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Interestingly there was actually 3 Dungeon adventures set in Valachan, the aforementioned Felkovic's Cat, Price of Revenge, and the Laughing Man. And all are now unusable in the "new" Valachan! Good lord, WoTC.

On a meta-gaming level I can't think of a worse decision than to give an in-game reason as to why npcs literally don't matter if you kill them. A PC in a Ravenloft campaign should be always treading the narrow path between dark and light, telling them the shopkeeper has no soul is utterly baffling.

None of that was the case in Ravenloft until 4th edition and was basically the harbinger of crippling the setting as much as the completely wrongheaded decision of "no souls" and other Perkinsisms. All of that is a fundamental misunderstanding of the nature of horror.

The easiest way to tell was "did this Arthaus work have at least one author who was a Kargatane or Kargat member. No? Then it probably wasn't good).

I can certainly see you didn't read any of it. 3E Ravenloft is as far as the material ever goes in actually promoting that most of the inhabitants live pretty normal horror-free lives. 5E is where "its always horrific and people have no souls". (The worst elements of the line were Heroes of...

"Idiot bringing them back". :rolleyes: Part of the point of the "Grim Harvest" series is that there is worse things than an Azalin-ruled Darkon - Lowellyn Dachine "Death", and the various petty villains who rule it in his absence.

The thing is, most of the Ravenloft domains are not meant to be particularly "grimdark", that's a sort of weird mischaracterization of them which unfortunately informed how badly the setting has been mangled in 5E.

Are Tanin and Sturm really main characters? They appear in two short stories and are dead before Dragons of Summer Flame begins. Tasslehoff appears in two whole trilogies after DoSF so I don’t really count that.

Despite its reputation , Summer Flame really only kills a handful of characters, one Her of the Lance (Tanis) and one new hero (Steel).

Technically Dragonlance has had sorcerers since 1996...

Actually the 3E Material kinda said sorcerers were there the whole time - in fact, it explictly said it was the "original" magic of Krynn. It did say mortal sorcerers were vanishingly rare, however. Basically only difference in SotDQ is the lack of rarity.

No new Dragonlance novel has had an Elmore cover for over twenty years. Elmore didn't do the covers for the Lost Chronicles or the War of Souls, that was Matt Stawicki (and I actually think his stuff is better than Elmore's "let's just put a feather in the woman's hair" stuff.

Yep, as aptly demonstrated with the art of the 3E "noble draconians".

Based on my reread one of the only characters who isn't terrible on some level* is Elistan, and Weis and Hickman ultimately hated writing him and wanted to kill him off on several occasions.. *Flint would be the next closest, but he literally rages himself to death.

Jezza knows the truth, mate.

Legally they don't have to do anything. They could lock their IP in a cupboard forever if they want and just make money selling collectibles.

It was a canon discussion, and I'm pretty sure there was the hint of a bristling about how the novels eclipsed the modules. (Do people want Verminaard surviving his death and calling himself VERMINAARD LIVES backwards?)

Part of the point of the unfolding narrative of Dragonlance is that the perception is that the Gods abandoned Krynn, but the reality is the reverse. Sincere clerics still got spells. Crysania even had hers post-Cataclysm when she, Raistlin, Caramon and Tas were fighting in the Dwarfgate Wars...

You can go to wizard's crazy towers and fly spelljammers in Dragonlance too so I'm not sure that's a point of difference.