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.

@nephilimshammer9567

2 жыл бұрын

hes a beast and beasel and frazettas

@annalorree

2 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

10 ай бұрын

Agreed, the first official dragonlance art book is worth tracking down to get, full of really cool stuff. Very high quality

@jonafaria

7 ай бұрын

For real~🔥

@tyree9055

11 күн бұрын

I agree. Their artwork made the characters believable and the monsters, too. They were mostly realistic-looking, unlike this modern anime-influenced crap. 🤷

Dragonlance Chronicles was my “Lord of the Rings” growing up in the 80s

@MikeKilo1969

4 жыл бұрын

Jay Smith Same here.

@arronjerden915

4 жыл бұрын

same

@LordSathar

4 жыл бұрын

Was David Eddings for me, never read these books till i was in college.

@WandersNowherre

4 жыл бұрын

Mine too

@walteringle2258

4 жыл бұрын

@@LordSathar Eddings is WHY DragonLance exists, btw. :P

Man, this makes me want to put on Kansas and stay up all night with my friends drinking Mountain Dew.

@michaelcolen2523

4 жыл бұрын

You hit it

I still read Chronicles + Legends every couple years

@rogaineablar5608

4 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.

@Skabanis

4 жыл бұрын

Rogain Ablar I have that 20 years ago

Love the original six Dragonlance books (Chronicles and Times...) and reread them every now and then. They'd make a great television series.

The dragon flew out of the well? That's either a really big well, or a really small dragon.

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!

@jakejerome9062

2 жыл бұрын

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@nickolaskamryn942

2 жыл бұрын

@Jake Jerome Instablaster :)

@jakejerome9062

2 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.

@jakejerome9062

2 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

@nickolaskamryn942

2 жыл бұрын

@Jake Jerome glad I could help :D

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.

The fact there is no big budget Dragonlance movie is a crying shame.

@guanoguy4800

4 жыл бұрын

Yes. Totally shocked that HBO doesn’t grab this to replace GOT.

@tNag556

4 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 :)

@MrSkills123

4 жыл бұрын

It will get there, CGI getting better and cheaper every year

@competetodefeat4610

4 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.

@jakemiller3850

4 жыл бұрын

i know right. would love to see these done as a trilogy

You're never forgotten, Flint 😭

@MOcamping1212

25 күн бұрын

Came here 4 years later to say we all cried for Flint and that scene with Tass

Everyone always loves Raistlin. Raistlin, Raistlin, Raistlin...but what about ME?

@evolution031680

4 жыл бұрын

Hey, I thought Raistlin was the jealous one.😄

@caramonmajere447

4 жыл бұрын

@@evolution031680 _sigh_ We all have our moments...😫😭.....🤪

@TheNomad2727

4 жыл бұрын

@@caramonmajere447 that should have been a cough, not a sigh

@BlackRobedMajere

4 жыл бұрын

*Laughs in magical*

@Novasky2007

4 жыл бұрын

*Lord soth chuckles

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.

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.

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.

@kidoliva

2 жыл бұрын

You got rid of draconians? Yeah... it isn't Dragonlance anymore.

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.

This video basically made me read the first Dragonlance trilogy lmao.

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.

@REALLYBROVIDEO

5 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.

I often wake up with a mysterious staff. Magical too: it always disappears.

@theapexsurvivor9538

4 жыл бұрын

@Bernie Demuth she likes to pretend she's a princess, but she's probably just a farmhand.

@eisenkrone6116

4 жыл бұрын

@Bernie Demuth Princess described it as being more of a wand than a staff ; )

@eisenkrone6116

4 жыл бұрын

@Bernie Demuth Princess: "Put that thing away, you know you don't have proficiency"

@666lupine666

4 жыл бұрын

Goldmoon has been known to cause that

@robinthrush9672

4 жыл бұрын

It has a short cast time, but only a single charge.

I still have the dragonlance chronicles! greatest fantasy book ever.

