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<blockquote data-quote="Cam Banks" data-source="post: 939699" data-attributes="member: 3817">The Dragonlance setting has the unique quality of having its earliest published time period remain popular and sought after, as opposed to the Forgotten Realms which has more or less left behind the pre-Time of Troubles Faerun. The popularity hinges on continued success and sales of the original novels, and the closest the Realms comes to this is the Icewind Dale trilogy. I should think moving Krynn forward would be as successful as moving Faerun forward, with new developments and adventures opening up to keep the setting alive.I have a feeling that in many ways the post-War of the Lance setting wasn't really the most exciting time period. The war was over, the conflict had been more or less resolved, and the good guys had won. Dragonlance is a setting that began with a war in Chronicles, and it's not always interesting following in the footsteps of the Heroes of the Lance in peacetime. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />That said, if you really want to replay the original modules, or set your adventures after the War of the Lance, Chris and Jamie have said there's plenty of support in the DLCS for that. And there's also almost 20 years of older material that can be used for reference while you wait for 2004...Cheers,Cam</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Cam Banks, post: 939699, member: 3817"] The [I]Dragonlance[/I] setting has the unique quality of having its earliest published time period remain popular and sought after, as opposed to the [I]Forgotten Realms[/I] which has more or less left behind the pre-Time of Troubles Faerun. The popularity hinges on continued success and sales of the original novels, and the closest the Realms comes to this is the Icewind Dale trilogy. I should think moving Krynn forward would be as successful as moving Faerun forward, with new developments and adventures opening up to keep the setting alive. I have a feeling that in many ways the post-War of the Lance setting wasn't [i]really[/i] the most exciting time period. The war was over, the conflict had been more or less resolved, and the good guys had won. Dragonlance is a setting that began with a war in Chronicles, and it's not always interesting following in the footsteps of the Heroes of the Lance in peacetime. :) That said, if you really want to replay the original modules, or set your adventures after the War of the Lance, Chris and Jamie have said there's plenty of support in the [I]DLCS[/I] for that. And there's also almost 20 years of older material that can be used for reference while you wait for 2004... Cheers, Cam [/QUOTE]

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