Shout out to Larry Elmore who did most of the fantasy art of this period. I loved his style and he really brought the characters to life in my imagination.
@nephilimshammer95672 жыл бұрын
hes a beast and beasel and frazettas
@annalorree2 жыл бұрын
Larry Elmore and Jeff Easley WERE the face of AD&D 1st Edition. They were both amazing artists, whose works I can recognise as readily as a Picasso or a Van Gogh.
@zusk8556 Жыл бұрын
Agreed, the first official dragonlance art book is worth tracking down to get, full of really cool stuff. Very high quality
@jonafaria11 ай бұрын
For real~🔥
@tyree90554 ай бұрын
I agree. Their artwork made the characters believable and the monsters, too. They were mostly realistic-looking, unlike this modern anime-influenced crap. 🤷
@brunneng385 жыл бұрын
Dragonlance Chronicles was my “Lord of the Rings” growing up in the 80s
@MikeKilo19695 жыл бұрын
Jay Smith Same here.
@arronjerden9155 жыл бұрын
same
@LordSathar5 жыл бұрын
Was David Eddings for me, never read these books till i was in college.
@WandersNowherre5 жыл бұрын
Mine too
@walteringle22585 жыл бұрын
@@LordSathar Eddings is WHY DragonLance exists, btw. :P
@rappscallion32383 жыл бұрын
Love the original six Dragonlance books (Chronicles and Times...) and reread them every now and then. They'd make a great television series.
@razorthecurse5 жыл бұрын
Not gonna lie, I swore this channel had a lot more views due to the quality it has, and how amazing the production is. I'm gonna try spreading this as much as I can to some pages and AD&D podcasts that I'm sure would appreciate this content. I hope you all post more stuff soon. "Walkthroughs" of all these modules was something I was going to plan on doing, but if you're already doing a stellar job, there probably is no point. I just hope you all keep it up!
@jakejerome90623 жыл бұрын
i guess im asking the wrong place but does anyone know a trick to log back into an instagram account?? I was stupid forgot the login password. I would appreciate any help you can offer me
@nickolaskamryn9423 жыл бұрын
@Jake Jerome Instablaster :)
@jakejerome90623 жыл бұрын
@Nickolas Kamryn Thanks for your reply. I found the site through google and I'm waiting for the hacking stuff now. Takes quite some time so I will get back to you later when my account password hopefully is recovered.
@jakejerome90623 жыл бұрын
@Nickolas Kamryn It did the trick and I finally got access to my account again. I'm so happy! Thank you so much, you really help me out :D
@nickolaskamryn9423 жыл бұрын
@Jake Jerome glad I could help :D
@kmwill235 жыл бұрын
I still read Chronicles + Legends every couple years
@rogaineablar56084 жыл бұрын
Get the Annotated Chronicles if you don't have it already. It has notes from the authors and original game-players throughout the text and has all of the Chronicles in one volume.
@Skabanis4 жыл бұрын
Rogain Ablar I have that 20 years ago
@fernandoorozco37513 жыл бұрын
The dragon flew out of the well? That's either a really big well, or a really small dragon.
@confusedhuman51513 жыл бұрын
3:30 I believe in the Annoted Chronicles, Tracy writes that they wanted Tiamat as a villain, but due mainly in part to the D&D cartoon whete Tiamat served as the main, largely unthreatening villain, and they didnt want their worldshaking goddess to be associated with the version in the cartoon that kinda bumbled around every few episodes. So they used Takhesis instead. Similar enough to what they orginally wanted, but with the name change to keep their villain intimidating.
@chesthoIe5 жыл бұрын
Man, this makes me want to put on Kansas and stay up all night with my friends drinking Mountain Dew.
