Dragonlance Dragonlance Adventure & Prelude Details Revealed

Over on DND Beyond Amy Dallen and Eugenio Vargas discuss the beginning of Shadow of ther Dragon Queen and provide some advice on running it.

Running a Session Zero for Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen

When starting a new adventure, it's a good idea to get on the same page as your party. Here's how to run a session zero for the upcoming Dragonlance adv...

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This epic war story begins with an invitation to a friend's funeral and three optional prelude encounters that guide you into the world of Krynn. Amy Dallen is joined by Eugenio Vargas to share some details about how these opening preludes work and some advice on using them in your own D&D games.

There is also information on the three short 'prelude' adventures which introduce players to the world of Krynn:

• Eye in the Sky -- ideal for sorcerers, warlocks, wizards, or others seeking to become members of the Mages of High Sorcery.
• Broken Silence -- ideal for clerics, druids, paladins, and other characters with god-given powers.
• Scales of War -- ideal for any character and reveals the mysterious draconians.

The article discusses Session Zero for the campaign and outlines what to expect in a Dragonlance game -- war, death, refugees, and so on.

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[Scribe]

why is it people think "That's just your opinion" is an argument? as opposed to what? Just YOUR opinion?

Not mine, the settings.

“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse, and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.”​

― Desmond Tutu

I'm not sure that aligns with how Dragonlance is structured...in any way shape or form? Perhaps applying real world morality to a game without consideration for the differences between reality and fantasy, isnt the way to go?

 

[GMforPowergamers]

Not mine, the settings.

I guess we find out next week

I'm not sure that aligns with how Dragonlance is structured...in any way shape or form? Perhaps applying real world morality to a game without consideration for the differences between reality and fantasy, isnt the way to go?

maybe we will see

 

[Scribe]

I guess we find out next week

maybe we will see

Oh I'm quite prepared for the eventual retcon, but thats just the way it goes with Wizards these days.

 

[gban007]

Certainly some interesting discussions here, if somewhat circular at times. What I find interesting is how it ties into some of the themes of dragonlance, e.g. some of the views on why the Towers are essentially evil for allowing evil to be part of the Towers, seem to run close to the Kingpriest's views, in terms of not tolerating evil in any form. Now of course there will be differences in how one defines evil, as the Kingpriest seemed to have quite a wide view of what constitutes evil, but in some respects the arguments of how the Towers should operate do support the argument that the Kingpriest was too Good.
If the Towers were to go down the road of not allowing evil in the order - what do they then do? Just leave evil to do it's thing in the world? Then aren't they just as complicit really? Or do they go actively hunting evil, and if so - how to they determine that? Detect alignment? In which case they may pick up people who have never committed evil acts (as yet at least) but have an evil mindset - but isn't that heading towards what the Kingpriest was doing and condemned for? Or walk a fine line somewhere where wait for evil to manifest itself (by which time it may be too strong) before acting, as that is the right thing to do even if means good loses?
So many questions, and no easy answers to my mind, though I feel that there could be some advantages in trying to get bad people within a structured order that would curb their behaviour against what would happen if let loose in the world.

 

[GMforPowergamers]

Oh I'm quite prepared for the eventual retcon, but thats just the way it goes with Wizards these days.

then what are you argueing?

 

[Micah Sweet]

then what are you argueing?

They're prepared in that they expect it, but is unhappy about it and wishes it weren't.

 

[Scribe]

then what are you argueing?

That the retcon's are unnecessary, and damaging to what the setting was, in the interest of making things more generic and the same as other settings already offer, for no reason other than making it more easily digestible for the masses.

 

[GMforPowergamers]

That the retcon's are unnecessary, and damaging to what the setting was, in the interest of making things more generic and the same as other settings already offer, for no reason other than making it more easily digestible for the masses.

1 it isn't a retcon... it is a reimagining. This isn't retroactively saying that this is how it was in 1987, it is saying in this new version this is how it is... if it isn't changing something retroactively (like saying half orcs aren't allowed) then it isn't a retcon.

Having Smallville show superman grow up with lex doesn't retcon the comics that say he didn't

2 nobody is asking for it to be generic or the same as another setting...

Has anyone asked for the tower to be replaced with red wizards and chosen of mystra? No, then what setting are we duplicating here?

3 if you are a company that wants to make money you HAVE to entice the masses... welcome to capitalism

 

[Scribe]

1 it isn't a retcon... it is a reimagining. This isn't retroactively saying that this is how it was in 1987, it is saying in this new version this is how it is... if it isn't changing something retroactively (like saying half orcs aren't allowed) then it isn't a retcon.

Once published, it will be what Dragonlance is, for the current edition. Change is, potentially (until published we dont know) a retcon.

2 nobody is asking for it to be generic or the same as another setting...

Then let the morality of Dragonlance, be different, where White Robes are Good, but work with Black Robes that are not, in the interest of what they value most.

3 if you are a company that wants to make money you HAVE to entice the masses... welcome to capitalism

Ah yes, the most banal defense of them all. Pardon me.

 

[Micah Sweet]

1 it isn't a retcon... it is a reimagining. This isn't retroactively saying that this is how it was in 1987, it is saying in this new version this is how it is... if it isn't changing something retroactively (like saying half orcs aren't allowed) then it isn't a retcon.

Having Smallville show superman grow up with lex doesn't retcon the comics that say he didn't

2 nobody is asking for it to be generic or the same as another setting...

Has anyone asked for the tower to be replaced with red wizards and chosen of mystra? No, then what setting are we duplicating here?

3 if you are a company that wants to make money you HAVE to entice the masses... welcome to capitalism

Perhaps you can entice the masses with a new setting that caters to their preferences?

No, that's just ridiculous.

And again, a promotional video that no more than a tiny percentage of D&D fans have even seen is not sufficient notice of a "reimagining".