Dragonlance DRAGONLANCE LIVES! Unearthed Arcana Explores Heroes of Krynn!

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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[This Effin’ GM]

Having High Sorcery or Knights be a patron would have been the better way to go, I believe.

Even back in 1E, you had a couple of levels (3 I think) of wizard before you had to visit the Tower. That fits more with it being a subclass to me, and if it’s a background - how do characters that pick up their first levels in Wizard down the road ever become a High Sorcery wizard?

I don’t take it as a background meaning that you passed the test of high sorcery (the reason to visit the tower), just that you trained using their methods. Actually re reading the background it even implies you haven’t taken the tests yet, just trained.

In Soulforge, Raistlin is tower method trained but still has to go when he’s powerful enough to prove himself

 

[Weiley31]

Kender Ace: Or as Jo-Jo Bizarre Adventures Part 5 best explains it-

IT JUST WORKS

 

[This Effin’ GM]

twenty say they stop existing.

Should they lose less of what makes the setting different and incorporate those species? Thus making it more generic?

I hope so. I hate running them. I’m going through war of the lance with a group and when I started to explain what they were, my skin started to crawl.

 

[ersatzphil]

I'm going to warn the Dark Sun fans; be ready.

Believe me, we know. I'm personally resigned to it.

That being said, I think the "background as faction membership" model could be fantastic for Planescape.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

Wait. Strixhaven had things in it explicitly meant only for Strixhaven.

Yeah but they designed Strixhaven so you could drop it into any setting. And Owlin are related to the Feywild as well. Is there any race not from the Feywild anymore LMFAO?

Anyways after finding out the two classic settings for this year are tier 2 settings instead of T1 Planescape and Darksun i'm not relying on WotCs Tiers for guesses anymore, they are clearly on a nostologia kick.

My new guess for 2024 setting revisit, Stranger Things!

 

[Sacrosanct]

And that’s just really sad. Everything has to be generic so it all fits in the same box.

That’s the exact opposite of creativity. 5E where it all fits in a nice little grey box.

For someone who has espoused their love of AD&D and B/X, even recently, this seems an awfully weird statement to make. B/X is built to be generic. That's the point. All barbarians, knights, mercenaries, etc are just fighters.

so it's strange to me that you'd love that system, but complain about how 5e is too generic.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

As I said, there are ways to make this more elegant. But instead they went the lazy magic/Feywild path, or as I call it, "the WotC way".

I call it the Racewild because they are tying EVERY race to it now adays.

 

[Azzy]

Heh, called it (Dragonlance getting a setting book this year, that is).

 

[DarkCrisis]

For someone who has espoused their love of AD&D and B/X, even recently, this seems an awfully weird statement to make. B/X is built to be generic. That's the point. All barbarians, knights, mercenaries, etc are just fighters.

so it's strange to me that you'd love that system, but complain about how 5e is too generic.

That has nothing to do with what I said. Drow and Orcs don’t exist on Krynn. Will they now? That just makes the setting more generic IMO.

Stripping out what makes a setting unique and different isn’t a plus IMO.

WotC Seems to want to go back to just “The Known World” and that’s it. “Blank slate every world” sounds boring to me. But that’s me.

 

[el-remmen]

Dragonlance finding homes for all the PHB classes shouldn't be a surprise

I didn't say I was surprised. I said I was disappointed.