@michaelcolen25234 жыл бұрын
You hit it
@Seoulwanderer5 жыл бұрын
Thanks for this video! I just ran this adventure with my 5e group. I ignored a lot of the Dragonlance specific stuff I didn't like (changed kender back to halflings, got rid of the draconians in favor of human soldiers, for example) and let my players roll up their own characters instead of using the pre-generated characters. It went fairly well. One thing I do like about this adventure is that there are four different ways to get from the upper levels of Xak Tsaroth to the bottom, allowing some flexibility and sandbox style play. The players can: 1) Find a way to take over the "elevator", probably resulting in some heavy combat. 2) Take the sewer down one level, then climb down the vines to the lower level. 3) Take the sewer down one level, then use the dimension door in the old tax office to get to the lower level. 4) Take the sewer down one level, then take the "water slide" all the way down. I also liked how it was up to the players to find their way to the dragon's treasure. My group ended up befriending the goblins (I used to replace the gully dwarves) and using the secret passage. I retooled the adventure for a 1st level group as well, so the final boss was a pair of black dragon wyrmlings. It was still a pretty epic fight.
@kidoliva2 жыл бұрын
You got rid of draconians? Yeah... it isn't Dragonlance anymore.
@russelladams91475 жыл бұрын
The fact there is no big budget Dragonlance movie is a crying shame.
@guanoguy48005 жыл бұрын
Yes. Totally shocked that HBO doesn’t grab this to replace GOT.
@tNag5565 жыл бұрын
Sometimes I also wish they made a live action series or movie, but then I remember they could butcher and destroy it. Anyway, it probably isn't going to look like I imagined so... I will just pick Chronicles and read it again :)
@MrSkills1235 жыл бұрын
It will get there, CGI getting better and cheaper every year
@competetodefeat46105 жыл бұрын
It's not for lack of trying. When there was a hard push for it the studios kept saying fantasy wouldn't sell. Interestingly enough, though, just a short time later boom Lord of the Rings.
@jakemiller38505 жыл бұрын
i know right. would love to see these done as a trilogy
@mossthemage99484 жыл бұрын
As someone who only got into Dragonlance in the past couple of years, it makes me really happy to see that people are still talking about it, even though it is an older franchise.
@caramonmajere4475 жыл бұрын
Everyone always loves Raistlin. Raistlin, Raistlin, Raistlin...but what about ME?
@evolution0316805 жыл бұрын
Hey, I thought Raistlin was the jealous one.😄
@caramonmajere4475 жыл бұрын
@@evolution031680 _sigh_ We all have our moments...😫😭.....🤪
@TheNomad27275 жыл бұрын
@@caramonmajere447 that should have been a cough, not a sigh
@BlackRobedMajere5 жыл бұрын
*Laughs in magical*
@Novasky20074 жыл бұрын
*Lord soth chuckles
@trenauldo5 жыл бұрын
First of all, pleased to give this its 1000th like. Second, thanks very much for putting this video together. The Dragonlance novels and other materials were a big part of my early teen years in the early 80s, and I still have many of the published novels and RPG modules. It really stoked my creative juices as a young person and holds a special place in my heart. In fact, after watching this, I think it's time to break out my copy of the Annotated Chronicles and revisit Krynn. It's been a while... thanks again! Ps: As to RPG video games, I started way back with Adventure on the Atari 2600. Good grief, I'm old... lol. Pps: Ravenloft was an awesome module back in the day. Always had great fun running groups through it.
@ZombieDish5 жыл бұрын
An old group I was in got a converted for 3.5 copy of this campaign. Instead of the fabled heroes from the books we just made characters our own characters taking the place of the heroes of the lance. It was pretty fun.
@thereluctanthireling6 жыл бұрын
Your videos are the best....I got my start in the hobby from the Dragonlance Chronicles novels as a kid in the late 80's.
@REALLYBROVIDEO5 жыл бұрын
Same here, Jason! It really immersed me at a young age and introduced me to my love for roleplaying games, TTRPGS, console RPGs, roleplaying in MMORPG, and medieval fantasy books, movies, or really anything to do with medieval fantasy. I have yet to find a table top group playing a campaign based in Krynn.
@jeremycope74594 жыл бұрын
You're never forgotten, Flint 😭
@MOcamping12124 ай бұрын
Came here 4 years later to say we all cried for Flint and that scene with Tass
@robinthrush96724 жыл бұрын
Sturm was my favorite character. Due to the second book mostly and not just the end.
