how would you go about making or searching for a magical item such as the dragon orbs. and how would you go about using and weilding the power of the orbs? would like to know.
How would someone fit the Dragon Orbs into the FR? That is an interesting question. Personally, I would want to make them an ancient weapon/tool that have been lost and then resurface from time to time. I think I would make them elven items created back in the earliest days of the Forgotten Realms when elves and dragons battled for supremecy of the world.
I'm not one for converting the stats to 3E, but they might already be converted. Wasn't Dragonlance sold to a Third Party company? I believe that that would be the best source to converting it to 3E. I'm sure there are also numereous Dragonlace fan message boards where someone has already converted the stats for you. That would be the best place to check for 3.5E of the magic items themselves.
How would someone fit the Dragon Orbs into the FR? That is an interesting question. Personally, I would want to make them an ancient weapon/tool that have been lost and then resurface from time to time. I think I would make them elven items created back in the earliest days of the Forgotten Realms when elves and dragons battled for supremecy of the world.
Sounds like something else that could be connected to the Year of Rogue Dragons.
I do recall a post by someone on the WOTC boards that stated they converted the Rod of Seven Parts module to fit in FR and used the "Rage of Dragons" or "Flight of Dragons" that happened every once in a while to be based on the dragons converging on the location of the Rod and destroying all in their wake. Perhaps you can use the Orbs of Dragonkind to explain the Flight of Dragons, as well. Someone was controlling them to go bezerk. Or perhaps it is a by-product of the use of the Orbs?