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<blockquote data-quote="pming" data-source="post: 8447243" data-attributes="member: 45197">Hiya!I think, iirc, Birthright, Spelljammer and Dragonlance. But it's not what I picked...as to what I specifically DIDN'T pick. Simply put, I just don't trust WotC do do a reliable &quot;conversion of a setting for 5e&quot; from an old one. I did figure that Spelljammer is 'broad' enough to be able to handle whatever they do to it (and it is also non-specific enough, oddly, to be easily ignored as 'canon' if you want). I think Birthright could be done, but again, easy enough to just ignore if it turns into a hot mess. Lastly, Dragonlance has a bajillion pages written for it in sooo many different ways (articles, novels, short stories, setting books, adventure lines, even a cartoon), and the writers are still alive and active in the RPG'ing (and 'writing') communities that I think WotC would be hard pressed to really &quot;mess it up&quot;. That said...I'm pretty sure WotC could screw up all three I chose. I mean, if Hollywood can mess up just about everything they touch in the last 10'ish years, pretty sure WotC/Hasbro can do it too! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink&nbsp; &nbsp; ;)"&nbsp; data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> There are exceptions, but few and far between. I don't want to take the risk.(oh, and before anyone askes, I would have chosen Mystara, Greyhawk and Homebrew; I don't want WotC even looking at those first two settings!)^_^Paul L. Ming</blockquote>

[QUOTE="pming, post: 8447243, member: 45197"] Hiya! I think, iirc, Birthright, Spelljammer and Dragonlance. But it's not what I picked...as to what I specifically DIDN'T pick. Simply put, I just don't trust WotC do do a reliable "conversion of a setting for 5e" from an old one. I did figure that Spelljammer is 'broad' enough to be able to handle whatever they do to it (and it is also non-specific enough, oddly, to be easily ignored as 'canon' if you want). I think Birthright [I]could[/I] be done, but again, easy enough to just ignore if it turns into a hot mess. Lastly, Dragonlance has a bajillion pages written for it in sooo many different ways (articles, novels, short stories, setting books, adventure lines, even a cartoon), and the writers are still alive and active in the RPG'ing (and 'writing') communities that I think WotC would be hard pressed to really "mess it up". That said...I'm pretty sure WotC could screw up all three I chose. I mean, if Hollywood can mess up just about everything they touch in the last 10'ish years, pretty sure WotC/Hasbro can do it too! ;) There are exceptions, but few and far between. I don't want to take the risk. (oh, and before anyone askes, I would have chosen Mystara, Greyhawk and Homebrew; I don't want WotC even looking at those first two settings!) ^_^ Paul L. Ming [/QUOTE]

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