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Ravenloft original. He actually shows up as a Mordentshire local in I10 The House on Gryphon Hill, then gets some judicious retconning when the Ravenloft campaign setting is created, and doesn't acquire his Oeridian background until the December 1992 release of RQ3 From the Shadows. Though many...

Ravenloft is easy: Strahd von Zarovich (foundation stone of the setting) and Rudolph van Richten ('voice' for the heroic side).

Yes, there's a reason I describe Greenwood's Realms as "60s/70s Fantasy." :)

I haven't played Baldur's Gate III, so ... "Romanceable mind flayer"? I am not this game's target audience anymore. :)

Technically the gods were still there, just not properly worshipped/possessing active clerics. Or you can use my Anti-Canon for Krynn, which has the High God, five (originally six, but one's dead) enslaved elemental lords/nature spirits, and sixteen dragons who set themselves up as gods. :)

Dragonlance isn't good on continuity, even within the same author's works. As far back as Chronicles, Sturm dies at two different times of day (dawn in the actual event, afternoon in Solamnia/evening in Silvanesti in Alhana's psychic experience of the death).

I saw almost the entire run of 5E (except the core books, oddly enough) at a local Half Price Books this weekend ...

I still say it depends on the definition of 'edition' we're using.

In the spirit of G.K. Chesterton... I shouldn't. :)

Any idea why Plane of Smoke was replaced with Plane of Ash (which used to be the Negative Quasi-Elemental Plane attached to Fire)?

They only got the Age of Mortals because DoSF did so well in presales that the fans on TSR staff (including Harold Johnson, co-creator of Dragonlance) got the go-ahead to do a relaunch under certain parameters set by marketing. (My source for this is Steve Miller, who was part of the original...

I spotted that as well, and figured the writer was looking at things from a D&D-centric perspective.

4E used "Exarch".

The game has very little left that interests me, and WotC doesn't think I'm worthy of it. :)

And it's been confirmed from the original Black Box that Greater Powers can come and go from Ravenloft as they please (see the entry for the Horn of Valhalla). Since Chaos is (depending on your interpretation) somewhere between high-end Greater Power and Fundamental Cosmic Force, he's pretty...

Doesn't line up with what I heard from one of the designers on the Fifth Age game: DoSF came first, they got the go-ahead to do a game based on presales for the novel, they proposed an AD&D-lite variant set post-WotL, and got told "No, it needs to be non-AD&D, card-based, and post-DoSF." Has...

One of many things I've learned about Dragonlance over 35 years: The series has two major strains to it--the idea of being a world for Epic Romantic fantasy adventures with dragons, and the story of about 6-10 close friends and their formative experiences. Weis & Hickman, and most of the...

I wouldn't expect to see Kaz. He's Richard Knaak's creation, and whenever Weis & Hickman have given their take on Huma and Magius (hints in DoSF, their brief appearance in DoaVM, the Anvil of Time adventure, and probably Dragons of Fate--I don't know, not having read anything but the last...

Dragons of Summer Flame was driven by Weis & Hickman--the only major involvement TSR had, as I understand it, was limiting it to the 'one book to finish up the Chronicles cycle' which they had contracted for instead of the 'trilogy with game support and spinoff novels' W&H wanted. The actual...

Lots of non-D&D, non-WotC RPGs have used it, and it was even the original term for what became 3.5--they adopted the latter name before publication, based largely on online chatter.