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Chronicles of DragonlanceInterlude - Jeff Grubb Interview The endcap to Season 2 is an exclusive interview w/ former TSR designer, and current Elder Scrolls Online Senior Writer, Jeff Grubb. Jeff Grubb is an award-winning author, game designer, and world-builder. His extensive credits include AD&D’s Monster Manual II, Marvel Super Heroes game system, Unearthed Arcana, Manual of the Planes (1st ed.), Spelljammer, Al-Qadim, Tempest Feud, Urban Arcana, and has contributed and assisted on many more. He is the author of numerous short stories for the Dragonlance, Forgotten Realms, Ravenloft, and Thieves World settings. He is the author of Azure Bonds, The Wyvern’s Spur, and the Song...2025-07-0156 minChronicles of DragonlanceDragons of Winter Night: Book 3, Chapter 13, 14, & The Funeral Here we are at the end of Dragons of Winter Night and Season 2 of the podcast. In these chapters the Knights of Solamnia hold off the dragon armies for a day, Sturm sacrifices his life to save the lives of those he loves. Laurana and Tas use the dragon orb and dragonlances to defeat the dragon armies. Laurana and Kitiara meet. It does not go well. Alhana also learns of the death of Sturm. Despite the darkness, hope lives. With the second book complete, we will be airing our interview with Jeff Grubb in Ju...2025-06-011h 09Chronicles of DragonlanceDragons of Winter Night: Book 3, Chapter 11 & 12 While the Sturm and Derek’s feud comes to a boiling point, Tas explores the bizarre architecture of the High Clerist’s Tower. What are all these rooms and gates? Why was it built this way? What secret lies at its long neglected heart? Rest assured Tas will find out! Derek makes a bold claim and an even bolder action. Sturm abandons the Measure. The Knights, minus Sturm and his men, venture forth to confront the dragonarmies, with Derek confident of his victory and glory. Sturm urges Laurana to take others and flee. The knights are doomed if t...2025-05-0149 minChronicles of DragonlanceDragons of Winter Night: Book 3, Chapters 9 & 10 Tanis and Kitiara get close, real close, and catch up. Kitiara spills the beans on Takhisis’ goals and urges Tanis to join her in fulfilling them. Tanis disappoints everyone with his decision. Meanwhile, Sturm’s elevation to full knighthood drives Derek Crownguard insane and completely shatters whatever semblance of unity the Knights of Solamnia at the High Clerist’s Tower had. This makes an already bad situation worse as the Knights aren’t really wanted by anyone in Palanthas. Laurana has brought the dragonlances to the Knights but most of the soldiers and knights don’t think they’ll be of any us...2025-04-0153 minChronicles of DragonlanceDragons of Winter Night: Book 3, Chapters 7 & 8 Podcast Summary - After the events of the Whitestone Council, Laurana and friends try to decide what their next steps are. Laurana would prefer not to lead but her commitment to her friends overcomes any desires she has to find Tanis. We learn her testimony has cleared Sturm and he will become instituted as a full knight. Laurana will travel to Palanthas to relay this information directly to him and advanced Lord Gunther's plans. Fizban provides some final guidance to Tas. Elistan meets his maker? On the other side of the world Tanis and Caramon steal some...2025-03-0148 minChronicles of DragonlanceDragons of Winter Night: Book 3, Chapters 5 & 6 Shivam provides all the info one could ever want on gnomes and their place, not only in Krynn and D&D, but in the fantasy genre. Fizban and Tasslehoff experience the wonders of Mt. Nevermind, with special attention being given to innermountain transportation. The reader is introduced to Gnosh, the gnome in charge of investigating the dragon orb, and a bit about Gnomish culture. Fizban uses the orb and delivers ominous news. The Council of Whitestone, where the good people of Krynn have gathered to organize their defense against the threat of Takhisis, immediately breaks down into bickering. Tas...2025-02-011h 13Chronicles of DragonlanceDragons of Winter Night: Book 3, Chapters 3 & 4 Raistlin wrestles with the Dragon Orb and perhaps wins out. Caramon wrestles with his feelings for Tika and she definitely loses out. We learn that the twins both lost out when Raistlin took the Test of High Sorcery. Lord Gunther of Solamnia is visited by Fizban and Tas. We learn a great deal about Gnomes their relationship with the Knights of Solamnia. Most important for this story though is that we learn knights have handed the dragon orb over to the the gnomes for study?! Content warning - drug use, addiction, sexual references You c...2025-01-0148 minChronicles of DragonlanceDragons of Winter Night: Book 3, Chapters 1 & 2 We are reunited with