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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[Henadic Theologian]

If the Domains of Delight are one of the new settings for 2023, I suspect that Summerhome will be one of the Domains.

Also the fact that both Strixhaven & DL have backgrounds that give feats suggests this might become the new normal for 5.5e backgrounds.

 

[Stormonu]

Their immunity to fear and resultant curiosity are 90% of what made them different. The remaining 10%, the kleptomania, is 90% of what made them obnoxious.

The kleptomania can go, but I do like the idea of a vest/bag/pouch full of assorted things they’ve picked up, collected or whatever is a good replacement. Just not “magically pulled from the Feywild” :blech:

 

[This Effin’ GM]

Yup. Jean Rabes run, the age of….I can’t remember. Age of….mortals? The age where there were MEGA DRAGONS and WEIRD MOONS and MERCENARY SWORDSMEN WHO HAVE DRAGON SCALES IMBEDDED IN THEIR LEGS

THE FIFTH AGE! That was the name. There was a whole game centered around it. That was bugging me and I forgot I had google.

 

[darjr]

Dragonlance does have some kind of Feywild like plane, and even something that resembles a Domain of Delight surprisingly.

Summerhome

Summerhome is the inner domain of the Hulderfolk, located in the Hulder Realm of Southern Hosk. In actuality, the domain is located between the Prime Material Plane and an otherworldly realm of the fey, where only sylvan creatures exist. The terrain in Summerhome changes constantly, and foggy...

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WotC is making things with future possibilities in mind.

 

[This Effin’ GM]

WotC is making things with future possibilities in mind

Ugh this is how we get spelljammer and planescape, what are they THINKING

 

[darjr]

Ugh this is how we get spelljammer and planescape, what are they THINKING

I….. doubt it.

As much as I want it.

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

Why not to add more racial feats for kendes? Something about better saves against fear effect.

And a new class about dragons? A mixture of dracolyte (prestige class) and dragon shaman.

I think Witchlight/Domains of Delight will be the new-brand setting.

I wonder the theological impact of the warlocks for the age of the despair.

Maybe the psionic powers are discovered for the age of the mortals.

* WotC wants to publish things could be used by the DMs who would rather to create their own setting mixing from different sources.

 

[This Effin’ GM]

I….. doubt it.

As much as I want it.

so both of those settings are all about connecting worlds and the spaces between so I dunno. I think step one is establish worlds, implying connections, and then we will get the whole unifying tie.

saying it this way makes sigil sound like it’s gonna be a space station (arguably looks like one)

or makes spelljammer/planescape Wotc’s version of Thanos

 

[This Effin’ GM]

Why not to add more racial feats for kendes? Something about better saves against fear effect.

And a new class about dragons? A mixture of dracolyte (prestige class) and dragon shaman.

I think Witchlight/Domains of Delight will be the new-brand setting.

I wonder the theological impact of the warlocks for the age of the despair.

Maybe the psionic powers are discovered for the age of the mortals.

* WotC wants to publish things could be used by the DMs who would rather to create their own setting mixing from different sources.

Something to mention, Tasslehoff (arguably our best (for better or worse) representation of the Kender race) was affected by dragonfear in the novels. Just was played less as “oh god run away” and more as “I uh I have decided I’m more curious about stuff over there WAY over there”. I always found that interesting.

 

[TwoSix]

Ugh this is how we get spelljammer and planescape, what are they THINKING

I imagine they're thinking that lots of people like Spelljammer and Planescape, and/or the idea of a connected D&D multiverse. I mean, they've been pretty transparent about it.