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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dire Bare" data-source="post: 7663492" data-attributes="member: 18182">Dragonlance did indeed change the course of D&D publishing. It did more than that, it reinvigorated the "shared world" novel line "genre" in bookstores. It's been a LONG time, but from what I remember, before Dragonlance the "shared world" shelves in bookstores were Star Trek novels and more Star Trek novels. After Dragonlance, every fantasy and sci-fi movie, TV, and game property needed tie-in novels and the "shared world" shelves started getting bigger than the shelves offering standalone novels.I don't think Dragonlance was "always" an enigma to TSR (and later WotC), they were very successful with it. But Dragonlance suffered from the same problems the larger game did, it was mismanaged (or undermanaged) by TSR, and by the time WotC got it, it was a "damaged" property. And despite being a part of Hasbro, WotC isn't bestowed with huge resources to properly manage a large property. And this is a problem WotC is currently trying to fix so that D&D becomes just as large and important a franchise as Star Wars, Marvel, DC, and others.</blockquote>