Dragonlance What do you want from a Dragonlance 5e?

[Sadras]

So, it was essentially a high-level (high power?) setting, with high-power foes, but actively avoided high-level PC? Instead boosting them with allies & magic items?

Well, that certainly supports Zard's assertion of D&D not being intended for high level, back then.

There's not really a default 5e expectation, is there.

My poor memory recalls that the setting book said that once you reached 14t-16th level you were on the radar of the gods and you were to be whisked away from the mortal realm. Raistlin hid in the Abyss and thus was able to exceed the cap.

EDIT: I just checked it was 18th level.

Old school dragonlance prevented anyone from being higher than 18th level. With that level range it more or less fits within the level ranges of most adventure paths for 5e anyway.

18th level PC in 1e/2e does not equal 18th level PC in 5e

 

[doctorbadwolf]

Again, yes and no. The Chronicles heroes slaughter their way through a LOT of baddies. Those are draconians they are fighting in hordes and draconians are quite a lot bigger than an orc. None of the modules DL1 - 14 were lower tier. Even in the Chronicles, the heroes were nowhere near "Fledgeling Adventurers" as @MostlyHarmless42 calls them. They had been adventuring for years together, then spent five years separately adventuring before the first book even starts.

DL in Chronicles and in the modules is solidly tier 2 to tier 4. DL doesn't do tier 5, as was noted, the levels were capped at 18. But, nowhere in the modules or the novels was anyone a "fledgeling adventurer". They were highly experienced adventurers with reputations and whatnot, right from the get go.

One thing that does set DL apart from other settings is that it truly was the first "campaign in a box". The modules came long before the setting was fleshed out. And, really, the setting was there to service the modules. The notion that you would start out a DL campaign the same way as you would a Greyhawk or FR campaign wasn't really there. You played a DL campaign to play Dragonlance which, for a long time, meant the War of the Lance. Greyhawk and especially Forgotten Realms, presented the setting first and then plunked down adventures within that setting.

In my mind, DL is the campaign first and setting second approach.

That doesn’t set DL apart. It sets the meta history of the DL product line apart, but the actual world is wholly unrelated to how it was first published.

And you seem to have interpreted “low to mid level” as “low level”, somehow. I’m not another poster, I’m just me. Please keep your replies to me constrained to things that I said.

 

[Azzy]

DL in Chronicles and in the modules is solidly tier 2 to tier 4. DL doesn't do tier 5, as was noted, the levels were capped at 18. But, nowhere in the modules or the novels was anyone a "fledgeling adventurer". They were highly experienced adventurers with reputations and whatnot, right from the get go.

IIRC, DL1 had the heroes at 3rd level. I could check, but I'm to lazy to dig my DL modules out of a banker's box.

 

[Undrave]

I'd prefer to keep tiamat & takhisis and paladine & bahamut as separate, unrelated gods. That's just my preference though, I prefer krynn as a more separate setting with its own single sphere gods than multiversal gods.

Why are so many around here so obsessed with making all the DnD settings connected by a Multiverse anyway??

 

[MonsterEnvy]

Why are so many around here so obsessed with making all the DnD settings connected by a Multiverse anyway??

Cause it's cool. Also Krynn was one of the first ones shown crossing over with Planescape.

Yeah I have to admit I did not keep up with DL after 2e. All the 3e changes came after my time so my knowledge of the setting is somewhat dated.

Iirc, they changed draconians so they would be able to procreate on their own. It’s not a change I found very compelling.

Then again it’s perfectly in keeping with later era dnd where everything is fair game as a pc race.

From checking. Draconians were not capable of procreating on their own, but this was because the Dragonarmies were purposefully only creating Male Draconians so they would die out when they were done with them.
In 3e found out they could be a true species when they found the female eggs and created some female draconians so they could finally procreate.

 

[Undrave]

Cause it's cool. Also Krynn was one of the first ones shown crossing over with Planescape.

Sure, and Planescape sounds like a hoot, but you don't need to 'Planescape-proof' your settings in advance by bending them out of shape and adding superfluous fluff to your books. Keep that stuff for the actual Planescape books.

 

[Warren Ellis]

Sure, and Planescape sounds like a hoot, but you don't need to 'Planescape-proof' your settings in advance by bending them out of shape and adding superfluous fluff to your books. Keep that stuff for the actual Planescape books.

But wasn't Krynn already being crossovered in Spelljammer & Ed Greenwood's "The Wizards Three" and such?

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Krynn has major ties to Spelljammer, with Krynn gnomes one of the main spellljamming races.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

IIRC, DL1 had the heroes at 3rd level. I could check, but I'm to lazy to dig my DL modules out of a banker's box.

Raistlin was third level but the rest of the party where higher.

 

[Delazar]

Time of the Twins adventure book, with some info on how to adapt existing crunch to DL setting.
What's the "thing" of DL? Time Travel!