Hey Eric, fantastic video! Definitely gonna rewatch this and part 1 when my group gets around to Dragonlance. Just wanted to give a little constructive criticism (which may also be nitpicky). At some times throughout the video, when you make a cut, the audio overlaps and is a little jarring. Certainly doesn’t take away from the great content, just something I noticed that popped up several times. Keep up the great work!
FYI, Bakaris the younger has to live. In the lore, he later becomes one of Kitiara's lovers and sub commander. I really love the work and ideas you have put in these videos. It's helped me immensely so far in my campaign. I will say that this video is really rough, with a lot of cuts that are quite distracting and hard to follow at some point. If you ever get a chance to re-edit it, I think it would be much more helpful than it already is.
Considering Bakaris the Younger actually becomes second in command basically of the Blue Dragonarmy under Kitiara, I am replacing him with Red Ruin and having him show up (masked) more often after his "loss" and then ultimately revealing him for who he is at a dramatic moment. I'm still thinking how they plays into Bakaris the Elder's defection. Also I totally replaced the black dragon at Carrionclay with Ignia the Red, who is Kansaldi's mount, to intro her just as I used Kansaldi during Vogler. As for the Test, while I think its neat to have it where it is, I'd rather have done the full test early on as an intro. I'm considering that angle. Then using the vision of the fall of the City of LN that WAS the Test of High Sorcery in the book as the wizard's test for the party instead of that stupid elemental.
AS to post game, the lore is clear that Kalaman falls shortly after this to the Blue Dragonarmy that has managed to raise more flying citadels. It is then retaken by Laurana and her brother (both high elves), and her brother (who is in love with a silver dragon) becomes governor. I've thought pretty hard on this, and IF there was a sequel, I'd probably make it pretty short with the party jumping up to level 17 to join in the retaking of the city, or jump forward a few months with Kalaman in flames, and them having to go take the fight elsewhere for now. It's a hard call.
Thanks, really helpful. Clerics should be covered by their prelude, that is the first sign of the gods returning. There are also rumors of other healers so we are a little bit after the start of Dragons of Autumn Twilight novel. It behooves the dm to build on this throughout the campaign
I consider it written that the true gods are gone but some of the false gods have gained enough power to allow for clerics. After all, in dnd a normal person can technically become a God just by having enough people follow and believe in them as the priest king showed it is possible to become even a true God it's just that the actual true gods don't like that.
I would love a rough guideline of options to run at the conclusion of this campaign The concept of the blue green white and black dragon armies is great
I agree with adding more stuff for your clerics and adding stuff for the Solamnic knights. I do wish they added more for those two paths... especially since the player I had who was on the Mage of High Sorcery path, stopped playing sorcerer because they didn't like it. Good video and thanks for the tips for whats coming up in the campaign. I had a long message about the cleric/gods are gone thing but I felt it wasn't worth the hassle. TLDR, clerics for sure should be in this and people stating "lore" are wrong imo
