What If: Bethesda Made A Dragonlance Game?

[Eclectic Dreck]

I have no idea what Dragonlance is but if it has dragons, sure thing! You can never have too many dragons... Especially if the dragons have lances... Or there are lances made of dragons! Now that would be awesome.
Come on! I dare you to joust with me!

It's a series of fantasy books.

Fairly deep back history with several large wars/timelines that would be great for an open world game.

The very first MMO I ever played was a MUD based on the Dragonlance world. It was called "Arctic" if memory serves and is probably the reason I never got sucked into a modern MMO. I got it out of my system long before.

 

[Ruwrak]

It would probably be like the Elder Scrolls with 98% more dragons honestly... I'd play it!

Dispite that Skyrim is filled with dragons as well?
That's alotta dragons cha got there guv.

 

[AyreonMaiden]

It'd be AWESOME. Loved the books as a kid, still like them today. Mostly nostalgia, but I still like them a lot.

But only if the art direction is colorful to match the paperback editions of the Chronicles trilogy. I love those cover illustrations so much. Sober Thal and NortherWolf have a point; they're not the DARKEST GRIMIEST GRITTIEST BLOODCURDLING FANTASY EVER.

 

[Kapri]

It would probably be like the Elder Scrolls with 98% more dragons honestly... I'd play it!

Dispite that Skyrim is filled with dragons as well?
That's alotta dragons cha got there guv.

I meant a loooooooooooooooot more dragons. Like "Look on top of my house, a dragon!" Or packs of wild dragons replacing those hordes of birds at restaurants trying to scrummage for food droppings. Dragons everywhere the eye can see!!!

Can Skyrim beat that?! (Probably... actually...)

 

[ThaBenMan]

I think it'd be really amazing if Bethesda made a Tekumel [http://www.tekumel.com/index.html] game. The closest we'll ever get is probably Morrowind.

 

[Nigh Invulnerable]

If anyone beside Bethesda made that game I'd be excited, seeing as how Bethesda can't really make an interesting open world storyline to save their lives. Dragonlance does already have some awesome built in history and references, so maybe it'd work out better than an entirely original setting though.

 

[Ruwrak]

It would probably be like the Elder Scrolls with 98% more dragons honestly... I'd play it!

Dispite that Skyrim is filled with dragons as well?
That's alotta dragons cha got there guv.

I meant a loooooooooooooooot more dragons. Like "Look on top of my house, a dragon!" Or packs of wild dragons replacing those hordes of birds at restaurants trying to scrummage for food droppings. Dragons everywhere the eye can see!!!

Can Skyrim beat that?! (Probably... actually...)

The moment Dragons reach the population of scavenger birds eating from dustbins 2 things have gone wrong.

1) someone shrunk the dragons and
2) Dovakiin is dead >.>

 

[ThriKreen]

Eh, you could always do one of the side stories (like the TWINS Saga) or do the year when they went out and looked around the world.

So you'll make a DragonLance game then skip the War of the Lance, which is probably what people would want to play in? So which other era do you want to focus on? The Chaos War? The first Dragon wars with Huma? And how will you deal with the disappointment of the expectation of the player audience when you say you're making a Dragonlance game that isn't set in the WotL? Look what happened to D&D Online with Eberron, even though the game itself is fine.

Why would Bethesda make a kids game?
I loved that series of books when I was a kid, they haven't aged well tho.

I'm with Sober Thal here...Dragonlance is fantasy for kids and young adults, of the bad sort. It's pretty much generic fantasy with more dragons and instead of gold, steel is the most valuable currency.(No Frigging wonder, considering everyone and his ant wears full plate).

Uh, you've never played the actual campaign setting the novels were based on, have you? There's way more going on in them than what was depicted in the Chronicles novels.