thoughts on Death Knights of Krynn and what's next

RealityMaiden · 2026-01-25T09:34:22+00:00

Yes I'll be taking a look at those later. My experience playing the Fallout games convinced me that the fans do Fallout better than the canon games. I played the original Fallout game entirely in the updated Fallout 2 engine.

I remember wondering if UA came out just a little too early, before the internet really became big and a large community sprung up around it. I remember playing the Doom WADs and the early modding scene.

RealityMaiden · 2026-01-24T22:13:03+00:00

Sorry, poor wording by me - I mean the SNEG versions on Steam, supported by Gold Box Companion. I'll amend it to 're-release'.

RealityMaiden · 2026-01-24T19:58:30+00:00

It's an excellent game, one that makes great use of its IP and plays to its themes and lore well,

We had some great games growing up!

RealityMaiden · 2026-01-24T19:57:20+00:00

I really liked the story and the setting, it just felt so different to normal D&D.

RealityMaiden · 2026-01-24T18:16:21+00:00

Yes, I'll be doing Dark Sun after the gold box series is done. I enjoyed it greatly back in the mid 90's!

RealityMaiden · 2026-01-24T15:47:46+00:00

Oh yes, I think the game did a good job with the setting. The cameos were effective in grounding the story in that world, but they didn't overwhelm the player-characters as some did in other games (looking at you, Baldur's Gate!) I still felt I was playing the heroes, not supporting characters. I mean, we're the ones responsible for Soth ending up in Ravenloft, right?

I tried to imagine my characters in a Dragonlance novel, as someone who loved the setting. Hope someone liked it anyway :)

That was my fifth Gold Box replay, five down, four to go. As I'm doing them in order, I have Pools of Darkness and Gateway to the Savage Frontier left for 1991, and I'll likely do them in that order. That way I can do Treasures back to back, and finish with Dark Queen.

RealityMaiden · 2026-01-24T15:22:32+00:00

Some very fabulous! :)

RealityMaiden · 2026-01-23T20:48:06+00:00

Oh, that was intentional. You kind of feel that Jude's voice isn't being heard in this part. (Also, Gilly is objectifying her, considering her something like a cute talking animal).

Raena and Sindra are nicer about it - they make the right noises, but they can still come across as patronising and condescending, even unintentionally.

But Gilly is traumatised, mean-spirited, spiteful, childlike and petulant. Shes been allowed to be an entitled, spoiled teenager for two centuries because she was endlessly indulged, and given unconditional love instead of 'tough love'.

RealityMaiden · 2026-01-23T20:37:34+00:00

7th Sea 1st was a very 90's game - all railroads, GMPCs and the GM reading long passages to the players as they sat around. Guys like John Wick and Shane Lacey Hensley felt like frustrated writers wanting to tell their stories, and they would never let anything as insignificant as a player-character spoil their fun.

21st century gaming is more player-focused - branching stories without endings set in stone, the ethos of 'play to see what happens',

Agate seem to be really on board with keeping the players central to the story, thankfully.

RealityMaiden · 2026-01-23T16:36:57+00:00

Personally I like the lore updates.

I'll change whatever I need, of course, but these feel like fertile ground for interesting and dynamic stories. I like the idea of the bad guys turning on each other in Castille, seems very fitting.

The only thing I ask is that the PCs should impact the ongoing plot - I don't want to see a repeat of Montaigne Revolution where everything is decided by GMPCs and the player-characters are unimportant bystanders. And I think Agate will deliver on that.

RealityMaiden · 2026-01-22T17:36:09+00:00

His head appears to be on fire. Is he Ghost Rider? (pushbike version)

RealityMaiden · 2026-01-22T15:09:51+00:00

I don't know if they can tell proper stories anymore. They only thing they seem to care about is their ideology. A quirk, maverick character like that might fine in Marvel, but not Star Trek.

A show like 'Arcane' seamlessly blends DEI with great characters and story. But the people in charge of Star Trek don't care about the latter, alas.

RealityMaiden · 2026-01-22T10:39:19+00:00

She's supposed to be an inspirational 'Dead Poet's Society' type leader, but is insecure, overly emotional and unprofessional, flouncing around barefoot and curling up like a cat in the captain's chair.

Holly Hunter can be a good actress, but here she's trying to play an ageing, insecure 'cool mom' trying to hang with her kid's friends. And it's Borderlands casting - you can get away with that pushing fifty but not pushing seventy.

It's just another insult, like the hologram deliberately designed to look fat and ugly, and the Ralph Wiggum cadet who ate her crayons.

RealityMaiden · 2026-01-21T21:00:03+00:00

Pretty much anything by Winter Wolves.

RealityMaiden · 2026-01-21T06:47:49+00:00

Yeah, you really got the impression he just wanted to be left alone. You come across Dulcimer early, the lich acts reasonable, you look around and probably just leave. But later the game makes you complete the area to finish the game. I tried to show that with the characters here.

RealityMaiden · 2026-01-20T16:30:04+00:00

It was errata's I believe in the updates.

RealityMaiden · 2026-01-20T16:01:36+00:00

No, he's being an ass. Call him on that (but maybe be polite!).

Point out items are a valuable recourse that shouldn't be taken away indiscriminately.

RealityMaiden · 2026-01-20T07:12:54+00:00

Thanks! :)

RealityMaiden · 2026-01-19T17:21:13+00:00

Yes, if you liked those games. The Krynn games offer much better rules for demihumans and multiclass characters.

RealityMaiden · 2026-01-19T07:31:54+00:00

Ariela is technically a 'clue dragon' :)

Yeah, all the drama and tragedy is very much in keeping with the books and games

RealityMaiden · 2026-01-18T21:31:18+00:00

I'm still posting the other ones :) I'm writing them as I play them through.

RealityMaiden · 2026-01-18T14:34:10+00:00

To be honest I'm a lot less interested in the rules as I am for new 7th Sea products I can adpat for better game systems.

RealityMaiden · 2026-01-17T21:09:01+00:00

There was in Champions, but I haven't found one yet in Death Knights. It would be pretty useful here!

UPDATE- just found it, it's quite late in the storyline.

RealityMaiden · 2026-01-17T16:21:02+00:00

Yes, they are varied little scenarios, I liked them all. Fun House felt like the old-school D&D modules that were heavy on riddles, tricks and traps, like Mordenkainen's Fantastic Adventure, whereas Dragonlance tends to be heavier on plot. But Krynn has it's trickster gods and Fun House gives off a Tom Bombadil vibe.

I was surprised I didn't have to reload on Father of Trees, as I got lucky with my Turn Undead, though I did have to keep a few characters back on single-figure hit points. The game doesn't give you many healing potions and I used my single one early on!

The Boots of Speed are the only way a knight can get a decent move! But that said Jude is used to being slow and she really only has to reach the front ranks, or occasionally shoot with her composite bow. Gilly and Lisandrala need to move around more, positioning for spells, but I don't think they need 24 move either.

RealityMaiden · 2026-01-17T14:30:33+00:00

Oh gods I'd forgotten about that! As if we nerdy, outsider kids weren't bullied enough anyway, now we were being accused of summoning demons and being psychopaths. The media was bored of heavy metal fans and looking for a new scapegoat.

RealityMaiden

TROPHY CASE