Otherlands is an accessory for the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons

Dungeons & Dragons

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fantasy

Fantasy

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 role-playing game

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Contents

Otherlands is a supplement for the Dragonlance

Dragonlance

Dragonlance is a shared universe created by Laura and Tracy Hickman, and expanded by Tracy Hickman and Margaret Weis under the direction of TSR, Inc. into a series of popular fantasy novels. The Hickmans conceived Dragonlance while driving in their car on the way to TSR for a job application...

 campaign setting that describes three new lands between the continents of Ansalon

Ansalon

Ansalon is a continent on Krynn, the fictional world of the Dragonlance campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing game....

 and Taladas

Taladas

Taladas is a continent in the northern hemisphere of Krynn, the fictional world for the Dragonlance setting of the Dungeons and Dragons fantasy role playing game.-Introduction:...

. These lands include Watermere, the underwater realm of the sea elves

Elf (Dungeons & Dragons)

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; Chorane, the geothermically warmed underground land beneath the south pole of Krynn

Krynn

Krynn is the fictional world of the Dragonlance novels, co-written by Tracy Hickman and Margaret Weis. It has also been used in many other books, set in the Dragonlance universe. It is also used as the main setting in the Dragonlance campaign setting for the Dungeons & Dragons fantasy role-playing...

; and Silesia, which is a tropical jungle island. The book includes a map of all three areas.

Publication history

DLR1 Otherlands was written by Scott Haring, Scott Bennie, and John Terra, with a cover by Fred Fields

Fred Fields

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, and was published by TSR in 1990 as a 96-page book with a large color map.