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A new poster is showed, and an intellect devourer appears, but this is from a picture by Pathfinder/Paizo.

I wouldn't like a lawsuit, but this "mistake" could be used to indirectly promote Pahtfinder.

Of course there are more people in addition to Weis & Hickman, but they are two of the main stars in D&D literature. They are good hooks to sell novels. WotC should try to keep a good relation with them because theses could be useful to promote the revival of Dragonlance.

And the current society is changing, or is just going to start to change in the next years, and this change also will affect the speculative fiction. Let's say the rules about being politically correct will be altered. WotC shouldn't worry about (too forced) inclusivity but to promote positive moral values as the respect of the human dignity or growing up as person.

Today lot of people imagine D&D gnomes as twins of the ones from World of Warcraft.

* Tolkien was not racist against people from real world. Other thing is people using fantasy races with negative stereotypes linked with people from real world.

Then I could complain about the red paladins from Netflix "Cursed" and to say it is not only annoying, but also so dangerous as racism or homophobia.

We agree some races from Dragonlance, kenders, gully and tinker gnomes were created for comedy elements, and with a wrong roleplaying they may becomes very annoying. But this could be fixed easily with some little retcon softening their personalities and allowing different behavior avoiding stereotypes.

Other suggestion is allowing 3PPs to publish sourcebooks about alternate timelines in the DM guild.

I would bet Hasbro has got ambitious plans about this franchise, and not only with a possible update of the modules, but mainly with a media adaptation, maybe a teleserie in a streaming service as Netflix, Paramount+ or Disney+, (I felt a lot of curiosity about the heroes of the lance with a look of Disney art style) and a videogame when you could customize totally the PCs (and potential romance nPCs).

And this controversy may cause a delay of the relaunch.

This matter is very unpleasant for me.

This is not only the lawsuit. Something is wrong but we don't know what.

Avalon Hill was within WotC and now it's separate, with the new edition of Hero Quest. Hasbro has given a licencing to Renegade Studios for the d20 RPG adaptation of famous franchises: Transformers, G.I.Joe, Power Rangers and My Little Pony. Why not that work for WotC, who created the d20 system? It is as if this was very "burn" by fault of the desprestige caused by the last controversies.

I think these troubles are by fault of Nic Kelman. If I was Hasbro I would very furious with him, because W&H could be a great help for the relaunch of the the franchise, when this may become one of the future best cash-cows by the company.

And this is causing a great damage against the reputation among the fandom.

I guess both sides will agree a settlement, the best option, because we should wonder about this matter will cause a delay of the relaunch by fault of trying to be too politically correct.

* Sometimes I think WotC is planning a future metaplot event about a multiverse crisis, causing a reboot of the D&D worlds, allowing to can add new elements as classes, races and monsters.

I hope both sides agree a settlement. Hasbro can win the trial, but this matter is a bad advertising for the future relaunch of the franchise. We are talking about an IP may be one of the best cash-cows by Hasbro. In the past Dragonlance was the most sold fantasy saga after the Lord of the Rings. Hasbro lawyers could win the trial, but it may be a Pyrrhic victory if the desprestige is too serious. Today fandom is more aware about toxic bosses and wrong human resources management.

Do you remember Tom Hawks in the movie Philadelphia? His character was fired and the company said he was a bad lawyer but the true reason was other.

I wouldn't be surprised if.... how to say it softly?.. there are creative differences between "old-school" and "new wave". I am afraid about this may be a matter as "Disney killed my Star Wars" or "old Mulan cartoon is better than the curren action-live version". One of the controversies about the "Comicgate" is somebody says there is a blacklist of authors whose ideas are "old fashion" or not enough "new wave". I am OK with add more characters with different ethnic origins, but Dragonlance is Christian fantasy. A lots of things can be added into Eberron, but in Dragonlance wouldn't be so easy. And a good section of the fandom doesn't like inclusivity when this seem too forced, and even this may cause couterproducent effects.

I read in reddit somebody said Jim Butcher, the author of Dresden Files was asked by WotC to write a reboot of Dragonlance.

I don't worry about too much about if this argument can cause a delay of the awaited relaunch/revival but if there is media adaptation into the screen, I don't want this IPs being using as platform to promote ideological agendas what are against my own convictions.

If WotC wants to add queer characters, I don't advice elf couples to avoid the annoying trope "and this is the reason because elves are becoming extinct and being replaced by the humans", neither children-face kenders to avoid possible future controversies as Netflix with the movie Cuties. I suggest being more ambiguous and subtle, with subtext, because we don't need kisses to be showed, but the evolution of the "bromance" relation between those characters. There is a second reason is to avoid censure in other countries. This happened in China with a planewalker of Magic who was lesbian and now she likes males. Better a storytelling where only changing some details allow to avoid that censure. Other trick would be tell the romantic story of a straight couple, but she looks a male, or she is like a garçonne ( = a 1920's woman crossdressing with male clothing, but adding her feminine touch).

RIP. I don't watch TV, but sometime maybe some episode of mythbusters. I remember him.

I sorry very much. He wasn't too old yet.

Do you remember that Star Trek episode about a parallel universe?

I have thought about the idea of a uchrony where Aztlanti empire is a conferation who defends the freedom, the respect for the naive ecosystems and the rights of the sentient creatures.

