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<blockquote data-quote="Dausuul" data-source="post: 8455110" data-attributes="member: 58197"><p>There are two reasons to reboot/relaunch an old setting:</p><p></p><p>1) Use the existing fanbase as a source of customers and evangelists, or</p><p>2) Hope you can recapture whatever made the original successful, and that it will catch on again.</p><p></p><p>In both cases, the whole point is to take advantage of the elements that appealed to the original fans, and that means paying attention to those fans. Veering too far from the original means shooting yourself in the foot. You'd be better off to just make a new setting from scratch.</p><p></p><p>(Of course, Dragonlance has <em>already</em> veered very far from the original, which is why I'm eager to see it go back to its roots. Earlier in the thread, someone argued that the Age of Mortals and War of Souls were in-universe changes. While I stand by my reply that time travel is also in-universe, I've realized the response which better sums up my attitude is "So what?" Doesn't matter if there's an in-universe justification for trashing the setting; the setting is still trashed. The Dragonlance I enjoyed got wrecked long ago, so if someone proposes to bring it back, I'm all for it.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dausuul, post: 8455110, member: 58197"] There are two reasons to reboot/relaunch an old setting: 1) Use the existing fanbase as a source of customers and evangelists, or 2) Hope you can recapture whatever made the original successful, and that it will catch on again. In both cases, the whole point is to take advantage of the elements that appealed to the original fans, and that means paying attention to those fans. Veering too far from the original means shooting yourself in the foot. You'd be better off to just make a new setting from scratch. (Of course, Dragonlance has [I]already[/I] veered very far from the original, which is why I'm eager to see it go back to its roots. Earlier in the thread, someone argued that the Age of Mortals and War of Souls were in-universe changes. While I stand by my reply that time travel is also in-universe, I've realized the response which better sums up my attitude is "So what?" Doesn't matter if there's an in-universe justification for trashing the setting; the setting is still trashed. The Dragonlance I enjoyed got wrecked long ago, so if someone proposes to bring it back, I'm all for it.) [/QUOTE]
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