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Message: <blockquote data-quote="shaylon" data-source="post: 2113802" data-attributes="member: 22867">Basically, the 5th Age ruined DL for me.  I loved the novels, loved the 1E/2E stuff, but the 5th age storyline ruined it for me.  When I read Dawning of a New Age, by Jean Rabe, she did me in.  In the first chapter or two, she sets up Maelstryx, and then in one short paragraph, she fast forwards 30 years.  30 years?  It just stuck a negative in my mind.I tried the War of the Lost Souls series, thinking with Hickman and Weis back at the helm it would turn it around.  It hasn't.I am still a big Margaret Weis fan, and support her and Jaime Chambers as often as I can by buying novels direct and even the sourcebook.  At the time I bought it, I had full knowledge that I had no intention of ever playing it.  I will continue to support her and her company as her writing was very influentual to me, but I don't see myself ever playing the campaign.  Too much has been done wrong.As far as this post goes, I realize I talked a lot about the novels that were written and little about the game, but my position is this:  With Dragonlance, the novels are crucial to understanding and playing the campaign.  The world (at least the supported world, Ansalon) is small enough that the major players of the books come into play early and often in a campaign.  I didn't like the way the novels played out, so I couldn't see playing in a campaign and having to deal with Mina and the rest of the butchered characters from the setting.Now with other settings, say the realms, novels can be important, but if you don't like the way they are taking the plot, you can put the setting in any number of places that have nothign to do with novels.  I am in a play by post in the vast currently.  No sign of Elminster, Danilo, Khelben, or any other famous people.  Just a bard, wizard, cleric, ranger, fighter, and thief trying to make our way to Raven's Bluff.Sorry to ramble, but I feel strongly about this.  I loved DL as a kid, and if it was about the same as it was when I was a kid, I'd still be playing there.-Shay</blockquote>

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