Dragonlance Check Out Shadow of the Dragon Queen's Table of Contents!

Courtesy of Fryminis who shared it on Twitter, here's a look at the table of contents from Shadow of the Dragon Queen!

The 224 page book has 7 chapters and 5 appendices:

• Character Creation
• Prelude to War
• When Home Burns
• Shadow of War
• The Northern Wastes
• City of Lost Names
• Siege of Kalaman

Appendices:

• Gear and Magic Items
• Friends and Foes
• Sidekicks
• Story Concept Art
• Maps

 

[Demetrios1453]

No huge surprises to me, but I was hoping they'd mention minotaurs as a race option since they were so awesome on Krynn. I guess they wanted to keep player race choices to what would most likely be a group opposing the Dragonarmies at that time.

I wouldn't be surprised if there will be one or more sidebars in the character creation section going over quite a few things concerning races in the setting, with this being among the things mentioned there.

 

[overgeeked]

So anyone else notice there are multiple stat blocks on the same page a few times here? Three draconians on one page. Two dragon stat blocks on one page. That's awfully tight for 5E stat blocks. Two draconians on a page, maybe...but three? And two dragon stat blocks on one page? Are they going with a newer, smaller stat block finally?

 

[Demetrios1453]

So anyone else notice there are multiple stat blocks on the same page a few times here? Three draconians on one page. Two dragon stat blocks on one page. That's awfully tight for 5E stat blocks. Two draconians on a page, maybe...but three? And two dragon stat blocks on one page? Are they going with a newer, smaller stat block finally?

Looks like the stat blocks for the death dragon will be on 194 while the descriptive text will be on 195. Which seems reasonable even with the current stat block format. Same for the draconians - page 198 is open as well.

 

[Micah Sweet]

So anyone else notice there are multiple stat blocks on the same page a few times here? Three draconians on one page. Two dragon stat blocks on one page. That's awfully tight for 5E stat blocks. Two draconians on a page, maybe...but three? And two dragon stat blocks on one page? Are they going with a newer, smaller stat block finally?

Probably just minimizing the lore.

 

[MonsterEnvy]

Probably just minimizing the lore.

Nah it's just on a different page.

 

[Weiley31]

oh man I wonder if those sidekicks are an expansion of the Tasha rules, or just reprint...

Happy to see sidekicks represented. I really like the mechanic. (It'd be great to have sidekick classes added to D&D Beyond finally, WotC, hint hint. I know making non-PC race sidekicks would take more work, but I'll take that halfway step in the meantime.)

I am assuming that the "Named" Sidekicks are NPC stat blocks made with the Sidekick classes from Tasha's. The Sidekick Levels could be a straight up reprint of the Tasha's Sidekick rules.

 

[whimsychris123]

I sure wish this was a setting book rather than an adventure. But maybe I'll be pleasantly surprised by the adventure.

 

[dave2008]

I will also point out that death dragons are not full dragons. They could very well not have legendary actions which take up a lot of stat block space.

So anyone else notice there are multiple stat blocks on the same page a few times here? Three draconians on one page. Two dragon stat blocks on one page. That's awfully tight for 5E stat blocks. Two draconians on a page, maybe...but three? And two dragon stat blocks on one page? Are they going with a newer, smaller stat block finally?

Looks like the stat blocks for the death dragon will be on 194 while the descriptive text will be on 195. Which seems reasonable even with the current stat block format. Same for the draconians - page 198 is open as well.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

I will also point out that death dragons are not full dragons. They could very well not have legendary actions which take up a lot of stat block space.

They may not have stat blocks for different age categories.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

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