[Contemplating] Dragonlance Classics

[GruTheWanderer]

Great to hear it. I'm glad you are all still watching.

Dalamar, your namesake doesn't appear in the Dragonlance Classics as originally written. But I will find a good place to insert him.

 

[garyh]

I'm still watching, and still interested in Caramon or a later character.

 

[GruTheWanderer]

One other big question

Alright, here's one more possibly contentious question: how closely should the game follow the course of the novels?

1. Exactly
2. Closely
3. Distantly
4. Not at all
5. Other

As I mentioned, the game will stay within the bounds of the modules, so it will resemble the novels to a certain extent. There are whole modules skipped in the novels, so they will automatically be new. On the other hand, there are many possible paths through the first module, only one represented in the books.

I will also say that I have no intention of rereading the novels during the game. However, the players are free to do so.

 

[Shalimar]

I vote 5. It should not neccessarily follow the books beyond the start, so long as it follows the modules it will be close enough, at least to my way of thinking.

 

[Krizzel]

I'll de-lurk and agree. Definitely 5. If we wanted the novels, well, we could all just read them again Besides IMO a lot of the novels are just not that good. It was great as an introduction to fantasy, and will always be a cherished classic in that regard, but after many years of reading many other books going back to reading DL is hard. It reads more like a storyhour than a novel

All that said I think this is a great idea. I'd love to play.

 

[GruTheWanderer]

I think that some of the random encounters can be eliminated (most often these amount to the fighters pounding things and the casters conserving their strength), and cutting out some of the extraneous rooms and what not in some of the dungeons would be a good idea as well.

I've decided I will desribe the lesser encounters myself to save time, and I will quickly summarize extraneous rooms if they bear no relation to the story. I'll try to make it clear when the party must make a decision about two or more equally useful routes.

 

[rangerjohn]

Also watching and another for 5 on the poll.

 

[Keia]

I think this poll is running still at #5 (for my vote as well). I'm sure that situations will arise just as in the books, however, I don't want to be bound those constraints.

Keia

 

[KitanaVorr]

#5

I agree that not all the books were that good, I'd like to take the best out of the books and put them into a coherent fun game.

 

[Sen Udo-Mal]

I have been a lurking here for a while and well if there is still space I might really like to play Flint as no one has suggested him yet. If I do play Flint I would go with 5 as I really don't want to play a character that dies of a heart attack half-way through the game