Why do D&D books suck?

I've heard all Dragonlance books not written by Weis/Hickman suck, and all Forgotten Realm books not by Salvatore suck.  What in particular makes these books suck?

>>1
Their writing style.

Everyone other than them, are boring and dull, either they put way to much detail into bullshit that is irrelevent, or they don't go into detail at all.
And when they don't do to little or too much, it still sucks because they don't do it properly, they're just not cut out for writing. Or well, not cut out for what I, and most others, like.
I know like 2 or 3 people who adore most books not by Weis/Hickman/Salvatore.

Can you be more specific?  Lots of franchises use different writers to tell stories about the same characters, so how is this different?

I enjoyed War of the Spider Queen books 1-5, I've heard a lot of bad things about 6 though so I never finished it :(
then again they're the only Forgotten Realms books I've ever read so there's not much to compare them with.

>>1

By virtue of them being about D&D, they suck.

>>1

I don't agree with that. The Weiss/Hickman books bave flaws; for one thing, they have the worst poetry ever invented by mankind.

Richard A. Knaak's stuff is pretty good, even though it's all about minotaurs. Whoever writes the Commander Kang books is by far the best Dragonlance author.

Salvatore's books are almost all potboilers, I can't compare him to anyone else though.

Whoever writes the Commander Kang books is by far the best Dragonlance author.

And that's Weis and Don Perrin for "The Doom Brigade". I can't find the sequel, though :(

But what is it about certain writing styles that "suck"?

I couldnt get past page forty of the very first DragonLance book beause it read like fucking notations of a D&D session. They even said so (anotated anniversary edition I borrowed), ever five friggin paragraphs.

Theorem: DragonLance sucks.
Proof: DragonLance
Corrolary: All D&D books suck.
Proof: Their readers.

QED

>>9

When Dragonlance was relatively new (like, when I was in 5th grade), I actually read the Legends trilogy first, and then went back to Chronicles.  And while Legends was good, Chronicle were feh.  As was everything else I read AFTER Legends, so I gave up on Dragonlance after Preludes.

http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0046/0046_01.asp

>>12

I know Jack T Chick. I've read a few of his tracts before.

But this one really left me with WTF all over.

We need to impale this man.

i like the book about drizzt

>>14
Books, you mean.

Yeah, Salvatore is a writing god. Though long, the Drizzt series is very good.

>>12
8th level hilarity

>>12

soooo much lawling...sooo much. btw someone needs to pwn the person who makes those comics, because I've seen them all around school...

by pwn I mean kill

>>1-1000
I think we're neglecting a very important thing here.
The reason D&D books suck is because D&D sucks.
Case closed.
I GUARANTEE IT!