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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Burnside" data-source="post: 8838175" data-attributes="member: 6910340">Can we talk about the preludes?Chapter 2 contains three short prelude I-won't-call-them-adventures. These are meant to be played either one-on-one or with only part of the party in each prelude. There are three preludes: one for cleric characters or others who will be drawing their power from Krynn's newly re-emergent old gods; one for aspirant Mages of High Sorcery; and one for Everybody Else.I LOVE this prelude idea on paper and love the idea of running short one-on-one or small group sessions with each player before bringing the party together.Unfortunately - and here is where I start to worry about the quality of this adventure - the first two preludes are very lame and uninspired, and the third is just okay. With such high-stakes to work with: the arrival of divine magic, an elite order of mages testing a possible new member, and the appearance of new unknown monsters, the writers here deliver some really banal and uninteresting stuff, which also offers very little for character to actually DO. Each of these is less than an hour long and worth advancing from level 1 to 2 (in the case of the cleric character, you're basically going to level up after watching a 20 minute cut-scene). If I was the editor, I would have sent at least two of these preludes back to the writers with the note "Not cool enough."Hopefully, the adventure proper starts off strong in Chapter 3. As a DM, I can already say I would keep the IDEA of doing these three preludes, but would heavily re-work at least 2 of them.</blockquote>

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