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<blockquote data-quote="LuisCarlos17f" data-source="post: 8441173" data-attributes="member: 6802378"><p>The canon isn't too important in the tabletop. For example the DM can add in her Dragonlance campaing Raitslin's daughter, or the PC can travel to an alternate timeline where the king-priest was killed by Lord Sorth, but the Krynn sphere is being invaded by the Vodoni empire (a Spelljammer faction) and the chaos summer started before. But the coherence of the canon is more important for D&D as a multimedia franchise, this means, the lore in other type of products, as comics, novels, and maybe an animated serie in a streaming service (I feel Paramount, Netflix and Disney would fight to be who produce the adaptation). To reboot the franchise is risked when lots of books have been published. Do you remember Star Wand fandom with the "expansed universe"?</p><p></p><p>I guess the D&D cosmology will be redesigned to allow more flexibility and space to add new elements, for example an action-live horror movie produced by E-One becoming an official dark domain in Ravenloft setting. Or a D&D version of the Strange, Monte Cook's TTRPG, where worlds created by the fiction become realities (named "recursions"), or something like the "Ideaverse" of Marvel Universe. Then Conan and Tolkien's Middle Earth would be in D&D but as "recursions worlds", and all could happen here can't affect the original ones. Maybe is a crazy idea, but it is such crazy that it can work to publish intercompany crossovers. </p><p></p><p><img src="https://i.annihil.us/u/prod/marvel/i/mg/f/20/511d63acddfb9/clean.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="width: 415px" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="LuisCarlos17f, post: 8441173, member: 6802378"] The canon isn't too important in the tabletop. For example the DM can add in her Dragonlance campaing Raitslin's daughter, or the PC can travel to an alternate timeline where the king-priest was killed by Lord Sorth, but the Krynn sphere is being invaded by the Vodoni empire (a Spelljammer faction) and the chaos summer started before. But the coherence of the canon is more important for D&D as a multimedia franchise, this means, the lore in other type of products, as comics, novels, and maybe an animated serie in a streaming service (I feel Paramount, Netflix and Disney would fight to be who produce the adaptation). To reboot the franchise is risked when lots of books have been published. Do you remember Star Wand fandom with the "expansed universe"? I guess the D&D cosmology will be redesigned to allow more flexibility and space to add new elements, for example an action-live horror movie produced by E-One becoming an official dark domain in Ravenloft setting. Or a D&D version of the Strange, Monte Cook's TTRPG, where worlds created by the fiction become realities (named "recursions"), or something like the "Ideaverse" of Marvel Universe. Then Conan and Tolkien's Middle Earth would be in D&D but as "recursions worlds", and all could happen here can't affect the original ones. Maybe is a crazy idea, but it is such crazy that it can work to publish intercompany crossovers. [IMG width="415px"]https://i.annihil.us/u/prod/marvel/i/mg/f/20/511d63acddfb9/clean.jpg[/IMG] [/QUOTE]
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