I suggest a soft way to allow "uchronies" if anybody doesn't want a multiverse in the franchise:

Akashic demiplane: The History is "recorded" as a timeline but some groups with a "time-travel" technology can visit, explore and even alter or create a new timeline. This wouldn't create time-travel paradoxes really because it isn't a true travel to the past but to a copy (sometimes a false or wrong copy) of the past. Sometimes whe a akashic demiplane is altered too much by the time-travelers, it isn't erasured really, but "sent" to the dream plane. Then a lot of different things can happen, for example lord fey and lovecratians aberrations from the kingdom of the nightmare trying to invade these "reality bubbles".

Or the akashic demiplane is like a "backup" of the space-time to avoid time-travel paradoxes. This would avoid the true past was altered, but maybe some little details, but also allowing to create a uchrony demiplane, for example where an alien civilitation survived an apocalyptic crisis, or this hasn't started yet.

To can choose my favorite racial traits, the racial feats. This allows a PC gnome not always illusionist or rogue.

If we are talking about monster creation we should think about to adjust the challenging rating of XPs reward if an enemy becomes more powerful thanks to modern technology or teknomagic equivalent.

How to explain this better with an example? Let's imagine we are playing Fortnite, but not the Creative Mode. Other player has created a dungeon, an crashed alien ship. The first enemy is only one robot with a hammer, easy to be defeated. The next target is a robot with a metalic wrench...and riding a stepway. It is harder than the first one but the next will be worse, with a gun. Now it start to be difficult. The new menace will be a robot, but with a exosuit like in Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare. The same monster with identical stats but now a true challenge. Later a robot wearing a powered armour, like the ones from Fallout videogame. This is practically a mini-boss. The final boss it's the same robot but piloting a mecha.

If you have to change Challenge Rating/XPs value because a monster becomes stronger with an added monster template then with those gadgets the same should happen. What do you think?

Golarion. Sorry, I am a skrull and I don't know yet all about your speculative fiction.

I was thinking about how would be a new spin-off after Starfinder and my opinion is a new title had to be about gothic horror and urban fantasy, but we should add some pulp-noirpunk touch. I also thought about other names Pulpfinder, Wyrdfinder or Grimmfinder.

The setting would be in Goraltha but in a demiplane like a Tyson sphere, with a level of technology of XX century, but industrial revolution wasn't possible without magic. In some zones the digital age tried to start, but machines without special magic defenses are infected, and controlled, by hostile supernatural forces. There aren't enough mining resources to manufacturare large-scale vehicles or motors but there is a great industry of energy from renewable sources and waste recycling. Nuclear energy is possible but forbidden by divine powers. Once a nuclear bomb was tried for a war, but in the last second a god used teletransportation to send to a zone of the attacker faction.

Zombie virus was used as biological weapon, but these were eaten by werebeasts, using a transgenic therianthropy as other biological weapon, or destroyed by half-construct soldiers...(later sentient machines started a rebellion in some zones) Transgenic engineering has created a new race of mutants (almost bulletproof) shapeshifters with regenerative troll traits, the fomorkin. Most of firearms are one-shot. Supernaturals forces don't allow machine guns without special (and more expensive) magic defenses. In cities who kills with an authoritative firearm is marked with a supernatural curse. Using machine guns in the battlefield is punished by divine powers opening a planar to the Valhalla and lots of bulletproof petitioner fighters appear. Almost all allowed ammo can't cause a serious lethal damage. Criminals would rather blades and hand-crossbows what reload themself by an artificial muscle of biopunk organic technology)

Aeroplanes are possible but travel companies would rather airships by carvorite, a special mineral with anti-gravity properties thanks a special energetic stimulation. Space race hasn't started yet. There is technology but not enough material resources. There are rumors of visitors from outer sphere, and their interestelar travel technology has caused planar rifts what allows teletransportation portal to unexplored regions of the sphere. Some zones have got ruins of a high-advanced civilization.

Almost all governments are dictatorships or fake democracies (the candidates are only figureheads obeyings instructions from cryptocracies or secret lobbies). Some countries are controlled by secret lodges of creatures as vampires or faes. There are also some monarchies, but these kings are puppets of giants, dragons or some other paranormal faction (let's imagine the noble houses of "Game of Dragons" with secret superpowers).

After the second titanomachy the gods have disappeared (and also most of dragons and giants), and now lord feys have established a new "regalism" ( = clergy controlled by lay powers). The high spheres of these new religions (too close to the leader cult) are ruled by a special type of faes, the lictors, whose symbol is a whip by grouped thin living tentacles (this symbolizes together being stronger than individually). Only the "fraterchies", religious groups ruled by lord faes are allowed by the current governments. There is a secret rebellion against the "fraterchies", some of them are cults of "titankin", people who say they have the "blood" of primal titans or giants. (controlled speech?).

I am trying to add more ideas, and my source of inspiration for my brainstorm are Buck Roger, Flash Gordon, Diego Valor (vintage sci-fi strip), James Bond, pulp fiction from jazz age, golden age or superhero comics, some 80's action movies (Rambo, Missing in Action, Schwarzenegger's Commando..), League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Legenderry comics, supernatural romances, gothic-punk horror, urban fantasy (Charmed, Buffy vampire slayer), Men In Black, Dark*Matter (d20 Modern setting), Ravenloft, White Wolf's World of Darkness, Kult: lost divinity (Warhammer 40.000 next to this is P.A.W patrol).

A new class would be the nagual, a mixture of shifter and totem medium.