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.

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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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[pukunui]

I should note that is not a Knight of Solamnia. Only 2 Current Knights of Solamnia are actually met during the adventure.

True, he's just a generic soldier from the intro. I just thought it would add a humorous element to the mustache debate.

 

[Carlsen Chris]

Jeeze just making conversation. Excuse me all to heck and back.

And a few years ago millions of D&D fans, probably myself included, would have said that Spelljammer and Dragonlance would have never seen the light of day.

 

[Scribe]

If you saw the entry for, say, the red dragon, and it was identical to the way it is now except it doesn't have an alignment attached, are you saying you wouldn't know how to run it?

Not at all, does it being there prevent you from running it how you like?

 

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

Not at all, does it being there prevent you from running it how you like?

When my players assume that all red dragons are evil and attack them on sight in worlds where that isn't true, like in Eberron, it is.

 

[darjr]

Are there no mustaches?!

 

[Maxperson]

Not having it in the first place is the easiest way to ignore it.

That actually makes it impossible to ignore. It's impossible to ignore something that never existed. There's nothing to ignore.

 

[DarkCrisis]

And a few years ago millions of D&D fans, probably myself included, would have said that Spelljammer and Dragonlance would have never seen the light of day.

I mean Hollow World is possibly more problematic than Dark Sun. It’s not near as popular enough and again too problematic for WotC to use. They’ve have to bring back Mystara first and that’s unlikely.

 

[Scribe]

When my players assume that all red dragons are evil and attack them on sight in worlds where that isn't true, like in Eberron, it is.

Why do you have red dragon's be evil on all your other worlds? Nobody is forcing you to reinforce that expectation?

 

[Azzy]

0 there are not even any neutral ones. When you do the Test to become a full Mage of High Sorcery you can only become a Black Robe if you are a selfish piece of naughty word. If you are good aligned becoming a Black Robe through the test can’t happen by default, and vice versa you can become a Red Robe at most. So by default in game you can only become a official Black Robe with a good alignment is if you have a change of heart after the fact.

Between that and that descriptions of the black robes and their general ethos being morally crappy, you'd think it would hold more weight than "must have evil alignment". Like, really? Do we really need a mechanical alignment restriction to enforce characters of that order being bad when their ethos already describes characters of that order as bad? I think the paladin class and their defined Oaths show that we don't need that level of mechanical hand-holding.

 

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

Why do you have red dragon's be evil on all your other worlds? Nobody is forcing you to reinforce that expectation?

Theme and the type of game I want to play at the moment.