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Time of the Dragon (Advanced Dungeons and Dragons Dragonlance, Boxed Set)

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As a big fan of the Dragonlance world, this product provides a fresh look at lands far away from Ansalon and would provide a rich setting for a Dungeons and Dragons campaign. This is a bare bones view of the people and places of Taladas, a second continent on Krynn which has received very little attention or product support.

At times I found myself really impressed with the creativity and inventiveness of the the descriptions of the people and places of Taladas. At other times this boxed set really falls flat due to a combination of poor writing and use of some really cliche and uncreative adventure hooks. If you choose to use the materials presented here for your D&D game, be prepared to put in a good amount of work fleshing out additional details. While there are nice basic descriptions for the cultures and major places of Taladas, the set is light on specific details or maps for most of the important locations.

All in all, I enjoyed this product. There are a lot of great ideas to work with and I recommend this product to any devoted fan of the setting.
Furthermore, for now it's the only source book on Taladas (besides Taladas: The Minotaurs) and provides all the basic materials you would need to develop the setting further yourself. If you're interested learning more about Taladas, I also highly recommend the excellent Taladas 3 novel series by Chris Pierson.

This Box Set attempts to expand on the Dragonlance world by introducing another continent to the world of Krynn. Compared to David "Zeb" Cook's game mastery in the AD&D 2nd Edition guide book and the Forgotten Relms setting, this supplement falls far from the mark. Related to the well known continent of Anaslon primarily in sharing the same pantheon, this should be considered a whole new world that was linked to the main Dragonlance area by a trecherous ocean years before the current storyline. If this were a product that was designed to create a whole new world, it would get 3 stars for the quality and throughness...but it suffers mightily by the atemped link to the rest of the world that's hardly related to by the rest of the source material.