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Did you know that in the Dragonlance setting there are no lycanthropes? True. They were left out of all stories and adventures in early editions and later in the 3.5 Dragonlance DM screen supplement it was officially stated that they didn't exist. I've searched, but have failed to find a justification for this. In my own head, I wrestled with the concept of lycanthropes, especially with regard to being affected by the moon. Except on Krynn there isn't "the moon", there are "the moons". My first thought was that lycanthropes would be associated with the moon that matches their alignment. Since most lycanthropes are evil, that would mean association with Nuitari. Not a problem so far... except that Nuitari has a full moon that lasts 2 days, every 8 days. If you go with the idea that a full moon forces a transformation, then a lycanthrope transforms almost twice a week. I can image it would be very hard to hide something like that in any civilized setting f...

Over the course of many Dungeons and Dragons campaigns, I've often, but not always, used a calendar to track the progress of the campaign. It can seem like a lot of work with little payoff, but that doesn't have to be the case. If done correctly, you can keep the workload to a fair balance, and the payoffs can be great. So, here are five reasons you should be using a calendar to track your campaign Session Notes  A campaign calendar can be a great place to track session notes. By simply tagging the notes to the month and day of the event, you know what the heroes have been up to and when things happened. For mundane tasks, like fast travel, I just mark the start and end dates of the travel, where they left from and where they arrived. Back in previous editions when characters trained to gain a new level and would level up at different experience point values, I used the calendar to track who was training and who was free and sometimes could squeeze in a short adventure or...

Last year around this time I started seeing ads for a D&D themed advent calendar, with all kinds of goodies - dice, minis, etc. After looking over the promotional image, several things started bothering me. One, it wasn't an official Wizards of the Coast product, but they were using images of Player's Handbook cover. A different version had the image of the original D&D movie. I couldn't image a company paying all those licensing fees for different cover images. Also, some of the included items didn't look like they would fit inside the box sizes shown, like a fire giant mini, or a wooden treasure chest. In short it was all a scam. But strangely, they did deliver product to those who paid, but none of the products shown on the promotion. If you want to see a video of what was included, here's the reveal for day 5. (Note there was a legitimate advent calendar from Adventure Dice in 2020, but it was all dice and the packaging was unimpressive to say the least ...

Not much to say, except so many things related to Dragonlance and Dungeons and Dragons are going on right now, this would be the worst time NOT to be writing about it. Not sure what my frequency of posting will be, but I'm shooting for at least three a month (hopefully 4-5), not including this little reintro post, and I'll try to cover all the same stuff, including a few new topics, like painting and terrain building.  Anyway, I hope you come along for the ride, it's going to be a long, strange, and fun trip!