WotC Dragonlance: Everything You Need For Shadow of the Dragon Queen

WotC has shared a video explaining the Dragonlance setting, and what to expect when it is released in December. World at War: Introduces war as a genre of play to fifth edition Dungeons & Dragons. Dragonlance: Introduces the Dragonlance setting with a focus on the War of the Lance and an overview of what players and DMs need to run adventures during this world spanning conflict. Heroes of...

WotC has shared a video explaining the Dragonlance setting, and what to expect when it is released in December.

World at War: Introduces war as a genre of play to fifth edition Dungeons & Dragons.

Dragonlance: Introduces the Dragonlance setting with a focus on the War of the Lance and an overview of what players and DMs need to run adventures during this world spanning conflict.

Heroes of War: Provides character creation rules highlighting core elements of the Dragonlance setting, including the kender race and new backgrounds for the Knight of Solamnia and Mage of High Sorcery magic-users. Also introduces the Lunar Sorcery sorcerer subclass with new spells that bind your character to Krynn's three mystical moons and imbues you with lunar magic.

Villains: Pits heroes against the infamous death knight Lord Soth and his army of draconians.


Notes --
  • 224 page hardcover adventure
  • D&D's setting for war
  • Set in eastern Solamnia
  • War is represented by context -- it's not goblins attacking the village, but evil forces; refugees, rumours
  • You can play anything from D&D - clerics included, although many classic D&D elements have been forgotten
  • Introductory scenarios bring you up to speed on the world so no prior research needed
 
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mamba

mamba

Legend
RuinousPowers said:
You seem to be comparing real world religions and Dragonlance, which have fundamental differences.
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yep, because they clearly were in part inspired by real world religions. Wasn’t this pointed out at one point when it was about the disks and Mormonism, and plenty other things?

What is a false equivalence between the Cataclysm and e.g. the biblical flood? Equivalency I can see, but false?

RuinousPowers said:
Even Tolkien's mythology is so different from Dragonlance that there is no comparison.
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Not sure why that is an ‘even’. I’d say DL is much closer to some real world religions than Tolkien is (at least ones that are still popular).
 

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Micah Sweet

Micah Sweet

Level Up & OSR Enthusiast
GMforPowergamers said:
it can be...

lets say me and you both sit down to write a screen play for a Dark Sun movie. You take one look at what I have as a first draft and say "This might as well be a mash up of the mad max movie that will be out the same year and the new dragon heart reboot due out the year before it"
you most likely would not be wrong... but it is what the DS setting is based on. Is it gate keeping to say "Look the source material isn't that good we need to punch it up"
For the record I don't think there is a generic 1 size fits all answer.

back to the witcher, I never played the games and only read some short stories out of context then heard my friends talk about the games... I always said the games didn't fit the stories... but once the show came out I did a deep dive into the combined lore and found the DID in fact work together well and the show did okay/passable at mixing the feel of them while updating to the screen adaptation... BUT as much as it was at best Okay for keeping the themes and story beats, it was excellent as a show.
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If you think the source material isn't that good, maybe working in that universe isn't for you (the general you).
 

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AnotherGuy

Hero
Vaalingrade said:
Absolutely correct. It's well past the proposal phase and into practice.
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Yes, if by practice you mean what happens at each of our tables.
I've never run a DL setting, but if I did, and it was around the War of the Lance era, like the current adventure by WotC, the native races of that setting would be the only ones offered for play.
 
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Maxperson

Maxperson

Morkus from Orkus
pemerton said:
This seems to be an "in fiction" statement. I'm talking about the at-the-table relationships: who at the table authors the "hook", and what are other participants in the game expected to do with it?
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Who authored it isn't relevant. Only whether the players must go down the path matters. If a player or players author it and the players MUST partake, it's every bit as much a railroad as if the DM authored it and the players MUST partake.
 

Maxperson

Maxperson

Morkus from Orkus
AnotherGuy said:
Actually that is not what is being proposed here.

Also, I guess by that measure Henry Cavill could be considered a Gatekeeper :ROFLMAO:
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There is only one Gatekeeper.
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RuinousPowers

RuinousPowers

Hero
mamba said:
yep, because they clearly were in part inspired by real world religions. Wasn’t this pointed out at one point when it was about the disks and Mormonism, and plenty other things?

What is a false equivalence between the Cataclysm and e.g. the biblical flood? Equivalency I can see, but false?
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Where to start? How about Dragonlance having multiple "correct" moralities? How about evil being described as a necessary component of the world instead of an unwelcome corruption? God, or Eru, can judge because he is the sole authority on morality. Satan, or Morgoth, do not have an equally valid position.
 

mamba

mamba

Legend
RuinousPowers said:
Where to start? How about Dragonlance having multiple "correct" moralities? How about evil being described as a necessary component of the world instead of an unwelcome corruption?
God, or Eru, can judge because he is the sole authority on morality. Satan, or Morgoth, do not have an equally valid position.
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not sure how that even relates to what was being discussed.

Does it mean that the pantheon of Krynn and the Bible are different, sure, but that was never the issue.

The issue was ‘how can a god / gods that are responsible for so much ‘damage’ be considered good’, and saying ‘because he / they he say so’ is not really a valid answer - or it is for both

Also, there are plenty people who do not consider the flood good or moral or even justified, so the ‘one source of morality’ argument is not really working, otherwise there would be no disagreement.

Heck, even believers have to resort to ‘god’s ways are unknowable’ and hope he was justified, they cannot actually defend / explain it either.
Krynn’s gods should be afforded the same courtesy ;)
 
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RuinousPowers

RuinousPowers

Hero
mamba said:
not sure how that even relates to what was being discussed.

Does it mean that the pantheon of Krynn and the Bible are different, sure, but that was never the issue.

The issue was ‘how can a god / gods that are responsible for so much ‘damage’ be considered good’, and saying ‘because he is the only one and he says so’ is nit really a valid answer.
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It actually is. Who is the moral authority on Krynn who can pass judgement on the world, when all the gods are equally correct? Why did the Chaotic gods agree that punishing everyone instead of the individual was correct? How did the NG gods decide that the suffering of the whole world, including people on the other side of the planet, was justified because of the actions of one man?

That's why you can't point to single god religions and say that bibical floods are the same as the Cataclysm.
 

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