D&D 5E Dragonlance Shadow of the Dragon Queen Trailer

WotC has released a trailer for December’s Shadow of the Dragon Queen, an adventure for character levels 1-10.

 

[Hussar]

I’ve also seen lots of various rules to turn large numbers into mobs which can make low level opponents very dangerous.

 

[AnotherGuy]

So, this adventure occurs before Goldmoon finds the Blue Crystal Staff and yet PCs can play clerics and druids...is there any sort of in world logic given for how that is even feasible?

It is a reimagining of the setting so we can only but speculate how it may be possible (i.e. there were many such blue crystal/disks of Mishakal awakening), but this thread has been discussing this and other DL issues for a while.

 

[Jiggawatts]

reimagining

What a repugnant word when used in conjunction with an already codified body of work. (I mean the act of doing such, not your utilization of it in this conversation good sir).

 

[DarkCrisis]

They sure do like to make it sound like you are playing in some post apocalyptic setting.

“The world has ended!”

The cataclysm happened. There was some upheaval for a while and it’s been a few hundred years and people have gone on. There are still forests and beaches and people farming and having kids etc etc.

It’s not a scorched wasteland. It’s a thriving planet that didn’t have divine magic. Not really a stretch…

 

[bedir than]

They sure do like to make it sound like you are playing in some post apocalyptic setting.

“The world has ended!”

The cataclysm happened. There was some upheaval for a while and it’s been a few hundred years and people have gone on. There are still forests and beaches and people farming and having kids etc etc.

It’s not a scorched wasteland. It’s a thriving planet that didn’t have divine magic. Not really a stretch…

The Cataclysm would leave massive scars on societies. Much of the distrust of others, the hatred of the Knights, the forgotten empires, the abandoned peoples, etc are due to the world ending. It's a completely fair statement

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Still feels like bandwagon to me. Just about everything is apocalypse-this, armageddon-that these days.

 

[DarkCrisis]

The Cataclysm would leave massive scars on societies. Much of the distrust of others, the hatred of the Knights, the forgotten empires, the abandoned peoples, etc are due to the world ending. It's a completely fair statement

People hating each other and a lot of lost lives isn't "World ending" its a reordering. One whole nation was wiped off the map. Dark Sun is world ending. If some real world country sank into the ocean tomorrow, it wouldnt be the end of the world.

 

[bedir than]

People hating each other and a lot of lost lives isn't "World ending" its a reordering. One whole nation was wiped off the map. Dark Sun is world ending. If some real world country sank into the ocean tomorrow, it wouldnt be the end of the world.

That's a rather pedantic way to look at the phrase "world ending." Even Dark Sun wouldn't qualify as world ending because the world still exists

 

[DarkCrisis]

That's a rather pedantic way to look at the phrase "world ending." Even Dark Sun wouldn't qualify as world ending because the world still exists

But is dying. Krynn is alive and well

 

[Stormonu]

People hating each other and a lot of lost lives isn't "World ending" its a reordering. One whole nation was wiped off the map. Dark Sun is world ending. If some real world country sank into the ocean tomorrow, it wouldnt be the end of the world.

"World ending" has also been used when one's life gets turned upside down. For example, the sinking of Atlantis would be a world-ending event for them, even if the survivors later managed to make a new life for themselves elsewhere. Krynn's upending and the plagues, forced migrations, wars, population decimation and environmental upheaval would have certainly seemed to anyone going through it to be the end of their world. We're coming into Krynn after its had time to recover and stabilize and the population no longer thinks that the world is coming to an end.

It does make me wonder if they're going to go with the Steel currency, or drop it to just use good ol' D&D's gold system.