@danacoleman4007

4 жыл бұрын

@Mm Mm it sure would have been great to always be eight

"Gully Dwarves are similar to 90's website developers..." I lost it

Sturm was my favorite character. Due to the second book mostly and not just the end.

@19Pyrus70

2 жыл бұрын

In 1 of the later Dragonlance novels, it is revealed that Kitiara secretly bore him a son, Steel Brightblade.

@robinthrush9672

2 жыл бұрын

@@19Pyrus70 Who also died in the 4th "Dragons of " book.

I've been updating these modules to 5e . And I'm DMing them with my party. It's super fun

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!

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

Currently I have over 120 of the novels, read every one of them and love them all

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 ^_^)

@Novasky2007

4 жыл бұрын

Similar in events but extremely high fantasy in tone. Dragonlance is more enjoyable if less believable.

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.

I wish we had a LoTR quality-like franchise for Dragonlance. The trilogy of the Twins is my favorite story.

@ClericOfPholtus

Жыл бұрын

So fucking good

Very well done. Great breakdown of a series that got me hooked into fantasy and D&D!

The most fun I had playing D&D was the dragonlance series. I was Tasslehoff.

@AntonAdelson

10 ай бұрын

The rest of the party: that was the least fun we ever had in D&D 😂

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.

@alkirk1865

4 жыл бұрын

how can you enjoy tasslehoff? Then again my favorite c was Raistlin.

This channel is amazing! So glad I found it.

Keep it up with the great videos and your channel will be huge.

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.

DOS Dragon Lance games will always be my jam.

@narcissus79

4 жыл бұрын

My very first intro to SSI games was actually the Buck Rogers 25th Century games. They were my jam!

Really like your stuff I recently got into forgotten realms novels and your vid was super informative.

These are phenomenal! I love this series, and hope it picks back up again in 2019! :)

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.

You should consider reviewing the whole classic DL adventure. Great job!

Very glad o found you channel. Dragonlance was my first major foray in to fantasy.

I am fist now reading the books, and I am in love, it's absolutely amazing!

Loved these books as a kid. I was in Jr high when I first read them

Great video. I love the visuals and research.

I really want to run this adventure now. Thank you for the video!

Raistlin was the OG edgy character.

@barrypettry9437

4 жыл бұрын

Don't forget taz also

@paulthetyyppi

4 жыл бұрын

Umm Solomon Kane was published in 30s

@civ-fanboy2137

4 жыл бұрын

What about Elricof Melniboné?

@robinthrush9672

4 жыл бұрын

Heathcliff of Whuthering Heights was the edgelord of his day.

@brianl8481

4 жыл бұрын

While Toade is the very definition of failing upwards.

I was a great fan of a spin-off series called "The Death Gate Cycle" which brought Fizban into it as "Zifnab".

@JoelChenFa

4 жыл бұрын

was it a spin off though?

@Novasky2007

4 жыл бұрын

I liked the Lord Soth ravenloft crossover

@matsujonen

4 жыл бұрын

I love the death gate cycle

@valkeakirahvi

3 жыл бұрын

Imo Death Gate is the best series they have written! Zifnab is probably the only spin-off thing in it lol.

@datasdukatcoat6429

2 жыл бұрын

The Death Gate Cycle is my favorite series. I re-read them bi-annually.

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.

Loved these books and slowly rereading them

Please keep making videoes these are incredibly good

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.

thoroughly enjoying your content, pal.

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.

Thanks for these informative videos!

Ah, Dragonlance. My first foray into D&D novels. I have very...mixed feelings about your worldbuilding, but I still love you.

I love Jeff Easley's Dragonlance work! He is still my favorite D&D artist to this day.

I still love The Dragonlance Chronicles. As a matter of fact, I haven't read them in a while.

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

Feels like I just read the books again. Thx mate.

