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

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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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[pemerton]

Honestly, you could be worse off because the bad movies sort of convinced Disney to drop making Star Wars movies and start having it only on the small screen.

Sure, people might try to claim that Star Wars is better on the small screen, but it's just attempted copium about the fact the company botched showings in the original preferred medium that they quietly moved it to a new, much smaller medium.

I'm not worse off because more films get made, or no films get made, or TV shows get made, or don't get made. (I've never watched a Star Wars TV show. I have a friend who likes the Mandalorian, which is as close as I've got to it.)

I'm not privy to Disney's commercial planning, but I would assume they were happy enough with making over $1 billion on Rise of Skywalker (that's what Wikipedia tells me it made).

 

[Azzy]

Honestly, you could be worse off because the bad movies sort of convinced Disney to drop making Star Wars movies and start having it only on the small screen.

Do we know that The Dis is actually going to limit SW to the small screen? Because, while the SW projects they've released so far better fit the small screen, that would be a big sad.

Personally, I am most saddened because other SW media will be beholden to the sequel movies as canon. And while there are good elements about the sequels, I found them to be internally inconsistent (as if they hadn't made an outline for where the trilogy was going and just made it up as they went along) and then wasted the potential of several characters (Finn, especially, but many others old and new).

 

[Micah Sweet]

Honestly, you could be worse off because the bad movies sort of convinced Disney to drop making Star Wars movies and start having it only on the small screen.

Sure, people might try to claim that Star Wars is better on the small screen, but it's just attempted copium about the fact the company botched showings in the original preferred medium that they quietly moved it to a new, much smaller medium.

The small screen stuff, IMO, is certainly better than the sequel trilogy.

 

[wellis]

The small screen stuff, IMO, is certainly better than the sequel trilogy.

Yes. But it also really shows how heavy of a screw up Disney did.

To tie it to here, it would be like WotC botching Dragonlance so hard for tabletop ultimately that the next Dragonlance stuff is in card stuff.

Yeah, you could point to the card stuff and say it's better than how the tabletop stuff turned out, but that would be small consolation IMO.

 

[Micah Sweet]

Yes. But it also really shows how heavy of a screw up Disney did.

To tie it to here, it would be like WotC botching Dragonlance so hard for tabletop ultimately that the next Dragonlance stuff is in card stuff.

Yeah, you could point to the card stuff and say it's better than how the tabletop stuff turned out, but that would be small consolation IMO.

Eh. I generally prefer TV to film anyway. More development of setting, narrative, and character.

 

[AnotherGuy]

I liked the original Star Wars movie. I saw it twice at the cinema. How am I possibly worse off because of the new films that I did not like? (Other than in the rather banal way of having paid money to watch some of them at the cinema and found them a little wanting.)

I was just saying certain people, right or wrongly, feel abandoned/ignored when changes they do not like or deemed not respectful are made to their particular franchise or whatever they are a fan of. So when you ask how they were hurt - I guess the answer would be their feelings.

 

[Vaalingrade]

Honestly, you could be worse off because the bad movies sort of convinced Disney to drop making Star Wars movies and start having it only on the small screen.

Sure, people might try to claim that Star Wars is better on the small screen, but it's just attempted copium about the fact the company botched showings in the original preferred medium that they quietly moved it to a new, much smaller medium.

Do... do you not remember the Prequels?

You cannot botch that which is already on fire and sinking into the swamps of Dagobah.

 

[pemerton]

I was just saying certain people, right or wrongly, feel abandoned/ignored when changes they do not like or deemed not respectful are made to their particular franchise or whatever they are a fan of. So when you ask how they were hurt - I guess the answer would be their feelings.

I guess I just have a low degree of sympathy for those fans who get hurt feelings when they don't like the stuff commercial publishers publish under the trademarks/franchise banners to which they are attached.

 

[Micah Sweet]

I guess I just have a low degree of sympathy for those fans who get hurt feelings when they don't like the stuff commercial publishers publish under the trademarks/franchise banners to which they are attached.

So the legal rights matter more than anything else. Got it.

 

[pemerton]

So the legal rights matter more than anything else. Got it.

That's not what I said.

There are many versions of Little Red Riding Hood in print and film. Not all of them will be true to the version you loved as a kid. If you got upset by them I wouldn't have much sympathy about that either.