Kwalish Kid
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That was me and no, it's not really similar.MerricB said:Heh.
It's just one of those things. Someone made the comment that the 4e rules will make it harder to represent Dragonlance, and it it dawned on me that Dragonlance had done a few things similar to what the 4e designers have done.
For the Dragonlance project, the project team tried to develop a campaign world and epic story arc that would reproduce AD&D mechanics as faithfully as possible, with a few unique elements thrown in. In the development of 4E, the project team tried to design a fantasy RPG system that would capture essential play elements of D&D and desired fantasy settings regardless of the story elements of particular D&D franchises.
4E gets rid of none of these things. They are, as far as I can tell, simply on a different release schedule.Consider:
No Half-Orcs, Halflings or Gnomes in Dragonlance.
Instead, you get Kender and Tinker Gnomes.
4e gets rid of Half-Orcs and Gnomes, and the Halfling takes the good bits of the Kender (it did so in 3e, strictly. They're no longer hobbits).
A nice comparison, except that Draconians are not much like Dragonborn and Irda are definitely not like Eladrin.Dragonlance adds Draconians. 4e has Dragonborn.
Dragonlance has Irda. 4e has Eladrin.
Now I think that 4E can be adapted for Dragonlance of any age, but there is really little basis for comparison.