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 KZread every night⌛🎲⏳💯

@ClericOfPholtus

Жыл бұрын

Raistlin is the OG for sure

I read chronicles sometime between 90-92 on Xmas break in 3 days balled my eyes out when the ole gruff Flint Fireforge passed

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.

I loved this series, I still have loads of the adventure modules, games, miniatures and books.

I loved dragonlance when I was a kid

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!!

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.

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”

@ClericOfPholtus

Жыл бұрын

And truly she is hella sus

Not long ago I found the audio books great flashback listening to them after all this time

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.

I've ran DL campaign 3 times party always TPKs in DL8 in the High Clerist Tower sorties

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.

I loved this series. I read all the books, I even had the cook book!

@wyndwolf1

4 жыл бұрын

Otik's fried potatoes,yum!

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.

Though Grub states they are separate entities, wizards has official announced in 4th and in 5th edition that takhisis and tiamat are indeed one in the same. Same “god” but goes under a different name when she manifests herself in the respective worlds.

I read the Dragonlance novels when they first came out and many times over since.

I wish the death gate cycle was made into a campagin settings

FASCINATING worlds from minds of old!

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.

Great video.

Dragon Lance is one of my favorite world settings for D&D.

I loved these novels. Started out reading the Dragonlance series and shorts, but eventually ended up with Ravenloft and Forgotten Realms.

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.

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

10 ай бұрын

Whoa!

Draqgonlance was a great book series. The Dragonlance setting had some really cool story/mechanic ideas like magic users being affects by the phases of the Moons. It also had some stupid mechanics like the ability of the Kender to 'check his pockets' for random 'accidentally' stole items. The adventures were the penultimate in Railroading, which TSR writers were the masters of. If Dragonlance was rereleased in a system not D&D it would probably be a fantastic setting. I was in Gernamy when the books came out and my friends and I all read them, but we didn't run the adventures because they were AD&D and the system really didn't express the books well.

12:57 lmfao that's a hell of a picture to choose

Woah, I forgot about the Kender. I remember making one because I purchased a figure I wanted to paint back in the 90s.

@ClericOfPholtus

Жыл бұрын

Kender are so much more fun than Halflings

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.

I'll be honest, I really didn't like actually playing the novels. I liked the setting and preferred to run a campaign during the War of the Lance that had the events of the Novels going on at the same time. The PC's would at times interact with the Heroes of the Lance, and gain equipment like Dragonlances and such as the timeline continued. At the end they took part in the last battles while the Heroes of the Lance resolved the War. At the End the PC's were respected heroes as well, maybe not quite as famous, but they felt they were a part of the story.

@frankg2790

4 жыл бұрын

The only novels I have take place after the War of The Lance and I haven't finished reading my first.

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

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.

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.

4:02 The dragon breathes. You're dead, you're dead and you're dead.

Excellent!

Its interesting seeing the game maps and how similar they are to the map book that they released (my dad loves dragonlance and has the art and map books which i was obessed with as a kid) though the map book is probably the neater looking version.

Apart from owning the Dragonlance Trilogy I used the main characters in BG, BG2 and Icewind sequals. ;)

@narcissus79

4 жыл бұрын

would love to see someone use the BG engine to create a new Dragonlance game

Brilliant!! I love the Tiamat mythology. The Sumerian's knew what was Up 🌛👽🌜.I am a Simon Necronomicon GATEWALKER, and believe that fantasy magic, and true Magick do blend at some point. Hence-- Chaos Magick ⌛🎲⏳⚡💫🌞

Thank you!

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.

4 years later but, I have read all of these books. Got to meet Margaret Whise.

The Cataclysm was brought about by the Kingpriest of Istar was seeking the power to destroy all evil things on Krynn. However, such an act would ultimately destroy the Doctrine of Balance. On the third day of the year 963 IA by the Istar calendar, the Kingpriest demanded that the gods answer his call. Instead, the Cataclysm occurred. Though it was widely believed that the gods abandoned Krynn,

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.