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The latest Unearthed Arcana has arrived and the 6-page document contains rules for kender, lunar magic, Knights of Solamnia, and Mages of High Sorcery.

In today’s Unearthed Arcana, we explore character options from the Dragonlance setting. This playtest document presents the kender race, the Lunar Magic sorcerer subclass, the Knight of Solamnia and Mage of High Sorcery backgrounds, and a collection of new feats, all for use in Dungeons & Dragons.

Kender have a (surprisingly magical) ability to pull things out of a bag, and a supernatural taunt feature. This magical ability appears to replace the older 'kleptomania' description -- "Unknown to most mortals, a magical phenomenon surrounds a kender. Spurred by their curiosity and love for trinkets, curios, and keepsakes, a kender’s pouches or pockets will be magically filled with these objects. No one knows where these objects come from, not even the kender. This has led many kender to be mislabeled as thieves when they fish these items out of their pockets."

Lunar Magic is a sorcerer subclass which draws power from the moon(s); there are notes for using it in Eberron.

Also included are feats such as Adepts of the Black, White, and Red Robes, and Knights of the Sword, Rose, and Crown.

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[Mind of tempest]

Nice! I hope the rules revision updates existing backgrounds to that format as well.

as do I.

Do you think Weis and Hickman were borderline racist Nazi propagandists? I've read a lot of Dragonlance, and your impressions of these aspects are not the ones I came away with. I just think the issue can be handled more elegantly than, "it was magic!".

do you have a better idea as making kender digestible seems to be the point here if you can fix both points please tell us how to?

 

[Micah Sweet]

kender fluff is just a hair off of Romoni slander from them... and not really hard to read into. Like I said World Of Darkness brought this to my attention when a descent mechanic book (named the G slur) included it.

It doesn't have to be read that way. People see what their experience and background expects them to see. Most of the time.

 

[Parmandur]

Nice! I hope the rules revision updates existing backgrounds to that format as well.

Between this UA and Strixhaven, that seems to be the way that they are moving.

 

[HammerMan]

Do you think Weis and Hickman were borderline racist Nazi propagandists?

I don't know them, but Hickman DOES have a bad history with the G slur. I would like to think that by now both of them see what could be harmful and would embrace these changes. I don't even think people who repeat Nazi prpaganda by mistake when they don't know where it came from word for word are bad people... but if you bring it up and talk about it and they want to keep saying it... that looks bad.

I've read a lot of Dragonlance, and your impressions of these aspects are not the ones I came away with. I just think the issue can be handled more elegantly than, "it was magic!".

again, I have no reason to believe ANY of the writers had ill intent in there hearts.

 

[Zaukrie]

Do you think Weis and Hickman were borderline racist Nazi propagandists? I've read a lot of Dragonlance, and your impressions of these aspects are not the ones I came away with. I just think the issue can be handled more elegantly than, "it was magic!".

I think the world evolves over time, and we learn how our previous thoughts and work was influenced by things we didn't understand..

Also, every dang thread. Can we just talk about the rules w/o the same people coming in with the same complaints over and over?

 

[Micah Sweet]

as do I.

do you have a better idea as making kender digestible seems to be the point here if you can fix both points please tell us how to?

In the 1e lore, kender were cursed as part of their creation myth. Based on the kenku retcon, there currently resistance to this idea, but i think it works fine.

 

[Mind of tempest]

Between this UA and Strixhaven, that seems to be the way that they are moving.

and excellent direction for backgrounds, was honestly hoping for dark sun myself.

 

[HammerMan]

It doesn't have to be read that way.

correct, but it has been, easly by many over the years.

People see what their experience and background expects them to see.

yes, and when someone is told "hey, this sounds like nazi stuff" I assume most people would be like "Oh major opps I didn't mean to be at all like that let me change it"

Most of the time.

 

[Micah Sweet]

I think the world evolves over time, and we learn how our previous thoughts and work was influenced by things we didn't understand..

Also, every dang thread. Can we just talk about the rules w/o the same people coming in with the same complaints over and over?

You can't expect a retcon to an existing race like this to go by unremarked upon.

 

[Scribe]

kender fluff is just a hair off of Romoni slander from them

Nah sorry. You can choose to read into it whatever you want, but I will pass.