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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Velderan" data-source="post: 8807904" data-attributes="member: 7038056">Yeah, there's some legit good stuff there. <a href="https://www.dmsguild.com/m/product/244431" target="_blank">The Border Kingdoms</a> for example is another Ed Greenwood book available there that's pretty good.From the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSxaX76Qw34&t=29s" target="_blank">most recent interview F. Wesley Schneider</a> has spoken about it in (around the 1:10 mark), I'm 99% sure it's going to keep the focus in Eastern Solamnia and they're specifically trying to explore an area that previously wasn't talked about. Why would you do that? Simple, so you can leave existing lore largely intact and still tell a new story. You're not requiring people to know more than what's needed for that region, so you avoid what they're suggesting is the problem of needing to read tons of additional material to get up to speed and allow them to keep the book to 224 pages. That's basically what I did during <a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/dragonlance-everything-you-need-for-shadow-of-the-dragon-queen.692458/post-8806503" target="_blank">my own home game</a> years ago that you made it a point of saying wasn't Dragonlance because it wasn't epic enough for the record (you edited your post to remove what you said, but I quoted it in my response <a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/dragonlance-everything-you-need-for-shadow-of-the-dragon-queen.692458/post-8806899" target="_blank">here</a>).The more I hear Schneider talk about the setting and adventure, the less concerned I am that they're going to take a hatchet to the setting. There will certainly be changes, for instance Soth was pretty much only loyal to Kitiara and not the Dragonarmies or Takhisis so involving him in a way that makes sense for the adventure they're describing to me implies they'll need to retcon his character a bit. Overall I'm not as concerned as I was when they first announced this during their announcement stream in August. Want something where you get to take on the role of the Companions? As you've said a few times now, <a href="https://www.dmsguild.com/product/357010/DL1-Dragons-of-Despair-5e-Conversion-Guide-with-Maps" target="_blank">DM's Guild exists</a>. Why would WotC remake that product when it's been done several times before <a href="https://www.dmsguild.com/product/17370/Dragonlance-Classics-Volume-I-2e" target="_blank">here</a>, <a href="https://www.dmsguild.com/product/219096/Dragonlance-Classics-15th-Anniversary-Edition-2e-SAGA" target="_blank">here</a>, and <a href="https://www.dmsguild.com/product/12639/Dragons-of-Autumn-35" target="_blank">here</a>?Edit: Forgot to mention Schneider also does a great job of just completely glossing over the whole orc/drow/tieling topic by saying you can play everything you'd expect to play in a D&D setting before focusing on topics like clerics and wizards instead of digging into the race topic. People that want orcs and drow can run what they want, people who want a more traditional DL experience can exclude those races. They're not going to say anything more specific in the 224 page book, why would they?</blockquote>

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