How Dragonlance changed my life 

Great job on the video! I love hearing about others' experience with Dragonlance.

Along with The Hobbit and Terry Brooks original Shannara trilogy, Dragonlance was also my gateway to fantasy fiction and RPG's. As you said every character in the group develops as the books progress and probably my favourite is Flint (yes I'm biased, I love dwarves!). He is the perfect comedy foil for Tasslehoff, pretty much always falling foul of the Kenders mischief. However I always read him as the original leader of the group and his travels with Tanis are all about preparing him to become leader of their group. Flints development is different from the others in the group and probably the most tragic, he is old and his body and mind just don't work as quickly or efficiently as he wants. This is what gives him his gruffness and at times rudeness. Tasslehoffs optimism and childish nature however almost act as an antidote to this and help Flint deal with his aging body and mind. It's almost as if Tasslehoff knows what Flint is going through but would never approach the subject with the grumpy dwarf. Their friendship really hit a note with me and without spoilers I'm not afraid to say it made me shed a tear or two.

I was in 7th grade, helping my dad run a xnas tree stand in Graham, WA. We went to the nearby Safeway and he told me i could get a book to read while i sat in the trailer waiting for customers to come buy trees. Now that i think about it, i doubt anyone would leave a 7th grader in charge of a business these days. Lol.. but the book i found was Dragons of Winter Night.... i didnt know it was the second book in a trilogy! Even though i couldnt fully grasp the story i knew i had found something special.

For me this was David Eddings "The Belgariad" and "The Mallorean". Full of the standard tropes, a nobody boy becomes Wizard and king. None of the cultures were unique, all based on real world ancient cultures. There was a pilgrim country, a Roman country, a viking country, etc. But there's something comforting and enjoyable about the common tropes when they're well done, especially when you enjoy the characters that are moving through them.

Like you, this world is what got me into reading and fantasy in general.

Dragonlance absolutely has been a huge part of my life and I always love to revisit Krynn

Those books saved me from the boredom of my live as a country girl. Had to travel an hour to get English books back then. Those and Elfquest comics were all my heart could ever want. I heard someone reading the first book on RU-vid (not an official audio book) and I swear I now can hear the dice roll when something good or bad happend. It was still a fun story to experience again and well told but as a player and GM it's obvious this was a campaign the authors played.

My teenaged heart adored these books and characters!

i dont know why yt recommended me this but now in interested with dragonlance - never heard of it before

Nice video. Keep up the good work 👍

Goblins? In Solace? My gateway into DragonLance was the SNES game Legendary of Zelda 3, A Link to the Past. I borrowed from a neighbor. Then later at K-Mart around 1992 or so was Dragons of Autumn Twilight. The first fantasy book I read. The covers were amazing. I liked Sturm the most, which makes sense. I'm a Cancer Sun, Virgo Moon, and Scorpio rising. Or an INFJ-T. Which basically boils down to Paladin, Oath of the Ancients.

Great video! Huge DL fan myself. The authors' skill level has increased exponentially since Chronicles, though I still love those books! I recommend the Lost Chronicles Trilogy if you haven't read it yet. That's the perfect combination of nostalgia and expert storytelling and fills in the gaps of events that took place during the Chronicles with most of the same characters. Cheers!

Old? These came out when I was a freshman in high school.

Dragonlance was the best in my early teens. Raistlin Majere was my first book boyfriend 😂

I remember the Chronicles quite fondly as they were my gateway into fantasy when I was a kid. And of course I also have to mention the "Twins" trilogy which was excellent too. Do you know if we can get it as a board game?

Wonderful video! Dragonlance was a massive part of my childhood and I would love to give The Chronicles and Twins Trilogies a re-read one day. Tas is one of my favorite characters in all fiction. 😀 I also really loved the wizard.. Fizball...I think? I have to say I think the Twins Trilogy is my favorite in the entire series in terms of the writing, mature themes, originality, character arcs and storytelling. Magnificent! Let me know if you would like to have a live chat sometime.