The Dragonlance world has turned into a major setting with many authors writing stories for it - in total, at the time of writing there are more than 200 novels comprising it, not including anthologies, manuals, and various other extras. In the Planescape, Ravenloft, and Spelljammer settings, the Dragonlance setting is part of a larger universe that also includes the Forgotten Realms and Greyhawk. Also notable for mixing stock Medieval European Fantasy with a Native American flavor (the Plainsmen, and a lot of the artwork), a bevy of unique and sometimes quirky races (Kender, Gully Dwarves, Draconians, and plenty of others), a unique magic system, and a greater focus on Dragons as the primal movers and shakers of world events. For example, the original 'Heroes of the Lance' consisted of such a generic Tabletop RPG party that they could easily be renamed according to their character classes - if it weren't for the fact that each character is given a strong and distinct personality, detailed backstory, and oodles of Character Development (for most of them) throughout the series. Notable for taking extreme D&D influences and making them work on their own. This shows up even in the first novel, Dragons of Autumn Twilight, as the gods had abandoned the world some hundreds of years before after the first Cataclysm, and the protagonists must not only deal with the covert return of Takhisis, the Dark Queen of the evil gods, but also with the Seekers, who have invented false gods as a pretext to seize power. Another theme that's prevalent throughout the books is spiritual abandonment and discovery, as the gods have a distinct tendency to run out on the world whenever they screw things up badly enough.

The concept of the Balance Between Good and Evil is a central theme of the setting, as the stories have shown similarly dire consequences when good and evil each spiral out of control. Dragonlance is a series of High Fantasy novels and an accompanying Dungeons & Dragons setting, devised by husband-and-wife team Tracy Hickman and Laura Hickman, and popularized via novels by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman.

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