How to Play Warriors of Krynn | DragonLance Saga
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- Опубліковано 1 жов 2024
- Dragonlance: Warriors of Krynn is a cooperative battle game for 5 to 5 players. It is intended to be played with the Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen adventure. Let’s find out how to play it. Buy Warriors of Krynn: amzn.to/3Hu7GX6
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Transcript
It’s deceptively simple and intriguingly complex at the same time.
Intro
Welcome to another DragonLance Saga episode. My name is Adam and today we are going to talk about how to play the Dragonlance: Warriors of Krynn board game. I would like to take a moment and thank the members of this channel, and invite you to consider becoming a member by visiting the link in the description below. You can even pick up Dragonlance gaming materials using my affiliate links. I am referencing the Dragonlance: Warriors of Krynn Rulebook and Scenario Book for this information. If I leave anything out or misspeak, please leave a comment below!
Discussion
This battle game centers around the Dragon Queen’s invading Army, and the valiant Alliance standing in their way for survival. You actually play both on your turn, but you are represented as a single hero of a single character class. It’s important to know that unlike BattleSystem from Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, this has very little to do with Dungeons & Dragons or its rules. This is meant to be an abstract attachment or play experience that may enhance the Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen adventure for Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition. Once you wrap your head around the idea that the classes are generic and not your specific player character, I believe it's easier to grasp the rules. Warriors of Krynn features twelve scenarios. Scenario 0 is the training ground where you learn the basics of play, and the scenarios proceed from one to twelve as the adventure unfolds. You are suggested to keep track of the outcomes of each scenario for the conclusion of the battle game and its companion adventure. There are three tiers of play broken down in the scenarios. The Recruit tier focuses on Scenario 1-4, the Veteran tier contains scenarios 5-8 and the Legendary tier presents scenarios 9-12.
Each scenario centers around the battlefield. We will get into all of its components in a moment, for now, let's focus on your character. Each player chooses a hero board to either represent their hero in the adventure, or one of the pre-defined heroes for the board game. The hero board presents you with possible actions you can take on your turn, and the stress tracker. The stress tracker allows you to monitor your stress in the game. Too much stress and you can lose the scenario. You can leverage your stress to perform actions and aid the Alliance in different ways. Next you need to take a look at your class card. This tells you which two abilities are your Mastered Abilities, which help you reduce difficulty in actions, and what abilities are associated with your class, all of which are used to activate your class powers, presented on the card as well. Remember you can only activate each class power once in any scenario. Each class has a different set of master abilities, ability cards and class powers, so understanding your strengths and weaknesses is essential in assisting the other heroes win the scenario. Ability cards can be used by themselves or to activate powers. Finally you need to select a token to represent your hero as they travel the battleground.
Once you have familiarized yourself with your hero, we can focus on the battlefield. This tutorial is presenting Scenario 0: Training Ground. How to set up the battlefield and how to run an individual scenario is presented in the Scenario Book. Let’s focus on what you see here. The large hexagon tiles are called Battle Tiles. These are the regions that are the flanks of the battles between the Alliance and Dragon Army Units. The top three lines are the Dragon army Lines, and the Bottom three are the Alliance army lines. Each army has varying numbers of units on each line and each line is represented by the three types of units, starting from the center moving out. The center are the Foot Units, the middle are the Missile units and the outer are the mounted units. Each unit type has a token associated with it. The Battle Tiles are controlled by Commanders, each side has a commander card associated with it. Commanders can be ready, and able to use their power, or shaken, and unable to use them. Heroes can refresh shaken alliance commanders, each card tells you how...
Thank you for watching todays Dragonlance Setting episode. What do you think of Warriors of Krynn? Would you prefer to play Shadow of the Dragon Queen with it, or roleplay the battles? Leave a comment below!
