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<blockquote data-quote="MostlyHarmless42" data-source="post: 8819036" data-attributes="member: 6845520"><p>No. I'm not one of these purists. I'm in fact the opposite. A quick look at my posting history will reveal this, as well as in pretty much <em>every</em> Dragonlance thread on this forum there are <em>always</em> people whining about Age of Mortals and hoping they retcon it out. There are also numerous threads across multiple websites discussing how to handle the setting using the modern ruleset. It is well known baggage of the fandom (that and whether or not Kender should be allowed) and is frankly toxic behavior.</p><p></p><p>Thank you for agreeing with me. To clarify, I do NOT ban any option from 5e in my games. I change the setting and find reason why said characters exist. What I described was merely the 'canon' as established with the official setting.</p><p>More to the point on what you've said. They've already done this. It's called Age of Mortals. During which they did first try an alternative ruleset (the SAGA rules), and then ultimately released a 3.5 version that is considered the most recent version of the setting to date (well, not counting Dragons of Deceit). There is a <em>lot</em> that got changed, but in essence they provided an in universe reason for why sorcerers/warlocks/bards (and again arguably rangers/warlocks/druids/paladins) exist, and advanced the draconians (the dragonlance name for dragonborn) to be more than just one dimensional villains who literally live to kill, fight, and do other things I cannot mention here due to forum rules. Even allowing them at the table during War of the Lance is <em>very</em> problematic due to the rest of the world viewing them as savage monsters and would realistically treat them with severe scorn, which I somehow doubt WoTC wants to be the default for a base PHB race. (A few forum threads about orcs and even kender being stereotypes that were come to mind here).</p><p></p><p>Long story short, the fandom was split over it with much of the fans of the original trilogy of novels <em>hating</em> every bit of it to the point of not reading or accepting any of it. These are the folks I would specifically label as "purists", many of whom frankly will not accept anything short of a full reset to war of the lance, and I argue the setting is worse off for it, because rolling back the clock for blind nostaligia's sake is all but incompatible with the 5e ruleset without making precisely the sweeping changes they wish to avoid.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MostlyHarmless42, post: 8819036, member: 6845520"] No. I'm not one of these purists. I'm in fact the opposite. A quick look at my posting history will reveal this, as well as in pretty much [I]every[/I] Dragonlance thread on this forum there are [I]always[/I] people whining about Age of Mortals and hoping they retcon it out. There are also numerous threads across multiple websites discussing how to handle the setting using the modern ruleset. It is well known baggage of the fandom (that and whether or not Kender should be allowed) and is frankly toxic behavior. Thank you for agreeing with me. To clarify, I do NOT ban any option from 5e in my games. I change the setting and find reason why said characters exist. What I described was merely the 'canon' as established with the official setting. More to the point on what you've said. They've already done this. It's called Age of Mortals. During which they did first try an alternative ruleset (the SAGA rules), and then ultimately released a 3.5 version that is considered the most recent version of the setting to date (well, not counting Dragons of Deceit). There is a [I]lot[/I] that got changed, but in essence they provided an in universe reason for why sorcerers/warlocks/bards (and again arguably rangers/warlocks/druids/paladins) exist, and advanced the draconians (the dragonlance name for dragonborn) to be more than just one dimensional villains who literally live to kill, fight, and do other things I cannot mention here due to forum rules. Even allowing them at the table during War of the Lance is [I]very[/I] problematic due to the rest of the world viewing them as savage monsters and would realistically treat them with severe scorn, which I somehow doubt WoTC wants to be the default for a base PHB race. (A few forum threads about orcs and even kender being stereotypes that were come to mind here). Long story short, the fandom was split over it with much of the fans of the original trilogy of novels [I]hating[/I] every bit of it to the point of not reading or accepting any of it. These are the folks I would specifically label as "purists", many of whom frankly will not accept anything short of a full reset to war of the lance, and I argue the setting is worse off for it, because rolling back the clock for blind nostaligia's sake is all but incompatible with the 5e ruleset without making precisely the sweeping changes they wish to avoid. [/QUOTE]
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