Welcome back Lancers! In this episode I chat with Karl Preuesser about the Dragonlance: Dragons of Autumn Twilight soundtrack. The CD was just released on May 13th and we urge everyone to go out and get a copy, this is a wonderful and rich score. Courtesy of Karl we have almost the entire episode wrapped in clips of the soundtrack. Take a listen and enjoy.

 

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Welcome to episode 15, in this show we talk with Tracy Hickman about the Dragons of the Hourglass Mage book controversy. We also discuss his other upcoming works including Dragonships which he is co-authoring with Margaret Weis and another forthcoming series Drakis which he is co-authoring with his wife Laura Hickman.

I also make a suggestion about tea that I hope everyone takes an interest in. If so, let us know. Email us, leave a comment, post on the Dragonlance Forums, get involved!

 

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Hey all you loyal Lancers, Episode 13 is ready to go and chuck full of information for your listening pleasure.

What we Know about Dragons of the Hourglass Mage
Goodbye Gary Gygax

The Signal

Sages of Krynn
Trivia
Email

GeekRadio Daily

Roger E. Moore Interview with Talinthas
Trampas’s Fear the Con Review

The Immortals

Trivia Answer
Thanks for listening

 

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Gary Gygax, the father of Dungeons & Dragons past away today. My heart goes out to his family and friends and wish him the best. As a fan of the Greyhawk setting and to put it in gaming terms, the land of Oerth is a little sadder today, I know Gary is up there with the Gods of Greyhawk today.

Rest in peace Gary.

Valharic aka
Viconte 19th Human Level Cleric of Heironeous
Mordarby 16th level Human Wizard of Boccob
Raph 11th level Halfling Druid of Beory
Bazzerak 12th Dwarven Barbarian/Fighter

Alright back from the holiday hiatus. We’ve got an interview with Stan Brown author of the Dragonlance Young Readers Novel Dragon Day. But before that we catch up on a few items.

…and now on with the interview with Stan Brown

 

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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

Harper’s series

Ravenloft RPG and Ravenloft Novels
Vampire of the Mist

Mary Kirchoff

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

Dario Argento

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.

Hobby Games: The 100 Best

Ian Livingstone

Axis and Allies

 

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The rough cut Dragonlance: Dragons of Autumn Twilight that premieried at Comic Con and subsequently shown at Gen Con and Dragon Con has been posted at the official Dragonlance movie site. it was also accomapanied by a statement by Paramount Pictures on the status of the final trailer. Below is the same trailer linked through Youtube.

This was posted at the official movie site for the Dragonlance movie today, thought I’d share. This is an elven prayer hymn that Tracy Hickman wrote and Carl Preusser set to music. It’s as beautiful as I remember it was at Gen Con.

Enjoy.

On Friday, August 17 we had the opportunity to attend a Dragonlance Q&A session open to all. Talithas brought recorder and held his arm up for at least an hour to get this recording. we present this to you.

Here’s a pic of Trampas (Dragonhelm), me (Valharic), Talinthas, and Weldon Chen. What a geek that guy in the wizards robe is.

DL Q&A Panel from left to right - Tracy Hickman, Margaret Weis, Jason Mardsen, and Jon Frank Rosenblum.

DL Q&A audience - That’s Tal in front holding the recorder, Weldon right behind him, Trampas’ head behind Weldon, and Sean Macdonald in the bright orange shirt.

Another audience pic. There were a lot of people there. A little bit better shot of Trampas. In the light blue shirt is Shugi and two seats over from him is Clark Valentine.

 

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Just a quick little podacast. We got a lot of great material today that you will see in future episodes.

 

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So here’s a short little summary of my day. Below are also linked some pictures I took. Enjoy!!

Margaret Weis Productions Pic 1

Margaret Weis Productions Pic 2

Margaret and Tracy

Larry Elmore and I

 

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Gen Con begins this week (I’m officially on vacation on Tuesday, WooHoo!) and we plan on doing short little 10-15 minute podcasts to talk about each day, Thursday-Sunday.

So check back daily starting late Thursday night and we’ll have something for ya to listen to.

I have been informed of a minor issue with iTunes that may or may not be related to ID3 tags. But I have also heard that this issue could be a know issue that apple needs to fix with iTunes. I noticed episode 5 had the wrong track number in it. So I’m pushing that episode 5 back down to see if this corrects the issue.

So those of you who are iTunes listeners may see episode 5 come up again. You can ignore it, if you wish. There is nothing new to it, I’m just trying to correct some background settings.

Thanks,
Bill aka Valharic

We’re back, Woohoo! In this episode we chat with Chris Pierson, author of numerous Dragonlance books including Spirit of the Wind, The Kingpriest Trilogy, and most recently the Taladas Chronicles.

Also in this episode Trampas and I talk about Dragons of the Highlord Skies, Leaves III, meeting up at Gen Con, and a special event related to the forthcoming Dragonlance movie that will occur at Gen Con 2007.

Also a big congratulations to the Dragonlance Nexus for it’s nomination for Best Fan Website in the ENnie Awards.

…and here’s MWP new website that they are building,

Promotionals

Fortress Draconis

The Dragonhearth

7th Son for Geeklabel

See you again after Gen Con!!!

 

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Hey all, I know it’s been quiet from the Canticle lately and things have slowed down a bit. Just wanted to let you know we’re still here, things have just been really super busy for some of us this summer.

We’re working on Episode #7 now and should be out soon. Following that GenCon is coming up and Episode #8 will be a discussion about our adventures there. So relax, curl up with a good book (*Cough* Dragons of the Highlord Skies *Cough*) and enjoy the summertime and we’ll be back on a 2 episodes/month schedule after GenCon.

Long Live the Lance!
Bill aka Valharic