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<blockquote data-quote="(un)reason" data-source="post: 8521125" data-attributes="member: 27780">Dungeon Issue 43: Sep/Oct 1993part 3/5Mayhem at Midnight: The basic lore errors in this issue are particularly egregious this time. Black Robe Dragonlance wizards don't have access to Illusion/Phantasm spells! That's a Red Robe thing. (not that it stops treacherous side-switchers like Raistlin.) Since he's only a catalyst, and doesn't actually appear in the adventure, that's a completely unforced mistake as well that can be changed without affecting the adventure in any way. Anyway, said wizard sent a bunch of adventurers to collect Shimmerweed seeds for his research. They got them, but were eaten by ogres on the way home, spreading the seeds over a wide area. Now a Wyndlass uses their hypnotic powers as bait and eats people entranced by them. A simple synergistic creature combo encounter they could easily have fit in half a page, but padded out to three with backstory the players will probably never find out about. It does get points for using two less common creatures from a specific setting, but this is both bloated and sloppy despite it's smallness. Another case of 2e writers putting storytelling over mechanics. Which I suppose was always particularly common with Dragonlance, so it's in theme, but still annoying for anyone else trying to game in that world and maintain consistency.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="(un)reason, post: 8521125, member: 27780"] [b][u]Dungeon Issue 43: Sep/Oct 1993[/u][/b] part 3/5 Mayhem at Midnight: The basic lore errors in this issue are particularly egregious this time. Black Robe Dragonlance wizards don't have access to Illusion/Phantasm spells! That's a Red Robe thing. (not that it stops treacherous side-switchers like Raistlin.) Since he's only a catalyst, and doesn't actually appear in the adventure, that's a completely unforced mistake as well that can be changed without affecting the adventure in any way. Anyway, said wizard sent a bunch of adventurers to collect Shimmerweed seeds for his research. They got them, but were eaten by ogres on the way home, spreading the seeds over a wide area. Now a Wyndlass uses their hypnotic powers as bait and eats people entranced by them. A simple synergistic creature combo encounter they could easily have fit in half a page, but padded out to three with backstory the players will probably never find out about. It does get points for using two less common creatures from a specific setting, but this is both bloated and sloppy despite it's smallness. Another case of 2e writers putting storytelling over mechanics. Which I suppose was always particularly common with Dragonlance, so it's in theme, but still annoying for anyone else trying to game in that world and maintain consistency. [/QUOTE]

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