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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Banshee16" data-source="post: 3777341" data-attributes="member: 7883">Maybe I haven't read the right boards or something...where did  you hear about this?  I believe that Dragons of Summer Flame came out either at the same time that SAGA was released, or SAGA was announced *when* DoSF came out.Interestingly, the whole thing with Dragonlance is somewhat relevant to the discussion of FR.  I have always believed that Dragonlance died as a setting *because* there was no advancement of the metaplot, and no really relevant products for growing the world.We got the Dragonlance hardback, the chronicles modules, there was that trilogy of modules in which the Kodragon, Amphidragon, and Astral Dragon were introduced, and then Otherlands.  That was the first "new" sourcebook that doesn't dealing with War of the Lance Ansalon.  Then the Taladas boxed set came out, which was *very* cool, but which wasn't Ansalon, and was basically a whole new setting.  Then "Minotaurs of Taladas"..the book about the minotaurs of the empire, followed by the trilogy of Taladas modules, which were actually pretty good for a while, and New Beginnings, which was just a character creation intro book.  Finally, there was the Tales of the Lance boxed set, which took us back, again, to the War of the Lance on Ansalon.I believe that they never really went beyond the War of the Lance, and consequently, weren't able to really develop the setting.  It could be said they did this because many fans wanted to play through the War of the Lance.  But as a consumer of products, I needed something more to stay interested.  I played through the War of the Lance with the modules, reached the end, and...now what?  There was no guidance of where to take it from there, since everything was just rehashing the same time period, over and over.Resetting FR gives them huge amounts of freedom to change things and sell new products (whether you see it as good or bad).Banshee</blockquote>

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