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<blockquote data-quote="M.L. Martin" data-source="post: 9431580" data-attributes="member: 4086">Doesn't line up with what I heard from one of the designers on the Fifth Age game: DoSF came first, they got the go-ahead to do a game based on presales for the novel, they proposed an AD&amp;D-lite variant set post-WotL, and got told &quot;No, it needs to be non-AD&amp;D, card-based, and post-DoSF.&quot; &nbsp; Has this ever been documented? Because I asked Shannon Appelcline about this exact theory--that DL had been moved to SAGA to get out from under the D&amp;D movie deal--when he did his big history of TSR a decade or two back, and he said he'd never seen anything to suggest it. And it doesn't agree with the sequence of events I heard from Steve Miller, who was part of the original Fifth Age design team.&nbsp; And an animated Dragonlance film was officially announced in the mid-90s by Nelvana, covering the events between Dragons of Autumn Twilight and Dragons of Winter Night. I don't know it fell through because of the Solomon deal or other factors.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="M.L. Martin, post: 9431580, member: 4086"] Doesn't line up with what I heard from one of the designers on the Fifth Age game: DoSF came first, they got the go-ahead to do a game based on presales for the novel, they proposed an AD&D-lite variant set post-WotL, and got told "No, it needs to be non-AD&D, card-based, and post-DoSF." Has this ever been documented? Because I asked Shannon Appelcline about this exact theory--that DL had been moved to SAGA to get out from under the D&D movie deal--when he did his big history of TSR a decade or two back, and he said he'd never seen anything to suggest it. And it doesn't agree with the sequence of events I heard from Steve Miller, who was part of the original Fifth Age design team. And an animated Dragonlance film [I]was[/I] officially announced in the mid-90s by Nelvana, covering the events between Dragons of Autumn Twilight and Dragons of Winter Night. I don't know it fell through because of the Solomon deal or other factors. [/QUOTE]

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