Tanis, Raistlin and the rest of the Companions who we last saw leaving Silvanesti. We meet up with them in Port Balifor tired and road weary. Raistlin’s sleight-of-hand and magic ensures they eat and lodge for free. It also becomes the means by which the Companions raise enough funds to travel safely to Flotsam and book passage on a ship to Sancrist. We are also reunited with Sturm, who has not been as lucky as Tanis and Company. Instead, he is put on trial by accusations from Derek, and while he escapes with his li...2024-12-0155 minChronicles of DragonlanceDragons of Winter Night: Book 2, Chapters 9 & 10 As the rest of the party slumbers under Silvara’s spell, Tas sneaks his way into Dragon Castle and rediscovers that good dragons exist, and that the evil dragons were defeated with their help and the dragonlances. In the midst of these (re)discoveries Fizban miraculously appears! The frazzled wizard and the kender reunite, Tas fills Fizban in on what has transpired since his apparent death. The two return to Huma’s tomb, Fizban awakes the party and everyone learns what Silvara has been attempting to do all this time. Hope and despair abound. The secret of the dragonlances may...2024-11-0149 minChronicles of DragonlanceDragons of Winter Night: Book 2, Chapters 7 & 8Silvara, under increasing suspicion, leads Laurana’s group deeper into the mountains of Southern Ergoth. Their goal? The secret vale of Foghaven, known only to Silvara’s people. The party arrives there under the light of Luminari to this fog laden valley. To reach their destination the party must cross a strange, massive bridge over boiling hot springs. When they finally do, Silvara leads them to Huma’s tomb resting under the shadow of a giant dragon carved into a mountain!? Just as some of the party come to startling realizations they fall prey to a spell… Content...2024-10-0138 minChronicles of DragonlanceDragons of Winter Night: Book 2, Chapters 5 & 6Shivam was at this year’s GenCon for Dragonlance's 40th birthday! He talks about what happened at the convention and what is coming for Dragonlance fans. Then we get back to Dragons of Winter Nights. Silvara leads Laurana’s group up the river until they can travel by water no longer. Gilthanas and Silvara learn something about each other under the moonlight. The reader also learns some things about Silvara. They all learn the Kagonesti will not offer any support to them. The Wild Elves believe it was Laurana and company who brought the draconians to their island. They flee...2024-09-0154 minChronicles of DragonlanceDragons of Winter Night: Book 2, Chapters 3 & 4Laurana and Gilthanas are reunited with their family. It goes poorly, especially for Laurana. The rest of the party are prisoners in everything but name. The Elves decide they will be keeping the Dragon Orb. Laurana decides staying with her family is not an option. So, with the help of Silvara and Theros (the blacksmith from Solace who we are reintroduced to here) Laurana and company immediately flee into the wilderness with the Dragon Orb. On the way we learn an old folktale about Huma, and Laurana becomes ever more suspicious of Silvara, and the Kagonesti in general. 2024-08-0149 minChronicles of DragonlanceDragons of Winter Night: Book 2, Chapters 1 & 2We connect back up with Laurana’s group as they return from their successful outing to Icewall. Aboard a ship bound for Sancrist with a Dragon Orb in their possession. Their trip is interrupted by a dragon. We learn a lot about white dragons, much of it uncomplimentary. Lucky for the Companions, white dragons are bad at their job! So, while it ends in a shipwreck almost no one is hurt. Stranded on Southern Ergoth, Laurana and company are quickly picked up by Elves. Which should be good news, but all is not well in the Elvish world. In fa...2024-07-0156 minChronicles of DragonlanceDragons of Winter Night: Book 1, Chapters 11 & 12Tanis and friends wake up from their nightmare only to find that the awful dream has an all too real effect on Silvanesti and its king, Lorac. The once beautiful Elven home now resembles the nightmare with twisted, bleeding trees and animals, the Tower of the Stars looks more like a melted candle than anything else. King Lorac reveals how all this came to be and dies. Alhana vows that she, and her people, will heal this forest as penance for their pride. Half a continent away Laurana and the rest of the Companions wake up from...2024-06-0158 minChronicles of DragonlanceDragons of Winter Night: Book 1, Chapters 9 & 10 Alhana with Tanis and Company in tow reach Silvanesti. Their rides refuse to take them into the Elven homeland though. Alhana has regrets. Lots of them. Talk of Dragon Orbs and what they might do. They enter the forests of Silvanesti, and a nightmare. All of