AD&D – DL3 Dragons of Hope Actual Play, Session 3

Join DLSaga and players with their third actual play session of the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Dragonlance Official Game Adventure DL3 Dragons of Hope by Tracy Hickman. This is the third adventure set in Dragonlance, and the third of four adventures that makes up the first Dragonlance Chronicles novel Dragons of Autumn Twilight. You can buy DL3 Dragons of Hope here: https://www.drivethrurpg.com//product/16882/dl3-dragons-of-hope-1e?affiliate_id=50797 

Cast of Characters

  • Tanis | 7th Level Half-Elf Fighter | Sam
  • Tasslehoff Burrfoot | 6th Level Kender Thief | Brad
  • Caramon | 8th Level Human Fighter | Sharaeish
  • Raistlin | 5th Level Human Magic-User | James
  • Goldmoon | 7th Level Human Cleric | Kim
  • Riverwind | 7th Level Human Ranger | Chad
  • Sturm Brightblade | 8th Level Human Fighter | Jon
  • Flint Fireforge | 6th Level Dwarf Fighter | Howard

Game Setup

Last time on DL3 Dragons of Hope: Our heroes begin their day burying those refugees lost in the bitter cold of the night and head down the main road. They come across dwarven footprints in the snow heading off trail to the west and a marker indicating Thorbardin is in the south. They decide to send a scouting party after the footprints which leaves the refugees and their leaders stuck in the open road for the day. They have a meeting of the council and decide to get off the road and head after the scouting party. They make camp in a canyon. The scouts discover a new valley where the footprints continue into a canyon but with night falling, they return to their camp. They are ambushed a mile out by Draconians, but make quick work of them with only one getting away. Now fearful of the coming Dragonarmy, they bury even more freshly deceased bodies in a cairn and head off in the morning after the footprints. Giant eagles seem to be following the caravan for an easy meal. They discover a forest in a different direction than the footprints and have to decide which way to go. They quickly learn the Council’s politics are much more convoluted and they don’t always listen to the heroes. THey go after the dwarves and discover a Neidar clan who takes them in for the night. They offer them an opportunity to get food in return for some Royal Jelly from a giant bee hive and the heroes take them up on the offer.

About DL3 Dragons of Hope

The Dragonlance saga continues!

You have freed 800 refugees from the depths of Pax Tharkas, but now the armies of the dragon highmaster Verminaard pursue you through the wilderness. There is only one hope for you: Find the gates to Thorbardin, the ancient kingdom of the mountain dwarves, sealed long ago in the Dwarfgate War. The problem is that nobody knows where it is, or if it still exists!

Through the snow-covered Kharolis Mountains, across the Dergoth Plain, haunted by the ghosts of ancient armies, and to the incredible mountain known as Skullcap, you search for the answer that will save the refugees of Pax Tharkas—and yourself!

“Dragons of Hope” is the exciting third part of the First Book of Dragonlance, an epic quest through the world of Krynn, threatened by the domination of the inhuman draconians. This adventure can be played as part of a separate adventure, or as part of the great quest that spans the entire Dragonlance story.

An adventure for characters level 6th-8th. Written by Tracy Hickman.

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