Dragonlance Introducing Dragonlance's Iconic - And Upgraded! - Death Knight, Lord Soth!

WotC has posted a video introducing the iconic Dragonlance villain Lord Soth (albeit with the words "Lord Soth is Tiamat's favourite death knight"....)

Upgraded from the original Dragonlance adventures and novels, Soth now rides on a death dragon! In fact he is able to resurrect dead dragons as death dragons under his command. The SSI gold box video game, Death Knights of Krynn, was an inspiration for parts of this adventure.

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One of the most iconic images of Lord Soth was painted by Keith Parkinson (and you can buy a print from his website). It features Soth aboard his nightmare steed, leading his legion of skeletal warriors into battle.

 

[GMforPowergamers]

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are there any changes they are happy with?

 

[Voadam]

People who lay curses need to stop providing 'punishments' that turn the target into unstoppable badasses.

Fits in with Ravenloft unintended consequence curses that just generate more misery all around and can potentially backlash on the curser.

Works for me in that type of context.

But yeah, cursing people into horrific monsters that cause lots of problems is a thing benevolent gods should generally avoid doing.

 

[Micah Sweet]

Poor Sir Karl

And Lord Soth from the game.

And the Hands of Doom painting. IIRC featured as a cover on one of the Dragonlance novels.

I love that painting.

 

[Micah Sweet]

Arthas is a Lord Soth-type!

And Lord Soth is a Darth Vader-type, and Darth Vader is a Doctor Doom-type...

 

[Vaalingrade]

Fits in with Ravenloft unintended consequence curses that just generate more misery all around and can potentially backlash on the curser.

Also Ravenloft being both Ironic Hell and a containment system with nothing but souless puppets and even more soulless adventurers for these guys to harm mitigate it a lot.

 

[MonsterEnvy]

Death Dragons have already been used in Dragonlance before.

 

[GMforPowergamers]

Death Dragons have already been used in Dragonlance before.

when?

 

[darjr]

Dungeons & Dragons Miniatures: Icons of the Realms - Dragonlance - Lord Soth on Greater Death Dragon

Board Games, MTG, Magic: the Gathering, Yu-Gi-Oh, Pokemon, Role Playing Games, Dungeons & Dragons, Warhammer Miniatures, Gamesworkshop and much more.

www.google.com

 

[Demetrios1453]

when?

In the CRPG Death Knights of Krynn, which the developers have stated is one if the inspirations of this adventure.

Having just replayed it a few months ago, I'm excited to see them translated to 5e tabletop.

 

[Demetrios1453]

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Hey Margaret, 1990 and Death Knights of Krynn called...