the Companions are reunited in a horrific, twisted vision of Silvanesti. And in that Nightmare most of them perish. Raistlin has further dark dealings. Tanis races to the Tower of the Stars and the Dragon Orb. The reader sees portents and signs of the future… Oh, there’s also a very large, very evil...2024-05-011h 03Chronicles of DragonlanceDragons of Winter Night: Book 1, Chapters 7 & 8 In this month’s episode we learn Sturm is a poser, The Companions’ party is more permanently split up. The long flight from Tarsis. Raistlin enters a fugue state. Everyone learns about the history of the Dragon Orbs and Krynn. Tanis and half of the Companions are conscripted into the Silvanesti Defense Force. We learn the location of a Dragon Orb. And, finally, Sturm and his half of the Companions are okay. Oh, and Sturm and Alhana share a secret, special bond, that doesn’t bode well for anyone. We now have a Patreon for those who want to...2024-04-0258 minChronicles of DragonlanceDragons of Winter Night: Book 1, Chapters 5 & 6 Tanis and his half of the Companions experience the hatred of the people of Tarsis, lose Tas, and meet the leadership of the city, which isn’t much better than the mob. Their own judgment is interrupted when another elf is presented, the princess of the Silvanesti elves, Alhana Starbreeze. Raistlin and Laurana get to know each other and the reader learns about the Family Majere. On the way to prison Tanis and friends meet actual Solamnic Knights, learn Sturm isn’t one, and find Tas. We learn a little bit more about Alhana and the Silvanesti Elves...2024-03-011h 01Chronicles of DragonlanceDragons of Winter Night: Book 1, Chapters 3 & 4 Tarsis the Beautiful! The Companions finally arrive at this fabled city only to find out it ain’t so beautiful. Oh, and those ships that were going to carry the refugees from Pax Tharkas away to someplace else? Not a lot going on with those ‘white-winged’ beauties either… Despite this apparent set back the Companions head into the city, the reader gets a little history lesson on Tarsis, and the Cataclysm. Then, the party decides to split! With perfect timing too, as they’re also getting arrested. Also, one of your hosts is getting confused.2024-02-0154 minChronicles of DragonlanceDragons of Winter Night: The Hammer, Book 1 Chapters 1 and 2 Welcome to Dragons of Winter Night, the 2nd book of the Dragonlance Chronicles. We’re just starting but this book is already so much darker and somber than the first! And all the characters get surly! In this first episode of our second season we go over the opening prologue and the first two chapters of the book. Shivam reminds us that he dislikes poetry. Jonathon wonders why a dwarf writing an epic of the reclaiming of the Hammer of Kharas is talking about a character the reader hasn’t been introduced to. We marvel at Elistan’s reco...2024-01-011h 02
Chronicles of DragonlanceInterlude - Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman InterviewIn this special interlude episode Shvam and Jonathon are joined by Dragonlance creators and authors, Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman! We learn about how the two found themselves at TSR and how the world of Krynn was created. Some of these stories we believe have never been told before! This was literally a dream come true for your hosts and we hope you enjoy listening to it as much as we did recording it. We now have a Patreon for those who want to help defray the costs of hosting and editing. Details are here: ht...2023-12-011h 19
Chronicles of DragonlanceInterlude - November 2023Sometimes things are just out of your control. Scheduling issues and family illness prevented a recording this month. We'll be back in December with Dragons of Winter Night. Very excited to share our thoughts and feelings with you all then! Until then, please join us on the Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/1147877956611082 Intro/Outro music: Winter Night by Alexander Nakarada 2023-11-0100 minChronicles of DragonlanceDragons of Autumn Twilight: Book 2 Chapters 14, 15, and The Wedding We’ve reached the end of Dragons of Autumn Twilight! And the Companions have nearly reached the end of this tale! The Companions encounter Flamestrike, Tanis holds her off while they move the children out into the courtyard. Ember and Verminaard show up, ruining the escape. Fizban dies. Chaos reigns. Ember meets Flamestrike, Verminaard meets the Companions, neither of them is better off for the encounter. The traitor is revealed and almost just as quickly killed. The Companions and the prisoners escape. Riverwind and Goldmoon are wed.2023-10-011h 04Chronicles of DragonlanceDragons of Autumn Twilight: Book 2 Chapters 12 & 13While Tanis and the majority of the Companions conspire with