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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8490069" data-attributes="member: 18">Can you give me a source for that? During the extensive discussion around the legalities of WotC blocking the novel, it was suggested that WotC did not, in fact, &quot;have a profit percentage&quot;. I can't remember the source now but it was a convincing one.Gully Dwarfs and Kender or...? Honestly I'm interested to hear.No. Uh-uh. Nope. Dragonlance doesn't have particularly great stuff about war in the novels, just dragon vs. dragon combat. The actual battles are pretty vague, there's not a lot of sense of tactics or even combatants in some cases, there's no real sense of strategy and so on. It is not perfect for this. Literally any setting would be about equally suitable (DL would be more suitable for dragon-combat rules, I guess, if you wanted those).Yeah, and that doesn't stop the setting having to repeat all that and then cover whatever the novel doesn't cover, plus do things like shuffle Gully Dwarves under the rug.I don't think so. DL is sort of in the middle on my list of settings, rather than up the hated end (few official D&amp;D settings are, and at least one of those is 5E). I've gone over this a bunch in various threads of a couple of years, but I don't see what it has to offer and no-one seems to be able to explain.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 8490069, member: 18"] Can you give me a source for that? During the extensive discussion around the legalities of WotC blocking the novel, it was suggested that WotC did not, in fact, "have a profit percentage". I can't remember the source now but it was a convincing one. Gully Dwarfs and Kender or...? Honestly I'm interested to hear. No. Uh-uh. Nope. Dragonlance doesn't have particularly great stuff about war in the novels, just dragon vs. dragon combat. The actual battles are pretty vague, there's not a lot of sense of tactics or even combatants in some cases, there's no real sense of strategy and so on. It is not perfect for this. Literally any setting would be about equally suitable (DL would be more suitable for dragon-combat rules, I guess, if you wanted those). Yeah, and that doesn't stop the setting having to repeat all that and then cover whatever the novel doesn't cover, plus do things like shuffle Gully Dwarves under the rug. I don't think so. DL is sort of in the middle on my list of settings, rather than up the hated end (few official D&D settings are, and at least one of those is 5E). I've gone over this a bunch in various threads of a couple of years, but I don't see what it has to offer and no-one seems to be able to explain. [/QUOTE]

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