Morten Brattbakk wrote:
> ...
> Anyway, that was a personal take on why DL looks back to the past.
> Right now it does seem to have people who are both commited as well as
> dragonlancish and sensible running it, for the first time since the
> original effort. Unfortuately, the time in between has made the task of
> restoring DL to what it once was impossible.
>
> Morten
I second Morten's cogent post.
I used to DM a group with the Tales of the Lance boxed set, which I
thought wonderfully put together and very well detailed. I even used
the Taladas and Dwarven boxed sets. But the new setting was just
unplayable. Dragonlance originated as a D&D 2nd Edition game (hope I
got the edition correct!) and ended when there wasn't a vialbe (read:
playable) setting to sup****t it. The current novels reflect this lack
of substance.
I, however, am not looking forward to pre-5th age novels, because I
just don't see them as fitting any longer. DL's problem is that our
tem****ary suspension of disbelief in it has been broken. The world
became unattractive and thin, and attempts to "correct" it were
artificial. Weis is an amazing writer, of course, but I think the
abscence of Hickman and his "spiritual" grounding of the world is
sorely missed.
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