Re: Forwarded from Eric Mona

woodelf wrote:
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> >  > Keep Your Eyes Peeled
> >
> ><snip>
> >
> >I rekn its all shoddy, not talking to the coun cil, let alone mentioning it
> >on this list, has to be the stupidest idea ever.  If they did that with
> >dragonlance, as in my previous example, and left out kender, tinker gnomes,
> >and those smelly lil gully dwarves, theyd have an outcry.  Just because SJ
> >isnt as big as the others they seem to think we dont matter.
>
> well...
> 1: i never thought of Giff as one of the "silly" elements of SJ, so
> i'm a bit surprised to hear them referred to as such.  neogi?  yes.
> beholder nations?  yes.  hamsters?  hell, anything connected to
> tinker gnomes is silly.  but giff?
> 2: i loved the 1st 2 Dragonlance trilogies.  however, the one element
> that i didn't care for, the thing that kept me from reading any of
> the rest of the books, and the thing that completely ruined my
> ability to take the world seriously, and thus maintain my suspension
> of disbelief, was the silly races.  i'd *love* a Dragonlance without
> tinkers, kender, or gully dwarves.  individuals like that?  sure.
> races that can survive?  no thank you.  if i ever stumble upon it,
> i'll probably grab a copy of the box set detailing the other side of
> the world, just because i hear it doesn't have any of those, but
> maintains all the cool elements (or at least is equally cool in other
> ways).
Time of the Dragon.  I have a copy.  I picked it up over Time of the
Lance(or whatever that boxed set was called)
It is a nice look at a place where the Towers of High Sorcery hold no
sawy.  What is given makes it the perfect place to set up a Krynn
campaign.  Ansalon is too well detailed.  Taldas is not.
--
Tom Mathews a.k.a. Disruptor
http://home1.gte.net/mathews1/