Publisher: Wizards of the CoastThe War of the Lance may be over, but the Heroes' jobs have only begun.
Returen to the time just after the end of the War, when the land is healing and its peoples are struggling to rebuild their lives. Travel with Tika and Caramon in search of her father, Alleran Waylan. Help a group of kender track down an aging black dragon. Go with Riverwind and Goldmoon to reclaim the settlement of Que Shu. Or, aid Tanis on a touchy diplomatic mission - to Laurana's people.
Players can once again take the parts of the Heroes of the Lance, and participate in the rebuilding of one of the greatest fantasy worlds ever created: the world of Krynn, the home of the Dragonlances.
Ownership of the Tales of the Lance set is not required in order to play these adventures, but is suggested.
Product History
DLT1: and quot;New Tales and mdash; The Land Reborn and quot; (1993), by John Terra, is a Dragonlance adventure anthology. It was published in July 1993.
Origins (I): Another New Beginning. A year after the publication of Tales of the Lance (1992) and nine months after the sudden truncation of the and quot;DLQ and quot; line (1992) in favor of classic adventures, new Dragonlance products were back with a new adventure anthology.
Origins (II): Return of the Heroes. Tim Beach reports that the previous and quot;DLQ and quot; Dragonlance series wasn't selling enough, which led TSR to and quot;to repackage the 'classic' material. and quot; DLT1: and quot;New Tales and mdash; The Land Reborn and quot; (1993) may have been a continuation of that plan; though it once more presented new material, it firmly returned to concepts central to the original Dragonlance Chronicles (1984-1986) adventures.
and quot;New Tales and quot; is set just a few years after the War of the Lance, and it focuses on rebuilding the land after that War. It also features many of the classic heroes, including Caramon, Gilthanas, Goldmoon, Laurana, Raistlin, Riverwind, Tanis, Tasslehoff, and Tika.
Origins (III): Approaching the End. Unfortunately, the sudden termination of the previous and quot;DLQ and quot; series in the previous year would be indicative of where the Dragonlance line was going. and quot;New Tales and quot; was the last adventure proper for the Dragonlance line, though it would be followed by DLT2: and quot;Book of Lairs and quot; (1993).
Adventure Tropes: Dragonlance Adventures. and quot;New Tales and quot; includes a short section talking about what Dragonlance adventures are. It says that they are not just and quot;adventurers' stories and quot;, but stories that together form and quot;a coherent whole of epic proportions and quot;. It also says that there's a moral component to Dragonlance stories, which should and quot;promote the power of truth over falsehood, justice over injustice, and good over evil and quot;. Finally, it says that Dragonlance adventures and quot;focus less on the combative aspects of the AD and amp;D game, and more on thinking and role-playing and quot;.
Adventure Tropes: An Anthology. and quot;New Tales and quot; is an anthology of four different adventures. They are generally episodic sandboxes, where the players are led from one location to another, but have room for exploration in each. The exception is and quot;Of Love and Diplomacy and quot; which has much less agency, as an episodic encounter adventure.
Two of the adventure involve traveling across Krynn, but unlike the hex crawls of the early Dragonlance adventures, these are straight railroads. and quot;Wayward Waylan and quot; uses the tracking trope and and quot;Of Love and Diplomacy and quot; uses the escort trope.
and quot;My Mother the Dragon and quot; may be the most interesting because it's a racial adventure focused on the short and funny denizens of Krynn: kender, gully dwarves, and tinker gnomes.
Ages of Krynn: 353 AC+ and quot;New Tales and quot; is almost a direct sequel to the Dragonlance Chronicles. The various adventures are set between 9 months and a year after the end of the War of the Lance. Two of the adventures also have the epic scope you'd expect of a Dragonlance adventure: and quot;Rebirth and quot; is about restoring the tribe of Que-Shu, while and quot;Of Love and Diplomacy and quot; is about the diplomatic negotiations between the three elven races, a nice complement to the restorative elven adventures found in the and quot;DLS and quot; series (1991).
Exploring Krynn. The four adventures are very scattered, and two of them involve trekking across Ansalon.
- and quot;Wayward Waylan and quot; moves from Solace in Abanasinia to Solanthus in Solamnia. It provides extensive descriptions (and maps) of Lemish, Newports, and Port O'Call.
- and quot;My Mother the Dragon and quot; is set in Kendermore and details the village of Grimdel.
- and quot;Rebirth and quot; is also set in Abanasinia, with a focus on Que-Shu.
- and quot;Of Love and Diplomacy and quot; moves from Qualinesti to Southern Ergoth, but without much detail on the locales.
NPCs of Note. The monstrous three-headed Malfesus, found in and quot;Wayward Waylan and quot;, is the demigod son of Takhisis and Hiddukel. Decades later, Price of Courage (2006) explores his tomb and his continued influence.
About the Creators. Terra had been freelancing for TSR since 1988. He'd previously contributed to DL15: and quot;Mists of Krynn and quot; (1988), DLR1: and quot;Otherlands and quot; (1990), DLS2: and quot;Tree Lords and quot; (1991), and Tales of the Lance (1992) .
About the Product Historian
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