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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Levistus's_Leviathan" data-source="post: 8841693" data-attributes="member: 7023887">Yes, I have. But I quite like epic fantasy. It's probably my favorite subgenre of fantasy. The Stormlight Archive is currently one of my favorite fantasy series.I should like Dragonlance. I like the Lord of the Rings well enough, and Dragonlance steals from Middle Earth a ton. I like Dwarves and Gnomes and only occasionally hate Elves. I grew up on classic fantasy tales of honorable knights that went on quests to slay dragons and evil wizards corrupted by power. I like multi-mooned worlds (Eberron has even more), I like magic being connected to the moon, I like seafaring minotaurs (I loved Voyage of the Dawntreader as a child), and I like happy endings where the good guys win. I grew up Mormon, and as much as might be averse to the church now, there is a certain aspect of it that should feel nostalgic, like some Brandon Mull, Orson Scott Card, and Brandon Sanderson books do.  There is a lot in Dragonlance that should work for me. Almost all of it should line up for me and become a favorite setting. But just doesn't. Which is really doesn't make sense to me. The more that I think about it, the more it seems like Dragonlance is less than the sum of its parts.I wouldn't be so averse to alignment if the settings actually used it well. The main reason I prefer settings that downplay/ignore it is because that makes them less likely to screw it up.Dragonlance could pretty easily not screw it up. It would have been very easy to change just a few, minor things about the setting, and not have all of these problems that have been brought up through this thread.Because, note, while I am generally averse to alignment (increasingly so, as the more I learn about it, the more bad stuff I seem to find), but I do like quite a few settings that use alignment pretty prominently, like Exandria and the few bits of the Great Wheel that aren't redundant.Yeah, yeah, Eberron is amazing and it basically ignores alignment and the few bits that are a part of the setting were probably forced in by WotC, but I would like Eberron even if it used alignment slightly more prominently.I do hate alignment, but not to the extent that it would thoroughly ruin something that I'd enjoy without its inclusion. My problem with Dragonlance's morality isn't that it uses alignment. It's that it uses it in stupidly bad ways.</blockquote>

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