Dragonlance What do you want from a Dragonlance 5e?

[Hussar]

I don't think you're actually disagreeing with me. To boil down what you said, it's basically that the campaign comes first - good defeating evil. The setting is largely in service to the story. To me, that's a very, very good thing.

But, again, let's not cherry pick examples here. Riverwind was by no means a new character in the WotL. He was a 5th level fighter with an 18 percentile strength. He was more than a match for Caramon or Sturm.

My point being, the notion of Dragonlance focusing on "low level" adventurers ignores the source material. By the War of the Lance, the Heroes are all HEROES already. They had traveled all over Ansalon, and were, by 5e standards tier 2 by the start of the first module and tier 3 by the end of the 4th. By the end of the series, these were some of the most experienced, highest level characters in the setting.

We really need to establish which baseline we're talking about here. The modules? The original trilogy? The entire extended canon? What?

 

[Quartz]

But if it ever emerged for this edition... what would you want to see?

I want to see a pre-Catacysm Ansalon. Between the founding of the Knights of Solamnia and the First War of the Lance.

 

[Greenstone.Walker]

Rules for kender that aren't "screw over the rest of your party and annoy the heck out of all the other players at the table."

 

[cbwjm]

Rules for kender that aren't "screw over the rest of your party and annoy the heck out of all the other players at the table."

You don't need rules for that since that was never a requirement for running kender in the first place.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Rules for kender that aren't "screw over the rest of your party and annoy the heck out of all the other players at the table."

I would certainly like to see a more grounded and less twee take on the race.

 

[wicked cool]

reintroduce them into the lore as monsters only. Dont they own the rights to them? couldn't an adventure book be reimagined like they did with strahd as opposed to rewrite all the modules

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

I really liked the D&D Next rules for Kender. Rather than them just stealing from everyone and everything, they had an ability called Kender Pockets that let them make a check to see if they had a particular piece of nonmagical gear.

 

[Ogre Mage]

What would you all like to see in a 5e Dragonlance?

A kender shooting/blasting gallery
A slap the kender mini-game
A trophy/bonus XP for every kender killed
A fireball spell which only affects kender
A circle of death spell which only affects kender
A clerical ability to turn kender

 

[Zardnaar]

I really liked the D&D Next rules for Kender. Rather than them just stealing from everyone and everything, they had an ability called Kender Pockets that let them make a check to see if they had a particular piece of nonmagical gear.

That was in 1E Dragonlance book iirc.

Played it once 1996 iirc.

Kender still annoying regardless.

 

[beholdsa]

I would really want to see some lore and adventure options for the Chaos War.