Horror Adventure Seeds

There are so many versions of horror, and all of them fit perfectly in the Dragonlance Setting. Let’s explore a few horror adventure seeds. Buy Time of the Dragon: https://preview.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/16960/time-of-the-dragon-2e?affiliate_id=50797  

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Time Stamps

* 0:00 Intro

* 1:34 Cosmic Horror

* 3:44 Haunted House

* 5:39 Witch Coven

* 7:51 Outro

Transcript

Cold Open

Horror is ever present, and at times where you least expect it.

Intro

Welcome to another DragonLance Saga episode. My name is Adam and today we are going to talk about horror adventure seeds for Dragonlance. I would like to take a moment and thank the members of this channel, and invite you to consider becoming a member by visiting the link in the description below. You can even pick up Dragonlance gaming materials using my affiliate links. I am referencing the long line of horror greats from novels to films. If I miss a genre element that you enjoy, please leave a comment below!

Discussion

With the coming Halloween season, I thought it would be fun to share some horror based adventure seeds that I believe fit in perfectly with Dragonlance. You see, Dragonlance is a high fantasy setting, but it is so much more than a war time setting. What’s great about horror is that it can be very large and impersonal, affecting whole nations or very small and intimate, only affecting one person. There are some baked-in horror tropes like Lord Soth and Nightlund, but when it comes to horror, I think taking the obvious road is just lazy. So today I will present a few ideas that exemplify various aspects and scales of horror that you can use a one-shot or fold seamlessly into your own campaigns. I may even present a setting or environment that you want to change to fit your campaign better, and that’s okay. Remember horror is best when it's personal.

This first adventure seed is based on cosmic horror. In the Age of Starbirth, when Krynn was young, and the primordial forces had cooled on its surface, the gods were preparing to populate Krynn with its first people: the Elves, Ogres and Humans. But Krynn had been inhabited for millennia by the animals populated by the High God and among them were the Bakali. With the creation and corruption of the first Dragons, these Bakali began to form tribes, and worship the dragons. These venerable Wyrms taught the Bakali how to build, how to live in civilizations. But the gods grew angry and through the eons, the dragons were banished. In their absence from deep in the blackness of space, came the Mind Flayers. These intra-dimensional travelers  moved from planet to planet, setting up hive-like swarms. They would create slaves from the races that inhabited the realms, and use them to feed, sucking their brains from their skulls, and to sacrifice to their patron mother, a being who is prophesied to come in fire to cleanse the land. This hive operated in secret in the unforgiving swaps of the Blackwater Glade on Taladas. 

The native Bakali tribes were easily subjugated and used as both slaves...