@19Pyrus702 жыл бұрын
In 1 of the later Dragonlance novels, it is revealed that Kitiara secretly bore him a son, Steel Brightblade.
@robinthrush96722 жыл бұрын
@@19Pyrus70 Who also died in the 4th "Dragons of " book.
@Shadow87-5 жыл бұрын
I've been updating these modules to 5e . And I'm DMing them with my party. It's super fun
@chrisclark59595 жыл бұрын
Wow, this takes me back. I'll never forget my buddy Kevin in 9th grade introducing me to Dragonlance. I couldn't read the books fast enough!
@MrDrProfTheKolba3 жыл бұрын
This video basically made me read the first Dragonlance trilogy lmao.
@MrChupacabra5555 жыл бұрын
I remember reading this series of books back in high school, and really loving them. Although I had of course known about the "Lord of the Rings" books for even longer, I had never gotten around to reading t hem. When I finally did, I was almost embarassed at how similar the two stories were, and by the fact that I STILL liked Dragonlance better (maybe because I actually played the game back in the day ^_^)
@Novasky20074 жыл бұрын
Similar in events but extremely high fantasy in tone. Dragonlance is more enjoyable if less believable.
@TheHuiwen5 жыл бұрын
I still have the dragonlance chronicles! greatest fantasy book ever.
@danacoleman40074 жыл бұрын
@Mm Mm it sure would have been great to always be eight
@ryans30015 жыл бұрын
"Gully Dwarves are similar to 90's website developers..." I lost it
@johnjohn-bh4cu4 жыл бұрын
Currently I have over 120 of the novels, read every one of them and love them all
@garryr5 жыл бұрын
The most fun I had playing D&D was the dragonlance series. I was Tasslehoff.
@AntonAdelson Жыл бұрын
The rest of the party: that was the least fun we ever had in D&D 😂
@christianclarke12006 жыл бұрын
you deserve more views I love your videos I hope people discover you and you grow as a channel i will stay with your channel for along tim
@XX-sp3tt5 жыл бұрын
22:45 The fact the gully dwarves are basically treated like garbage is a running theme in the books. The lore mentions that before the King Priest began demonizing demihumans, gully dwarves were considered an EXAMPLE TO EMULATE with their unbreakable faith in their own 'holy objects' that DIDN'T do miracles on command like a remote control.
@garysmith30374 жыл бұрын
I understand the "Railroad" concept, and can honestly say that I thought it was the point of the Drangonlance modules. They were meant as more of a basic introduction to D&D gaming, with preset characters and story to get 1st time players introduced in an easier manner. Also to help a newer DM host a game. You could then expand into a more open world version later on, or go into the regular D&D worlds.
@valmarsiglia5 жыл бұрын
I often wake up with a mysterious staff. Magical too: it always disappears.
@theapexsurvivor95385 жыл бұрын
@Bernie Demuth she likes to pretend she's a princess, but she's probably just a farmhand.
@eisenkrone61165 жыл бұрын
@Bernie Demuth Princess described it as being more of a wand than a staff ; )
@eisenkrone61165 жыл бұрын
@Bernie Demuth Princess: "Put that thing away, you know you don't have proficiency"
@666lupine6665 жыл бұрын
Goldmoon has been known to cause that
@robinthrush96724 жыл бұрын
It has a short cast time, but only a single charge.
@sortedevaras5 жыл бұрын
DOS Dragon Lance games will always be my jam.
@narcissus794 жыл бұрын
My very first intro to SSI games was actually the Buck Rogers 25th Century games. They were my jam!
@SpaghettiWst5 жыл бұрын
You should consider reviewing the whole classic DL adventure. Great job!
@lonnyvolat29795 жыл бұрын
I just found the channel, and I loved the video. I remember the Dragonlance novels and modules from when they first were published and I really enjoyed them... even Tasselhoff. Even him... I read the Chronicles series, the follow-up series,with the Majere brothers, and several of the legends books as well. My favorites, as I recall, centered around Huma, and also Kaz the minotaur. Good stuff. Thank you for bringing back such wonderful memories.
@alkirk18655 жыл бұрын
how can you enjoy tasslehoff? Then again my favorite c was Raistlin.
