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<blockquote data-quote="humble minion" data-source="post: 8854417" data-attributes="member: 5948"><p>Well, it's not quite that cut and dried.</p><p></p><p>I do have some sympathy about where Weis and the long-term DL fans are coming from here. Remember that for a very long time, going back to TSR days, the novels were the horse and the game was the cart. Millions of people who never picked up the game read the novels, and together with Salvatore, Weis and Hickman basically kept TSR solvent while they could churn out creatively brilliant but financially loss-making game material through the 90s, from Planescape to Dark Sun. Just because the game came first, it doesn't necessarily mean it's the big kid on the block, commercially or creatively. I suppose there's a similar situation with Marvel right now. The comics are where things started and have a very long legacy - but the overwhelming majority of the money comes from the MCU, which has a take on the comics material which is not always consistent or adherent to canon. Are the movies/TV shows still the cart and the comics the horse, or have things changed now? </p><p></p><p>And then there's the fact that if the game is the horse, there's been no horse for ages. Since WotC took over D&D in 1998ish, they've done nothing with the Dragonlance game line other than licence it out to Sovereign Stone. that's 20 years of zip on the game front, but they've still been releasing novels in that time (the Lost Chronicles series which I'm currently reading, probably most notably). If the horse spends 20 years dead, while the cart keeps merrily trundling along, maybe the conventional wisdom of the drivers of the setting have to be rethought?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="humble minion, post: 8854417, member: 5948"] Well, it's not quite that cut and dried. I do have some sympathy about where Weis and the long-term DL fans are coming from here. Remember that for a very long time, going back to TSR days, the novels were the horse and the game was the cart. Millions of people who never picked up the game read the novels, and together with Salvatore, Weis and Hickman basically kept TSR solvent while they could churn out creatively brilliant but financially loss-making game material through the 90s, from Planescape to Dark Sun. Just because the game came first, it doesn't necessarily mean it's the big kid on the block, commercially or creatively. I suppose there's a similar situation with Marvel right now. The comics are where things started and have a very long legacy - but the overwhelming majority of the money comes from the MCU, which has a take on the comics material which is not always consistent or adherent to canon. Are the movies/TV shows still the cart and the comics the horse, or have things changed now? And then there's the fact that if the game is the horse, there's been no horse for ages. Since WotC took over D&D in 1998ish, they've done nothing with the Dragonlance game line other than licence it out to Sovereign Stone. that's 20 years of zip on the game front, but they've still been releasing novels in that time (the Lost Chronicles series which I'm currently reading, probably most notably). If the horse spends 20 years dead, while the cart keeps merrily trundling along, maybe the conventional wisdom of the drivers of the setting have to be rethought? [/QUOTE]
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