Dragonlance DRAGONLANCE is coming this year!

This year, a hardcover book and a 'battle game'. Here's the teaser trailer! The adventure is set at the start of the War of the Lance, while the battle game is designed for 'large scale' battles. And they're coming later this year, in 2022.

• Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen
• Dragonlance: Warriors of Krynn

 

[Phenomen]

It looks more mature and gritty than FR and Eberror, let alone Critical Role and MTG settings.

 

[Parmandur]

The question is:

will the battle game just be its own thing, with its own mechanics not capable of being integrated (at least not cleanly) into the RPG—like the existing (terrible) "Adventure System" games from WizKids and (apparently) also the Onslaught game...

...or have they finally figured out that a straightforward but interesting mass-combat game that's easy to integrate into a campaign of the RPG (like a better version of the old TSR Battlesystem) would be mind-bogglingly awesome?

They report that it can be played independently as a wargame, or integrated with the Adventure book to play mass combat in D&D.

I actually will bet that the mass combat rules here are where the Ghosts of Saltmarsh rules came from, since they said at the time that they were the draft rules for an upcoming project in development.

 

[Storyteller Hero]

If they open up Dragonlance for DMsGuild, this means I can write a Krynnspace book after I finish up my Realmspace book. Woot.

 

[John R Davis]

Well that peaks my interest and will be my first 5e buy for some while

 

[Urriak Uruk]

A battle game. I wonder if it's a miniature game like the battle system or a battle game on a game board map, like Greyhawk Wars.

I assume something like the former. WotC's definitely leaning into "sell minis" market, by looking at those ships for Spelljammer.

 

[Morrus]

Well that peaks my interest and will be my first 5e buy for some while

Yup, me too!

 

[Superchunk77]

So technically this isn't a campaign setting product, it's an adventure and a battle game. Does that mean there is still one more unannounced classic campaign setting for 2022? I'm hoping yes.

 

[Morrus]

So technically this isn't a campaign setting product, it's an adventure and a battle game. Does that mean there is still one more unannounced classic campaign setting for 2022? I'm hoping yes.

Nah, this is it. This counts as the return of a classic campaign setting. They never said it would specifically be in the form of setting books.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Nah, this is it. This counts as the return of a classic campaign setting. They never said it would specifically be in the form of setting books.

I think we can assume "Shadow of the Dragon Queen" includes setting info (such as the backgrounds and feats from the UA) as well as an adventure. It will also enable Krynn content on the DMGuild.

It's not like they are going to say "you must have this previous edition content in order to run this adventure"!

 

[This Effin’ GM]

SO HYPE