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<blockquote data-quote="M.L. Martin" data-source="post: 9436343" data-attributes="member: 4086">They only got the Age of Mortals because DoSF did so well in presales that the fans on TSR staff (including Harold Johnson, co-creator of Dragonlance) got the go-ahead to do a relaunch under certain parameters set by marketing. (My source for this is Steve Miller, who was part of the original Fifth Age design team and who posted this repeatedly in public fora back in the day.)&nbsp;&nbsp; You don't have to like the Age of Mortals--I have my own issues with the War of Souls and resulting &quot;5.5th Age&quot;--but it's tough to blame it for killing a setting that was dead as a gameline and had already floundered after two prior 'relaunch' efforts (Taladas and Tales of the Lance).&nbsp;&nbsp; As for the revisiting, I think it's safe to say that most of the audience for DL that TSR and WotC has been trying to chase is less invested in the setting than in the War of the Lance, Heroes of the Lance, and the original six novels. Not to mention the politics of the setting being so closely identified with Weis &amp; Hickman ...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="M.L. Martin, post: 9436343, member: 4086"] They only got the Age of Mortals because DoSF did so well in presales that the fans on TSR staff (including Harold Johnson, co-creator of Dragonlance) got the go-ahead to do a relaunch under certain parameters set by marketing. (My source for this is Steve Miller, who was part of the original Fifth Age design team and who posted this repeatedly in public fora back in the day.) You don't have to like the Age of Mortals--I have my own issues with the War of Souls and resulting "5.5th Age"--but it's tough to blame it for killing a setting that was dead as a gameline and had already floundered after two prior 'relaunch' efforts (Taladas and [I]Tales of the Lance[/I]). As for the revisiting, I think it's safe to say that most of the audience for DL that TSR and WotC has been trying to chase is less invested in the setting than in the War of the Lance, Heroes of the Lance, and the original six novels. Not to mention the politics of the setting being so closely identified with Weis & Hickman ... [/QUOTE]

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