@cheshirecat65194 жыл бұрын
I wish we had a LoTR quality-like franchise for Dragonlance. The trilogy of the Twins is my favorite story.
@ClericOfPholtus2 жыл бұрын
So fucking good
@rationalthought2 жыл бұрын
I had the pleasure to play at Tracy Hickman's table at GenCon back in the late 80's. Incredible DM... his modules are awesome, but his style adds far more than be conveyed in just paper and ink.
@hothempire5 жыл бұрын
Very well done. Great breakdown of a series that got me hooked into fantasy and D&D!
@exodous025 жыл бұрын
Loved these books as a kid. I was in Jr high when I first read them
@lanepianta36245 жыл бұрын
Just found out about your channel. Please continue the series on Dragonlance. As someone who read the Chronicles trilogy more than once but never got to play the campaign, I've always wanted to understand how they're similar/how they're different from one another. If you don't mind, please take the time to tell us a little more about where you learned tibdits such as that modules one and two were written before the novel. To me, the disconnected episodic quality of D&D has always been one of my least favorite aspects of the game. DL shows us how all those rules and all that dice-rolling can knit together into a larger, cohesive, complex fantasy world. For my money, Krynn was probably the most detailed fantasy world since Middle-Earth. Since Dune, if one wishes to include sci-fi worlds in the survey. Kudos and more please!!
@davecam48635 жыл бұрын
Raistlin was the OG edgy character.
@barrypettry94375 жыл бұрын
Don't forget taz also
@paulthetyyppi5 жыл бұрын
Umm Solomon Kane was published in 30s
@civ-fanboy21374 жыл бұрын
What about Elricof Melniboné?
@robinthrush96724 жыл бұрын
Heathcliff of Whuthering Heights was the edgelord of his day.
@brianl84814 жыл бұрын
While Toade is the very definition of failing upwards.
@OddNumber15245 жыл бұрын
I got some Dragonlance novels From an older cousin... I loved these but never realized that they were based on D&D until I got in contact with it years later.
@xPumaFangx5 жыл бұрын
I loved Dragon Lance. It was the white red and black robed idea of the mages. Who where really clerics for the three gods of magic.
@slayer02355 жыл бұрын
Ah, Dragonlance. My first foray into D&D novels. I have very...mixed feelings about your worldbuilding, but I still love you.
@poonhound93776 жыл бұрын
Keep it up with the great videos and your channel will be huge.
@hulfe25144 жыл бұрын
I am fist now reading the books, and I am in love, it's absolutely amazing!
@ladykheperaankh9992 жыл бұрын
Raistlin Majere in the Red Robes is my Absolute favorite Dragonlance character and is a Total badass Mage!! Love Dragonlance, listen to the Raistlin Chronicles audiobook on KZbin every night⌛🎲⏳💯
@ClericOfPholtus2 жыл бұрын
Raistlin is the OG for sure
@Areala215 жыл бұрын
These are phenomenal! I love this series, and hope it picks back up again in 2019! :)
@XX-sp3tt5 жыл бұрын
13::48 Actually, the books go into a lot of depth on where the heck the staff came from, and Goldmoon being taught to step away from her old traditions of ancestor worship, and embrace the actual deities of Krynn. In particular when her own ancestors appears before her and tells that "mortals can't turn other mortals into gods." I understand you're going at this from the game design POV, as you should. But I only ever read the novels, which I liked as a whole.
@Kilroy_51505 жыл бұрын
I was a great fan of a spin-off series called "The Death Gate Cycle" which brought Fizban into it as "Zifnab".
@JoelChenFa5 жыл бұрын
was it a spin off though?
@Novasky20074 жыл бұрын
I liked the Lord Soth ravenloft crossover
@matsujonen4 жыл бұрын
I love the death gate cycle
@valkeakirahvi4 жыл бұрын
Imo Death Gate is the best series they have written! Zifnab is probably the only spin-off thing in it lol.
@datasdukatcoat64292 жыл бұрын
The Death Gate Cycle is my favorite series. I re-read them bi-annually.
