[Contemplating] Dragonlance Classics

[rangerjohn]

Ok, about magic items, DL is somewhat low magic. VERY few high end items in the world. As I said previously +3 swords were considered relics. At least on the continent of Ansalon. Not that this was always so, most are presumed lost or destroyed during the cataclysm.

 

[garyh]

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If I did play a starting character, I'd be interested in Caramon. I'm not sure what later character I'd play.

 

[GruTheWanderer]

Ok, about magic items, DL is somewhat low magic. VERY few high end items in the world. As I said previously +3 swords were considered relics. At least on the continent of Ansalon. Not that this was always so, most are presumed lost or destroyed during the cataclysm.

True. But the Heroes of the Lance, through their adventures, get their hands on a fair number of relics. They go into quite a few places that have been vacant since the Cataclysm (Xak Tsaroth, Derkin's Tomb, Skullcap, The Vale of the Silver Dragon, The High Clerist's Tower, etc).

Let's take a poll about starting equipment. How shall we handle it?

1. Use the equipment indicated in DL1 (and/or DL5)
2. Set a starting limit (some fraction of the DMG value?)
3. Let the player decide (subject to peer review)
4. Other

 

[Keia]

As far as starting magic items go, I would suggest that the GM supply the core items the group starts with (blue crystal staff, staff of Magius - which by the way is a perfect example of a leveled item, the Brightblade), then anyone who is too low would select items to fill but be in the flavor of the game.

Keia

 

[Shalimar]

I would go with number 4, other.

Go with what is actually in Dragons of Autumn twilight. Get that by reading, and working it out ourselves, subject to your review.

So give all the characters their signature items: rabbit slayer, the Staff of Magius, the Bright Blade, etc.

Then do something like I put in my list above. At most the non-signature items should be masterwork, and magic Items should not be up for purchase. Flint's axe (He is a master craftsman), Tanis 6 enchanted arrowheads (Made by flint, so masterwork, and enchanted by the qualinesti Court Mage) Tanis's Sword was masterworked by Flint and given to him as a present. Things like this would be cool to use, Sturm's Masterwork armor, etc.

But you should probably make the decision, and its generally pointless to buy all this stuff if we just lose all of it but the signature stuff in flight from Solace anyway.

 

[GruTheWanderer]

There are no events in the modules that take away the characters' equipment away permanently.

Thanks, Shalimar, that is a valid option I forgot. Use the equipment from the books.

 

[Shalimar]

There are no events in the modules that take away the characters' equipment away permanently.

Thanks, Shalimar, that is a valid option I forgot. Use the equipment from the books.

Oh, I never played the modules, just read the books. I thought in the flight from the Inn of the lost Home the first time they hade to eave their horses etc. behind and only had their weapons and armor. If thats not the case, and what they had with them was all they had then they are pretty poor.

 

[Douane]

Concerning material wealth, DL 5 gave each of the characters 500 steel pieces for free spending.

Also, regarding the magic items: they all are relatively minor and, IIRC, the heroes (or most of them) just returned from 5 years of adventuring. It would be easy to pick up a magic weapon somewhere along the way.

Also, no reason for the absence of some low-level items, since many should have been able to make them in the past:

1. The dwarves (they made the brightblade)
2. The elves, in their defence vs. 3.
3. The Kingpriest's Crusade army


Folkert

 

[Shalimar]

I'm not particularly interested in DL 5 if it suggests that they were that rich. Unless that money was spent to buy the Bright blade, the staff of magius, and the other items they had in the books at the start it is way too much. and not everyone would have had it. Tasselhof with that much is laughable he had his knick knacks the Hoopak he made himself, Riverwind and Goldmoon had the clothes on their back and the Staff when Mishikal stepped in to stop them from getting stoned. The value of their gear is too widely divergent to let everyone go to town with 500 steel.

I would be most interested in having what they had in the books.

 

[KitanaVorr]

Originally posted by Shalimar I would be most interested in having what they had in the books.

Yeah I think it would be fun to play out of the books myself.