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What's the worst part of Dragonlance?

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#1
zombiegleemax
Jun 08, 2004 15:44:53 A while back, someone posted a thread asking us to list the best things about our favorite settings. Well, how about flipping the coin and listing the worst things?
#2
talinthas
Jun 08, 2004 16:26:42 whoo. here's a can of worms that i'm not sure i want to open.

gods. i don't even know where to start.
honestly, all of the issues i have with DL are the same that any of us does. we've discussed them ad nauseum on every forum imaginable. if you want a condensed response- every single problem people have with DL spawns from the Heroes of the Lance.
#3
zombiegleemax
Jun 08, 2004 16:38:33 Bad teen angst. I'm basically ommiting the occasionally horrible shlock that followed. A certain trip to a moon for instance. But a lot of dragonlance, and some of the otherwise very good parts, are like Aragorn goes to Sweet Valley High.

And traditionally it's suffered from poor mechanical translation. Which I don't think is something which can be put on the creators so much as other interested parties who might have been deathly affraid of D&D somehow forking.

Perhaps I'm alone in this, and there's no way in hell Wizards would move away from D&D as a collectable book game to do it. But I'd like to see the worlds, or really just dragonlance done in two (maybe three books) books. One a large, maybe even coffee table large Atlas of Krynn with just a bunch of completely badass maps for either all of Krynn or just Ansalon throughout all the ages with the occasional piece of high quality art, for some great event or site. The second book might have a hardbound equivalent or not, but I'd want the small standard size paperback with all the mechanics, classes, spells, people and places, each in their own section, and have it interlock with the Atlas, and complete descriptions maybe CIA factbook style. The third (optional) book would be a "Annotated History of Krynn," more a chronicle of events and how they interlock, maybe character stats for heroes in important epochs, at different points of their journey. Really go off Tolkien style with it. Now I know that's completely impractical, probably for a whole host of reasons of which there are likely only a few I could guess at.
#4
zombiegleemax
Jun 08, 2004 16:52:45 Closed due to spamming on multiple forums.

Post/Author/DateTime	Post
#1 zombiegleemax Jun 08, 2004 15:44:53	A while back, someone posted a thread asking us to list the best things about our favorite settings. Well, how about flipping the coin and listing the worst things?
#2 talinthas Jun 08, 2004 16:26:42	whoo. here's a can of worms that i'm not sure i want to open. gods. i don't even know where to start. honestly, all of the issues i have with DL are the same that any of us does. we've discussed them ad nauseum on every forum imaginable. if you want a condensed response- every single problem people have with DL spawns from the Heroes of the Lance.
#3 zombiegleemax Jun 08, 2004 16:38:33	Bad teen angst. I'm basically ommiting the occasionally horrible shlock that followed. A certain trip to a moon for instance. But a lot of dragonlance, and some of the otherwise very good parts, are like Aragorn goes to Sweet Valley High. And traditionally it's suffered from poor mechanical translation. Which I don't think is something which can be put on the creators so much as other interested parties who might have been deathly affraid of D&D somehow forking. Perhaps I'm alone in this, and there's no way in hell Wizards would move away from D&D as a collectable book game to do it. But I'd like to see the worlds, or really just dragonlance done in two (maybe three books) books. One a large, maybe even coffee table large Atlas of Krynn with just a bunch of completely badass maps for either all of Krynn or just Ansalon throughout all the ages with the occasional piece of high quality art, for some great event or site. The second book might have a hardbound equivalent or not, but I'd want the small standard size paperback with all the mechanics, classes, spells, people and places, each in their own section, and have it interlock with the Atlas, and complete descriptions maybe CIA factbook style. The third (optional) book would be a "Annotated History of Krynn," more a chronicle of events and how they interlock, maybe character stats for heroes in important epochs, at different points of their journey. Really go off Tolkien style with it. Now I know that's completely impractical, probably for a whole host of reasons of which there are likely only a few I could guess at.
#4 zombiegleemax Jun 08, 2004 16:52:45	Closed due to spamming on multiple forums.