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Message: <blockquote data-quote="TiwazTyrsfist" data-source="post: 7766359" data-attributes="member: 70582">If it were presented and treated the way settings are currently in 5e, then Dragonlance would be a fairly typical fantasy setting with a does of "Our [blank] are different" tropes, a much stronger focus on the dragons than most settings, and some fairly setting specific subclasses.The thing that really made Dragonlance different, Beloved by it's fans, Hated by it's detractors (besides Kender), was that every time Weis & Hickman wrote a book, the events of the book are fully canon and change the setting.You're playing post Chronicles, and you're a cleric.  Oh, a new set of books came out, "The Gods are gone again, you lose your magic."  Oh, well, huh, that's uh, dang.Giant Dragon razes the entire elf wood, all the green elves are dead.Etc.These things make the setting dynamic, but can also be upsetting for players.Anyway, I really don't feel like WotC/Hasbro would be into maintaining a line like that at this point, so a 5e Dragonlance would end up being static.  In which case, Forgotten Realms, Dragonlance, and Greyhawk are all similar in the sense of being traditional Fantasy settings.  I'd love to have a good setting book for all of them, but they lack what I would call a "Strong Hook".Eberron - MagipunkSpell Jammer - Space FantasyPlanescape - Planar reality jumpingDark Sun - Harsh dying world fantasyForgotten Realms - The only setting we actually support in organized playGreyhawk - Forgotten Realms Alpha (Not supported)Dragonlance - Forgotten Realms but with realm events (Not Supported)</blockquote>

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