the slaves of Pax Tharkas Tas and Fizban explore its secrets. Taz learns, and then forgets, the truth of Dragonlances. Laurana converts one high seeker to the old faith with a parable. Tas and Fizban learn who the traitor is. Tanis wishes he knew, as everyone who could possibly be the traitor is suddenly not where they are supposed to be! Despite everything the plan to free the slaves moves forward. Tas and Fizban save Sestun only to reveal themselves to Verminaard and Ember. The three flee...2023-09-0154 minChronicles of DragonlanceDragons of Autumn Twilight: Book 2 Chapters 10 & 11After the harrowing encounter with the giant slug the Companions are forced to take the path through the tombs of Kith Kanan’s royal guards. Goldmoon’s holy powers ensure they don’t have to fight a horde of zombies. Flint and Tasselhoff find secret doors. The Companions find an evil Drow spirit that splits the party. Your hosts have a discussion of whether there are or are not Drow in Dragonlance. Tas and Fizban “meet” Verminaard and his dragon, Ember. There is little love lost between the two. We learn of the Queen of Darkness’ plans within plans...2023-08-011h 07Chronicles of DragonlanceDragons of Autumn Twilight: Book 2 Chapters 8 & 9Content Warning - Discussions about sex and the many cultural rules around it. Tika receives a royal gift, and the Companions leave Qualinost bound for Pax Tharkas. On their way they find an old battle site, amongst the corpses of goblins and humans they find a survivor, Eben, he joins them. Draconians appear, Tika creates a new form of combat in the aftermath of the fight she kisses Caramon. They resume their journey. Suspicions grow. They reach the outskirts of Pax Tharkas. Head towards the secret entrance. More suspicions. Eben recommends a frontal assault on the fortress. T...2023-07-011h 15Chronicles of DragonlanceDragons of Autumn Twilight: Book 2 Chapters 6 & 7We learn all about the history between Tanis & Laurana, how it lead to Tanis fleeing his home, and going out into the world. The plans of the Qualinesti Elves are revealed and we learn the role the Companions must play to enure the Elves' future. In order for the Elves to escape successfully, the Companions will have to sneak into Pax Tharkas and free the enslaved humans there, drawing the attention of Verminaard and a draconian army away from the fleeing elves. The Companions have the time honored D&D argument over splitting up the party, ultimately d...2023-06-0145 minChronicles of DragonlanceDragons of Autumn Twilight: Book 2 Chapters 4 & 5In this episode Jonathon and Shivam follow the Companions as Fewmaster Toede leads them towards Pax Tharkas. Tas makes a new friend, Toede’s servant, Sestun the gully dwarf. We learn from Fizban that dragonlances and Huma were real. The slave caravan is ambushed by an Elvish party, all the prisoners are freed. We meet Gilthanas’ brother and see again the tension that exist between the races of Krynn. Companions are lead to elvish city of Qualinost where they meet the the leader of the Elves and Tanis’ surrogate father. We also learn that the elves are leavin...2023-05-0154 minChronicles of DragonlanceDragons of Autumn Twilight: Book 2 Chapters 2 & 3Content Warning: This episode contains discussions of rape. Discussion begins at the 58 minute mark. In this episode we return to Solace and see how the invasion of the Dragon Queen’s army has destroyed the town and its people. The Companions return to the Inn of the Last Home only to find it occupied by murderers, hobgoblins, and draconians. Tanis receives an icy reception from an old friend, and the party is captured. Goldmoon practices her sacred healing arts to the astonishment of others, and we meet an old, though familiar mage, who is clearly more than he...2023-04-011h 20Chronicles of DragonlanceDragons of Autumn Twilight: Chapter 22 & Book 2 Chapter 1In this episode, Jonathon and Shivam follow the Companions as they escape Xak Tsaroth, witness a miracle, see Raistlin’s good side, and finish Book One of Dragons of Autumn Twilight. We discuss the D&D Dragonlance Modules a bit wondering how economical and good they still are. We then try to ease into Book 2 but it doesn’t let us, preferring to start with a devastating boom!2023-03-0145 minChronicles of DragonlanceDragons of Autumn Twilight: Chapters 20 & 21The Companions make their plans to sneak into and steal from the Dragon’s hoard. Their plans go horribly wrong. With disastrous consequences for the Companions, and the buried city of Xak Tsaroth. The Compansions disasterous retreat with what perhaps is the people of Krynn's only hope in their possession! We think... Shivam and Jonathon have a long conversation about canon,what exactly it is, and what purpose does it serve? 