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Thanks for the citations, Voadam. Minor nitpick: It is specified that it is not from Ra, though.

It's been showing up (with genre-specific flavoring) in the redone Companions for the Adventure Edition. Jacksonian heresy! :)

It was ambiguous; the writeup for Alfred Timothy in the Black Box says it appears that he's getting his spells from the 'wolf god', rather than Ravenloft itself. (Yagno Petrovna, by contrast, was always clearly getting his spells from Ravenloft/the Dark Powers.) Two possibilities were suggested...

I only glanced at the last bit, but the impression I got is "probably, but there's a backdoor in to let them happen if we change our minds or never get to do anything else."

Reminds me of something one TSR designer said on Usenet about thirty years ago when someone was making a similar accusation, combined with the usual "T$R" talking points: "If TSR was interested in going the WotC route [this was just after WotC had shut down their entire RPG department] and just...

Thanks for the confirmation. I have anecdotal evidence that suggest things started falling off midway through the original module series, based on seeing massive quantities of DL9 and DL12-14--still in shrinkwrap--at a local game store in North Dakota in the early 2000s. Is that a fluke, or does...

Optimus Prime and Ultra Magnus. I admire Optimus, but identify a bit more with Magnus.

Moving Soth to Ravenloft was getting him out of the corner: Post-Legends Dragonlance was pretty much forbidden territory awaiting the hoped-for return of Weis & Hickman to the setting, and AIUI, the "Dargaard Keep" adventure in DL16 more or less wrote Soth out of the setting anyway. He got to do...

Ravenloft original. He actually shows up as a Mordentshire local in I10 The House on Gryphon Hill, then gets some judicious retconning when the Ravenloft campaign setting is created, and doesn't acquire his Oeridian background until the December 1992 release of RQ3 From the Shadows. Though many...

Ravenloft is easy: Strahd von Zarovich (foundation stone of the setting) and Rudolph van Richten ('voice' for the heroic side).

Yes, there's a reason I describe Greenwood's Realms as "60s/70s Fantasy." :)

I haven't played Baldur's Gate III, so ... "Romanceable mind flayer"? I am not this game's target audience anymore. :)

Technically the gods were still there, just not properly worshipped/possessing active clerics. Or you can use my Anti-Canon for Krynn, which has the High God, five (originally six, but one's dead) enslaved elemental lords/nature spirits, and sixteen dragons who set themselves up as gods. :)

Dragonlance isn't good on continuity, even within the same author's works. As far back as Chronicles, Sturm dies at two different times of day (dawn in the actual event, afternoon in Solamnia/evening in Silvanesti in Alhana's psychic experience of the death).

I saw almost the entire run of 5E (except the core books, oddly enough) at a local Half Price Books this weekend ...

I still say it depends on the definition of 'edition' we're using.

In the spirit of G.K. Chesterton... I shouldn't. :)

Any idea why Plane of Smoke was replaced with Plane of Ash (which used to be the Negative Quasi-Elemental Plane attached to Fire)?

They only got the Age of Mortals because DoSF did so well in presales that the fans on TSR staff (including Harold Johnson, co-creator of Dragonlance) got the go-ahead to do a relaunch under certain parameters set by marketing. (My source for this is Steve Miller, who was part of the original...

I spotted that as well, and figured the writer was looking at things from a D&D-centric perspective.