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A review by mormengil
Dragons of Winter Night by Margaret Weis
3.0
Aaah, the Chronicles trilogy. What made me love the Dragonlance campaign setting. Fun fact, I never managed to play a campaign in dragonlance, even though I feel Dragonlance and Ravenloft are the most interesting classic DnD campaign settings. Anyway, onto the books.
Ok, let us not pretend this is a literary masterpiece. What it is though, is a well written, if somewhat trope-y adventure, that has many ups and downs. And I am extremely fond of it. It features some very interesting and, frankly, classic characters, like Reistlin, Tasslehoff, Fizban, and Lord Soth. My rating of this trilogy is deliberately lower than I want to give it, because I won't even begin to pretend that I do not look at this with the rose tinted glasses of nostalgia. But even on a later re-read, it did held up for me. So maybe I should be giving it 4 stars for it. But somehow, I have the feeling that if I was reading it now, in 2023, for the first time, my reaction to it would be very different. So ok, 3 stars it is.
Some DnD players grew up with Drizzt. I grew up with this.
Ok, let us not pretend this is a literary masterpiece. What it is though, is a well written, if somewhat trope-y adventure, that has many ups and downs. And I am extremely fond of it. It features some very interesting and, frankly, classic characters, like Reistlin, Tasslehoff, Fizban, and Lord Soth. My rating of this trilogy is deliberately lower than I want to give it, because I won't even begin to pretend that I do not look at this with the rose tinted glasses of nostalgia. But even on a later re-read, it did held up for me. So maybe I should be giving it 4 stars for it. But somehow, I have the feeling that if I was reading it now, in 2023, for the first time, my reaction to it would be very different. So ok, 3 stars it is.
Some DnD players grew up with Drizzt. I grew up with this.