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<blockquote data-quote="Rygar" data-source="post: 6288928" data-attributes="member: 6756765">Reportedly,&nbsp; TH pitched a novel to WOTC (I think a reboot of sorts?).&nbsp; So it is entirely possible this is the &quot;No comment&quot; stage of negotiations and determining viability.&nbsp; IIRC there was also a rumor of a conversation with MH,&nbsp; I think it was in a news article here about WOTC contacting key persons from each setting about 6 months ago?Then there was the AintItCool article with the author WOTC was wooing to do Dragonlance for 4th edition,&nbsp; so if they were keen on it for 4th,&nbsp; I'd be surprised if they were now disinterested.DL's a strange bird,&nbsp; the money was always in the novels.&nbsp; The campaign setting's problem was always that the novels made PC's second rate heroes because the setting was always dominated by something the novels resolved.&nbsp; War of the Lance is a good example,&nbsp; not really much for people to do since the Heroes of the Lance are going to solve the world-ending problem.&nbsp; What they need to do is leave the world in a state where grand adventures can happen for players.&nbsp; If they can do that,&nbsp; I'd predict Dragonlance equals Forgotten Realms in popularity.They actually got it into that state at the end of War of Souls,&nbsp; and setup alot of great material in the succeeding novels.&nbsp; They even managed to avoid killing that state with the Dark Disciple series and left it in a pretty interesting state (Other than Mina).&nbsp; Unfortunately,&nbsp; the new Hasbro rules prevented it from being taken advantage of.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Rygar, post: 6288928, member: 6756765"] Reportedly, TH pitched a novel to WOTC (I think a reboot of sorts?). So it is entirely possible this is the "No comment" stage of negotiations and determining viability. IIRC there was also a rumor of a conversation with MH, I think it was in a news article here about WOTC contacting key persons from each setting about 6 months ago? Then there was the AintItCool article with the author WOTC was wooing to do Dragonlance for 4th edition, so if they were keen on it for 4th, I'd be surprised if they were now disinterested. DL's a strange bird, the money was always in the novels. The campaign setting's problem was always that the novels made PC's second rate heroes because the setting was always dominated by something the novels resolved. War of the Lance is a good example, not really much for people to do since the Heroes of the Lance are going to solve the world-ending problem. What they need to do is leave the world in a state where grand adventures can happen for players. If they can do that, I'd predict Dragonlance equals Forgotten Realms in popularity. They actually got it into that state at the end of War of Souls, and setup alot of great material in the succeeding novels. They even managed to avoid killing that state with the Dark Disciple series and left it in a pretty interesting state (Other than Mina). Unfortunately, the new Hasbro rules prevented it from being taken advantage of. [/QUOTE]

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