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Posted June 08, 2012
Rise and Fall of a Dragon King [Dark Sun] is considered by many "serious" readers to be the best tie-in novel ever (not just the best D&D tie-in). READ IT.

Finder's Stone Trilogy [Forgotten Realms] is awesome lighthearted fun. Despite being set in FR, it's on par with Chronicles of Amber where setting exoticity is concerned.

Murder in Tarsis [nominally Dragonlance] is a D&D murder mystery, which is to say, the setting is fairly exotic for that sort of story (I mean an actual murder mystery, not just "someone gets killed and you don't know by whom until the dramatic reveal").

Lord of Necropolis [Ravenloft] - I remember it being quite good, though I can't say how much of it was due to "zomg Azalin" and me being 14 back then.

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Twilight: ktchong: Don't worry, I played Planescape: Torment many times ;)
Do not EVER read Torment by the Valleses. It HURTS. (I bought a copy to troll people with it.)
Posted June 08, 2012
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Fomalhaut30: Dude...seriously...spoiler warnings there. Not cool man.
Sorry about that, fixed. Still angry about it myself as I liked both characters. The other part does not sit well with me either. Unfortunately there's worse to come as WotC is making changes to setting and I'm not liking any of it.

Btw, is Maztica featured in any FR books?
Post edited June 08, 2012 by Petrell
Posted June 08, 2012
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Fomalhaut30: Dude...seriously...spoiler warnings there. Not cool man.
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Petrell: Sorry about that, fixed. Still angry about it myself as I liked both characters. The other part does not sit well with me either. Unfortunately there's worse to come as WotC is making changes to setting and I'm not liking any of it.

Btw, is Maztica featured in any FR books?
I only know of one trilogy from the Maztica land in FR. The maztica trilogy: Iron Helm, Viper Hand, and Feathered Dragon. Unfortunately these were all written in the early 90's and are going to be really hard to find.

As for other more exotic locals in the D&D universe. Eberron books aren't too bad. They add a nice bit of steampunk to the fantasy setting. Other than that I can only add my suggestion for Ravenloft since you can have almost any setting in any given book do to the nature of the demi plane.
Posted June 08, 2012
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KalarMacBran: I only know of one trilogy from the Maztica land in FR. The maztica trilogy: Iron Helm, Viper Hand, and Feathered Dragon. Unfortunately these were all written in the early 90's and are going to be really hard to find.
I stopped reading these very shortly into book 1.
I wasn't able to understand why is it even set into FR.
There are the Mazticans who worship something like Quetzalcoatl, feathered serpent. They build pyramids, sacrifice people and similar stuff.
Then there is conquistador Cortel or something like that who promise to some ruler (I am not really sury which one; Amn, Deepwater, Cormyr or something else) to obtain wealth of Aztec... ehm Maztican people.

So you can just read some history book about Cortez and it will be essentialy the same.
Posted June 08, 2012
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Petrell: Unfortunately Planescape setting has not been in development for over decate now (I believe Dark Sun and Spelljammer setting share same fate) and WotC/Hasbro do not invest in deprecated and out of print settings. On the contrary, they actively discourage their use. Unfortunately only 5 novels based on setting were ever published and all 5 in late 90's so they're hard to come by. I only have the one based on PS:T game and I remember it being subpar (all novels based on games are same quality though)

As for Forgotten realms based novels, I don't remember any that are specifically based on other planes. Number of them do feature them though. I remember at least hell(s), abyss, realm(s) of gods and plane of shadows being visited in some.

As for exotic places, Menzoberranzan and underdark in general win hands down. I really wish there were more books based on them, preferably writen by someone else, other than Salvatore.
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Twilight: perfect, that's that I needed to hear. A shame the Planescape setting wasn't explored further. I love the setting and it's by far, one of the most interesting settings in D&D :-/
I think I will check out the Speljammer series, it seems like it is the best option for something out of this world, from the limited selection we have :)

By the way, from the Underdark setting, I was reading the Starlight and Shadows trilogy (by Elaine Cunningham). I didn't finish it and the Salvatore's books are better in my opinion, but it was still worth a read :) It follows the story of a female drow, who escapes from Underdark.
There were a few followup trilogies from War of the Spider Queen, trying to follow a few characters. They aren't in such major print - us D+D readers are a bit of a niche. I haven't read it yet, but there's The Empyrium Odyssey (demons and planes and whatnot, it was Kaanyr and Aliisza) that might be worth a look. There was a nice short story collection, Tales of the Underdark, that had at least 2 excellent stories in there (one of Liriel when she was 9, one of Zaknafien before the Drizz't days). I've also got an alternative - Threat from the Sea, by Mel Odom, was a cool diversion with the under-ocean worlds and societies of sea creatures, and I'm always fascinated by giant sea monsters, and the Stonetellers series was a fun light read, watching a society of goblins move across the land. The internal goblin politics were far better than the action segment of the series.

Now I want to go read. Cheers!-
Posted June 08, 2012
Am I the only one who saw the thread title and thought it said "Erotic Dungeons & Dragons books"?
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