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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 8802862" data-attributes="member: 22779">Maybe not in the novels, but, Knights of the Sword were spell casters in the Dragonlance Adventures book.  They got clerical spells all the way up to 7th (max cleric) level.  Which kinda brings me around to the point about setting canon and whatnot.Believe it or not, I'm actually quite sympathetic to the idea of keeping Dragonlance concepts in the game.  If I had my druthers, I'd run a DL campaign that was strongly based on the original modules and the original limitations of the setting.  But, I have come to the realization that there are two problems with that.1.  No one will play with me if I do that.  Most people aren't big Dragonlance nerds and they simply don't care.  To them, Dragonlance is just that setting with lots of dragons.  The details, if they even knew them at any point in the past, are long forgotten and they don't care.  So, me trying to run the campaign based on what I feel Dragonlance should look like is only servicing me.  The players, by and large, and I think the larger majority of D&D gamers, simply could not give a rat's petoot about what came before.  2.  By WotC simply pushing everything off to the table, they avoid all the back and forth with all the misinformation about the setting.  What people see as Dragonlance varies HUGELY.  Is DL just the original modules?  The novels?  The novels+modules?  What about the later stuff?  The 3e stuff that was extremely well written but also written for people who were already deeply into the lore of the setting?  On and on.  They touch on that in the video.  If the setting truly is for "everyone" then you simply cannot expect people who have zero context and no interest either, in forty year old modules to go out and read them just so they can understand the setting.  That's not going to happen.</blockquote>

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