I feel like if they wanted to do dragonlance, they'd make dragonborn variants more like the draconians. The current UA dragonborn are nothing like them. They even call out draconians in the PHB as being like dragonborn but with magical abilities in place of their breath weapon. I really do think that they'd trial a bunch of unique abilities in place of the current UA dragonborn which seem more like they've taken to heart that the race needs a boost in overall power. I also think they'd have a few more non-draconic themed subclasses that are linked to the setting. Happy to be wrong though, I do love dragonlance.They don't -explicitly- scream "Dragonlance" to me, either... But.
If you had to release a Dragonlance Book and had an edict from on high to make Dragonborn more "Dragonlance Friendly" (Since they're a core race and must therefore be available in all settings) wouldn't you take the same steps as those presented in the UA?
No other setting is quite -as- reliant on creating a significant difference between Chromatic and Metallic Dragonborn, after all. Forgotten Realms made them all kind of Dingy brown, Rust colored, or vaguely dark rather than giving them a specific ancestry. Greyhawk could have them in a similar style. Birthright probably wouldn't care, and in Dark Sun Dragonborn would be, like, twisted children of Sorcerer-Kings trying to become dragons themselves.
But Dragonlance is centered around the dragons being opposed to each other as an explicit thing. The whole War of the Lance and all is fought on the back of specifically colored dragons based on whose side you're on. Takhisis and Paladine are really quite explicit in their connections to the dragons for a reason, after all.
Having them look like Metallic or Chromatic dragons would also help to make them visually distinct from the different Draconians, which are of course a different thing.
The Gem Dragon and Kobold changes are just kind of... "There", and there's FR-Specific spells, too.
But with Fizban and the Metallic/Chromatic split... I feel like there's still a chance. Not a certainty, by any means. But I feel like it's definitely a contender.
1) They haven't released a book, yet.
2) Maybe, sure.
All the Draconians are Evil, though. You couldn't replace the Dragonborn with Draconians and have it still fit the heroic player character race. Especially since they've got no breath weapons and only do something special when they die.I feel like if they wanted to do dragonlance, they'd make dragonborn variants more like the draconians. The current UA dragonborn are nothing like them. They even call out draconians in the PHB as being like dragonborn but with magical abilities in place of their breath weapon. I really do think that they'd trial a bunch of unique abilities in place of the current UA dragonborn which seem more like they've taken to heart that the race needs a boost in overall power. I also think they'd have a few more non-draconic themed subclasses that are linked to the setting. Happy to be wrong though, I do love dragonlance.
Not all draconians are evil, many of the originals have quit the dragonarmies and formed their own kingdom (I think they had a trilogy about it). They also have chromatic dragonborn now that when created were good. The PHB dragonborn call out that fact that draconians have no breath weapon and instead have magical abilities, I think that's how they would differentiate them by making a specific dragonlance subraces of dragonborn instead of trying to shoehorn in the current ones.All the Draconians are Evil, though. You couldn't replace the Dragonborn with Draconians and have it still fit the heroic player character race. Especially since they've got no breath weapons and only do something special when they die.
I feel like they'd either need to cut Draconians altogether (Which an update to the story could do pretty easily) or make them as separate from Dragonborn as Kobolds and Lizardmen are.
I could totally see a "New Age of Krynn" in which the Draconians are nixed in favor of "Children of Paladine" and "Spawn of Takhisis" as rank and file soldiers in an epic new War of the Lance.
I could definitely see that, yeah.Not all draconians are evil, many of the originals have quit the dragonarmies and formed their own kingdom (I think they had a trilogy about it). They also have chromatic dragonborn now that when created were good. The PHB dragonborn call out that fact that draconians have no breath weapon and instead have magical abilities, I think that's how they would differentiate them by making a specific dragonlance subraces of dragonborn instead of trying to shoehorn in the current ones.
While I don't the the dragon-related UAs have anything to do with the release of a Dragonlance setting book, I think Dragonlance is definitely coming. There's a new Dragonlance trilogy coming out and you know that WotC is going to make game material to compliment that.If they were planning a Dragonlance book, don't you think they would save a Dragonlance spell for the Dragonlance book? Dragonlance material appearing in other books actually diminishes the chances of seeing a Dragonlance book any time soon, IMO.
Connecting them to gem dragons, which don't appear in Krynn? No.If you had to release a Dragonlance Book and had an edict from on high to make Dragonborn more "Dragonlance Friendly" (Since they're a core race and must therefore be available in all settings) wouldn't you take the same steps as those presented in the UA?
Once again, there's no need to be rude, Whizbang.Connecting them to gem dragons, which don't appear in Krynn? No.
Reading that UA and saying "yep, Dragonlance" requires willfully skipping much of the actual UA. If we're going to do that, why not decide it's a Mystara or Greyhawk UA, both of which actually have kobolds and gem dragons? No one's doing that, because it's an obvious reach.
Let's be honest, no Elf is going to claim that's their bearded daughter. Just let the Dwarves claim her.Humans and Dwarves cna have kids in the ForgottenRealma, they are just always Dwarves: same with Elves, Halflings or Gnomes: their kids with Dwarvea are just always Dwarves. This is established in Canon.