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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[Remathilis]

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?

That's the question the book (and movie) poses. I don't pretend to have that answer. Just wondering when it comes to morality and free will, which is the more important...

 

[Veltharis ap Rylix]

Just wondering when it comes to morality and free will, which is the more important...

Classic Freedom vs. Security argument.

 

[Faolyn]

The whole population was angry and blaimed the gods and stopped worshipping them, centuries later forgot them largely.

They were angry because the gods left. The populace kept praying but the gods were gone. And then the gods tried to DARVO them by saying that the people abandoned them.

 

[Faolyn]

Yeah, but it wasnt problematic.

Condemning non-believers to slow torture and being turned into demons isn't problematic?!

 

[Scribe]

Condemning non-believers to slow torture and being turned into demons isn't problematic?!

Chalk it up to my upbringing.

 

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

Chalk it up to my upbringing.

Doesn't work. I agree with @Faolyn, and I also grew up Mormon.

Eternal torment as a punishment for people having the audacity to not worship you is an evil act. And Mormon doctrine doesn't promote that idea, anyways.

 

[Veltharis ap Rylix]

Also loses a lot of its rationality in an explicitly polytheistic setting.

 

[Faolyn]

Chalk it up to my upbringing.

That's... horrifying.

 

[Eubani]

Athiest now go Asmodaus, so much better lol

 

[Scribe]

That's... horrifying.

There is an interpretation that the only way to ensure you go to Hell, is to have first hand knowledge of God, and to still deny Him. In that light, its the Wall of the Faithless.