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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Velderan" data-source="post: 8806576" data-attributes="member: 7038056">Sorry, I should have been clearer. I meant easier to explain adding in orcs and tieflings and sorcerer and tabaxi and whatever else you can think of. Just create another event like the graygem creating the kender and you can easily explain why this stuff is now there and you don't have to ignore previous lore while doing it. The 5E FR material barely goes into previous lore, so it's up to each DM how much that stuff matters in their campaign which is exactly the way it should be. For my suggestion of picking up after the Dark Disciple books, it would have required more work to write the lore so in that regard it's probably easier overall to just go back to the beginning of the War of the Lance, keep things vague so each table can decide how to approach it, and plug the story in somewhere we've previously not heard much about. I completely agree from a design and marketability perspective, WotC made the right choice for a safe product that's more likely to sell and ultimately that's what matters. Without going into everything covered in the 32 pages of this topic, I don't hate what they're doing and I fully expect them to anger/please both sides of this whole debate by just not clarifying anything that doesn't need to be clarified for the adventure contained in the book. It's 224 pages, it won't be an in-depth setting book like we've seen in the past.As for the bolded part, I'm not sure the campaign I ran would have been considered a mini-reset because the events of the DL module series and the events of my campaign didn't really impact each other one way or the other. Thinking about it, I also ran a very brief campaign as a teenager with minotaur PCs who were all Lawful-Evil. It was set in the Blood Sea and they were on a ship in the Dragonarmy fleet that was pursuing the Perechon into the maelstrom when they backed off because it became clear they would die if they persisted into the storm. I never explicitly said the Companions were on the ship they were chasing but rather explained all they knew was the ship carried high-profile enemies of Takhisis. The Dragonarmy commander in the region had their ship's captain executed for failing to follow orders and the PCs weren't ok with that so the goal of the campaign was going to be the PCs seeking independence of their nation from the Dark Queen's minions. Kind of a shade of grey type campaign because the minotaurs were typically LE and had a code of honor, but sadly that campaign was ended when summer break was over and we never revisited the idea. Stuff like that was what I liked about Dragonlance.</blockquote>

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