2023-02-0154 minChronicles of DragonlanceDragons of Autumn Twilight: Chapters 18 & 19The Companions find another way down into the ruined city of Xak Tsorath with the help of their new friend Bupu. Oh, really she's only Raistlin's friend. This way is a little more complicated and a lot dirtier. They finally find themselves in the ruined city, somehow folded over on itself tucked into a giant underground cave. A discussion of strategy. Spying on a dragon. Finally, they meet with the leader of the Gully Dwarves, Highbulp Phudge the First and discuss how best to get the disks they seek without letting the dragon know. The Highbulp has other plans. 2023-01-0150 minChronicles of DragonlanceDragons of Autumn Twilight: Chapters 16 & 17Shivam is excited to talk a bit about the new Dragonlance book that came out this year, and his role in its writing. In these chapters Goldmoon meets a Goddess. The Companions witness a miracle. They descend into Xak Tsorath to claim the platinum disks for Mishakal. We meet Gully Dwarves and we have a lot to say about them. Rasitlin makes friends with the gully dwarves. The companions find a way down into the ruins of the city, but there is a complication. 2022-12-0157 minChronicles of DragonlanceDragons of Autumn Twilight: Chapters 14 & 15The party is imprisoned by the Draconians. The weird creatures celebrate their retrieval of the blue crystal staff. Tanis worries over the Companions, Tasselhoff and Flint missing, Raistlinpoisoned. Tasselhoff plans a rescue. Hijinks ensue. The Companions escape only to encounter true terror, a black dragon. Tragedy awaits one of them. 2022-11-0139 minChronicles of DragonlanceDragons of Autumn Twilight: Chapters 12 & 13Tanis chooses for the group. They will accept the task given to them by the Forestmaster. The Companions wonder at what exactly it is they must hunt down. The Forestmaster whisks them across the continent on pegasuses. Goldmoon and Riverwind experience serious trauma. Their acceptance of the blue crystal staff continues to have a high cost. The Companions hurry to meet the deadline set by the Forestmaster entering a dismal swamp. Before they can find the ruins of Xak Tsorath they're ambushed and defeated by Draconians 2022-10-0142 minChronicles of DragonlanceDragons of Autumn Twilight: Chapters 10 & 11The Companions journey through Darken Wood. Wherein they find a place more alive than tales would have lead them to believe. Once night falls they meet some of the "less alive" denizens of the Wood. The Companions are lead to the Master of Darken Wood and are provided much needed context and direction. Oh, and an impossible task...2022-09-0159 minChronicles of DragonlanceDragons of Autumn Twilight: Chapters 8 & 9The Companions learn more about the strange party of black robed 'clerics' they encountered. Goldmoon tries to gain new information about the blue crystal staff. A new race is introduced to Krynn, creating problems for the Companions. The party flees, again. Sturm remembers and maybe goes a little crazy. The Companions benefit (?) from his mental turmoil. They follow his madness (?) into Darken Woods. 2022-08-0145 minChronicles of DragonlanceDragons of Autumn Twilight: Chapters 4 through 7Things are really picking up in Dragons of Autumn Twilight. The Party is complete, all the Companions have been introduced, and the adventure is underway! The Party escapes from the Inn of the Last Home, flees Solace, and finds its way on the road to Haven with a divine staff that hasn't been seen since the time of the Cataclysm. Along the way we meet a new threat, not just to the Companions but to all of Krynn2022-07-0145 minChronicles of DragonlanceDragons of Autumn Twilight: Chapters 2 and 3Shivam and Jonathon continue their dive into the first Dragonlance novel, Dragons of Autumn Twilight. We are introduced to the Inn of the Last Home and more of the Companions! The twins: Caramon and Raistlin, the knight Sturm, and a pair of Plainspeople who have come to Solace. And they are all unceremoniously dumped into an adventure!2022-06-0156 minChronicles of DragonlanceDragons of Autumn Twilight: Prologue and Chapter 1Jonathon and Shivam dive in to the first Dragonlance novel, Dragons of Autumn Twilight, covering the Prologue and the first couple of chapters. Listeners are introduced to the world of Krynn, parts of its history and we begin to meet the protagonists of this tale!2022-05-0146 min
Chronicles of DragonlanceWelcome to the Chronicles of Dragonlance Podcast!In this first episode of the podcast we meet ourhosts, Jonathon Howard and Shivam Bhatt and how they discovered this influential series. A short introduction to the World of Dragonlance and it's creators: Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman. How this podcast will work.2022-04-0231 min