dragonlance Archives - Breaking it all Down

I’ve been running Shadow of the Dragon Queen for my D&D Group – so I’m going to discuss the first part of the adventure, including how it went when I ran it.

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Posted on February 16, 2025February 8, 2025 by Alexander Case

Dragonlance: Shadows of the Dragon Queen Part 5: Kaboom!

This session we finished up the first chapter, along with moving into a little bit of the next with some role-play.

Posted on January 25, 2025January 7, 2025 by Alexander Case

Dragonlance: Shadows of the Dragon Queen Part 4: Rearguard Action

This was then we din’t quite get through the big string of fights that mark the end of this first chapter. We also got a new player (and thus a new character) in the party.

Posted on December 7, 2024December 14, 2024 by Alexander Case

Dragonlance: Shadows of the Dragon Queen Part 3: A Cunning Plan

This session was a shorter session than before – the big end-of-chapter series of battles is enough take a whole session, so this was handling the setup, with a little bit of combat.

Posted on October 20, 2024October 19, 2024 by Alexander Case

Dragonlance: Shadows of the Dragon Queen: Pt 2 – Summoned to Tourney

Session 2 of the game had the same player lineup as before – I am looking for some additional players, and I do want to keep some spots available for some of our usual group members once they are able to return.

Posted on September 28, 2024September 15, 2024 by Alexander Case

Dragonlance: Shadows of the Dragon Queen: Pt 1 – Funeral For A Friend

Here we have the beginning of my Actual Play for the D&D 5e campaign, Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen, my first time running a game in several years, my first time running for people I wasn’t related to, and my first time running 5e. As I mentioned earlier, I’m running the game using Foundry VTT because my players are fairly geographically widespread.

Posted on April 1, 2020March 26, 2020 by Alexander Case

Dragons of Winter Night: Video Book Review

This week, since we’re probably not getting GenCon this year, I’m going right ahead with the Dragonlance Chronicles, with book two – Dragons of Winter Night

Posted on March 28, 2020March 23, 2020 by Alexander Case

Dragons of Winter Night: Book Review

Dragons of Winter Night, as a novel, runs into the problem of adapting what was we think of it into just a trilogy of books – a bunch of material has to be skipped over. We start off after the retrieval of the Hammer of Karass and the re-unification of Dwarven society (which would later be covered in Dragons of the Dwarven Depths), with that kind of setting the tone somewhat for how the show comes out.