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

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...

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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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[Scribe]

And if the Wall of the Faithless was problematic enough to be errata-ed out of 5e canon, then something similar should happen with Dragonlance.

Yeah, but it wasnt problematic.

 

[Veltharis ap Rylix]

Yeah, but it wasnt problematic.

The Athar would disagree.

 

[Scribe]

The Athar would disagree.

Thats fine, disagreement, and things to disagree over, both in game, and out of game, is...largely the point.

If we didnt have those things, what a bland and boring experience the game must be.

 

[Remathilis]

A firmly CE character.

Right. So is taking away his free will and making him act in a moral way a good or bad act. If free will is always good, then taking away Alex's free will would be evil. But Alex is willfully evil, and thus stopping him and making him act moral is good...

 

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

Except, you know, the elves who lived through it and are still around to tell all the people rediscovering the gods of their forefathers exactly what went down and why they might ought to be skeptical of the gods' intentions.

Were the Elves just as quick to accept the return of the "Good" Gods as the other races in the novels? Because, IMO, I feel like they would be an ideal candidate for Dragonlance's "antitheistic" faction. They're old enough to remember the Cataclysm. It's just logical that they would be more inclined to reject the gods that had a part in it.

 

[Eubani]

Were the Elves just as quick to accept the return of the "Good" Gods as the other races in the novels? Because, IMO, I feel like they would be an ideal candidate for Dragonlance's "antitheistic" faction. They're old enough to remember the Cataclysm. It's just logical that they would be more inclined to reject the gods that had a part in it.

The elves didn't stop worshipping them despite being put on block. Same with Dwarves an Reorx.

 

[Scribe]

Right. So is taking away his free will and making him act in a moral way a good or bad act. If free will is always good, then taking away Alex's free will would be evil. But Alex is willfully evil, and thus stopping him and making him act moral is good...

Wild...honestly.

You put him in prison. You do not remove free will. lol

I mean I play LE characters. A lot. Have for decades. I do so not because I believe its GOOD.

I mean are we honestly proposing that mass brainwashing, 'there is only One True Way' is the solution to lifes problems?

EDIT: I am honestly hoping I am misinterpreting your comment's and the logical conclusion here, because I dont believe what you are suggesting, is in any way shape or form GOOD, but is actually a line of thought that leads to the kind of authoritarian, big brother, 1984, DYSTOPIA that we are seemingly on track for.

Please, let me be wrong here.

 

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

Yeah, but it wasnt problematic.

Yes, it was. The fact that Good Gods tolerated/supported it was definitely problematic. Any god that is fine with it existing is evil.

 

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

You put him in prison. You do not remove free will. lol

Taking away someone's agency to go and do what they want is removing their free will.

 

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

The elves didn't stop worshipping them despite being put on block. Same with Dwarves an Reorx.

Yeah, that seems dumb. IMO, if the Elves knew their role in the Cataclysm (and they should have at least suspected, if not known, due to the Gods leaving after the Cataclsym), they wouldn't/shouldn't have worshipped them.