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

 

[eyeheartawk]

Kinda bummed it's an AP, though, given how Dragonlance started off, I guess it's probably the most excusable of all the classic settings to do this with.

 

[thom_likes_gaming]

Is "Adventure Book" actually the same as "an Adventure"? The term reminds me rather of like Fighting Fantasy and such...

 

[Michael Linke]

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.

I think by the time you buy both the adventure book and the battlegame, you will have a campaign setting book's worth of setting information.

Edit: if any admins happen to be listening, I accidentally clicked "report" on Superchunk's post instead of reply. I think once you see the "reason" it will be pretty clear i didn't mean to report.

 

[Demetrios1453]

No, at least two of the Modules were actually wargames to use the AD&D Mass Combat system, IIRC.

Yep. One of them had you as Laurana leading her armies fighting the Dragonarmies across Solamnia.

 

[Michael Linke]

Kinda bummed it's an AP, though, given how Dragonlance started off, I guess it's probably the most excusable of all the classic settings to do this with.

We don't know that it's an adventure path. If I was doing this, the Adventure Book would be a set of scenarios that tie into the shared campaign. They would be less about telling the dragonlance story (there are novels for that) and more about showing how D&D scenarios can interact with wargame scenarios to feed into the same campaign.

Even IF it's an adventure path, the adventures given could (should?) serve as templates for further missions designed to interact with the wargame.

 

[Urriak Uruk]

No, at least two of the Modules were actually wargames to use the AD&D Mass Combat system, IIRC.

I stand corrected. My DL knowledge is weak!

 

[Parmandur]

I stand corrected. My DL knowledge is weak!

Mine is shallow, but tying into Mass Comabt rules was one of the base design intentions for the new Setting and having a giant war as the centerpiece. The TSR folks were old wargamers, after all! Injecting some Lord of the Rings unto their usual Conan fare.

 

[Weiley31]

We don't know that it's an adventure path. If I was doing this, the Adventure Book would be a set of scenarios that tie into the shared campaign. They would be less about telling the dragonlance story (there are novels for that) and more about showing how D&D scenarios can interact with wargame scenarios to feed into the same campaign.

They mentioned that Shadows of the Dragon Queen happens "concurrently" or in a different part of the War of The Lances. So stuff is happening in different places during the war. So that way player's PCs aren't overshadowed by the main heroes and can still experience their takes upon the war itself.

 

[Urriak Uruk]

Important piece here; it does seem that the book will primarily be an adventure, and seems to be set mostly in an unexplroed part of Ansalom. Known locations and NPCs do feature/cameo, but the focus is on new material.

It is also not a reset, this is just happening concurrently with events that we all know from books/modules before.

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

Not going to lie, when they showed this trailer at the very end, after I was already thinking "Ralif, you were wrong yet again in a prediction," I got full-body chills.