Oh, yeah, it's just that I already said that was a horrible comparison. Nevermind me, I'm easily confused.

I figured someone would take that intepretation.

I've started reading a few, and gave up cringing every time. I know who those people are because I was playing D&D when there WERE no D&D novels but Dragonlance, and they were this cool new thing that all my friends were talking about.

But worse than turning the D&D game into a novel is when they turn the novelized D&D back into a game. Ouch ouch ouch! The worst role-playing experience of my life was getting dragged kicking and screaming down the railroad plot of the vaunted Avatar Trilogy, which allowed us to tag along as sidekicks to the heroes of the novels, and watch in awe as they ascended to godhood.

To this day, I cannot stand being expected to ooh and aah over supercool GM-run characters with power far beyond anything I could ever aspire to as a player. Thus why I roll my eyes every time someone gushes about how fun it is to role-play with the divine on a MUD.

Doesn't make them bad novels though.

Considering that Dragonlance ended up having much more success as a novel than a game and that Hickman and Weiss ended up bestselling authors even when seperated from the game is a good thing.

I agree with the point about Railroading plots. But they learned their lesson about that kind of stuff in the 80's and stopped that.