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Message: <blockquote data-quote="werecorpse" data-source="post: 7871971" data-attributes="member: 55491">I don’t know a heap about timelines other than the War of the Lance timeline which to me is what defined the setting so I would want a meta plot setting which is how I’ve always seen it so:1. A player accessible setting book describing the world, the various magic schools, the knighthoods and the no cleric situation & summarising the state of the war2. A different war of the lance adventure arc/module for players to play through happening at about the time the book events happen to NPCs but happening to PCs ie DL1 is how the Npc’s brought back deities but maybe the first part of the adventure arc module one PC must either be a cleric and be drawn to help restore other deities & religions in another part of the world, (if no one wants to be a cleric they can rescue one but why have the central hero of the story be an NPC?).My point in 2 is the war events don’t have to be the ones in the novels - those could be events happening elsewhere or to other people that the PCs hear about while they are doing equally fantastic stuff. Maybe while the heroes of the Lance are defeating the green dragon and freeing the elves the PCs are battling Lord Soths minions, recruiting a Minotaur army or allowing a town to evacuate before an army of draconians arrives or taking a leaf out of Red Hand of Doom (that was a very good War type adventure) maybe they steal the maguffin that the dragon army uses to keep Soth on side so he just retreats to his castle to wait out the war? Maybe a high level side quest to lead him to break the curse? I would have the part 2 series of adventures set over months and open each one with a set of rumours about the war in other parts of the world. Maybe the first one the rumours are that Xak Saroth (the site of DL1) has been found, a black dragon killed and someone is pretending to be a priestess of X (I can’t recall who is the first god who returns through DL1)Tyranny of Dragons wasn’t a dragonlance style AP because it wasn’t really about a huge War affecting everyone. It was more about discovering a secret plan by a nefarious cult. It was more like a James Bond or Austen Powers movie where he finds out that Spectre is planning to do X (where X is devastating event in this case summon Tiamat) and he tracks the evil agency (cult) trying to thwart them.Dragonlance is about dragons sure but imo it should mostly be about an evil non secretive empire seeking to conquer the world through War and conquest and the various battles to stop them - where the secret maguffin is often (but not only) discovering some long forgotten secret (other deities coming back to the world, a way to make a weapon to use against evil dragons*, an ancient alliance with good dragons).* oh and a Dragonlance needs to be something actually cool. Maybe the ultimate maguffin that the PCs have a chance to find I don’t know what but it can’t be a bait & switch it’s got to be something the PCs can use.</blockquote>

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