Things you didn't know about D&D...

[Zander]

I occasionally game with a fellow who collects original artwork used for D&D books covers, etc.. One of the pieces in his collection is Keith Parkinson's art for the cover of DL4

Cool.

In the picture, you can just make out Dr. Who, the Tardis, and K-9.

Where in the picture? Are they large and faint in the background or very small in the city? Can you say exactly where? I have that pic in a book (one of the D&D artbooks) and would like to see if I can make out the Dr Who references even if I have to use a magnifying glass.

 

[Alzrius]

This may be too recent to be trivia, but in the original Dragonlance (and the 2E version, IIRC) characters could only advance up to 18th level, after that they were retirned (again IIRC, they were retired by the deities removing them from Krynn, since they'd become too powerful).

Another bit of DL info: a lot of people in 1E complained that they didn't like how the gods (from the 1E D&Dg) had hit points, to which TSR always responded that those stats were for the avatars, not the gods themselves. But in th Dragonlance Adventures book, the stats given really were for the deities themselves! Paladin had about a thousand hit points or so, just about a hundred more than Takhisis.

In the World of Krynn supplement, there was an adventure where you had to enter Dargaard Keep and confront Lord Soth. One of the monsters you could encounter in the Keep was the Tarrasque!