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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dire Bare" data-source="post: 8346184" data-attributes="member: 18182">I'm now in Chapter 4 on weapons and equipment . . .<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">No mention of steel pieces as currency . . . good! <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> They do mention that steel has been sometimes scarce . . .</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Lots of weird, Krynnish weapons here from the lore . . . which is good, but . . . the descriptions aren't always clear (to me) what exactly some of these weapons look like and how they are used.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Cultural information (which races/cultures use them) is in a table, which leads to some of the written descriptions being unclear (to me).</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">That's it! 3 pages. Probably don't need more, other than for illustrations of all of the weird DL weapons!</li> </ul>Chapter 5 on gods . . .<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">I glossed over this, as I'm not expecting info much different from what I remember. There is a chart listing the clerical domains for each deity . . . but still nothing substantial on the Holy Orders of the Stars . . .</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Info on the High God, Chaos, and Mina (oops, spoilers!) are included.</li> </ul>Chapter 6 on magic . . .<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">This chapter mostly focuses on the "ambient magic" of Krynn, or "primal sorcery" and the mystic's "power of the heart" . . . which came from the Age of Mortals/Dragon Overlords storyline when Dragonlance used the Saga rules system.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">IMO, this is an era of DL history that is a total mess. Consequently, this chapter is a bit of a mess, although I think the designers did a good job trying to fit a square peg into a round hole.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">There are no subclasses for primal sorcerers or heart mystics, but rather suggestions on how to use existing options from official D&D to represent these types of characters. It works, although I think it leaves something to be desired. What exactly, I don't know.</li> </ul>Chapter 7 on magic weapons & items . . .<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">skimmed it, mostly updates on various items and artifacts from the lore. Looks good!</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Blue Crystal Staff, Staff of Magius, Dragonlances . . . check!</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Details on the Medallion of Faith, which each true cleric of the gods needs to work their magic are given . . . but again, not much on how being a cleric of the true gods, of the Holy Orders of the Stars works . . .</li> </ul>Chapter 8 on creatures . . .<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">skimmed it, includes the core draconians (no noble or proto draconians here), dragonspawn, hatori, ogre titans, skrit, spectral minions . . . more to come later in the Bestiary slated for 2022.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">I think in this basic book, we didn't really need most of these . . . in fact, this chapter could have been skipped entirely and saved for the upcoming Bestiary.</li> </ul>Chapter 9 Timeline . . . <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">sigh, just reminded me how much I don't like what happened to Dragonlance starting with the Chaos War, then the Dragon Overlords, and then onto the War of Souls. It's a mess, but again, that's the official canon. The designers do a good job summarizing the lore of the setting here.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">If I ever run a DL campaign, it'll be set just after Ariakan founds the Knight of Takhisis, before the events of the Chaos War get underway . . . and I'll ignore all that comes later in the official canon.</li> </ul>Chapter 10 Geography . . . I ran out of steam, but again I'm guessing the designers do a good job of relating the current state of DL lore . . .</blockquote>

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