If you are like me, then you are a huge fantasy fan. It is easily my favorite genre and I have to force myself to read to read other books. But for this list, we will be staying with this genre as we share our list of the 21 must read fantasy books of all time!

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    I would never suggest someone read all of ASOIAF. It just gets ridiculous in length and complexity for no valid reason, and he’s likely to die before finishing the series. The first 2-3 books are alright though.

    Also, no Hobbit? No Legend of Drizzt? Wtf. RA Salvatore is one of the best.

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      I strongly disliked RA Salvatore’s writing style. I found it far too flowery which took away from the enjoyment of the story.

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        That’s fair. It’s not exactly adult level most of the time. If you want D&D stuff though, War of the Spider Queen might be more palatable. He chaired a round table of 6 authors, each of them writing one book in the series, so if you don’t like one style it changes with the next. Post-Drizzt timeline and Drow being Drow. It’s my personal favorite.

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          With the WOTC nonsense earlier this year I’m a little reluctant to get into more DnD stuff (my group switched to pf2e), though I still wanna know more about the lore. Thanks for the suggestion though, I’ll add that to the list :)

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              Caveat: this is not a good explanation, and deliberately avoids most of the nuance.

              WOTC licensed the core rules for 5e (a small fraction of what’s contained within the player’s handbook) in a way that allowed third-parties to release content designed for 5e. Then they changed the licence in a way that would require every third-party to pay them significant royalties. They said it wasn’t released and they were gathering feedback, but they were also telling people to sign it. It seems to be a money-grab by the parent company Hasbro (which also owns Magic the Gathering).

              Paizo came out with the ORC licence which is held by a trust, is irrevocable, and has community support.

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                Hmm… getting some gist of the issue.~~ But who is Paizo and what’s ORC? ~~

                Nevermind, Pazio is the company that released Pathfinder.

                Thanks for the info.

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              I’m probably wrong about what they’re talking about, but they made some changes in their push to essentially kill off old content. Sword coast or bust, but they’ve been pushing their world since 3rd edition.

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                  Oh! I just remembered now. They made some changes to their open gaming license which affects a lot of homebrew folks. That could be what the other poster was talking about.