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Originally Posted by DrNefario
I became a bit more precious about canon, and kind of felt like I was wasting my time reading things that might not even be real in the context of their own fictional worlds.
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That is something that is different in D&D: the novels ARE the canon. If I writer writes it, then it is canon, and it's how the FR are at that moment.
The one thing that makes following FR difficult when not reading sequencially is the constant reboots: for example, Mystra (the Goddess of Magic) has had four incarnations. Sometimes she's alive, sometimes she's dead, sometimes she has a different name. Same with Elminster: from apprentice to most powerful wizard in the realms to madman, his body killed and destroyed, but him not being dead and/or living in other people's bodies... the same goes for other characters.
So, if you don't read sequencially, the FR novels don't make any sense.
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I see from wikipedia that there are now over 190 Dragonlance novels, which is frankly ridiculous. It does seem incredibly exploitative when you get up to those kinds of numbers.
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FR is now up to 257 ebooks (at least in my Calibre library; I still have to check all the tags to make 100% sure). I've heard that Star Trek is up to 450+ novels...
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I don't know really. There can definitely be good books which are tie-ins, but it does kind of feel like commercialised fan-fiction. And is commercialised fan-fiction even a bad thing?
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The problem I'm having now is that it takes enough time already to keep up with FR alone. If I'm going to cross over into other worlds by virtue of the cross-over series, I'll never see the end of it.
Therefore I'm going to ignore the other worlds. The exception would be for Eberron (and the loosely D&D related Pathfinder, because there are not that many books, and I already have most of them.
Greyhawk, Dragonlance and others won't get read I'm afraid.