In this episode Trampas, Tal, and I sit down with Cam Banks, managing editor for Margaret Weis Productions and discuss the recently released novel The Sellsword. In addition to that we talk about his writing process and publishing a novel for Wizards of the Coast.
The Dragonlance Canticle Episode 14-Cam Banks and The Sellsword [51:25m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (1525)Trampas, Tal, and myself discuss our thoughts about the movie. You could even say it’s our version of the Towers of High Sorcery movie review. Take a listen and find out why.
The Dragonlance Canticle Episode 12 - The Movie Discussion [67:28m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (2132)Welcome back to another episode of the Dragonlance Canticle. Today we have a discussion/interview with James Lowder author of Knight of the Black Rose and Spectre of the Black Rose. First a few notes from the show opening
Destiny
Dragons of the Highlord Skies
Dragonlance movie trailer premiere (it’s on the official movie site, but we have linked it to our website also)
Jamie Chambers and Cam Banks interviewed on the latest episode of the Dragonhearth
Now on with the James Lowder interview. Let me warn you, it’s a long show (oh the horror)…
Stormblade
Weasel’s Luck
Defenders of the Magic
Ravenloft RPG and Ravenloft Novels
Vampire of the Mist
Sithicus: The realm of Lord Soth in Ravenloft
Dragon Magazine #351 - World Serpent Inn article (good article! Get it while you can!)
A possible third book? Here’s to hoping!
Vampiric Kender - When Black Roses Bloom
Numerous work in other horror genre RPGs including:
Vampire: The Masquerade
All Flesh Must be Eaten
Deadlands
Clark Ashton Smith
The War Hound and the World’s Pain
Polyhedron magazine
Dead Alive - Also known as Braindead an early Peter Jackson movie for you Lord of the Ring fans.
World War Z - by Max Brooks (Yes, Mel Brooks’ son)
Zombies - a metaphor for social conformity? George Romero uses this well.
Shadows Over Baker Street
Captain Kronos - Vampire Hunter
Cthulhu - HP Lovecraft
Greyhawk - is Ravenloft the plane that imprisons Tharizdun? We may never know what the dark powers are.
Audition - a tough Japanese horror movie to watch. Be warned!
Requiem for a Dream
Carnival of Souls
Dead Ale Wives reference
Jean Ray - Ghouls On My Grave
Fantomas
Anita Blake and Laurel K Hamilton
James is currently working on a new trilogy with a working title called Ebonnachtthat will be published by Elder Signs Press. He’s hoping to have the first book out on by Gen Con 2008. The main character of the story makes an appearences on a number of short stories:
Pulp Zombie: The Nght Chicago Died - Great story, by the way.
The Unquiet Dreams of Cingris the Stout in Gaming Frontiers Magazine #2 and will hopefully see a reprinting of it sometime soon.
He’s working on something for Paizo (Top Secret! Shh!)
Paizo Planet Stories
Announced here first!!
James will be doing some work for Devil’s Due Publishing for the Wizards of the Coast comics. He can’t say anymore but he told us the Nexus will be very interested in it. Hmmmmm.
Here we go!! The talk about what we saw at the Dragons of Autumn Twilight Trailer Premiere. Warning - incessant fanboy discussion heard here. We are not responsible for our giddiness! You have been warned.
Lazy show notes. I’ll post them tomorrow night. 
In this episode the three of us, Tal, Dragonhelm, and Valharic talk about our GenCon experience. Originally this part of the show was suppose to be one third of the whole show, but we talked so much, our hour was up. So next week well have GenCon Part 2. Links below to things we talk about.
Valharic talked about:
GenCon 2007
Chris Pierson
Larry Elmore
Legends Map Pouch - Get it! It a work of art!!
Geeklabel party at the Hard Rock
Gaming with Jason Mardsen - So much fun. One of my best GenCon experiences ever!!
Talinthas talks about:
Tal and Weldon played in the Dwarven Depthes game. He played Tanis-half jerk face
Dragonlance Shirts - How do we get one??!!!
Tal heads over to the artists corral
Jason Engle
DL Trailer - So cool!! More to come later
Tal is jealous he didn’t get to play
Tal gets the Black Robed Raistlin miniature
More Art!! The Young Adult Dragonlance novels artists (Sorry con’t find a link)
Wayne Reynolds (WAR!)
Tal comes out of the closet about Raistlin
Drizzt Who?
The the legendary game of Talinlance - Purple and lavender dragonspawn. We don’t discriminate.
Feal-Thas
The Immortals by Tracy Hickman
Steve “Stan” Brown
Jason Engle sketchs some cool stuff for Tal
Nina Hess at Mirrorstone
Roger E. Moore - A Stones Throw Awaythe first published Dragonlance story.
Dragons of Krynn
Best GenCon Evahr!!
Trampas talks about:
Started in St. Louis -Eastward Ho Dragonhelm!
Godzilla-lance - Let us never speak of Godzilla-Lance again
Pathfinder at Paizo - Goblins and Kobolds oh my!
GenCon is all about getting the swag!!
Which is the better book War of the Lance SB or Races of Ansalon?
Alright, it was Articblast I met on the forums!! Sorry I drew a blank when recording.
THE BIG NEWS!!!
The Dragonlance Nexus won the ENnie for BEST FAN SITE!!!!
A lot of thanks you’s to a lot of poeple.
Fear the Boot
Have Games, Will Travel-Won best podcast
Yog Radio - Got the silver
Next year, hopefully the Canticle!
Killer Breakfast all-star cast.
Jason Mardsen - Yes he could play Tas in a live action movie but not a T-Rex.
Ed Greenwood - He is Elminster!
Gary Gygax
Tal plays LG characters because he likes to play fantasy - hehe.
Holy Cow! Our hour is up! Check back next week for Part 2 where we talk about D&D 4E and the Dagonlance Movie trailer premiere.
At last, the promised episode about the Heroes of the Lance…well sort of.
As we began the disscusion of - if we could move beyond the HotL, they really became more of a springboard for us to say how we could move forward. Take a listen.
We open the show with a couple announcements about Leaves III and my left ear. The first half is about the HotL the second half is how we feel it should be done. Yes, we are chock-full of opinions on this.
What do you folks think? Can or will we ever move on? If so, how do you see it happening? Let us know either by leaving a comment or joining us for discussion on the Dragonlance forums.
Oh, and by the way, there must have been something in the water that night, because I make a couple of really bad joke. My apologies…well, not really. Enjoy!
This episode is a discussion on the recent announcement that Wizards of the Coast has chosen to not renew the Dragonlance RPG license with Margaret Weis Production. I know, I know, we mentioned in episode 3 that this would be about the Heroes of the Lance, but with this recent development we felt we needed to address that instead. We’ll come back to the Heroes in a later episode.
In this episode you’ll hear what this means for MWP and the fans. You’ll also here another part of Tal’s State of the Lance and Dragonalnce’s 5 year cycle. It put’s the recent events in perspective and shows that this is not the death knell for Dragonlance. We then move on and talk about we as fans can do to keep Dragonlance alive. This episode is focused on the gaming license but it’s chock full of history of Dragonlnace’s history as a product. Enjoy!
Long Live the Lance!
Welcome to the 2nd episode of the Dragonlance Canticle and our first discussion. Our topic for this episode is Wild Sorcery. We’ll talk about its history, its role in the fifth age, what we’d like to see done now, and where we’d like to see it go. So join Trampas, Bill, Talinthas, and Catherine and take a listen. Then head on over to the Dragonlance forums and continue the conversation or leave a comment below. Enjoy.
