Dragon #351?

[Shemeska]

Hey Erik,

Though I asked this over on the Paizo boards, since you're watching this thread, I was wondering how kosher it would be if once I got my copy of this issue, if over on the Planewalker I posted any material that was trimmed/edited before it went to print?

 

[Zaukrie]

Erik, will you update us on how well this dedicated of an issue does? Looks like you have back to back issues that are pretty dedicated to one/closely related topics. Have those types of issues worked in the past?

I have never read the books, but I'll reserve judgement until I get the issue....

 

[Erik Mona]

Hey Erik,

Though I asked this over on the Paizo boards, since you're watching this thread, I was wondering how kosher it would be if once I got my copy of this issue, if over on the Planewalker I posted any material that was trimmed/edited before it went to print?

I don't have a problem with it so far as it doesn't violate WotC's IP rights, and so long as it doesn't replicate material from the magazine itself.

--Erik

 

[Cam Banks]

That's probably true but the fact is while Krynn is probably remote in places, doesn't explain why Dalamar kept meeting with Elminster and Mordy all the time. In any event, I can always ignore such things IF I want to do the whole "jaunt" through the D&D worlds.

It's pretty simple, really - in the Dragonlance cosmology, there isn't any Great Wheel, Krynn is the center of the universe, etc etc. A Krynnocentric campaign as described in the books from Sovereign Press/Margaret Weis Productions, we assume that there aren't any other campaign worlds out there, the gods don't share the planes with any other worlds' gods, and it's all more or less a neat package.

In a multiverse campaign where Krynn isn't the main focus and you want to leapfrog about material planes, then you can use the Dragonlance stuff however you like. Some Planescape people like to account for the lack of planar-savvy folk on Krynn as them being a "planar backwater" or whatever. Spelljammer gamers put a spelljammer port in Palanthas. Works for them.

The whole premise of the article is that the World Serpent Inn opens to various worlds. I made a compromise; it opened - once - for a few days, and this opening cycles around and around until the kender's "curse" so to speak gets solved, and then it's gone. That's the gist of it, but I think as soon as an idea gets published and sent out into the world for people to do things with, it's open season.

It was a lot of fun to write, and I look forward to seeing everybody else's stuff. I do have to say I'm happy no temples to Dragonlance gods show up, though. The Fiendish Codex already got their alignments wrong...

Cheers,
Cam

 

[Erik Mona]

Erik, will you update us on how well this dedicated of an issue does? Looks like you have back to back issues that are pretty dedicated to one/closely related topics. Have those types of issues worked in the past?

I have never read the books, but I'll reserve judgement until I get the issue....

The Campaign Classics issues are routinely among the best-selling issues of the year. The author-based issues we've done tend to depend on the author (George R.R. Martin did great, Terry Brooks did something somewhat short of great).

Almost all of these tightly themed issues sell very well in back issue form, which is also important to us.

That said, 352 still has a fair amount of non-Mieville-based content, and if you're willing to steal monsters from any source, you'll be pleased with the issue whether or not you've read the books.

But you should read the books, because they are AWESOME.

--Erik

 

[Zaukrie]

Thanks for the reply. I'll give the books a try sometime. I've just started the Deverry books this month...

While I don't generally love fiction in the magazine, if you made it the quality of the fiction in Martin's short story (now we know it as an excerpt) with the Iron Lords, I'd probably renew my subscription for life.

 

[Shemeska]

I don't have a problem with it so far as it doesn't violate WotC's IP rights, and so long as it doesn't replicate material from the magazine itself.

--Erik

Thanks Erik. I won't be posting up anything that's in the magazine, just material that didn't make the cut.

It was a lot of fun to write, and I look forward to seeing everybody else's stuff. I do have to say I'm happy no temples to Dragonlance gods show up, though.

*grin* In the 2e sources there was a temple of Mishakal in Ecstasy, given that her divine domain is in Elysium, and while I didn't go into detail on it, I'd mentioned it in my submitted draft. Though I figure you guys probably retconned that, so far as 3e DL was concerned, when you swapped out the cosmology.

 

[Pants]

The novel in question is about five years old, but it's awesome and you would love it.

But you should read the books, because they are AWESOME.

QFT.

 

[Ripzerai]

The Fiendish Codex already got their alignments wrong...

You mean 3e game designers got their alignments wrong. The Fiendish Codex series doesn't mention their alignments at all.

 

[Nightfall]

Am I the only one thinking of a clockwork ninja?

No I was more thinking Naruto Ninja...but then I realize none of that is feasible.

Cam, right, wrong, as long as you keep adding to Dragonlance, I'm happy. Cosmology issues are minor compared to things I do like about the current state of DL. (Races of Anaslon being one of them)

Mellomir eh? So I was right about it being Arabel. Cool.

*wonders when Erik will get around to reading some Gregory Keyes and/or James Clemens* Specifically the Kingdoms of Thorn and Bone and The Godslayer's Chronicles. I'd like to see some of that in Dragon.

Erik,

I have a feeling that this month issue will top out the last one. At least for me it does.