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Actually yeah, you're right. I'd forgotten about (among other things...) the genuinely good novel Renegade Wizards, set in the Towers of High Sorcery a generation or so before the War of the Lance, which had all sorts of people running around using in-born 'wylding' magic that sounded a LOT...

Yeah, that’s the point. DL had a post-War of the Lance in-world event aaaages ago that justified why sorcerers were around in that later time period. WotC in SotDQ just casually retconned in the assumption that they were there all along (which is an approach I agree with and took for my current...

I allowed it in my current game. I provided a list of suggested 3pp material I would allow (from a thematic point of view, and drawing from a few reputable 3pps), and said that anything else I'd evaluate if asked, but that i reserved the right to rein it back in if it proved problematic in...

Won’t happen. Hasbro/WotC and Weis/Hickman are working in different Dragonlance canonicities/timelines/etc, as has been LEGALLY very well known since the court case a few years back. W&H have the ‘Dragonlance Classic’ label, and can non-exclusively use all their old characters. WotC has minimal...

I co-GMed a Serenity/Firefly game many years ago, where a lot of the session/episode titles were Elton John inspired. We stole most of them from a very old rpg.net thread - Crocodile Rock, Benny and the Jets, Rocket Man, The Bitch is Back, etc etc etc

GoT was subversive for its time, but it's certainly not any more. Through its success, it defined a new mainstream. It created and popularised a whole lot of new tropes which are bordering on overdone cliche now.

I If you've ever seen Lynn Abbey's account of her dealings with TSR in the process of writing her Dark Sun novels, it's probably more surprising that any D&D novels in that time period ended up being readable at all.

Good Society. Lace and Steel.

The Galen Beckett books are excellent and I thoroughly encourage everyone to check them out. His D&D books for TSR were pretty bad though.

It’s never a surprise when a movie/tv project falls over in the pitching/development/scripting stages. I’d be surprised if 10% of projects (even only counting serious ones, not the scripts that LA waiters keep in their back pockets waiting for their big break) actually make it to the screen...

Well, given they’re currently two books into ANOTHER new trilogy, starring Raistlin, Sturm, and Tas decades after all of those characters canonically died in print, that’s kinda debatable!

I honestly don’t think that’s the case. What really makes a popular, successful licenced property is memorable, relatable, and compelling characters. In a TTRPG supplement, that looks a bit much like NPC-dominance (to the degree you can do it at all - that’s normally something that has to happen...

Yeah, that's a needle I'm trying to thread myself at the moment. Running an epic Dragonlance campaign, set in the War of the Lance, in which the PCs play a crucial role but which largely leaves the events of the novels alone. It ain't exactly easy, and I have no idea how well it's going to...

Yep. And to be fair, they were kinda rubbish and I don't in the least blame anyone who didn't buy one. I ended up with a copy of the boardgame because i bought it in the deluxe bundle, which arrived in my country a solid 3-4 months ahead of the book alone. It just seemed - pointless. Limited...

I entirely agree with you about the prominence of the DL novels over the modules in the public nerd consciousness. The whole story of Rastlin and Caramon, and the death of Sturm, and even bloody Tasselhoff's pickpocketing are 100% THE iconic elements of Dragonlance, and they're all straight...

That's a bit of a chicken-egg question. The gods departed Krynn (and took all their spellcasting clerics with them) a considerable time before the Cataclysm. It was I believe meant to be a sign of godly disapproval and a warning to Istar to change their ways, but didn't get read that way...

I heartily agree, but I don’t think the difficulty of doing that is the major barrier to it being made. The risk-averse nature of the money people who look at the source and think ‘oh crap, x and y and z will get us panned’ is certainly a bigger one, admittedly. I mean, LotR made a bunch of...

A live-action dragonlance done to modern sensibilities would certainly require change but would be far from impossible. If could have had enough landmines to make risk-averse Hasbro execs nervous though. I wonder if they just saw a BG3 adaptation as a safer and more zeitgeisty option.

Yeah, that's kinda what I expected. Disappointing, but realistically they were never going to rewrite the whole thing from scratch like I wanted to see. At least one subclass based on actual performing is a nice and very overdue change though. Capstone abilities are relevant in...

So, as someone who's largely missed the playtests, what DOES the UA bard look like? I've found it one of the most confused classes in 5e - it's a performer that doesn't need to perform, and turning it into a full spellcaster has hamstrung the customisability of it to fit other archetypes and...