I just bought this at Ollies, It has six miniatures with it. I didnt have any kender or Dragonlance miniatures so it was worth it.
i have to buy shadow of the dragon queen with it? meh... glad i only paid ten bucks
That’s cool
This is really helpful thank you! I think there are pros and cons with the game. CONS: it is VERY complex, I still don't fully understand yet, but this video helps tremendously. I also think the board itself is very plain looking and could have been much more epic in design. I also wish they could have found a way to incorporate your player characters in it and not generic characters. PROS: i like all the different options you have as a player, that gives it a lot of strategy. The battle dice are fun and gives it a D&D feel. The scenario aspects tying it to the main storyline is the best part. Having the players try to evacuate villagers in the last boardgame session was awesome. I don't think this game would be much fun without it being tied into the Shadows of the Dragon Queen campaign. Just my thoughts. Thanks again!
It couldn’t exist without SotDQ. No replay ability imo
@@DLSaga It could be upgraded officially with additional scenario packs containing new commander, event, and unit cards for use in other adventures, or, with a lot of effort it's possible to homebrew your own scenarios. I`m currently working on adapting the old Battlesystem scenarios in "Dragons of War" to use this game instead for the High Clerist`s Tower siege. Unfortunately, the way things are going it looks like it`s not selling and is just being ignored by the D&D community for reasons that have nothing to do with the game. This is one of the few posts on UA-cam that actually shows the game being played.
ollie's has this game for ten bucks. im picking it up tomorrow! :)
Nice
That’s where I just bought it too, absolute steal
Bought mine there too!
Ollies gang
Well done. All the important rules in less than 14 mins. I will make sure my players watch this for my own home game. We will play the second mission next weekend.
That’s awesome!
Did you scan this into Roll20 yourself or is it available somewhere?
I did the work myself.
I don't think the rules are too complex, but I also don't think you actually explained how to play the game. This video would more accurately be called "Warriors of Krynn Rules Overview" - it's a good summary but it needs examples of how the rules play out in practical terms in order to really be instructive.
That's fair. It's challenging as each scenario has different goals and objectives, so an overview is all you can do without playing through the scenarios. If you are interested in seeing them played, check out my Shadow of the Dragon Queen Actual Play series. We have played the first 4 scenarios in that.
There are lots of videos about this game but you ate the 1st to recall the battle system of 2nd edition
That seems to be the genesis for this game.
For the love of everything, how did you get this entire board game onto a virtual tabletop? I have to make this happen for my online players, too, and I don't even know where to begin.
I photographed every piece. It’s time consuming.
@@DLSaga That's what I was afraid you'd say. Name your price for the files and I'll PayPal the cash to you today. Shhhh, WotC doesn't need to know :)
@@RandyKalista I only have up to scenario 5 imported. The rest is in raw camera image format.
Nice to have a “how to play” video to send to my players
I hope it helps.
Do you have any videos of you actually playing the board game? It would be helpful to see how its played.
Yes, I play it in my Shadow of the Dragon Queen live play.
Great video. This should be useful when we sit down to play this. It looks like a lot of fun.
Thank you. I hope you enjoy it!
How did you get all the assets into roll20?!
I photographed them, clipped the photos and uploaded them.
@@DLSaga that's quite the commitment! If you are ever open to sharing I would love it! I've been trying to figure out how to run this with my online group!
I have the first two scenarios as rewards for Whitestone channel members. I’m adding future scenarios one a month.
Happy tuesday
Woo hoo
We played it last night and so much fun
That’s awesome! I enjoy it, and it can be really challenging!
You said that class powers can only be used once per scenario but in the rule book I'm reading it can be used only once per turn but you can use multiple powers. Did read this wrong?
I would defer to the rulebook. I must have misspoke.
Hi! Can I please know how you got the board game to run on roll20?
Yea, I photographed every piece, edited then imported them. Then I set up every scenario. It’s massively time consuming but I had no other way to do it.
@DLSaga Thanks! You wouldn't happen to have those available, would you? I'm also looking to run this game for my friends.
@@flumphguild589 I haven't collected them as I have only one scenario at a time imported. I plan on making each scenario available to Whitestone Council members probably starting next year.
@@DLSaga Thanks! 👍
I'm so confused!
It is really easy once you have seen it played or played it yourself. I have playthrough's on the channel.
@DLSaga Thanks Adam! I had to scrap the session and we ended playing poker and Sushi Go! Gonna trying running it again on the next session
great guide thank you
Thank you for watching!
Not gonna lie I'm still confused 🥲😅
I have scenerio playthrough's in the Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen actual play.