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Yep, I'm aware! The 2014 DMG also supported the idea that 5e was broadly carrying on the canon of previous editions, pointing readers to earlier multimedia material when discussing various settings. That officially was no longer the case when the canon policy came out in 2021 (and had already...

Maybe, that would fit with @Parmandur and @mamba's comments earlier. Though from @Echohawk's timeline there, looks like the 4e Dragonlance rules material in the magazines might have been prompted by the request in Dungeon #410. So maybe there was intended to be a 4e kender followup article that...

I thought draconians had been somewhere in 4e. Thanks for the info! Don't suppose any other DL species/monsters got official 4e writeups + lore in the magazines? Say, kender? (All Google is showing me is fanmade material...)

Unfortunately, the 2014 5e core rules are not available in PDF, only through D&D Beyond and VTTs. Maybe that'll change once the 2024 core rules are all out (though TBH I doubt it).

Yep, that's one of the big impacts of the policy, the older stuff isn't always easy to use with the newer stuff, and takes some reconciling at best. Obviously, though, that's not a problem for everyone! Just folks who want to run a setting as authentically as possible to published canon. And...

Official details of the Dragonlance setting published by Wizards of the Coast during the run of D&D 4th Edition. Yep, I figured that, that would have stood out in the product lists! Was more interested in mentions in other 4e sourcebooks, or Dragon/Dungeon, or the like. (Or at least interesting...

Interesting! IIRC there were similar plans for a standalone Ravenloft RPG around the same time (which I guess would have been like the 4e-based Gamma World RPG). Seems like they planned a number of setting expansions/revivals at the time.

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Ah, too bad. Maybe we'll learn something about the plans in some future D&D retrospective, then...

Following on from my similar question about Greyhawk... Per official Wizards policy there would be distinct versions of the Dragonlance setting for 1e, 2e, 3e, and 5e. (Plus however Fifth Age canon would be categorized, since it was a separate game rather than a D&D edition.) Was there also...

Sorry if the word "rectify" was offensive! But my understanding is that they had planned a dedicated Nentir Vale sourcebook, late in the edition (before they basically switched to a standby mode while 5e was being developed). Shame that will never see light now, though. (Monster Vault: Threats...

Thanks for the research! So a version of Oerth/Greyhawk definitely existed (in a fictional sense - wouldn't want you to misunderstand, @Paul Farquhar!) in the 4e continuity, they just didn't detail it in any cohesive way. (I gather Nentir Vale was similarly piecemeal, if much more substantive...

Kinda hard to, when the current edition is clearly following that policy in practice. Better to just accept it.

Suspect looking at Wayback Machine archives of the D&D website circa 2000 would be your best bet.

See, I thought there had to be something more than one single adventure conversion... were there any articles about the Greyhawk setting, or famous personalities, or such in Dungeon or Dragon? Occurs to me now that there was also Mordenkainen's Magnificent Emporium, but no idea if it went into...

Huh, that's it? Nothing in Dragon or Dungeon, or D&D Insider, or such? TBF, I suppose there wasn't much more in 5e, just Ghosts of Saltmarsh, until the new DMG.

In another thread, realized that going by the official policy that every edition is its own canon, there would be distinct versions of the Greyhawk setting in 1st, 2nd, 3rd, and now 5th Edition. But what about 4th Edition? I know it had takes on the Realms, Eberron, and Dark Sun, plus its core...

More likely, it'll be 30 pages of complaining about some poster's negative opinion about Star Wars...

I mean, I would hope they don't include ASI rules in a novel. Would kind of ruin the flow as you read. Maybe as an appendix or something? Like those D&D comics with the character sheets in the back.

The new Ravenloft novel had ASI in it? Wouldn't have expected that to be relevant to this topic.