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<blockquote data-quote="doctorbadwolf" data-source="post: 8453370" data-attributes="member: 6704184">I wouldn’t be especially excited about that but I’d be fine with it.&nbsp; &nbsp;My preference would be to “reset” the world to a very similar status quo as the original story by going full circle. You meet in Solace, there are armies threaten the entire continent in the name of Takhisis who has maybe returned but then where is Paladine? Etc etc, but this time there is a monument to fallen heroes in Solace, and the tavern-owning mayor’s surname is Majere and she’s descended from Heroes of The Lance, the various Kanan family elves are still around and ruling elf kingdoms that have rebuilt, Kendermore has been rebuilt at some point, etc, but with things still impacted by the hundred years or whatever that is covered by the existing novels.&nbsp; &nbsp;the War of The Lance is history and legend, inspiration for young heroes who see history repeating itself as evil rises in a time where the forces of Good are scattered and weakened. Someone must seek out the dragonlances, or forge new ones, and find lost relics like the staff of magius, and gather allies to fight back the new dragon armies.&nbsp; &nbsp;Same broad goals accomplished, without a weak sauce DL equivalent of yeeting the city of Shade into Myth Drannor in FR because grumpy fans didn’t like that Myth Drannor wasn’t a ruin anymore.&nbsp; &nbsp;Id prefer a flat reset like you suggest, or just a rewrite of the Chronicles with no obligation to keep things the same, and simply saying, “it’s a reboot because we are better authors now and the setting can be better than it has been this way.”</blockquote>

[QUOTE="doctorbadwolf, post: 8453370, member: 6704184"] I wouldn’t be especially excited about that but I’d be fine with it. My preference would be to “reset” the world to a very similar status quo as the original story by going full circle. You meet in Solace, there are armies threaten the entire continent in the name of Takhisis who has maybe returned but then where is Paladine? Etc etc, but this time there is a monument to fallen heroes in Solace, and the tavern-owning mayor’s surname is Majere and she’s descended from Heroes of The Lance, the various Kanan family elves are still around and ruling elf kingdoms that have rebuilt, Kendermore has been rebuilt at some point, etc, but with things still impacted by the hundred years or whatever that is covered by the existing novels. the War of The Lance is history and legend, inspiration for young heroes who see history repeating itself as evil rises in a time where the forces of Good are scattered and weakened. Someone must seek out the dragonlances, or forge new ones, and find lost relics like the staff of magius, and gather allies to fight back the new dragon armies. Same broad goals accomplished, without a weak sauce DL equivalent of yeeting the city of Shade into Myth Drannor in FR because grumpy fans didn’t like that Myth Drannor wasn’t a ruin anymore. Id prefer a flat reset like you suggest, or just a rewrite of the Chronicles with no obligation to keep things the same, and simply saying, “it’s a reboot because we are better authors now and the setting can be better than it has been this way.” [/QUOTE]

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