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I didn't realize they did that many animated reconstructions. I'll have to check those out!

I had figured that Victor Mordenheim was changed simply because he was an obvious attempt to bring Frankenstein into Ravenloft, and they thought this change would make it somewhat better.

Back in the day (1993, 2e days) my group killed Manshoon and Fzoul, and told Sememmon to leave because he wasn't worth our effort. Those were fun games that usually went stupid along the way. :D

Any changes that are made to Dragonlance I'm going to blame on Tasselhoff's using the time travel artifact.

The BBC should take that imaginary cash to instead find copies of the lost episodes. I would love to see more of the 2nd Doctor but most of his stories are incomplete.

And FWIW this has been a thing since the TSR days. Remember that gawd-awful 1e "Castle Greyhawk" module? That was quickly written over in 2e. Or the Rose Estes Greyhawk novels that created an island kingdom that hasn't been on the maps for like... ever. Or that 80s products placed versions of...

That's pretty much how I read it; not a statement of "FROM NOW ON WE DO THIS" (caps to make it sound all echoed and out of a gladiator movie) but "this is what we've been doing since 2014." All he did was show us how the sausage is made.

All of these would work just fine without "invalidating" the Chronicles, too. I'd totally be on board with this.

A ton of what's going on here though is speculation. We don't even know what changes they're even thinking about.

I'm not sure where that perspective is coming from. I've been playing for decades, and 5e never gave me the impression that they wanted us to "go away."

And on the other side of the comparison is Doctor Who, where there's so much canon that no matter WHAT they do on the show a portion of the viewers will complain incessantly online because of one thing from a season back in 1973. (and FWIW, Doctor Who has never been really good at keeping...

I would imagine that the Companions won't be changed. For the most part I don't really see any problem issues with them as a legendary group of adventurers (except for the rotten way that Flint had to die. Not cool. Should've been given a heroic death).

I agree. My first thought was just that they wanted to add in all the now-core stuff so that players don't get a barrage of "no you can't do that"s from the DM.

IMO most of the changes to Krynn will probably be to allow for more core stuff content in the setting. Finding ways to add in orcs, tieflings, and other stuff.

I would imagine that WotC will make changes on a case-by-case basis. Wild changes to the Dragonlance Chronicles wouldn't be prudent from a business sense, but snips along the edges (like with Ravenloft) can fix some stuff that maybe got out of hand in the past. To me this whole is a reminder of...

It's all a calculated risk, from what I see. First, we need to acknowledge they're not going to drastically alter the settings. I recognized the new Ravenloft just fine, for example. Knowing that the core of what makes Krynn, Athas, or Toril what it is will still be there. Many have said that...

That's my take. Part of that whole hullabaloo last year about the Weis/Hickman lawsuit against WotC hinted at their new novels going back to the initial War of the Lance. A retelling, perhaps?

The new Fizban art is good, but not Elmore. And that's okay. :)

I think straight-up reboot may cause some backlash amongst the diehard Dragonlance fans, some of whom may see it as invalidating the shelves of books they have. So then the question is whether the potential new fans could make up for the percentage of old fans who abandon it. Without a flux...

This was a Dame-anding joke, and I'm Sir-tain that it got it's share of groans. But I don't wish to Lord it over you.