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#1 basilisk_89 Feb 28, 2007 14:57:46	Hi! I'm thinking of starting the series. I read a bit in the first book, but I'm confused. Is Krynn a land in the world of D and D? and if it is, does it host the same creatures? I really just want to read these to boost my DnD knowledge. Any help would be great. Thanks!
#2 leowar Feb 28, 2007 15:23:48	Dragonlance is a world of D&D, but it does not have the same creatures! there are no beholders on krynn (I am very happy for that ;) hate that creature grrrr...) I ones saw a map of the universe where all diffirent world were placed. The world of dragonlance lay very far away, but when the Dark queen stole the world of Krynn, she placed somewhere els to rule it alone. I don't know where the world is placed now? I don't know if the gods have placed the world back on his orginal place afther the Dark Queen was killed.
#3 zombiegleemax Feb 28, 2007 15:42:20	Actually there are beholders in Ansalon, they are just very very very rare.:P
#4 leowar Mar 01, 2007 0:56:19	OoH MY GOD, pleas tel me this is not true, somebody AAAAAHHH:D Can you give me a place where you have the most change of finding a beholder? I really though they didn't exist.
#5 ranger_reg Mar 01, 2007 2:01:55	Hi! I'm thinking of starting the series. I read a bit in the first book, but I'm confused. Is Krynn a land in the world of D and D? It is one of the few worlds that uses D&D rules. It is also a brand owned by WotC, who recently grant Sovereign Press/Margaret Weis Production the license to support the setting's line. On the world of Krynn there are two major continents: Ansalon, where the War of the Lance took place; and Taladas, which is on the other side and is detailed on the Time of the Dragon boxed set.
#6 cam_banks Mar 01, 2007 8:11:22	Can you give me a place where you have the most change of finding a beholder? I really though they didn't exist. Beholders are not native to Krynn, or rather, they are not naturally occurring. A beholder might show up because some wizard or cleric accidentally (or purposefully) summoned it to Krynn and it stayed there. One could have slipped through a portal from another world or perhaps it was originally something else and was transformed into a beholder by a freak accident of magic. Aberrations and other monstrous creatures like beholders often have unique origins, so an author has the freedom to make up whatever excuse he or she likes to explain them. Cheers, Cam
#7 zombiegleemax Mar 01, 2007 8:19:59	I think that there was one beholder that had been cursed by Fistandatilus or something, it was one of his former apprenctices. He survived into the Age of Mortals, if I remember correctly. I think that this was in the Dragonlance DM screen.
#8 wolffenjugend_dup Mar 05, 2007 10:11:10	Yeah, I think I remember reading about one too. It was a unique creature though. Really, I think it's worse to have a campaign where certain monsters cannot exist than it is to have a campaign where certain monsters aren't normally encountered. It's really grating to hear someone say, "You can't have X in Dragonlance because they don't exist." Sure they do. Maybe they're exceedingly rare or maybe they need to be summoned from another plane, but if they exist in D&D then they potentially exist in Dragonlance. Just my two cents.
#9 ranger_reg Mar 05, 2007 23:30:33	Worse? I have no problem with limiting monsters.
#10 zombiegleemax Mar 06, 2007 0:08:27	There was a beholder in the cursed lands of Silvanesti in the 1st edition Dragons of Dreams, if I remember correctly. It was a part of Lorac's Nightmare.:P
#11 mindolin Mar 09, 2007 11:31:32	There are some monsters that do not exist naturally, such as Orcs, drow, lycanthropes, etc. The Campaign setting says that they do not exist at all, but it can be inferred that they only speak of what lives on Krynn. It's a very good book series, one that I highly recommend.
#12 zombiegleemax Mar 10, 2007 8:16:56	I would start off by reading the Chronicles then the Legends to get a feel for the world.
#13 true_atlantean Mar 19, 2007 8:14:11	I would start off by reading the Chronicles then the Legends to get a feel for the world. Chronicles is definately the place to start and look at Legends, not as a second trilogy, but just a continuation. As a stand-alone, six-part series, they are great. Out of curiousity, Basilisk_89, what do you mean by boost my DnD knowledge? I take it, given that your enquiry was on the DL forums, that you're interested in joining the ranks of DL players? Or are you interested in as many D&D worlds as possible? Happy to help out in any way.
#14 zombiegleemax Mar 19, 2007 12:58:28	Yes, please let us know so that we can be of futher assistance.