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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Son_of_Thunder" data-source="post: 113818" data-attributes="member: 258">Dragonlance is no longer a playable campaign setting for meWhy is the Dragonlance setting no longer a playable campaign setting for me? The reasons are numerous. First, let me state that it was Dragonlance that got me into AD&D, the same as many others. Will I buy the d20 book? Yup, there’s too much nostalgia for me not to.Secondly, I’ll add my opinion to the Dragons of Summer Flame comments. The way I read between the lines, pre-WotC TSR higher ups mandated to Weis and Hickman that they write in the 2nd Cataclysm (shudders…never should have happened). Given no other choice, Weis and Hickman wanted to do it their way and wanted to go out with a bang. Both authors said numerous times they had written their final foray into Krynn but something inevitably dragged them back in (damage control in my opinion). I guess until we get an official word from either Margaret or Tracy we’ll never really know what the reasons were behind writing the novel.Now, my reasons why Dragonlance in no longer a playable campaign setting for me. How many world-shattering cataclysms should there be in a century? To me, Dragonlance lost credibility with “another” deity departure after such a short period of time following the “1st” departure when the cataclysm happened (this would probably shatter the weak constitution of those pansy elves who hate change). I’m trying to recall who made the statement (it was a game designer) something to the effect that a campaign could handle just so many dire cataclysms. That 5th Age garbage should have never happened. Now don’t get me wrong, the saga mechanics were well done but the game should have been developed with an entirely new setting to support it. In my opinion, it was TSR’s hope that Dragonlance would carry this new game, but we see that it didn’t. Part of the reason I fell in love with Dragonlance was the setting had great possibilities. The War of the Lance was over, dragons and draconians still roamed the land, clerics were once again spreading their deities’ beliefs and heroes were needed to fight evil and rebuild. The book ‘The Second Generation’ introduced the Knights of Takhisis…(Eddie Murphy from Bowfinger “Awesome”). So why, OH WHY IN THE NAME OF SARGONAS’ SHARP AXE did TSR decide to murder Dragonlance in its sleep with that chaos war crap? It was just a direction that Dragonlance didn’t need to go.Another reason was the feel of Dragonlance. This is not necessarily a bad thing but let me explain. Dragonlance canon says that orcs and drow do not exist on Krynn. Now, I happen to like both races but I didn’t feel that I could add them to my campaign (I know, I know, I can here you already, forget what is canon and just add them anyway). But, for me, adding them wouldn’t make it Dragonlance for me anymore. There is precedence for both in Dragonlance. In the book Wanderlust Tas encounters a half-orc if I recall correctly. Also in the module Wild Elves by Scott Bennie, drow are introduced by spelljamming. As far as I know, Dragonlance really doesn’t have a vast underdark, which I love. The underdark has illithids, drow, svirfneblin etc. etc.I should probably stop my rant now. Also keep in mind that this is just my opinion and in no way does it express the opinions of this station and so on and so on.Son of Thunder</blockquote>

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