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<blockquote data-quote="QuentinGeorge" data-source="post: 7997565" data-attributes="member: 20990">Once the novels came out&nbsp; &quot;playing through the modules&quot; becomes an exercise in frustration with most players, since they want to have it play out exactly as it does in the novels. In addition, all future Dragonlance products take the novels as canon, not the modules, meaning you now have trouble using any of the other setting material.And finally, you're right, they are horribly railroaded. They were revelatory in the 80s, but now, especially as people aren't into railroaded dungeon crawls, the originals are not very playable out of the box. The 3rd edition conversions by Cam Banks et al did a lot of work to try and rectify this but the problem remains. shrugs Sure, this is all just my opinion (but I think others share it too), but Dragonlance has always worked better for me as a setting with the War of the Lance years in the past (or even better, decades).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="QuentinGeorge, post: 7997565, member: 20990"] Once the novels came out "playing through the modules" becomes an exercise in frustration with most players, since they want to have it play out exactly as it does in the novels. In addition, all future Dragonlance products take the novels as canon, not the modules, meaning you now have trouble using any of the other setting material. And finally, you're right, they are horribly railroaded. They were revelatory in the 80s, but now, especially as people aren't into railroaded dungeon crawls, the originals are not very playable out of the box. The 3rd edition conversions by Cam Banks et al did a lot of work to try and rectify this but the problem remains. [I]shrugs[/I] Sure, this is all just my opinion (but I think others share it too), but Dragonlance has always worked better for me as a setting with the War of the Lance years in the past (or even better, decades). [/QUOTE]

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