Campaign Breakdown & Update The Cataclysm & The War of the Lance The current year for our homebrewed Dragonlance campaign is set during 381AC. Inspired By Trampas Whiteman

You know, I've bounced around campaign settings from Greyhawk, Forgotten Realms, Ravenloft and other settings . . . basically lost. I've been out of the game for a long number of years and trying to make a return to the game has been a struggle for me. My initial return landed me in 5th edition, thinking, well, I might as well jump on what is current so I can find players easier - this was a HUGE mistake. This was corrected quickly by my move to Old-School Essentials. I am so thankful I made this move and don't ever plan on leaving it.

Agree with me or not, I just cannot bring myself to play that WOKE ass 5th edition and simply cannot see me running games under the WotC/Hasbro umbrella. Nope, not gonna do it. Nope, not gonna discuss it. If anyone feels like I should have to explain myself then just go read this because I can't explain it any better than how it is written on that news post.

So I took a step back and thought it over, I asked myself . . . what campaign setting do I like the most and the World of Greyhawk and Dragonlance immediately came to mind. The World of Greyhawk has been my home in the past for many years which in itself is a problem. I've played and ran games in that setting for so long, it just doesn't feel special to me like it used to and then I looked at Dragonlance. I think Dragonlance is closer to my heart than any other setting simply because of all the memories I have from reading the massive amount of books it has. It is not an easy setting to run campaigns in because it does not have many adventures printed for it, but I cannot deny that my love for Krynn is enough to pull me back home so, with that being said, lets get into this shall we?

First off I want to make clear that the only information covered in this blog is what is directly going on in my current campaign. The only locations and regions that you will find covered here are what my players characters are currently within or have explored in the past so over time more and more content will come to this blog but for the moment it will be rather sparse with information.

In my opinion, Dragonlance is "meant" to be ran using OSR rules, "in my opinion of course", it just has that classic fantasy feel unlike settings like Forgotten Realms, Exandria and such where it just feels like the settings are over powered. It's hard to explain but the older D&D players will understand what I am "trying" to say.

What I would like to do is pull in new players "subscribers to our Youtube" channel and even "members of our Discord channel" to fill the group. I'm already running a World of greyhawk campaign setting and for the times I want to run this campaign, only two, possibly three of the Greyhawk players can join so, the plan is to refill the group with enough people to bring us to five players and then fire this thing up soon after. We will be looking for players that love this setting and can tolerate some mistakes being made at times. I understand playing D&D online is not as fun as playing around the table but I will try to make it as fun for my players as possible.

I do want this campaign to be played more often than our World of Greyhawk campaign which is played every other Saturday, I'd like to play this campaign possibly every Friday evening or night . . . "possibly". The thing is, with me being out of the game for close to twenty years, this is bound to start off a little rusty but I have never ran a serious campaign in Krynn so the excitement is starting to kick in for me. I really want to throw myself into this one and try to develope a deep story for my players.

We will be using a modified Old-School Essentials Advanced Fantasy for our core set of rules. We considered using Advanced Dungeons & Dragons but the more I read on Old-School Essentials Advanced Fantasy the more I fell in back love with this game system. We will also have a few house rules added to our system of rules but not a lot. I think most of these house rules will be more about quality of life rules than anything. All of our game sessions will be locally recorded and then once we finish each session I will go back and do a lot of editing to give it a more ambience with sound effects, background ambience music and other things.

I am more excited about this campaign than you know. I do know this will be a lot of work especially on my part but overall I think the entire experience will be enjoyable for myself as well as my future players. Stay tuned in for future news and updates.