The various worlds making up have both inspired and been inspired by a massive library of excellent book series, with the best of them leaving an inarguable legacy on the franchise.
Part of the joy of the world's most popular tabletop roleplaying game is the ability to forge uniqueunofficial settings in , creating a new story from scratch.
But for many, staying within the familiar territory of pre-established lore is a much more comfortable prospect, and plenty of book series delve into these fantasy worlds.
The best series take place across a wide variety of official settings that all carry the same familiar tropes of, using the same magic systems, fantasy races, and mythical creatures.
But other than these surface level similarities, the worlds of the Forgotten Realms, Greyhawk, and Eberron couldn't be more different, with unique characters inhabiting the lore of each continuity.