The scan quality is garbage, when you get to chapter 16 and start needing the grid maps to work they are unreadable.

I should have found this somewhere else like scribd, or some other FREE resources.

If you just want to read it, it's readable. If you want to use it as a player resource, don't. It's barely readable, and the maps are chopped up between page breaks, and the Thorbardin grid system is illegible. I regret paying money for this.

To be fair I bought this more out of a sense of nostalgia than any real intention of using it, as a book for reading it's okay but the scan quality is not the crispest which makes the art (one of DragonLance's best features) underwhelming.

As adventures DragonLance fans may really enjoy these but compared to most D&D adventures of their era these adventures feel completely on rails.

If you want a walking tour of the DragonLance novels with some statiscal accompanyment you'll probably enjoy this but otherwise it's probably a pass.

I'm not sure why this is getting so many good ratings. In the print versions, the print quality is light grey almost like newprint. It should be easy to make crisp and black text. The title isn't even printed on the spine (nor on the third one, but for some reason the title IS printed on the spine of the second one). I found all 3 volumes of this to be a huge let down in print quality and shelf presentation. If all you care about it using the content, go for the pdfs. If you actually care about shelf presentation and being able to read a physical book without eyestrain, skip the print ones.

Bargain basement treatment of classic modules.

The original product: Dragonlance Classics Volume 1 re-presents the original 1E adventures DL1 to DL4, in an attempt to accurately re-print the original material while updating it to 2nd Edition. On the plus side, all the original narrative text is here, and all of the original art, albeit rearranged in ways that don't entirely do justice to the original presentation. You're getting four classic modules in one book at a cheap price, so it's attractive for that reason.

Unfortunately the update to 2E leaves something to be desired. In some (but not all) of the original books, complete monster stat-blocks were presented in-line at the relevant point in the text, convenient for running the adventure. In this edition, all monster stat blocks have been removed, replaced by a table at the rear of the volume. This table does not include monster descriptions, special attacks or special abilities, so you'll need copies of the 2E Monstrous Compendium and Dragonlance supplement to make use of them. In addition, typos leave some monsters blank entirely (the Giant Bees from Dragons of Hope, for example.) It's the cheapest and laziest possible conversion to 2E, so that's a little disappointing.

Fortunately the original modules remain solid. They're full of odd flaws (asking you to use a party of unbalanced pre-created characters; a frankly baffling first act of the first module; far too many NPCs and far too frequent use of railroading), but their unique personality makes up for it. These are infamously the modules that come with sheet music and poetry. The story has genuine depth and epic scope.

DriveThruRPG's version: The book loses something further in translation to DriveThruRPG. The scan is not high resolution. It looks bad on screen. It looks worse in print on demand. The PoD version does NOT have lettering on the spine (unlike DLC2, which for some reason does), the pages have a "printed from a bad scan" look, and (as with most DriveThru POD books) the maps have been chopped up and bound at the rear of the book and are basically unusable - you'll need the digital copy to access these meaningfully. As an aide to a presentation of these modules it's acceptable, but as a standalone product or display artifact it falls short.

My advice: If you're running the original modules and have a choice of systems, the 3.5 update of these adventures is vastly better, benefitting from actual new content and a loving restoration with an eye to more mature adventure design, while keeping faith with the original presentation and content of the DL series. If you're running 2E, you may be better off just buying the original modules - given that you still need the 2E monster books to go with this, there's nothing you get here that you wouldn't get from combining the original 1E modules with the 2E Monstrous Compendium.

This is incredibly cool. I am using it to play Dragonlance with Chivalry and Sorcery. With a little creativity, it has all you need!

Dragons Dragons Dragons cant have too many dragons. Page after page of great fantasy RPG!<br><br> <b>LIKED</b>: 4 for the price of one!<br><br><b>DISLIKED</b>: :)<br><br><b>QUALITY</b>: Very Good<br><br><b>VALUE</b>: Very Satisfied<br>

Loved reading the Dragonlance books when they first came out, never got hold of the modules so picked them up here for interest value. The scans are great quality and easy to read.<br><br><b>QUALITY</b>: Very Good<br><br><b>VALUE</b>: Satisfied<br>

Very good scans in this product. I am using this as a campaign starting tonight. Excelent quality product

What can you say that hasn't already been said? This is Dragonlance at it's most pure. Before the hundreds of novels there were 14 adventures published for AD&D that rocked the RPG world. Here they are once more and anyone looking for a walk down memory lane or wanting something epic to launch against a group of new comers to the role playing thing would do a lot worse than to start here.

Between the three classics volumes are hundreds of hours of play stretched out . It is not, however, reccomended for the beginning GM. Dragonlance was constructed as a schematic, where players wander and trigger key events. For an experienced GM this should be a cake walk, but for the beginner it could prove a little unweildy. Don't get me wrong, these are quality adeventures, they will just need some fiddling to have them run smoothly.

Lastly a comment on the PDF quality. The TSR range has been plagued with cruddy scans and strange resizings of maps (ie. each cut up maps are slightly smaller in size from section to section, making the process of peicing them together a small nightmare). Dragonlance Volume 1, as with the Temple of Elemental Evil, has had it text reformatted, graphics relaid and as such the product is joyfully clean to read. Easily one of the best quality scan jobs in this range, it only serves to highlight just how poor other scans have been.

With the D20 Dragonlance manual on shelves, soon to be followed by a plethora of support material, why not pick this volume , translate the arcane AD&D into the eldritch D20 and revisit the world that spawned a hundred or so novels?