Join DLSaga with the first actual play session of the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Dragonlance Official Game Adventure DL1 Dragons of Despair by Tracy Hickman. This is the first adventure set in Dragonlance, and the first of four adventures that makes up the first Dragonlance Chronicles novel Dragons of Autumn Twilight. You can buy DL1 Dragons of Despair here: https://www.dmsguild.com/en/product/16880/dl1-dragons-of-despair-1e?affiliate_id=50797
Cast of Characters
- Tanis | 5th Level Half-Elf Fighter | Sam
- Tasslehoff Burrfoot | 4th Level Kender Thief | Robert
- Caramon | 6th Level Human Fighter | Tim
- Raistlin | 3rd Level Human Magic-User | Howard
- Goldmoon | 5th Level Human Cleric |
- Riverwind | 5th Level Human Ranger |
- Sturm Brightblade | 6th Level Human Fighter | Kim
- Flint Fireforge | 4th Level Dwarf Fighter |
Game Setup
Welcome, everyone — to the world of Krynn. Tonight, we step into a world on the edge of ruin. The gods have gone silent. Clerical magic has not existed for three hundred years — and most people have stopped asking why. And dragons? Most people in Krynn will laugh if you mention them. A children’s story. A fireside fable. They are about to stop laughing. Our heroes return tonight from five years on the road — five years searching for something the world seems to have forgotten. They come home tired, empty-handed, and ready to rest. But the roads home are full of refugees. Villages in the north are burning. Families are being put to the sword. And beneath those stories — darker rumors. Ancient things stirring. Shadows that haven’t moved in a thousand years are beginning, slowly, to wake. Something has been lost in this world. Something sacred. And whether they’re ready or not — our heroes are about to be the ones asked to find it.
About DL1 Dragons of Despair
You stand on the road east of Solace, tired from five years of adventuring, from a fruitless search for lost clerical magic. You know the old proverb that claims “You must return to find what you left to seek,” but the saying never really made sense. Soon, however, it will.
For the world of Krynn is not the same: refugees stream out of the northernmost human lands, telling horrible tales. An invading army has burned their villages and put their families and friends to the sword. Among these stories you hear even darker rumors-that older evils, the dragons themselves, have returned to the world, for new and more terrible purposes.
“Dragon of Despair” is the first in TSR’s series of Dragonlance adventures for use with the AD&D game system. Your players will adventure in the world of Krynn, visit strange places such as Haven or ruined Xak Tsaroth, and encounter the bizarre draconians and spectral minions. They can play the modules as a set of separate adventures or as a great quest that spans the entire Dragonlance story.
An adventure for characters Level 4-6.
Written by Tracy Hickman.
