How do you introduce your gamers to the world of Dragonlance? Preludes, that’s how. Here’s a take a look at what lies in retailer.

One of the large promoting factors of Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen is its world, Krynn. Krynn is a much-beloved setting with roots going all the way in which again to the halcyon days at TSR. Back when Weiss and Hickman had simply began work on their marketing campaign that might grow to be a sequence of novels and past.

But how does one introduce the various, many tales of Krynn and her individuals to gamers who’ve barely even performed D&D? Well on this journey, the work is finished by brief prelude adventures. They’re meant to get your get together on top of things. They might help set up character and extra. And all of it begins with the funeral of a buddy.

Dragonlance Preludes – An Intro To Krynn

This epic conflict story begins with an invite to a buddy’s funeral and three optionally available prelude encounters that information you into the world of Krynn. Amy Dallen is joined by Eugenio Vargas to share some particulars about how these opening preludes work and a few recommendation on utilizing them in your personal D&D video games.

In a brand new article all about the best way to run a session zero in Krynn, D&D Beyond took a better take a look at the intro to Shadow of the Dragon Queen. It all begins with an invite to a buddy’s funeral.

This first step is an enormous occasion that pulls the characters into the world, however not into the plot. Lots of what we’re seeing up to now has to cope with the pacing of the occasions. There’s a sluggish ramp to conflict. And the funeral invitation offers you an excellent occasion that brings everybody collectively, however alongside the way in which you may run into these optionally available encounters that introduce the mysteries of Krynn.

These optionally available preludes are an energetic approach to set up particular person characters, whereas studying just a little concerning the setting.

There are three Dragonlance preludes all in all:

• Eye within the Sky — a prelude excellent for sorcerers, warlocks, wizards, or others searching for to grow to be members of the Mages of High Sorcery.
• Broken Silence — this facilities round clerics, druids, paladins, and different characters with god-given powers.
• Scales of War — for each different type of character, Scales of War reveals the mysterious draconians.

Each one touches on an vital component of the setting. The Mages of High Sorcery lay out the groundwork for Krynn’s distinctive construction of arcanists. They collect in towers related to sure colours of robes: white, crimson, or black.

Meanwhile extra divine-oriented characters will get launched to the silence of the gods on Krynn. Krynn’s individuals imagine the gods have turned their backs on them. Some say it’s the individuals of Krynn who’ve turned their backs on the gods.

Finally, Draconians are a daring new pressure out there to the Dragon Armies. And these new opponents will play a serious position in occasions to come back.

Happy Adventuring

Bell of Lost Souls Staff Writer and DM, J.R. covers RPGs of all stripes and every so often eats sandwiches. You can ask him about both at [email protected]

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