![]() ![]() This is a very skimpy section when compared to other books of this type, ridiculously so. SOme sections could have been a bit beefier, especially the geography section, which almost falls shorrt of providing enough detail to give aspiring DM's an idea of what the region is all about. The text style is very conversational, something most gaming products fail to accomplish except for the high end products like those released by WOTC, Green Ronin and a few others. The material is written in a nice, easy to read style and the the bigger font is much easier on my eyes than the FRCS or Mutants & Masterminds fonts. Overall though, the smaller maps are of the same quality as the map bound into the Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting and provides enough information that you can work off of until a better map (WOTC provides oneas a Web Enhancement on their website) comes along. ![]() To make matters worse the maps are not even in the same scale. There are regional maps but it is hard to place them within context of one another unless you have a working knowledge of the continent of Ansalon and how the pieces fit together. The book is a nice hardbound book of 288 pages but unfortunatly didn't include a bound in map let alone a map of the whole continent. Recently I was able to purchase the Dragonlance Campaign Setting and read it voraciously. And the price is why I thank god everyday for Ebay. DOn't get me wrong, I still wanted the book but it remained just out of my reach, like Rebecca Romijn or Eliza Dushku. To top it off the page count was around 40 pages less than the FRCS and with the bigger font gives the impression the font was expanded in order to increase the page count on the product to better justify the higher price. #3.5 dragonlance campaign setting pdf fullA full fourth of the page is taken up by a rather distracting brown coloured border and the font size is twice that of the Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting, another 40 dollar book. I know all the arguements for the increasing prices in gaming products, I have seen them in various forums etc but this was a travesty. Then the Powers That Be announced they were going to release a 3.5 edition of this most beloved setting of so many fanboys and I was one of the first in line until I saw a copy. Dragonlance officially became the red headed step child of TSR's fantasy world with Greyhawk being the monster in the basement ala Sloth in The Goonies.ĭragonlance was tossed around, blown up, revived as a different gaming system and then reduced to novels, where the property has been most successful overall. As a comparison Dragonlance Adventures was an excellent product with high quality artwork and very flavourful text that captured the epic proportions of the novels, whereas the Tales of the Lance boxed set was a bitter pill riddled with errors (Great Wall of CHina anybody?) and recycled artwork, this during a time when Dark Sun, Ravenloft and the Forgotten Realms were featuring artwork by Brom, Easley, Baxa, Parkinson and company. It was with great anticipation that I awaited the arrival of the 3E version od Dragonlance, mixed anticipation I should say, because Dragonlance GAMING products have a history of being very hit or miss and never fall in the mediocre range, with most scaling towards the lower end of the dung heap. My discovery of Dragonlance led to my eventual discovery of Dungeons & Dragons and the rest is geek history. I was one of the few apparently that was enamoured of Tasslehoff Burrfoot. I must first establish that I have been a big fan of Dragonlance dating back 15+ years having discovered the world of Krynn through the first novel in the Chronicles in my 7th grade year. ![]()
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