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Keep in mind WOTC wanted to hard reboot Dragonlance as its 5e setting. "What if the group never met at the tavern?"
"What if Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman told WotC to go fuck themselves?"
(Not disagreeing with you, but gawd, WotC must be pretty dumb if that was Plan A.)
WOTC did try and do a Dragonlance reboot. They even hired Jim Butcher now of Dresden files fame to write it up. He was all exited about it and then he asked if Hickman and Weis were down with the re-boot plan... WOTC dissembled... Butcher then said:
"WTF!? They're not on board? Hell no, I'm out bitches!! Holla!...".I don't think that went down too well at WOTC. They were in the odd situation of being the IP owners, yet the setting creators were viewed by fandom as DL being 'their baby'.
Put on your tinfoil hats kids, Uncle Jaeger is goin' off the deep end now...
So fast forward to when Hickman and Weis Paid WOTC for a DragonLance license to write and publish three new books. Things went fine for a while, then their editor was changed to an almost parody of a SJW male, and they found that their approval process was stopped. So no new books, and H&W are SOL:
"Too bad so sad says WOTC..."Hickman and Weis then say:
"We are not just two rando's from the internet, we actually saved some cash from all those bestselling DragonLance books we wrote back in the day. We got lawyers and shit too motherfuckers!".
H&W then sue WOTC for breach of contract:
"Give us ten million dollars bitches for fucking with the license we paid you for!"
In an epically fast turnaround for a multi-million dollar corporation; WOTC backed down.
(IMHO some kind of out of court agreement was reached.) H&W withdrew their lawsuit, and like fucking magic all their approval issues went away...
IMHO, Hickman and Weiss had a legit case, and someone from Hasbro legal came down from on high and said:
"WTF are you guys doing!?".*Insert corporate overlord bitch-slaps here*So fast forward to today; The SJW editor that gave H&W grief is fired, and the first of the new DragonLance novels is set to drop soon.
As to the new trilogy: I would find it absolutely incredulous that H&W would retcon and invalidate their past writings for the three new books primarily marketed to current DL fandom.
So how does this relate to Crawfords musings:
"The only D&D Lore that is 'cannon', is what we make for 5e motherfuckers. Suck it grognards!" 1: WOTC has been on a bit of a kick lately taking popular older settings like Ravenloft, and absolutely fucking them up.
2: It is also rather interesting that Crawford
specifically cites DragonLance as an example of something that was ok in its day, but is not considered in any way sacrosanct now...
3: How much you wanna bet the SJW's like Crawford hate the fact that Hickman and Weis still got to do their books, and hate the fact that last time they tried to do a DL setting reboot without them; Butcher bounced...
Any takers?
4: Remember: SJW's always lie. SJW's always project. And SJW's
always double-down.
IMHO the timing of this might have to do with the fact that although new DragonLance books will becoming out by Hickman and Weiss. There is zero indication or announcements of any kind by WOTC that the new DL trilogy even exists...
5: There is this:
https://screenrant.com/dungeons-dragons-setting-classic-ravenloft-wizards-coast/One of the two classic setting set to make a comeback could very easily be a DragonLance setting book that retcons huge swaths of H&W established Lore, bringing it
“in line with modern sensibilities” pouring on as much gay, bisexual, gender, and race swapping that they can, and still call it "DragonLance".
Why?
Because: "Fuck You Hickman and Weis!"
That's why.