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2 years ago ::
Aug 16, 2008 - 2:47PM
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Apparently the news is in from Gen Con that Dragonlance will be updated to 4th edition and the novel line will continue past 2009. More news at http://www.dlnexus.com/. Huzzah! 
"I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it."
Deep Thoughts, by Jack Handy
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2 years ago ::
Aug 16, 2008 - 4:00PM
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Cool! Let's hope they give us a more or less simple translation to 4E mechanics and not another dramatic shift in the cosmology the world.
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2 years ago ::
Aug 16, 2008 - 4:33PM
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Cool! Let's hope they give us a more or less simple translation to 4E mechanics and not another dramatic shift in the cosmology the world.
I hear ya. In the last 80 years Krynn has had:
Three continent-wide wars (War of the Lance, Chaos War, War of Souls)
A second Cataclysm and resulting cosmological shift
and continent-ruling enormous alien dragons
Something a little less dramatic would be a nice change of pace. :embarrass
"I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it."
Deep Thoughts, by Jack Handy
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2 years ago ::
Aug 17, 2008 - 2:26AM
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How about the powers that be just blast it 100 years in the future and alter almost every nation and deity....oh wait....too late 
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2 years ago ::
Aug 17, 2008 - 7:13PM
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-I figured it was either going to be Greyhawk or Dragonlance that got the nod. I prefer Dragonlance over Greyhawk, so that's cool.
How about the powers that be just blast it 100 years in the future and alter almost every nation and deity....oh wait....too late
-Sounds...familiar....
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2 years ago ::
Aug 17, 2008 - 8:49PM
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-I figured it was either going to be Greyhawk or Dragonlance that got the nod. I prefer Dragonlance over Greyhawk, so that's cool.
-Sounds...familiar....
hate to rain on your parade, but they didn't say it was going to happen before greyhawk, just that dragonlance is supposed to eventually get their novels back, and that it will eventually be converted to 4th edition.
as i said in the previous thread, this is no surprise. there is no reason to expect any less. what *is* surprising is that their marketing department is so clueless they didn't announce this long ago, so as not to make them appear to be a bunch of complete and utter 
what is also surprising is that they still don't seem to care to keep their fans happy by letting them know *when* the novels, at least, will be continuing (note that both 2010 and 2110 occur after the year 2009, and would both equally fulfill WotC's extremely vague promise. not that i think they're dumb enough to push it back to 2110, but they may not continue in 2010 either is my point). i mean, i can sort of understand why not to announce anything about the RPG setting being converted. they probably think that other campaign settings feel they're in the running for next setting to be converted (personally, my best guess is dragonlance in 2010 anyways, and the only real competition it has is greyhawk in terms of commercial success, but until they announce it the marketing morons might think that fans of other settings really truly believe they have a chance. or that, after seeing what happened to forgotten realms, they *want* to have that chance.)
so yeah, this promise is nothing new. they basically promised that you'll get new novels (not necessarily the ones you've already got in the queue, either) and that you'll eventually get your setting in 4e. the former is unsurprising, and the latter was already announced, with just as many details (ie none) when 4th edition wasn't even out yet.
it's not time to lose hope, but i would say at best it's time for cautious optimism, not really celebrations. when you start hearing *real* promises (for example "we're finishing the novels that have already been written and you can expect them to be released starting in of " or "the dragonlance setting is going to be updated to 4e in of "), *then* you can start celebrating.
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2 years ago ::
Aug 17, 2008 - 9:36PM
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hate to rain on your parade, but they didn't say it was going to happen before greyhawk, just that dragonlance is supposed to eventually get their novels back, and that it will eventually be converted to 4th edition.
-You're right. I misread the OP, and thought it said that DL was going to start being updated and new novels IN 2009, which would have made it the 3rd 4e campaign setting.
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2 years ago ::
Aug 18, 2008 - 2:55PM
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Wow, this is great news. I was very sad to read a while back that Wotc might give up on Dragonlance entirely. I didn't want to see it die out like previous worlds had and be shelved my most people. It looks like all will be changing for the better and a conversion to 4th edition would be terrific. We'll just have to wait and see what exactly is in store for Dragonlance by th powers that be.
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2 years ago ::
Aug 18, 2008 - 3:12PM
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And everyone thought I was crazy. I can say it. I told you so.
I'd expect it to be after Eberron, (so year 3 release) if WOTC are the ones doing it. (which if they are smart they will be)
Though I have to say I was hoping for something like Ravenloft or Al-Qadim for year 3.
I mean Dragonlance is inevitable but what are they going to do to make it -really- stand out from FR and keep it from being FR 2.0 again? (with worse backstory... Device of Time Travelling... grrr grrr grrrr grrr)
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2 years ago ::
Aug 18, 2008 - 11:22PM
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I mean Dragonlance is inevitable but what are they going to do to make it -really- stand out from FR and keep it from being FR 2.0 again? (with worse backstory... Device of Time Travelling... grrr grrr grrrr grrr)
Not changing anything and keeping Dragonborn, Tieflings etc out would make it quite different from FR 2.0.
Havard,
waiting for Mystara 
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