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Mouse Guard is a much more accessible version of the Burning Wheel system than BW itself (or Burning Empires for that matter.) And it just beat D&D4E for Best RPG at the Origins Awards last night. I'd be remiss if I didn't throw in a mention of our Cortex System RPG and the games that use it...

I'm not talking about Savage Species minotaurs. Our Dragonlance minotaurs were a +0 ECL race. Pushed the envelope a little, but it was there. What I was getting at is that having minotaurs provided in the PHB3 is not an indication that suddenly 4E is into the civilized minotaur schtick. They...

Minotaurs were being presented as something WotC wanted to do cool things with even in the MM. They had never really had civilized minotaurs before, and yet that's what they included in the MM, and I think this has just as much to do with the fans of WoW's taurens as it does any imminent DL...

Or it's a case of re-using art for inspiration, like the Tanis-but-not-Tanis mini. As for Ariakas, he's a former Black Robe wizard who eschewed gaining arcane power from the moons and instead gained it directly from Takhisis. He was the prototype for the Thorn Knights; his son Ariakan founded...

As a contributing author to an IP that has multiple authors (I hesitate to call Dragonlance a "shared world") I upheld whatever continuity framework we had already agreed to or that was supported by the IP owners. Obviously, as I introduced new characters and told a story that hadn't really been...

When I worked on Dragonlance this was an important part of my job. I eventually determined there were two things going on here: continuity, which is essential for framing a campaign setting properly in publication and in tying it together with what has come before; and canon, which in large part...

I don't think this is true. I do know that WotC fully intends to support its settings beyond the core 3 products by publishing online content thru DDI. Whether or not this works or is sufficient to count as support may be up to the individual, but I do credit them for trying. Also, I think if...

I had a long reply but my youngest hit some buttons on my laptop and I lost it. Swell. Long story short: Mystara IS the 4E core world, or at least it very well could have been. The 4E play experience seems so heavily influenced, whether by design or chance, on the Basic/Expert/etc experience...

I see a great deal of "I don't know what they did with DL in 3.5" or "I never read past the first novels" or "I have no idea what DL is other than what people tell me." MWP's Dragonlance products can still be found, often cheap (since they're 3.5) and there's no shortage of access to...

This thread exploded out of nowhere! I have a hunch that draconians are going to be incorporated into core DL in some fashion, not as a precursor to a DL campaign product but because they're iconic in their own way and well, why not? I believe Dragonlance would work just fine in 4E for the...

I think alignment in 4E remains as a categorical limiter, at least in terms of a "what warbands would this guy be in" sense. You'd keep the Chaotic Evil creatures away from the Unaligned creatures, etc etc. It's shorthand for behavior and attitude. It has no effect other than one of grouping...

Tainted Fellspawn. There's nothing wrong with taint as a verb or adjective. But as a noun? Really no. Cheers, Cam

I think there's always going to be an essential problem for some people to agree to both "the heroes are good guys" and "the heroes kill the bad monsters and take their treasure." Bravely stalking through dungeons and heroically overcoming obstacles is one thing, but the general consensus is...

Well, there are those. But then again, Taladas may as well be another campaign setting. Cheers, Cam

You realize you're a one-man band when it comes to this particular issue/problem, right? And that nobody actually considers you a heretic or apostate or similar religious-flavored label? And that people have messed around with this sort of thing with regards to Dragonlance without being half as...

Much of my D&D headspace is devoted to Dragonlance, where metallic dragons being good and chromatic dragons being evil is part of the core setting conceit. I wouldn't be so bothered by this alignment thing in Eberron, where it was kind of a feature of the setting that you could have a LG red...

Are you aware of all of the Dragonlance material that was produced for 3.5 D&D? Or the Dragonlance fansite at Dragonlance Nexus: Unofficial Dragonlance Lexicon, News, Fan Art, Gaming Rules, and Product Information Or the forums at Dragonlance Forums.com - Community Message Boards of the...

That's right! The Dragonlance design team wanted to include that classic trope from movie serials of the villain who suffers a mysterious death and comes back later on to face the heroes again. This schtick's appeared frequently ever since, both in adventures and in GM advice sections. While...

I think because we'd rather people who like them being unaligned be the ones to attack the alignment line with a Sharpie. It makes just as much sense. Cheers, Cam

Yes, but was it the same monster? I believe there were a couple of monsters that got earlier treatments in Dragon and/or Whitw Dwarf and later showed up as altogether different creatures in official AD&D books. I have to say, Lost Caverns was one of my favorite modules back in the day. Before...