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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jester David" data-source="post: 6287615" data-attributes="member: 37579">WotC doesn't need a Dragonlance specialist, they just need to read the books MWP released during 3e. I love Dragonlance. I helped me get into gaming, by renewing my interest in fantasy and teasing me with the existence of games like D&D.Just the other day I gave away my copies of the Dragonlance Chronicles trilogy. I have the annotated version so I'm not lacking, but I gave away the original copies I received for a birthday or Christmas back in 1991. There's a good reader at the elementary school where I work, and I thought he'd get more enjoyment out of the books now than myself. Maybe someday he'll discover D&D just like I did.But Dragonlance as a setting... it's better left dead. It's better if the Dragonlance Nexus can just do their own thing with the world now. The problem is the setting is just as fractured as D&D. You have the fans of the original stuff up until the Summer of Flame/ Chaos War. Then you have the fans of the 5th Age pre-War of Souls. Then you have the people who like the post-War of Souls world. It's all but impossible to make a product that would appeal to all fans of the setting. The setting has undergone a nuking worse than the Realms experienced twice. There's very little in the setting fans who stopped reading after Legends would even recognise. The easiest and likely most successful way to publish the Dragonlance would be a back-to-basics setting, that takes the world back to during or just after the War of the Lance when most people are familiar with the world. Like what they did with Dark Sun for 4e. But for the ardent Dragonlance fans, the War of the Lance has been done to death, so this has little appeal. Or they could publish a reimagined Dragonlance as an Adventure Path. Recreate and reimagine the modules from the War of the Lance story, tweaking them based on modern game and adventure design to make them the best version of the War possible. WotC should just update the races in Dragon and make sure all the sourcebooks are available online as PDFs, so people can just buy the 1e-2e Dragonlance book and use those with the new rules to get familiar with the world.</blockquote>

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