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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[Weiley31]

I cant wait to see how The Feywild shows up in Dark Sun.

Door gets kicked open as The Shadowfell walks in with the laugh track playing in the background

Shadowfell: Diiiiiiiid somebody say DARK Sun?

 

[This Effin’ GM]

Door gets kicked open as The Shadowfell walks in with the laugh track playing in the background

Shadowfell: Diiiiiiiid somebody say DARK Sun?

That’s why it’s called Dark sun, you see. It’s dark. Like the shadow fell.

 

[DarkCrisis]

That’s why it’s called Dark sun, you see. It’s dark. Like the shadow fell.

You see Defilers draw their magic from the Shadowfell and Perserves draw it from the Feywild! Dark Sun 5e!

(WotC if you use this you owe me money)

 

[This Effin’ GM]

You see Defilers draw their magic from the Shadowfell and Perserves draw it from the Feywild! Dark Sun 5e!

(WotC if you use this you owe me money)

Ok I know this is a joke but I honestly don’t hate it. I might steal this for home brew

 

[darjr]

Starts sweating profusely as a DM.

Doesn’t mean you cant

But I’m telling WotC.

 

[This Effin’ GM]

Doesn’t mean you cant

But I’m telling WotC.

Snitches get stitches, pal.

 

[cbwjm]

Nope. In 1e, both white and red could cast evocation and invocation.

I literally just looked it up in the 1e dragonlance adventures and only invocation is listed for red robes.

 

[TwoSix]

Ok I know this is a joke but I honestly don’t hate it. I might steal this for home brew

Same. Having Athas in kind of a celestial tug-of-war between the Feywild and the Shadowfell that the Shadowfell is winning is a neat twist.

 

[This Effin’ GM]

Same. Having Athas in kind of a celestial tug-of-war between the Feywild and the Shadowfell that the Shadowfell is winning is a neat twist.

Right?!? Next stop: Ravenloft

 

[Mecheon]

Fey-what??? So kender are now magical Fey beings that create reality out of nothing from any container they carry. Did anyone actually read any of the original setting when coming up with this? If they weren't created by the Graygem of Gargath, then they aren't kender. They're something else you're dressing up with nostalgia and calling kender.

I'd firstly say making Kender fey is more tying to their original inspiration. They were dragged from Halflings and dragged more in the direction of mythological little people which are, well, basically the foundation for what Fey are. Fey inspiration is in their blood when they were dragged away from being halflings due to injecting more of it to explain the 'Why are they all good thieves?' question. Kender have always skirted the fey lines since day 1

also can I just say its actually kind of dumb like 90% of races in Krynn come from a single random ass magical rock. can't have no competing mythologies or vagueness, nope. The Graygem did it and any other answer is forbidden

Gold pieces on Krynn? You're whittling away at what makes the setting unique and turning slowly into Forgotten Realms with 3 moons.

Yeah, that's just called 'realism'. We use gold for coinage because it was relatively rare, relatively easy to get into suitable format for being coinage, and didn't have any other use at the same time

Steel has a very useful other use and is a relative pain to make. Why would it ever be used for coinage and not them just skipping right past into the paper stage?