters and enjoy how they change of the events of the book. My favourite is probably Raistlin the mage but they all have firm places in my heart.

- The world lore is deep and well done, as to be expected. Theres definitely a sense of a rolling world outside of the plot and that there are details that the authors know that the readers never will.

If you like litRPGs, D&D inspired fantasy and a good nostalgic fantasy romp, then give Dragons of Autumn Twilight a try.