Dragonlance Dragonlance adaptation to D&D 5th Edition

[oreofox]

While I am not a fan of what came after Dragons of Summer Flame (wasn't really much a fan of that book, but it wasn't terrible), I liked what they did with the 3e Dragonlance books, including the content made based on the post War of the Lance timeline. I'm not sure what timeline you were going for with your conversion, but I assume the official one if you have a form of mystic as well as sorcerer. From my memory of reading the 3e books, they have good aligned draconians made from chromatic dragon eggs.

As for your other races: I'd personally build the draconians off the dragonborn, make the evil dwarves use the duergar from Xanathar's, and I believe there's a derro race write-up in another book, and modify to fit how you see them. You also don't have the Dimernesti/Dargonesti sea elves. I'd go with the aquatic elf write-ups in Mordenkainen's, but add in the ability to change into a sea otter (dimernesti) and dolphin (dargonesti). If you wanted to add in those elves as a playable race for your write-up. Other than those, I think you've done a pretty good job.

 

[PabloM]

While I am not a fan of what came after Dragons of Summer Flame (wasn't really much a fan of that book, but it wasn't terrible), I liked what they did with the 3e Dragonlance books, including the content made based on the post War of the Lance timeline. I'm not sure what timeline you were going for with your conversion, but I assume the official one if you have a form of mystic as well as sorcerer. From my memory of reading the 3e books, they have good aligned draconians made from chromatic dragon eggs.

Yes, we based our guide in the 3e era books and the current official timeline. Anyway, with the tools presented in the pdf anyone can adapt the elements they want to their games.

As for your other races: I'd personally build the draconians off the dragonborn, make the evil dwarves use the duergar from Xanathar's, and I believe there's a derro race write-up in another book, and modify to fit how you see them. You also don't have the Dimernesti/Dargonesti sea elves. I'd go with the aquatic elf write-ups in Mordenkainen's, but add in the ability to change into a sea otter (dimernesti) and dolphin (dargonesti). If you wanted to add in those elves as a playable race for your write-up. Other than those, I think you've done a pretty good job.

Thank you for your comments, all suggestions are welcome!
The draconians are built with the dragonborns in mind, so we are in the same page there.
In previous versions of the guide we used the duergar for the dark dwarves. But after a second thought we concluded the Duergar and the Derro are not much alike the Krynn´s dark dwarves, so we decided to make our versions.
And I agree with you in the treatment of the aquatic elves. The ones in Mordenkainen´s seems to fit in Krynn. We didn´t include them in the guide because... well, because we thought anyone would play one.

 

[PabloM]

I uploaded the 2.2 version of the document including a lot of your corrections and suggestions.
Thanks!

 

[hastur_nz]

I understand, but I think while is a good idea, adds too unnecessary complexity to the game. The same effect (demonstrate the enhaced power of a Wizard in a High Sanction and the decrease of that power in a Low Sanction) can be done by adding or substracting a number to spell attack and save DC.

I think anything that causes your character's abilities to rise and fall with the cycles of the moon is just asking for trouble of some kind (e.g. ask your wife). Personally I never liked it when they added it to the Dragonlance rules (late AD&D book?), and for me it's especially not in the spirit of 5e - you're just asking for trouble with people wanting to game it.

 

[Eltab]

I believe there's a derro race write-up in another book

There are Dwarf, Halfling, Gnome sub-races in Sword Coast Adventurers' Guide. I'm not familiar enough with Dragonlance to offer advice, but the material may help you out.

 

[Irda Ranger]

I think anything that causes your character's abilities to rise and fall with the cycles of the moon is just asking for trouble of some kind (e.g. ask your wife). Personally I never liked it when they added it to the Dragonlance rules (late AD&D book?), and for me it's especially not in the spirit of 5e - you're just asking for trouble with people wanting to game it.

I still own the original Dragonlance Adventures hardback, and it has rules for the Moons effecting the power of magic, so I'm not sure what you mean by "adding it" to the setting. The Moons of magic having an effect on power has been a core attribute of Dragonlance since the very beginning (Night of the Eye, anyone?).

I'm not sure what you mean by players would "game" the system. Having to wait weeks or months for the moons to be in the right phase or conjunction doesn't sound like something that would be gamed often.

 

[Pauln6]

I think anything that causes your character's abilities to rise and fall with the cycles of the moon is just asking for trouble of some kind (e.g. ask your wife). Personally I never liked it when they added it to the Dragonlance rules (late AD&D book?), and for me it's especially not in the spirit of 5e - you're just asking for trouble with people wanting to game it.

A +1 / -1 to spell DC is the simplest way to do it, possibly with enhancement to damage with a feat.

 

[cbwjm]

I can't find it now, but I think my update to Moon magic was to focus on the additional spells that a wizard of high sorcery would gain when in high sanction and removing the difficulty/enhanced caster level of the ability. I did this by enhancing the arcane recovery powers of the wizard. Low sanction they were able to recover 1 less spell level, high sanction was +1 and then +1 for each other moon in conjunction so the night of the eye would enable an extra 3 spell levels recovered via arcane recovery, quite the boon for low-level wizards especially. The actual numbers may have been higher, I think I have it written down somewhere on these forums.

 

[bedir than]

A +1 / -1 to spell DC is the simplest way to do it, possibly with enhancement to damage with a feat.

I'd say Ad/DisAd would be the easiest way, and most consistent with 5e

 

[Perun]

I always liked the spellcasting distinctions between the three orders of magic, i.e. how Black Robes levelled faster and got access to higher level spells sooner, but had less spells overall (IIRC), with the situation reversed for the White Robes. IIRC, a black robe got access to 9th level spells at level 17, and a white robe at level 19. Red robes used the PHB spell advancement table, and got acces to 9th level spells a level 18.

I was disappointed when they didn't use this in the later versions of the DL campaign setting.