@elennapointer7015 жыл бұрын
I remember playing this set of modules in high school. In truth, I was pretty lousy at it (we rolled randomly to see which characters we'd get and I, being the unlucky 6"1' guy that I was, got lumbered with Goldmoon for my character. At the time it was a source of mild resentment, largely because I felt I had nothing to bring to the character, having specialised in the past as thief-type characters with shady moral compasses. Specifically, I resented being reduced to playing a glorified walking first-aid kit with a line in lousy songs, so it soured the experience for me. On the other hand, I bought into the literature and artwork wholesale. I still remember being stunned by the luscious beauty of the artwork, particularly when contrasting it with the borderline incompetence of the hand illustrations of the AD&D monster books. I think it was the artwork that drew me in and kept me buying the books and playing the games. Certainly, even now, getting on for forty years later, I still look at Goldmoon whenever she shows up anywhere and a subliminal voice screams "Why me?!" Also, 'Verminaard' is a rocking name for a villain.
@C0wb0yBebop2 жыл бұрын
Love your stuff bro ! Your work is well researched and the video flows nicely with its entertaining quality. I know you’ll have a massive following 👏 One thing my tho, the Dragon Queen Takhisis. Her names pronounced “Ta - Kie- Sus”
@ClericOfPholtus2 жыл бұрын
And truly she is hella sus
@floydwillager88215 жыл бұрын
I read chronicles sometime between 90-92 on Xmas break in 3 days balled my eyes out when the ole gruff Flint Fireforge passed
@TheNaznine3 жыл бұрын
Dragonlance was a sextet Chronicles & Legends that wizards dropped the ball on after TSR sold everything to them.
@julio_scissors5 жыл бұрын
This channel is amazing! So glad I found it.
@RW777777775 жыл бұрын
I've ran DL campaign 3 times party always TPKs in DL8 in the High Clerist Tower sorties
@AxiomofDiscord5 жыл бұрын
My homebrew world has a town called Solace as well. It started with no name but was given the name of the cities local folk hero. Well his diabolic name. He was a Half devil named Milo from his human mother and Solace from his devil father. He preferred his human name but gave the city his other name. The town has been burnt to the ground and Milo a little later was killed but maybe someday the town will be recovered and rebuilt.
@stephenmacleod61735 жыл бұрын
Loved these books and slowly rereading them
@RicoLen15 жыл бұрын
I have these modules, well, a lot of them. I have DL1-3, I'm missing 4, I have DL5-8, but am missing 9-11, and then I have DL12-16. I have the character sheets for the companions minus Kitiara, and I also have Tika, Laurana, Gilthanas, and Derek Crownguard, who was a very minor character in the books. I have a full map of Krynn in this same hexagonal format you're showing in your video. I used to play as a teenager in the 90s. My much older brothers (they're 15-18 years older than I) used to play with their friends all the time when I was little, presumably right after the modules were first released, and all these years later I still have many old AD&D modules and books from the first and second generation rules from not just Dragonlance but Forgotten Realms and Greyhawk, written by people like Gary Gygax and Tracy Hickman. To me, as a video gamer even now starting my 4th decade of life, I am amazed no one has ever taken these modules, especially the dragonlance modules, whose books were my favorites in middle school, and turned them into a video game. These modules in particular would make AWESOME story mods for Skyrim. Everything Skyrim's toolkit offers just lends itself to plopping in AD&D campaigns to make new mods.
@craven995 жыл бұрын
Very glad o found you channel. Dragonlance was my first major foray in to fantasy.
@ceno101012 жыл бұрын
Woah, I forgot about the Kender. I remember making one because I purchased a figure I wanted to paint back in the 90s.
@ClericOfPholtus2 жыл бұрын
Kender are so much more fun than Halflings
@Licherous5 жыл бұрын
I haven't played d&d in at least 5 years, but I saw this video and remembered that these dragon lance books were a big part of my teenage reading.
@MossyLeaf6875 жыл бұрын
Really like your stuff I recently got into forgotten realms novels and your vid was super informative.
