Characters Dragonlance

the heroes of lance: left raistlin, caramon, tanis, tasslehoff, flint, goldmoon, riverwind, sturm, tika, , laurana. tracy hickman keeps larry elmore painting on wall in office.

the heroes of lance protagonists of chronicles trilogy, first series of dragonlance books. created weis , hickman, fleshed out player characters in gaming sessions of dungeons & dragons @ hickman s apartment. 1 player @ initial gaming session game designer terry phillips, playing raistlin. according hickman in foreword soulforge, [we] settling in game when turned friend terry phillips , asked character doing. terry spoke...and world of krynn forever changed. rasping voice, sarcasm , bitterness masking arrogance , power never needed stated real. in room both transfixed , terrified. day margaret [weis] swears terry wore black robes party night.

several other heroes of lance played various people. authors gary , janet pack played half-elf tanis half-elven , kender tasslehoff burrfoot, respectively. author douglas niles played dwarf flint fireforge. tsr employee harold johnson played solamnic knight sturm brightblade. rest of heroes barbarians goldmoon , riverwind, elf laurana kanan, , humans caramon majere (raistlin s brother) , tika waylan. weis played fizban fabulous.

in beginning, margaret weis had problems depicting tanis half-elven in novels. tracy hickman told s james t. kirk of starship enterprise. after explanation, margaret had no more difficulty writing tanis. other noteworthy antagonists, , protagonists, death knight lord soth , kitiara uth matar, half-sister of raistlin , caramon, , leader of 1 of dragonarmies of ansalon. according hickman, lord soth unpredictable character write about, saying every time character made appearance in 1 of our books try run off story.