I'm looking for book series similar to Dungeons & Dragons. I want a fantasy series that makes me feel like I'm watching a TV show while reading. What would you recommend?
h{{Dungeon Crawler Carl}} immediately! There are 8(?) books currently out
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Two most popular are Dragonlance and the Drizzt novels in the Forgotten Realms setting. Dragonlance began life as a modded D&D campaign and it’s success led to the actual D&D Forgotten Realms universe.
If you want more mature and darker there is Guardians of the Flame by Joel Rosenberg. Kind of a precursor to litrpg as a group of role players for story reasons get turned into their characters. It’s very dark and mature at times. Only downside is it never got a proper ending. The author was obviously losing interest around book five or six and not really advancing the plot. He then wrote three episodes in the world and then he died.
A current ongoing series is NPCs by Drew Hayes. There is a game called Swords, Spells, and Stealth and for reasons people playing the game in our world are controlling actually adventurers in a real fantasy world. When some NPCs in this fantasy world decide to become adventurers it causes conflict between the magic that connects the two worlds.
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Web of Eyes by Bruno and Castle. First book is good, but just sets up the series, the second book opens up the world andadds no e characters. 6 books, complete with a satisfying conclusion.
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h{{Dungeon Crawler Carl}} immediately! There are 8(?) books currently out
Two most popular are Dragonlance and the Drizzt novels in the Forgotten Realms setting. Dragonlance began life as a modded D&D campaign and it’s success led to the actual D&D Forgotten Realms universe.
If you want more mature and darker there is Guardians of the Flame by Joel Rosenberg. Kind of a precursor to litrpg as a group of role players for story reasons get turned into their characters. It’s very dark and mature at times. Only downside is it never got a proper ending. The author was obviously losing interest around book five or six and not really advancing the plot. He then wrote three episodes in the world and then he died.
A current ongoing series is NPCs by Drew Hayes. There is a game called Swords, Spells, and Stealth and for reasons people playing the game in our world are controlling actually adventurers in a real fantasy world. When some NPCs in this fantasy world decide to become adventurers it causes conflict between the magic that connects the two worlds.
Web of Eyes by Bruno and Castle. First book is good, but just sets up the series, the second book opens up the world andadds no e characters. 6 books, complete with a satisfying conclusion.
Mel Odom’s “Rover” series.
https://www.goodreads.com/series/42930-the-rover
Kings of the Wyld – Nicolas Eames
The Spellsinger series by Alan Dean Foster is one.
There are also a TON of book series set in the various AD&D settings.
Krynn has the books by Weiss & Hickman starting with the Dragonlance books
Forgotten Realms has too many to count but I enjoy the books by R. A. Salvatore
Guards, Guards by Terry Pratchett.
The Crystal Shard by R. A. Salvatore
Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman