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#1 caeruleus Aug 29, 2005 1:47:19	Back when the original Dragonlance modules came out, before Dragonlance Adventures introduced all these new classes such as Wizard of High Sorcery, Holy Orders of the Stars, or Knight of Solamnia, Dragonlance used the plain magic-user, clerics, and fighters to represent characters. Does anyone do that today? Do you play 3.5 Dragonlance without the Wizard of High Sorcery prestige class, with Knights of Solamnia being regular fighters or paladins or clerics, and stuff like that?
#2 Dragonhelm Aug 29, 2005 7:03:16	There are plenty of people who only use base classes, rather than PrC's. It's not the class so much as it is the role that is important. You can play a Crown Knight as a regular fighter, a Sword Knight as a paladin, and so forth.
#3 cam_banks Aug 29, 2005 7:11:46	My original module conversions assumed that you only had the core rulebooks, not even the DLCS (since it wasn't written at the time!) I think it's very doable. Cheers, Cam
#4 talinthas Aug 29, 2005 9:43:48	not only is it possible, i almost find it preferable. i love DL books for the fluff and detail, but i hardly ever used them for rules when i ran my campaign. then again, none of my players really felt like taking PrCs. we had a very dragonlance campaign without needing to deviate from the core books. that, and the books came out after my campaign had started, so it would have been a pain to integrate.
#5 zombiegleemax Aug 29, 2005 9:56:47	i played a game where we were the heroes of the lance, i played two PC's at the time tasslehoff and flint fireforge (yeh it did look weird when i was calling my self a doorknob and such and picking my own characters pockets) and we only used the three core rulebooks and the retro dragons of... adventures which are a bit worn and manky now, and it was the best game ever. Flint didnt have this new "master" class but that still didnt make him a bad craftsman. And tasslehoff didnt have the "handler" prestige class from the war of the lance book, sturm was a plain old fighter and raistlin was just a wizard with red robes on. I think it's totally okay to do it without the new DL stuff especially the knights of solamnia...the only one that makes sense is the crown knight! i dont remember any knights from the novels casting clerical spells. It's more realistic with just the core rulebooks but i like some of the stuff in the new ones aswell. AHHA! another one im outraged with Bupu! A CLERIC! no way i think shes a rogue more than a cleric not once did i sense any cleric vibes comin from her and if shes such a good survivor in Xak Tsaroth and able to hide and such from the baddies and climb vines and ballance accross chasms then the cleric is not the class i would have given her
#6 Dragonhelm Aug 29, 2005 10:21:53	i dont remember any knights from the novels casting clerical spells. There were Sword Knights casting healing spells in Dragons of Summer Flame.
#7 caeruleus Aug 29, 2005 10:48:39	Cool. The thing I liked about 3e when it came out was how the multiclassing rules made something like the Knights of Solamnia easy to implement without special classes. Crown Knights can be fighters. Sword Knights can multiclass as clerics. Rose Knights could advance as either class, or perhaps as paladins (the prestige class paladin from Unearthed Arcana would be perfect though, since it combines fighter and cleric and it's not so bad if you don't take it starting from 1st level--yes, that's not core, but I figured I'd just mention it ;)). Of course, before the return of the gods, they all would have just been fighters (by and large, at any rate).
#8 zombiegleemax Sep 03, 2005 13:08:55	im thinking about doing this and using the novels ;) just to have some fun
#9 caeruleus Sep 05, 2005 12:10:59	im thinking about doing this and using the novels ;) just to have some fun Look for the 15th Anniversary Dragonlance Classics book. It tells you how to recreate the novels.