@ArtJeremiah5 жыл бұрын
I loved dragonlance when I was a kid
@greggeek7204 Жыл бұрын
I have not played the modules but enjoyed the books. They are examples of not just good fantasy but good writing. They are paced well and not bogged down with too much description which allows the reader to use their imagination.
@cowpuddles48514 жыл бұрын
Thanks for uploading this outstanding video. I hope someday to see Dragonlance figures.
@ClericOfPholtus2 жыл бұрын
Its kind of interesting for me to realize that despite being a 'Barbarian' Riverwind is much more of a Ranger He's an expert tracker, capable with both ranged and melee weaponry, can move stealthily and has honed his senses to fight without sight (analogous to darkvision, though 5e would call it blindsight). He never goes into rages (like the Berserker does in Record of Lodoss War) nor does he show supernatural resistance to damage; outside of the miraculous moment when he's wholly flayed by Khisanth's breath weapon but still technically alive (dying very quickly) only to be healed by Goldmoon's new true Clerical powers.
@brclb9010 ай бұрын
Feels like I just read the books again. Thx mate.
@marktaylor46745 жыл бұрын
I loved this series, I still have loads of the adventure modules, games, miniatures and books.
@Mech42 жыл бұрын
The parts of this module involving Gully Dwarves reminds me of the Dragonlance book "Flint the King". It's been ages since I've read that book so any connection it has to the main plot involving these characters is lost on me.
@LostToPixels5 жыл бұрын
I had a whole shelf of Dragonlance books as teenager :)
@stevenburkhardt19633 жыл бұрын
I was an AD&D player/DM during the very early 80's when I was in hs. I loved these books when they came out but I never played any dungeon scenarios based on the books. To be fair we had an array of miniatures before Dragon Lance and many dungeon modules from TSR. Shame I got rid of all my modules, books, dice, etc a long time ago
@FOGSmokebeer5 жыл бұрын
Not long ago I found the audio books great flashback listening to them after all this time
@spillerspillogpraterpiss17405 жыл бұрын
I have just started thanks for giving me some context in the start of the vid but got a little spoilery there. I will come back after i have read trough dragons of autoum twilight which is my first book in the dragonlance series U deserve so many more subs
@fathervideo4544 жыл бұрын
I never could make it through the LotR, but DragonLance I couldn’t stop reading. I’ve reread the original 3 books many times. We also played the D&D modules. I remember playing Gilthanos and everyone thinking I was a traitor.
@Flexapr2 жыл бұрын
I played Raistlin from DL1 until he disappeared once DL5 started. I was like 14yo in 1985 and will never forget how upset we players were once Sturm Brightblade and my Raistlin disappeared on us. 😞
@seansampson19275 ай бұрын
I loved these novels. Started out reading the Dragonlance series and shorts, but eventually ended up with Ravenloft and Forgotten Realms.
@robertwilliams25203 жыл бұрын
I still love The Dragonlance Chronicles. As a matter of fact, I haven't read them in a while.
@Dave_the_Dave2 жыл бұрын
I got into Dragonlance because I picked up a used copy of The Legend of Huma because of the awesome cover art, which is the same as the Heroes of the Lance cover. Definitely had a few years of lots of Dragonlance novels.
@polkadotalien15 жыл бұрын
I wish the death gate cycle was made into a campagin settings
@matthaeusprime63433 жыл бұрын
I really want to run this adventure now. Thank you for the video!
@Novasky20074 жыл бұрын
I ran a decade spanning Epic dragonlance D&D quest... I hope my old players remember it fondly. It went well beyond the books one of the charecters a chaotic evil elven sorcerer became raistlins apprentice and went on to rival the gods like the men of old and brought down a second cataclysm driven by his greed for more power.
@AntonAdelson Жыл бұрын
Whoa!
@safrone4 жыл бұрын
Great video. I love the visuals and research.
