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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[darjr]

The title of the divine one makes it sound like this is contemporaneous or immediately after the divine awakening in the original novel, which I'm sure is going to irritate folks. That said, at their table, they probably weren't going to allow any divine casters in the campaign anyway, except as replacement characters.

Those folks are already mad, for some reason? One was because they didn’t get Larry Elmore back, which he’s said he’s not doing new work.

 

[Weiley31]

As a video game player, I really dig the idea of the "opening scene" being something set like a funeral or some other style event. So, these prelude events are pretty neat.

 

[Demetrios1453]

The title of the divine one makes it sound like this is contemporaneous or immediately after the divine awakening in the original novel, which I'm sure is going to irritate folks. That said, at their table, they probably weren't going to allow any divine casters in the campaign anyway, except as replacement characters.

I'm beginning to think that the adventure is set somewhat later than what was being theorized using the War of the Lance timeline - that we start in some backwater that had been previously ignored by the Dragonarmies. The preview on character creation asks players what they think of the war during character creation, which sounds as if the war is already well underway. So maybe those worries that the adventure is pre-Goldmoon are unfounded?

 

[overgeeked]

You can have it both ways, as we did with Radiant Citadel: Make it the first chapter of the book and then release that for free.

I'd rather they didn't. Cheapens the book. Give away stuff for free that couldn't fit in the book, not the first chapter.

I'm beginning to think that the adventure is set somewhat later than what was being theorized using the War of the Lance timeline - that we start in some backwater that had been previously ignored by the Dragonarmies. The preview on character creation asks players what they think of the war during character creation, which sounds as if the war is already well underway. So maybe those worries that the adventure is pre-Goldmoon are unfounded?

I thought they said it was set a few months before the novels. It is in some backwater but it’s in the path of the armies so they’ll know about the war before others.

 

[Velderan]

Those folks are already mad, for some reason? One was because they didn’t get Larry Elmore back, which he’s said he’s not doing new work.

He still does new work, but it seems to mostly be favors to old friends at this point. Tracy and Laura Hickman got him to do the cover art for the setting they funded through Kickstarter.

 

[darjr]

Session Zero for the Dragonlance campaign article up on DNDBeyond and it denotes that character death should be on the list of things to mention in a session zero. Interesting. Is this leaning into it or a guarantee somehow that PC's will die?

It also mentions asking if you want to allow other D&D material in or not.

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...

www.dndbeyond.com

 

[MonsterEnvy]

Tons of fans get mad about anything.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Tons of fans get mad about anything.

I'm furious that you would say so.

 

[darjr]

Tons of fans get mad about anything.

Can't please everyone.

 

[DarkCrisis]

The title of the divine one makes it sound like this is contemporaneous or immediately after the divine awakening in the original novel, which I'm sure is going to irritate folks. That said, at their table, they probably weren't going to allow any divine casters in the campaign anyway, except as replacement characters.

The newest novel has a Cleric or Druid mention that Chizlev appeared to her and now shes a priestess. This is set during the war.

So after Goldmoon does her thing the other gods probably start activating new divine characters. As long as they keep with "Goldmoon did it first", it should be fine.