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This is absolutely my thought.

Yes but the Infinite Staircase modules aren't an AP. They are a handful of very generic modules that has a frame device IF you want to use it. The DL modules aren't. They are hard to drop into another setting as they are so keyed to DL specifics (such as the Dragon Armies and draconians). I...

IMHO Dragonlance has always been a better story than game setting. To me, it's every problem with an IP focused RPG like Star Wars with none of the charm of getting to be something D&D doesn't offer. You get to bask in the shadow of the important characters and get to play the same stuff you...

See that's the problem. I don't see WotC doing it. Not in the fashion being discussed. I don't think you could release the classic modules without some additional support for the setting and expect it to do well. Shadow of the Dragon Queen was a module set in the same world and time frame with...

Just reprint AD&D second edition with upwards AC.

Not in the current PHB, which theoretically this book would be using.

Honestly there is a lot of D&D products that aren't for me. I'm failing to see who this product is for at all. Classic fans have already played this. Setting fans are going to be dismayed and the lack of lore and options. New players aren't going to see the appeal of it beyond it being another...

Honestly, I'm fine with that. Just don't talk about how Dragonlance is generic enough to just need the PHB and then go off on how stuff doesn't match Dragonlance lore.

I swear you couldn't make this hypothetical product less appealing if you printed it on used toilet paper...

Oh for sure. Draconic, wild magic, clockwork and aberrant sorcery far better represents the magic of Krynn than lunar sorcery. 🙄

I mean, classic Dragonlance only has four PHB species in it: human, elf, dwarf, and gnome. Every other PHB species is either replaced (halfling for kender), explicitly banned (orcs) or persona non grada (Planetouched, Dragonborn, Goliaths).

Lol. WHAT Dragonlance lore? You and @Parmandur have spent a half dozen pages arguing that Dragonlance can be run with PHB only. Now you want to get huffy about what does and doesn't fit in Krynn? Unless you're not going to expend resources to explain Krynn in detail (and more than a chapter if...

Presumably, you need at least what was offered in the 5.0 DL book to be updated in the 5.5 one.

Again, I don't think playing as pregens is going to "hit" the same way as it did in the 80s. The vast majority of "new" fans haven't read the Chronicles and the idea playing Raistlin, Tass or Tika isn't as appealing. Further, if you want to play someone else's character going though a predefined...

And it's going to bomb. Like get it at half-off books in a few months bomb. Setting fans want more than just reheated classic adventure for the 50th time, new fans don't want an adventure with a bunch of fiddily species restrictions and a linear plot. You want to release Dragonlance properly...

Yes, the "play the novels" (complete with pre gens) was big then, but I question how well that will fly now. That was one of the problems. The other problem people had was that as a setting primer, it was lousy. Nothing on the minotaurs or other unique DL species other than kender. No unique...

Actually, if after a year of teasing Dark Sun, they need to do a LOT better than a picture on the corner of the road map and a character in a mobile game. If people are going to spend half the year expecting Dark Sun and they get reheated Dragonlance adventures, it's going to go over like a wet...

I'm just saying they tried the module with barely any world lore method once. Why would they want to do that again and offer even LESS (recycled modules and less PC content) for the follow up? I'm not a DL fan, but if I was I'd be so insulted by the lack of effort put on it, I'd wait until my...

I guess if you consider Dragonlance another generic kitchen sink akin to Greyhawk or the Realms, you'd be right. But there wasn't a lot of love for how bare bones Dragon Queen was when it came to fleshing out Krynn, so I don't imagine WotC is apt to want to do that again but even lazier.

How much is Idle Champions even in the WotC zeitgeist? I played it a long time ago and promptly forgot it existed until this thread. Like the Neverwinter MMO, it feels like the kinda thing WotC let's exist to generate passive income rather than a showcase of their brand IP synergy.