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God I'm tempted to listen along on audiobook so I can "read" while doing better things. If there's audiobooks that is.
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Yeah thinking back I think I only ever really completed the Chronicles. I also read the Moon book at some point, because I was hoping it was Spelljammer, and IIRC I was kinda disappointed. I should do an F&F of the AD&D Dragonlance Adventures hardcover though. I think I still have it around somewhere.... I am probably not the best dude for it because my DL lore is ... shaky.
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Mr. Humalong posted:I’m definitely a latecomer to D&D (never played until 2017), but what’s the general opinion of the Dragonlance setting? I know next to nothing about any of the settings besides Forgotten Realms (seems like a kitchen sink setting) and Eberron (rules imo). Forgotten Realms is extremely kitchen-sinky and you have a bunch of tools who are way, way, way too deep into the altogether-way-too-expansive lore and canon. Dragonlance got expanded a ton in novels, but it has never been a premier RPG setting except for a few minutes during the late 80's or whatever. It's much more well-known for its books. It has some clever bits that were atypical for its era, and it prided itself on being a deep, dramatic setting, but it's still an Extremely Generic Fantasy World.
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Humbug Scoolbus posted:All that map needs are fingers and a ring...just saying...
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Jul 19, 2019 19:54
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W.T. Fits posted:+1 to the list of "read a bunch of this poo poo in high school/college" pile. Been years since I read any of my old books that are packed away in storage, save for my well-worn copy of The Legend of Huma by none other than the WoW Lore Thread's favorite And what's the first DL novel TSR releases that's not by Weis and Hickman? You guessed it...
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The Dragonlance D&D settings also assume that your group is tracking time well enough to track moon phases so you can know which wizards are the best at any given moment. Which makes me laugh, and laugh.
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Kender, Gully Dwarves, and Tinker Gnomes are the trifecta of lovely gaming races from the late 80's. The Dragonlance Adventures hardcover from AD&D 1e has a ludicrously complex set of rules for Tinker Gnome inventions, btw.
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Omnicrom posted:That is real ugly sounding.
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Jul 20, 2019 22:42
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Glagha posted:I feel like the neutral balances good and evil thing is the result of people completely misunderstand some assorted light/dark yin/yang positive/negative duality poo poo without realizing that good and evil do not map onto that. No one should want to balance evil with good. It probably made more sense back when law/chaos was the only alignment axis. It comes from having alignments be things - like, real factions that you belong to - instead of moral descriptions you put on peoples' actions.
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Jul 22, 2019 16:30
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Thranguy posted:The worst races in games are usually the ones that are supposed to be so rare as to be practically extinct, but players being players often end up two to a party. So here we have the Irda, beautiful and smart pre-curse ogres. (Wild/Kagonesti elves were in this category too.)
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Jul 24, 2019 15:06
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Madurai posted:I feel like there's a real competition between Dragonlance books and the Belgariad for "fantasy series I thought was awesome but now regret investing time in." Also Shannara
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Madurai posted:"That I thought was awesome" being the critical qualifier here.
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