@tcironbear215 жыл бұрын
I LOVED the Dragonlance books as a kid. But something I realized as started playing D&D is that the setting of Dragonlance is not a very good setting to play in. A apocalyptic medieval world is great for epic stories, not so much for adventuring. The problem is that a standard D&D world requires a robust trading economy for a lot of non epic stories to make sense and to explain away much of the bookkeeping. Like for example. If you burn down part of your PCs home town as part of your adventure you can say that the King, or helpful church come in help rebuild things in a typical D&D world. Or if you want to be fancy, you could say the survivors take a loan from that shady Zhentil Keep to rebuild. There are people with resources that you can tap to explain why the NPCs and resources the PCs need, return. In Dragonlance, there is no one coming to rescue the town. While it could be fun for the PCs to figure out how to do it themselves, city management is a fringe activity in D&D. I think that is why Forgotten Realms ultimately surpassed Dragonlance. Trade an major part of Forgotten Realms. You rarely find some Forgotten Realms flavor text about a major settlement or territory that does not cover what it produces for trade and why it is or is not wealthy. That makes it a LOT easier to write low level and mid-level quests.
@alkirk18655 жыл бұрын
Though I partially agree with you about most of your salient points here, I do remember for a fact atleast in 2nd Edition that City management became a whole lot more centralized in Roleplaying once your characters evolved beyond 20th Level.(My Group actually owned the handbook for playing High to Epic level Characters.) For example it was basically well known to those that played beyond 20th level, that by 30th level you were Expected to have your c or party become lord(Lords) of a realm.Meaning that you were expected at that point to have atleast begun the procecess of building your own Stronghold and fielding your own army. By the time My group finnished our last campaign we had buit up our own tiny Kingdoms and permanently forged an alliance between our kingdoms. Come to think about it ,sad as it might seem, those years spent with the friends I made out of that company of players, were some of if not the best years of my life.
@bowlock99015 жыл бұрын
@@alkirk1865 I've been readin through these comments and thinking exactly the same. Those early day's spent in school classrooms during dinner and afterschool were something i will treasure forever. TMNT, AD&D, Rolemaster and Marvel Superheroes were all played. When i got into my 20's my new circle of friends wasn't into it and more interested in parties and getting high. Wasn't until Baldur's gate on PC that i got back into it around the millenium. It can never replace the social aspect of tabletop gaming though.
@abear71992 жыл бұрын
I read the Dragonlance novels when they first came out and many times over since.
@vectorshaman3383 жыл бұрын
Read it as a teenager in the 90's. Still have all my books. Just bid on all 16 modules 30 min ago. Next time my players wander through a portal I'm dropping them in Krynn. Cleric will be pissed for a bit but think it will be crazy to DM a world where I already know all of it.
@lexzbuddy4 жыл бұрын
I did the dragonlance thing when it came out. I DMed them but it was the guys I played with that wanted to play it. So, I just went along with it. The books were good for teens. The modules were ok but a bit difficult to keep on track with the narrative. The one with all the survivors was a massive pain to run. I hated it most of the way through. The folks I played with loved it. As the DM, it was chaos for me. Herding cats comes to mind.
@Gladedancer2 жыл бұрын
This was the first module that I ran as a young DM. Elmore's art really drew me in to the world of Krynn. Up until then it was just my friends, and I coming up with our own stuff just playing from the BX box set rules. The Dragonlance novels were magical to me, and these really propelled me into begging for money from my Mom to purchase the AD&D hardcover books. This was all in the midst of the Satanic Panic in the Deep South, which thankfully us kids avoided since we were just apartment dwelling pagans lol
@monabailey30932 жыл бұрын
Dragon Lance is one of my favorite world settings for D&D.
@TheSeaoftrouble2 жыл бұрын
I enjoy how people know how things used to be with such certainty. Every type of player that exists today was represented from the beginning.
@rolfskytte5 жыл бұрын
FASCINATING worlds from minds of old!
@TheGwydion7775 жыл бұрын
Apart from owning the Dragonlance Trilogy I used the main characters in BG, BG2 and Icewind sequals. ;)
@narcissus794 жыл бұрын
would love to see someone use the BG engine to create a new Dragonlance game
@FleetfootMike5 жыл бұрын
Ok. Who *actually* played Goldmoon's song in DL1 for their party? (We did, but I was DMing and my then-girlfriend (and still wife) was playing Goldmoon and was singer in our band :D)
@Seoulwanderer5 жыл бұрын
@18:30 ish. Verminaard leaves the message, "Don't take prisoners. Kill, or be killed." And yet, the PCs are supposed to surrender to being captured in the next module as the plot hook. Uh, if I saw that the bad guy was executing his own soldiers for showing mercy, I would NOT be surrendering to them anytime soon. Unfortunately, Dragonlance was all over the place with its ideas. This is just one example.
