Not to be confused with the Margaret Weis/Tracy Hickman Dragonlance novel of the same name that came out in 2022 and has nothing in common with this, except for the Krynn setting, DL9: Dragons of Deceit is the grand finale to the Second Book of the Dragonlance saga. Again this does not mean that it exactly corresponds to the ending of the second volume of the Chronicles, because it really doesn’t, the majority of the events in this module are not really present in the novelization which ends around the finale of DL8: Dragons of War with the great battle at High Clerist Tower (and the death of Strum).

So, in this module, the party, directed by Silvara/Silvart (the name keeps changing, confusingly), now revealed as D’Argent the Silver Dragon, are led to the city of Sanction in the heart of the Dark Queen Takhisis empire, in order to be able to release the good dragons of the oath not to fight the evil dragons they were forced into. By the end of the module and setting up the third volume of the adventure, the metallic dragons should now be firmly on the side of the party and the real Dragon war can start.

With some cool sections specifically dedicated to D’Argent and to the Solamnic Knight Lord Gunthar, with their backstory to be read by the players (or DM) who will control these important NPCs, it also has some great interior art by Diana Magnuson (as well as the classic Larry Elmore cover). As always full of goodies, such as diagrams for the dragon lances and saddles and so on, it’s clearly AD&D’s premium adventure module series of its day.