Weasel’s Luck Review

Join me as I review Weasel's Luck by Michael Williams, live! Share your thoughts on this third novel in the Dragonlance Heroes series, released on January 15, 1989 by TSR Inc. You can buy a copy here: https://amzn.to/3Qqt7eX

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About Weasel's Luck

The world’s least promising knight gets his first taste of high-stakes adventure in this rollicking and fantastical Dragonlance tale

Weasel's luck was not always good . . . Galen Pathwarden, known as "the Weasel", would give anything to stay clear of adventure, danger, or heroism. Cowardly, deceitful, and hardly noble—and mired in a backwater castle far from any action—he bickers with his siblings and schemes against his elders. But one fateful night, Galen’s dreary life is turned upside down when a sinister visitor arrives bearing gold, unspeakable magic, and a centuries’ old curse.

The encounter launches Galen on a bizarre quest into swamp and forest, headed toward a mythical fortress. With the great Solamnic Knight, Sir Bayard Brightblade, and a none-too-bright centaur named Agion at his side, Galen must overcome the schemes and traps of a sinister illusionist known only as the Scorpion.

Review

Welcome to another DragonLance Saga review episode. It is Misham, Darkember the 9th. My name is Adam and today I am going to give you my review of Weasel's Luck by Michael Williams. I would like to take a moment and thank the members of this YouTube 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. This is my perspective only, and if you have any thoughts or disagree with mine, I invite you to share them in YouTube chat.

Right off the bat, I am enjoying this immensely. This is set two hundred years after the cataclysm and the peasants of Solamnia still harbor strong resentment and hatred for the Knights of Solamnia. It also presents a dangerous land and noble knights, both of which equal exciting adventure. We open with Galen Pathwarden narrating the tale. He is at best unreliable in his thoughts and deeds, so I am not sure if we should trust his version of this tale, though I do enjoy it!  Galen presents the craziness of his family. His father is a retired Knight of Solamnia who hoped his son’s would follow suit. In truth his eldest son Alfric is a brute and lacks honor replaced by a mean streak. His second eldest son, Brithelm is a priest of some sort with no care for the knighthood. He acts as mediator between Alfric and Galen. Then there’s Galen who is a rabble rousing coward with a penchant for setting fires and stealing, much like his eldest brother Alfric, who beats him at every opportunity. Compounding this dysfunction is Sir Bayard Brightblade, a knight staying with them, hoping to take Alfric on as a Squire. 

During his stay, Galen is visited by an entity, I believe it is a wizard sewing dissent in Solamnia, but he isn’t revealed as yet. This man, named Scorpion by Galen, paid Galen rubies to steam Bayard's Solamnic armor. If he refused, he would surely have killed him, so Galen set a plan in motion, but was discovered by a drunk Alfric outside Bayard’s locked door. Alfric was assigned protector of Bayard’s possessions as his proposed squire, and Galan, very Tom Sawyer-like, convinced Alfric there was a thief prowling around and they had to go check on the Armor. Alfric opens the door and if memory serves, falls down hitting himself on the head, as Galen collects the armor and meets the Scorpion, giving it to him.

Apparently the Scorpion gave it to a thief who wore it as he raided nearby...