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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ralif Redhammer" data-source="post: 8569284" data-attributes="member: 30438">There are two answers I can give. I'll start with the first, the subjective part.Nostalgia plays a huge part of it, the age I was when I discovered Dragonlance. It's tied to my earliest days of playing D&D, before I had even moved onto AD&D. I was a kid and it was all very new. It's being a twin and reading a fantasy series that has twin heroes in it. It's imaging what it would be like to walk amidst the Vallenwood trees of Solace. It's about the art by Elmore, Easley, Parkinson, and Valusek. I was shocked when main characters die. It's eating piles of Otik's Spiced Potatoes and Nuitari Cookies.But that, that's a big pair of rose-colored glasses. As an adult, Raistlin get's on my nerves and Caramon is a doormat for him. Sturm's death is telegraphed from a mile away (Flint's, I would argue, still packs a punch because in a world of high fantasy it's so distressingly mundane and real). There's a ton of punching-down comedy in it, and problematic racial/racist tropes.If I had to talk about the universal appeal of Dragonlance (though I do think nostalgia plays a part for a lot of people as well), I'd talk about the way the personal interactions take center stage against a background of war and great battles. It's about, not just a dragon or two, but whole flights of them. The world still bears the scars of the Cataclysm vividly. There's a sense of the world being, for lack of a better term, fallen. And it's from there that the heroes rise up.And I think that's ripe for a 5e setting-adventure hybrid. I think the problematic elements can be smoothed out easily enough. There's the question of what happens when new fans go back to the older books, so it may be necessary to have a brief note in the 5e book about that, much like the legacy disclaimer on old TSR products.Maybe I've just seen too many bad-faith arguments online, and it's making me cynical...</blockquote>

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