Recent content by Paul Farquhar

what is remarkable about Dragonlance Adventures was just how modern it was, both in terms of content and single volume hardback format. Boxed set was the standard format for settings both before and for a significant time after.

It has some lore and maps, but it doesn’t have much in the way of player options (you are supposed to be playing the pregens) and is still very much core rules. It’s not what we would call a setting book in the modern sense - it’s contents would be included in an adventure book. But the main...

I looked at this one recently, and I don’t think it stands up very well. Mostly because it’s best ideas have become cliche in the years since. I also find it’s lack of Scotland disturbing.

Err yeah? The fist setting book - Dragonlance Adventures, was published in 1987, so 3 years later.

The monsters are going to do exactly the same. And they are on home turf.

Green lanterns aren’t Jedi?

Good thing it’s something they can produce cheaply then. Very few of them, and haven’t been the target audience for WotC for ages. It’s not been reheated in the lifetime of the average player. There are no orcs native to Krynn, and halflings are kender. That doesn’t seem very fiddly to me...

Which weren’t in the original either. All that stuff was added later. Minotaurs don’t even live on the same continent as the War of the Lance, so obviously they aren’t needed. No they weren’t, they were published years later.

I expect they will be have announced Dark Sun by the time the Dragonlance adventure is published, so no, not a problem. Dark Sun is likely to be big deal, with two books, lots of player options, and lots of fanfare. They will probably announce it at the August shindig for Q2 2027. The...

Exactly as DL1 did back in the 80s and was a huge hit. Dragonlance wasn’t a huge success because of the setting, it was a huge success because of the story. The problem with the most recent Dragonlance adventure was simple - it wasn’t very good (and the spat between Weis and Hickman and WotC...

With good reason - look at the scepticism. They need to prime the pumps before the official announcement.

Unlike Dark Sun, Dragonlance has no need for any player options apart from kender. And it’s very easy to produce an adventure - since it’s already written. Remember that Christmas bauble - it indicated exactly what it appeared to indicate. It wasn’t random, and it wasn’t a misdirect. Soth? Not...

My take: it’s highly unlikely to happen at all. But books? Definitely happening. I don’t play it, but it quite often seems to tie into what WotC are doing.

We know is hasn’t started casting yet. So if it happens at all it’s still a fair few years away, and isn’t something that factors in to WotC’s planning either way. Unlike Idle Champions.

Not all player options are put through UA - backgrounds, species, most feats aren’t. And they don’t really need to do it for subclasses either. But you are right, WotC aim for a balanced range of different products over the year, so having produced two books with a lot of player options they are...