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Publication of a major new Weis & Hickman DL series has always been followed by or simultaneous with a gaming tie-in--Legends and Dragonlance Adventures, DoSF and the Fifth Age, War of Souls and 3E, Lost Chronicles and the continuing SP/MWP license. No reason to believe this would be any different.

You misundertand. I don't care about canon, and I don't care about 5th Edition. I love the old Ravenloft setting, and found the version presented in Curse of Strahd severely underwhelming in comparison. The only thing that annoys me is the misconception or pretense that CoS is the same thing as...

'Driven by the novels' in the sense that 'best-selling novels get TSR/WotC to try to kick the gaming football again.' (Yes, 3E DL was successful … for Sovereign Press. But success for a small game company that doesn't have major competition for resources is different than success for a company...

The pattern becomes clearer when you reverse the lenses--it's not that the games drive the novels, it's that the novels drive the games for DL, and for various reasons (timing, past failures), the games have tended to go with what's currently 'hot.'

It was. I followed the Fifth Age line from beginning to end and had contact with several designers, and they've all said the same thing. The bit about W&H proposing a trilogy with game tie-ins is true, but TSR had contracted them for one final Chronicles novel and held to that plan. The presales...

It goes against the spirit of the 2E/3E setting, at least, where the Dark Powers were supposed to forever remain undefined. The one product that tried to define them is one of the only Ravenloft products ever declared 'non-canonical' (the novel Lord of the Necropolis, written in an era when TSR...

Which is the very point of the argument--Curse of Strahd, whatever its merits (I found it unimpressive on a readthrough), is not in 'continuity' with the 2E or 3E incarnations of the setting. For most people, that doesn't matter, but there are a few of us who prefer the earlier to the latter...

I don't know that that's ever happened. The 1E/2E changeover was accomplished with no events, not even on the level of Greyhawk's Fate of Istus module. The Fifth Age and the changeover to the SAGA System came after Dragons of Summer Flame was written and turned in with no input from anyone on...

Also, * Dusk elves. Dusk elves everywhere, whereas elves have been virtually unknown to 2E/3E Barovians. *. Nothing wrong with doing a revamp of I6 that doesn't hold to the setting's canon--I had no issues with Expedition to Castle Ravenloft as such (the missing ending, on the other...

Indeed, Hickman is on record as actively disliking the Ravenloft setting, and not just because they borrowed Lord Soth from Dragonlance. Part of it was that it was 'too depressing and hopeless,' which makes it ironic that CoS is in some ways the darkest iteration of Barovia yet with all the...

Crazy theory: Does '3 settings' necessarily mean '3 products'? I'd say Dark Sun is a pretty safe bet for one, but I wouldn't be surprised if they do a Spelljammer/Planescape hybridization that 'technically' counts as both while being a single product or branding item.

I used to be a fan, but I came to the conclusion that what I loved about the setting either had been lost or wasn't really there to begin with. Ah, well. All things pass. Given how disappointed I was in the handling of Ravenloft in CoS, I'd suggest that everyone hoping for any setting revival...

They've done it for every edition except 4th, so there's definitely precedent. The big question is, can they get Weis & Hickman on board with it? While they don't own the rights, the past has shown that you're not going to get fans on board if they don't give it their blessing. Weis has been...

The Great American Witch may be one of the first RPGs to treat Jack Chick as a legitimate source of background. ;) :p Seriously, "Mary doctrine is just repackaged Isis worship" is a staple of the more fringe branch of anti-Catholic polemics.

It came out in August/September 1996, just before TSR went under. Great system and setting wasted on an unappreciative franchise and fan base. :)

Note that 'older' here applies to all pre-5E products, as far as I can tell.

The script for "The Ring of Dreams" (by Michael Halperin) can be found in He-Man and the Masters of the Universe: The Complete Minicomics Collection. Lord Masque's origin is mentioned in the Trivia section of He-Man.org, while Granamyr's background is confirmed in He-Man and She-Ra: A Complete...

An unproduced mini-comic, "The Ring of Dreams," was set to include a glabrezu, which I believe is a creature unique to D&D. Also, several of DiTillio's RPG campaigns and writings influenced his MotU work--the villain Lord Masque from "House of Shokoti, Part I" came from one of his campaigns...

So, are we setting up for PCs allying with freedom-fighting demons against tyrannical angels?

I know him because this isn't the first time he's been written up in RPG terms … you can find him in Michael Surbrook's Larger Than Life, available in HERO System, Savage Worlds, and Mutants & Masterminds 3E editions. :)