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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ibrandul" data-source="post: 8420037" data-attributes="member: 6871736">If/when they do Dragonlance, I feel confident it will have the same relationship to the original War of the Lance module saga as Curse of Strahd does to the original Ravenloft module. It'll be a "fresh take" / expansion upon the original storyline.The only difference is that with Strahd there's an easy cyclical "eternal penance" canonical excuse for rehashing the same story, whereas with Dragonlance they will either have to A) create a similar in-world excuse for the reboot or B) ignore canon.Given how much effort they've made to incorporate / allude to / namecheck old Forgotten Realms lore (yes, I really believe that, though of course I know that many hardcore FR fans just scowled at their screens and started composing angry rebuttals), I would have laid a little money (not a lot) on option A—until WotC's recent "Pre-5e Lore Isn't the Boss of Us" press release. Now I would wager a lot on option B; it's still possible that the new DL novel trilogy will provide a canon-respecting justification for the reboot (possibly involving either time-travel, a trope that already has been used in Dragonlance canon, or else multiversitude), but I now highly doubt that a WotC DL RPG book would make any effort to respect or acknowledge the decades of post–War of the Lance DL continuity.Which is probably for the best.</blockquote>