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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 8804077" data-attributes="member: 22779">Heh, it's funny really.This release for Dragonlance couldn't possibly be more core to the original DL experience if Tracy Hickman came to your house and ran it.Hear me out.  I started in DL when the modules and novels came out.  Which meant, when I bought the final DL module, DL 14 Dragon's of Triumph in around January of 1986, there was, in total, the modules and 3 novels - the original three and that was it.  The Legends stuff wouldn't come out for another month.  That was the sum total of all DL canon that existed.There was no setting guide - the DL Adventures book was years away still.  Heck, IIRC, (and I'm sure someone will correct me) the first full map of Ansalon wasn't until DL 5.  I was a THIRD of the way through the campaign before I even knew what Ansalon actually looked like.  No orcs?  Why not?  Sure, there weren't orcs in the modules, but, nothing there told me that I couldn't have orcs in Krynn.  Same with Drow.  Sure, there weren't any drow in the modules, but, heck, in the 80's, LOTS of modules didn't have drow in them.  That wasn't unusual at all.  No druids? Why on earth would I think that?  There was a druid NPC right there in the modules for anyone to play.All that stuff that people talk about being the "core Dragonlance experience" came later.  None of it was detailed particularly when I got into the setting.  Other than a paragraph or two here or there, there was no cosmology.  There was a couple of pages of history, but, that was about it.Now, fast forward to today.  Someone who, like me back in the day, gets into Dragonlance as a teenager - same age, 15 (ish).  He or she is going to get to play an adventure path series of adventures set in Ansalon during the War of the Lance.  That is as core to the setting as you can possibly get.  They don't care about all that stuff that came after, any more than I did.  They don't know about it same as me.  They are going to get the full on, 100% authentic Dragonlance experience.It doesn't get any more old school authentic than that.</blockquote>

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