After a series of unfortunate events result in Destina losing her father, castle, fiance, and self-respect, she proceeds to hatch upon a plan to use the Device of Time Journeying to save her father from death at the High Clerist's Tower. The following excerpt is set early in the book and has been lightly modified from what will appear in the final version. It all surged forwards with the cheerfully heater-skelter innocence with which Tas does everything, which is always very charming.

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I'm still partial to the late 1980s-early 1990s Larry Elmore covers and Jeffrey Butler's interior chapter page illustrations for the early printings, but the Ulrich cover recoups the art of Chronicles and Legends to a certain extent. Wolfstone took a lantern from an iron sconce and walked along the wall until he came to the door of a storage room. Much of the book's humor derives from the fact that Destina's plan is utterly insane and incredibly ill-considered from beginning to end.After Wizards of the Coast “fixed” their major mistake, which was the OGL debacle of 2023, I was finally in a space to pick up Dragons of Deceit.

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I can only find solace (heh) in the fact that they finally made it to a point in the telling where I’m actually excited to read the thing.

I was pretty hopeful heading into this book but pretty early on my immersion was shattered by info dumps. I Draghi dell’Inganno” è il libro primo della nuova trilogia ambientata nel mondo di Dragonlance, scritta da Margaret Weis e Tracy Hickman. As many other reviewers pointed out, though slow and at times a little boring, it's the first time that readers get a chance to experience a slice of life on Krynn. It would help immensely to have read at least Chronicles and Legends (six books), and probably even more. She’s supposed to be strong and noble, if a bit idealistic and naive, but she just seems to lack two brain cells to run together, coming up with batshit lunacy instead, albeit very driven.

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My perspective is that Weiss and Hickman, as well as Wizards of the Coast, lost out on a major opportunity to make Dragonlance a big deal again. Especially when she starts mucking with the timeline like if Rosencratz and Guildenstern decided to tell Hamlet’s mother that her current husband murdered her late husband. Even though they haven't written anything that really captured my imagination since the conclusion of The Deathgate Cycle in 1994, I always give them the benefit of the doubt and give their new material a shot. That in itself is one reason now is the perfect time to introduce a new Dragonlance character's fictional adventure and re-explore an old series of events from a new perspective.

I love Destina and she's a wonderfully fun girl but while she may have an INT score of 12 or 13, she absolutely must have either the lowest WIS score on Krynn or is consistently rolling 1's on her Diplomacy or Sense Motive checks. In the end, they became paired with enough repetition and typos to lead me to skim read through most of the last half of the book. But to change time, she’ll need another magical artifact—the most powerful and dangerous artifact ever created.