AD&D – DL1 Dragons of Despair Actual Play, Part 4/4

Join DLSaga and players with this fourth of five actual play sessions of the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons Dragonlance Official Game Adventure DL1 Dragons of Despair by Tracy Hickman. This is the first adventure set in Dragonlance, and the first of four adventures that makes up the first Dragonlance Chronicles novel Dragons of Autumn Twilight. You can buy DL1 Dragons of Despair here: https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/16880/dl1-dragons-of-despair-1e?affiliate_id=50797 

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Cast of Characters

* Tanis | 5th Level Half-Elf Fighter | Kyle

* Tasslehoff Burrfoot | 4th Level Kender Thief | Lauren

* Caramon | 6th Level Human Fighter | John

* Raistlin | 3rd Level Human Magic-User | Chris

* Goldmoon | 5th Level Human Cleric | 

* Riverwind | 5th Level Human Ranger | Gabriel

* Sturm Brightblade | 6th Level Human Fighter | Mike

* Flint Fireforge | 4th Level Dwarf Fighter | 

Game Setup

Last time on Dragons of Despair: Finding themselves captured by Dragonmen, the heroes wait till the camp crashes, and as the guard falls asleep, they make their escape, killing the dragonmen until the remaining give up. Once they lock them all up in the cage, the heroes proceed to Xak Tsarth, but as they enter the ruins of the once great city, Khisanth emerges from the well, and decimates the heroes with her breath weapon and magic. When she believes she has dismayed these interlopers from entering Xak Tsaroth she reenters the well. The heroes crawl into the ruins and discover a statue of Mishakal that recharges the staff, and encourages the heroes to seek the Disks of Mishakal to bring back knowledge of the old gods, and stand up against the Dragonarmies. The heroes proceed to crawl through the ruins of Xak Tsaroth and learn that the Aghar Dwarves are enslaved by the dragonmen, and realize it may be a much greater challenge than anticipated to retrieve the disks.

About DL1 Dragons of Despair

You stand on the road east of Solace, tired from five years of adventuring, from a fruitless search for lost clerical magic. You know the old proverb that claims "You must return to find what you left to seek," but the saying never really made sense. Soon, however, it will.

For the world of Krynn is not the same: refugees stream out of the northernmost human lands, telling horrible tales. An invading army has burned their villages and put their families and friends to the sword. Among these stories you hear even darker rumors-that older evils, the dragons themselves, have returned to the world, for new and more terrible purposes.

"Dragon of Despair" is the first in TSR's series of Dragonlance adventures for use with the AD&D; game system. Your players will adventure in the world of Krynn, visit strange places such as Haven or ruined Xak Tsaroth, and encounter the bizarre draconians and spectral minions. They can play the modules as a set of separate adventures or as a great quest that spans the entire Dragonlance story.

An adventure for characters Level 4-6.

Written by Tracy Hickman.