Sovereign Press to produce Dragonlance

[Dahak]

Mystara (I think Kenzer has the rights to that right?)

Incorrect. They cleared that up last month, they have the right to use any TSR 1st or 2nd Edition AD&D setting within the confines of the standalone Hackmaster game. That includes Greyhawk, Mystara, Ravenloft, Dark Sun, etc. Their license dosn't extend to the D20 System.

 

[Nightfall]

Personally I think this will satify a few, and dissappoint alot that wanted OTHER settings to be published.

Personally I DO think that if Monte has the will and the desire, AND gets SK Reynolds as well as Pramas to work with him, then there's a good shot Planescape will surge back. Again that's just MY opinion.

Still, I'm happy where I am! But I'm glad others are happy.

 

[Tsyr]

I guess I don't understand the people who are upset that DL got picked up over Planescape.

Sure, you may want planescape, but lets look at this shall we?

The CREATORS of Dragonlance picked it up again. Do you really think they were going to pick up Planescape ANYWAYS? It's not like there was a once-a-lifetime lotto, Dragonlance got picked and planescape lost out. It's apples and oranges, in this case.

 

[seankreynolds]

Re: Woohoo!

I read in an interview that Weis and Hickman plan on trying to un-!@#$ everything that TSR did in terms of the Chaos Wars

I'm not sure what you mean by "everything that TSR did in terms of the Chaos Wars." If you're talking about Dragons of a Summer Flame, that was all W&H's idea.

 

[Randolpho]

Re: Re: Woohoo!

I'm not sure what you mean by "everything that TSR did in terms of the Chaos Wars." If you're talking about Dragons of a Summer Flame, that was all W&H's idea.

My understanding was that the original book concept was W/H's idea, but the "completely destroy the D&D-style magic and set up a SAGA - style magic" idea was entirely TSRs...

 

[Hattersai]

Cool, now I can make my Black Robe offical.


I casts the spells that makes the peoples fall down.

 

[Dark Psion]

Good to have DL back together with Ravenloft and Dark Sun - it's good for the fans. I doubt I'll pick it up myself, though (even though I Dm'ed DL for many years).
My personal dream:

- Sean K. Reynolds joins Malhavoc Press
- WotC licenses Planescape to Malhavoc Press (though, I'd like Pramas to be involved in this one as well).

I would like Planescape to be brought back in a heavily revised edition, though, that really takes advantage of d20 and the new supplements regarding the Planes and planar creatures.

-Zarrock

Add to dream:

They incorporate SpellJammer into Planescape and release them as a combined setting.

 

[Ristamar]

Why all the fight, Why all the fuss...

I guess I don't understand the people who are upset that DL got picked up over Planescape.

Sure, you may want planescape, but lets look at this shall we?

The CREATORS of Dragonlance picked it up again. Do you really think they were going to pick up Planescape ANYWAYS? It's not like there was a once-a-lifetime lotto, Dragonlance got picked and planescape lost out. It's apples and oranges, in this case.

My thoughts exactly...

It's like getting upset that John Mangrum, Andrew Cermak, and Andrew Wyatt revamped Ravenloft for 3e instead of Birthright.

 

[Nightfall]

Honestly. I'm not upset. If I WAS upset, believe me, you and half the eastern seaboard WOULD know. I'm just not as EXSTATIC as you all are. Call it DL burn out for a lack of a better term. Everything after Dragon of Summer Flames turned me off to Dragonlance, no matter the form. (Course I STILL have issues with Summer Flames though...)

 

[seankreynolds]

Re: Re: Re: Woohoo!

My understanding was that the original book concept was W/H's idea, but the "completely destroy the D&D-style magic and set up a SAGA - style magic" idea was entirely TSRs...

(edited)
I't was my impression that DOSF was the authors' attempt to close down the usage of DL by anyone but the original creators (possibly because they didn't like how some of the other DL novels turned out), and SAGA was TSR's attempt to repair the "damage" and revive the setting as an RPG setting.