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Well, that may be. And if you are trying to justify a non-evil Draconian, that might be one way to do it. Freeing a corrupted soul of its possessor is another. There are many others we could dream up, too. Nevertheless, the way that draconians were made is not an afterthought to the setting...

We've been through this recently on another thread here on ENWorld. That's simply not true. Draconians were produced in the Dark Temple by transferring the souls of Abishai (lesser Devils) into the corrupted dragon eggs of the metallic dragons. They had no agency to change their moral nature...

100% agreed. It was always beyond stupid. It was just a slap-dash rule put in place so that characters could be transferred from an existing Greyhawk or other campaign and their gold pieces could be hand-waived with a grin as not being worth anything on Krynn. That's it. That's literally the...

No, Ernie Gygax & crew registered three of the old TSR marks. This is but the 2nd of three.

I don't know about that. They certainly didn't help. Still, they weren't the ones on that podcast. That was all Ernie. As for "choosing partners that ended up destroying the company"... Well, that's the supposed sequel aping the Original's weakness to a tee, isn't it?

In about, what, a little more than two weeks, these bozos (and let's not mince words, Ernie, mainly) took a trademark that had significant goodwill attached to it -- and utterly destroyed its value. They stole fire -- then they cast it into the Ocean above the Marianas Trench. Unbelievable.

You can totally do it. It becomes, in effect, just like any other Adv Path. And they can be fun. I've GMd or played in over... 15 of them to date? (and counting). But the one thing such an AP lacks is that the story is truly about the characters, where they, not the BBEG, are the most...

I have seen it done and I haven't seen it work. I have seen attempts, and they appear to be paying lip service to the premise -- it doesn't really address the underlying realities. While your comment about tone and attitude is not wrong -- I would gently point out that you provoked it with the...

You might be right - been more than 2 decades since I read DoWN as well (though I am re-listening to DoAT now though). [Funny, it seems to hold up better in the new audio book version than the last time I read it -- which was 15 or so years ago and I remembered it as being far more awful than...

Because the pre-gens' background establishes: Goldmoon and Riverwind are lovers with a tragic backstory that sets the stage for DL-1; Caramon and Raistlin are twin brothers; Tanis and Kitiara are ex-lovers; Tanis and Laurana are ALSO ex-lovers; Tanis and Gilthanas used to be best friends and...

The correct metaphor is angry abishai. It was the spirits of those devils that were literally put into the corrupted eggs that created the Draconians in the first place. The original idea for using the abishai for this was drawn by the DL design team from Gygax's article in Dragon #75. It...

Unfortunately, it also made it feel like it was the same alien, every damned time. By choosing what proved to be over-whelming personality traits that emerged during play and chalking them up to biology, they ended up defining the same character, over and over (and over) again. The disruptive...

You are, of course, entirely correct in this view and assessment of DragonLance. But there is a reason for that and how that element emerges in the narrative of the tale. DragonLance is not simply a story that takes place in a setting, it is a story that involves characters with pre-existing...

I will strike a discordant note in what has mostly been a reasonable (if not helpful thread). I don't want to see a Krynn setting beyond the bare necessity necessary to run the classic War of the Lance campaign. Because that's DragonLance. The rest is just the echo of what was; trying to milk...