Dragonlance D&D Game Blog

Hopefully by now you are all well aware of Wizard's Open Window policy on submissions for the online publications. Just as hopefully, you've been working hard on your best ideas to send in (I know I've been kicking around two or three for the last month). Now if you haven't heard about the open window, check out the posting on their website about it here . It has all the info you need, including some helpful advice. For the rest of us, this is just a friendly reminder, that their window is fast approaching. It ends at the end of this month. So get those ideas in and help make D&D the best game it can be!

A little know official Dragonlance monster, the gray dragon, first appeared in issue #146 of Dragon Magazine (cover date June 1989). Appearing as part of the magazine's dragon theme issue, it was one of several new dragon types described in an article titled "The Dragon's Bestiary". The article offers a few other new dragon types, but none of them are specifically stated as coming from Krynn. The gray dragon is very similar in size, nature, and habitat to a white dragon. In the 3.5 Bestiary of Krynn book, gray dragon's are presented as just a list of adjustments to a comparable white dragon of the same age. The forth edition book, Draconomicon - Chromatic Dragons, offers up a gray dragon, but has no connection to the previous versions in terms of description, or similarity to white dragons.

There's a lot of great D&D humor on the Internets, but one of my recent favorites is also one of the best. The videos are short, most under 5 min, and most take the form of the Dungeon Bastard responding to read emails. The production values and video quality are top notch, and with such a simple setup, it gets right into the D&D humor right away. If you haven't checked out the Dungeon Bastard, you should do so at his website for all the YouTube links, or check out one of my favorites below.

After last month's slight departure to the realm of Spelljammer, we return to the regular ongoing Dragonlance comic. This issue finds us back in time, just after the War of the Lance, when Riva was still on Ansalon and not yet a knight of Solamnia. The story opens with a splash page and text (from Astinus , no less) that sets the time frame for the story. This is a pretty good idea since for the last 8 issues (since issue 22 ), we've been following her adventures in Taladas several years after the War of the Lance. The story opens in northern Solamnia, during winter. A group of neidar (aka hill dwarves) are in route to Castle Silvercrown with a cache of weapons that they will sell to feed the village for the winter. Along with the neidar is Andvari Stonehelm, a hylar (mountain dwarf) mercenary they've hired as their peaceful community finds itself under assault by unknown forces that always strike under cover of night. On the trail, springing out of hiding are a barb...