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Was DragonLance “problematic”?
Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman, Authors of DragonLance, the classic D&D setting and novel-tie-in series, have been abruptly left in the lurch by Wizards of the Coast. According to the author's side of the story, it had a lot to do with how rife with controversy and skeletons-in-closet the D&D portfolio has become. For my part, I think it has a lot to do with the fallout for an especially bad MtG novel that hit the shelves last year.
Here's the text of the lawsuit: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/7245020-Weis.html
Here's that small channel walking through the offenses of the MtG novel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSevYr36KnI
Here's the Professor of Tolarian Community College walking through it in a little more detail: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-f_BLU16OO0
A blog piece on the controversy around Nick Kelman's prior works:
https://medium.com/@aemarling/nic-kelman-hypocrisy-80d9c1edca71
Here's Tracy Hickman's apologism for DL's genocidal Pantheon:
https://dragonlancenexus.com/the-cataclysm-good-gods-killing-masses-of-people/
Reddit Thread about this I hung out in and talked to some folks in, some of whom had some good ideas: https://www.reddit.com/r/dndnext/comments/je3mwg/dont_get_your_hopes_up_about_new_dragonlance/
Grim Jim's video on the topic: (linking is not an endorsement or an indication of allyship with Mr. Desborough, but I think a diversity of media voices on the topic is nevertheless an important component of effective debate in a civil society): https://youtu.be/m9NCOH-NcqQ
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Here's the text of the lawsuit: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/7245020-Weis.html
Here's that small channel walking through the offenses of the MtG novel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSevYr36KnI
Here's the Professor of Tolarian Community College walking through it in a little more detail: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-f_BLU16OO0
A blog piece on the controversy around Nick Kelman's prior works:
https://medium.com/@aemarling/nic-kelman-hypocrisy-80d9c1edca71
Here's Tracy Hickman's apologism for DL's genocidal Pantheon:
https://dragonlancenexus.com/the-cataclysm-good-gods-killing-masses-of-people/
Reddit Thread about this I hung out in and talked to some folks in, some of whom had some good ideas: https://www.reddit.com/r/dndnext/comments/je3mwg/dont_get_your_hopes_up_about_new_dragonlance/
Grim Jim's video on the topic: (linking is not an endorsement or an indication of allyship with Mr. Desborough, but I think a diversity of media voices on the topic is nevertheless an important component of effective debate in a civil society): https://youtu.be/m9NCOH-NcqQ
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