@krispalermo81335 жыл бұрын
yeah there are problems with a lot of stuff in the story line. Work around it. I play the game in my early 20's with AD&D rules, with Our own made characters. The comic relief is better that way, if you already know the plot. So it is meta gaming. When you go into a gaming shop with 30 and 40 year old players who "know" Dragon Lance cause they played all the games and read/ have all the novel. It is the look on their faces ! 1.) play an AD&D2nde " complete humanoid hand book" or setting Ogre with Int:6 , dumb as can be brute in half plate slap together armor. Standing 9ft. raise by humans and his two human brother are with him. The ogre is afraid of dark low ceiling places, ogre afraid of caves. All three of them. " I don't wa'ta cawl on my knees in dark place !" And a few of the party's gnomes took mount combat archery for ogres. The group been looking for a fourth ogre to play chess with. 2.) The Two Brothers and Red Wrymlings Five : Dragon Lance dragons are all shape shifters. "House Rule: even the children under the age of five years are. Wild hatchling that see humanoid will turn into child like size mimic the adults race. Take home a nude 4 year old child to find it's parents only to find it turn into a seven foot monster. a.) The Two Brothers: One is a full high elf, his grand nephew who is third elf. But they look like brothers. Full elf is Mage3rd/ Bard4th and his grand nephew Bard6th. The both of them have to run from most towns because they sleep with too many men's wives. Then they found five wild dragon hatchlings. Who they barely lived through meting them. And they decided to raise a happy family. b.) The Five Red Wrymlings : age 7 human i.) Sassy : female, always skipping with snappy one liners. ii.) Fiddle : female, she smells like a skunk most of the time. " Get your nose out of there, put that down, please don't touch that !" Call her "stinky" and you have an instant wrestle match on your hands. iii.) Hunter : male, just Have to stalking bugs in tall grass. iv.) Hopper : male, " When you are going around like a human, try walking like a human." v.) Flirt/ little Charming : male, The sweet talker. If you don't keep an eye on them, they will mug someone and give them a good kicking. As human children that is. They travel with the two elves because they think it is a fun game Elves to dragon children: Where are al of your clothes again ? You just can't go around nude ! Dragons to elves: Why ? You guys are usually chase out of a give house nude with the woman husband trying to kill you for sleeping with his wife ! Have fun with these 7 NPC. Have a good weekend.
@wulfbak3 жыл бұрын
To make D1 really work, have a group of players who are REALLY into Dragonlance. Have them run the pregenerated characters (ones from the book). Make sure they don't mind being relentlessly railroaded. It's a module on rails.
@dicariel5 жыл бұрын
Thanks for these informative videos!
@jessejames50814 жыл бұрын
How do you not mention Blind Guardian ?! Lol "The Soulforged" is one of my favorite songs
@findantu4 жыл бұрын
Blind guardian soulforged Dungeon:legend of huma
@valkeakirahvi4 жыл бұрын
@@findantu The Nightwish song is Wishmaster
@kilroy9875 жыл бұрын
4:02 The dragon breathes. You're dead, you're dead and you're dead.
@scotts.93295 жыл бұрын
I loved this series. I read all the books, I even had the cook book!
@wyndwolf15 жыл бұрын
Otik's fried potatoes,yum!
@NoahFan1144 жыл бұрын
That Dragons of Flame NES game they showed at 14:01 looked a lot like LoZ 2.
@ketchupguns5 жыл бұрын
thoroughly enjoying your content, pal.
@canary111414 жыл бұрын
There is the Earth sea Trilogy by Ursula K Leguin which has magic users and dragons.
@chrisdeterman32474 жыл бұрын
one part looks like the old intellivision in the background. I can't tell you how much time I spent playing that