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<blockquote data-quote="Jer" data-source="post: 9294828" data-attributes="member: 19857"><p>I suspect they ended up in Mystara partly because they showed up in two D&D products - The Shady Dragon Inn (full write-ups, background for each character - I assume it's as close to "official backstory" as any of them got) and module XL-1 Quest for the Heartstone. The Mystara writers were often pulling in bits from D&D branded products and making them part of the assumed Mystara setting even when those products were not originally explicitly part of the "Known World" setting. It's funny because those products were both explicitly "Dungeons & Dragons" branded while the figures were "Advanced Dungeons & Dragons" branded, so it feels like TSR didn't quite know what to do with the tie-ins.</p><p></p><p>(XL-1 is particularly annoying because "Featuring STRONGHEART(tm), WARDUKE(tm) and other characters!" is advertised prominently on the cover but the only mention of the LJN characters at all is a pullout section in the center where there are drawing of all of the characters and associated stat blocks. You'd think if they're going to make a licensed product they could at least make Warduke or Kelek the bad guy. But no - it's a really generic adventure that feels like they pulled it out of a drawer, slapped some art into it, and shoved it out the door quick to tie-in something with the action figure line.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jer, post: 9294828, member: 19857"] I suspect they ended up in Mystara partly because they showed up in two D&D products - The Shady Dragon Inn (full write-ups, background for each character - I assume it's as close to "official backstory" as any of them got) and module XL-1 Quest for the Heartstone. The Mystara writers were often pulling in bits from D&D branded products and making them part of the assumed Mystara setting even when those products were not originally explicitly part of the "Known World" setting. It's funny because those products were both explicitly "Dungeons & Dragons" branded while the figures were "Advanced Dungeons & Dragons" branded, so it feels like TSR didn't quite know what to do with the tie-ins. (XL-1 is particularly annoying because "Featuring STRONGHEART(tm), WARDUKE(tm) and other characters!" is advertised prominently on the cover but the only mention of the LJN characters at all is a pullout section in the center where there are drawing of all of the characters and associated stat blocks. You'd think if they're going to make a licensed product they could at least make Warduke or Kelek the bad guy. But no - it's a really generic adventure that feels like they pulled it out of a drawer, slapped some art into it, and shoved it out the door quick to tie-in something with the action figure line.) [/QUOTE]
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