Those hoping Wizards are building up to an announcement at Gencon that includes the words "Dragonlance", "Campaign Setting" and "2010" take it how you will.
I played 1st ed DL and honestly I don't think it would be the best choice as a 4th ed campaign setting
I hope for something like "Pirate of the Astral Sea" that would nicely tie in with the PH3 and the Plane Above products
but this is just my desire
I'll wait for gencon thank you
Me too.
Those hoping Wizards are building up to an announcement at Gencon that includes the words "Dragonlance", "Campaign Setting" and "2010" take it how you will.
I hope not, that would be silly. Dragonlance is totally playable in 4e already. What would they do, release a player's guide that says nothing but
"KENDER - on Krynn, halflings are referred to as Kender. See PHB.
DRACONIANS - on Krynn, dragonborn are referred to as draconians. See PHB."
The whole book would be nothing but things like that. Literally all you need to play 4e Dragonlance is a 1e, 2e, or 3e campaign guide and the 4e players handbook. And maybe a supplemental Knights of Solamnia Paragon Path.
I hope not, that would be silly. Dragonlance is totally playable in 4e already. What would they do, release a player's guide that says nothing but
"KENDER - on Krynn, halflings are referred to as Kender. See PHB.
DRACONIANS - on Krynn, dragonborn are referred to as draconians. See PHB."
The whole book would be nothing but things like that. Literally all you need to play 4e Dragonlance is a 1e, 2e, or 3e campaign guide and the 4e players handbook. And maybe a supplemental Knights of Solamnia Paragon Path.
Umm, you do realize the same could be said for ANY of the campaign settings, right? FR could just as easily been played without a PG, just a few shoehorns here and there. Same goes for Eberron (which, surprising, required LESS shoehorns than FR did).
I hope not, that would be silly. Dragonlance is totally playable in 4e already. What would they do, release a player's guide that says nothing but
"KENDER - on Krynn, halflings are referred to as Kender. See PHB.
DRACONIANS - on Krynn, dragonborn are referred to as draconians. See PHB."
The whole book would be nothing but things like that. Literally all you need to play 4e Dragonlance is a 1e, 2e, or 3e campaign guide and the 4e players handbook. And maybe a supplemental Knights of Solamnia Paragon Path.
I'd say you can reflavor about just any setting with such general affirmations.
I can say the same about Dark Sun, which is a meh... setting for, played enough of it from 2nd Ed, no thanks, I'll have my DragonLance, to each his own I guess.
I think it's just they think this novel is worthy of a big push.
Still it certainly doesn't make it less likely either. Go Dragonlance go! Show the naysayers what you can do!
Cheers,
Cam
This year is the 25th Anniversary of Dragonlance. Dragons of an Hourglass Mage is the final book from Tracy and Margaret, and is being released this summer. Banner ads and media attention are devoted to the setting for those reasons, not because there will be a campaign setting or game product released next year (on the 26th anniversary, for what that's worth.)
Cheers,
Cam
This. The advertisement stuff is big support for the 25h Anniversary.
It's entirely possible a campaign setting for next year would be announced during the 25th Anniversary. But even if that were true, it's the advertisements and campaign setting that would point at the 25th Anniversary. Not the advertisements and 25th Anniversary pointing at the campaign setting.
(extrapolating into a metaphor, it's like, we've been given wood, pointing to the big bonfire this year, and trying to pull the existence of a campaign setting out of that is like trying to say that wood + fire = fuel used to make the fire bigger; you can say "wood + fuel = fire", but the presence of fire does not necessarily justify the existence of either previous, or something like that)