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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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[HammerMan]

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.

btw that 'cursed by god' is literally 100% what some white suprmasist say about Romani today... like at modern KKK met ups

 

[Zaukrie]

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

I can hope...and I can hope it stops at that and we move on after the complaint.....

 

[HammerMan]

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

so when people feel attacked, when people see nazi propaganda repeated, and bring it up how do YOU think we should react?

 

[Scribe]

so when people feel attacked, when people see nazi propaganda repeated, and bring it up how do YOU think we should react?

Not at all.

I just don't go around calling fantasy races Nazi propaganda.

 

[Micah Sweet]

btw that 'cursed by god' is literally 100% what some white suprmasist say about Romani today... like at modern KKK met ups

As I said, no change is going to please everybody, and no change isn't going to please everybody. Better to leave it to the Guild.

 

[Morrus]

why would we WANT the market to decide if racist boarderline nazi propaganda is successful? would we just rather remove that?

What are you doing? Don't post again in this thread please.

 

[Mind of tempest]

As I said, no change is going to please everybody, and no change isn't going to please everybody. Better to leave it to the Guild.

the kender are going to need an overhaul no matter what as the legends about their player are something else.

you know why I like when a new UA drop the buzz of activity.

 

[Micah Sweet]

I can hope...and I can hope it stops at that and we move on after the complaint.....

Happy to do so. What do we think about adding a feat to backgrounds? What existing feats would be good choice for the backgrounds we already have?

 

[This Effin’ GM]

Happy to do so. What do we think about adding a feat to backgrounds? What existing feats would be good choice for the backgrounds we already have?

I was trying to think through this myself. Sage = Keen Mind? Well wait feats that add bonuses to ability scores seem not great. Hm.

 

[ko6ux]

I'm not sure that the Kender Pockets trait needs to have a baked-in explanation. How different characters wind up with these items could be handled differently. Maybe the Kender in question is really a kleptomaniac. Maybe they are just lucky enough to always have what they need on hand. Or maybe there is a pseudo magical explanation. The key point of contention in past versions was that Kender got these items by "stealing" them from the folks they encountered. I think as long as they remove that problem and associated stigma around it, it should be fine.

In my own current homebrewed version of the Kender I left the provenance of the items open ended.

Kender Pockets
You have a pack full of items that you have acquired in your journeys. As a bonus action, you can produce any non-magical, common piece of equipment from your pack. The value of this item must be equal to 5 gp times your character level, or less. You can use this ability a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus. When you finish a long rest, you regain your expended uses. How you acquired these objects is up to you and the DM.