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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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[darjr]

Bond. James Bond.

Was it? I didn’t realize.

Honestly though the Bond movies list me a while ago. I know there a success, I just bounce off of em. Even trying to watch the old ones too, really.

 

[darjr]

Battlestar Galactica is probably the major example that comes to mind. Maybe the new She-Ra and DuckTales?

But failed hard reboots are much more common.

BSG for a while, yea, it was great, didn’t eventually peter out and tank? I know I was surprised when I heard it ended.

 

[JEB]

Was it? I didn’t realize.

Honestly though the Bond movies list me a while ago. I know there a success, I just bounce off of em. Even trying to watch the old ones too, really.

They're kind of weird about it - Daniel Craig is presented as a new Bond, but they carried over Judi Dench as M from the "classic" films. They also nodded to the classic films more and more as the Craig films continued. (I wouldn't have been surprised had they embraced the "James Bond is a codename" theory fans have had for years.)

BSG for a while, yea, it was great, didn’t eventually peter out and tank? I know I was surprised when I heard it ended.

It did probably outlast its welcome, but for a while it was a pretty big deal, and its style was influential on other shows too.

 

[darjr]

I did really dig BSG for a while.

 

[Azzy]

I did really dig BSG for a while.

I tried to like it, but I just couldn't.

 

[GreyLord]

Has there been a successful hard reboot? Even Star Trek is kinda walking it back and mixing in aren’t they?

Magnum P.I.
Macguyver
Mission Impossible
Batman (The Dark Knight Trilogy)
Star Wars EU (debatable on how successful it is or isn't, but they did wipe the old EU and restore the new)
Spiderman Movies (Debatable [Spoilers]

Spoiler

--because with the new one that just came out as it sort of incorporates everything into one continuity now making it no longer a hard reboot...sort of

Superman (well, I think Man of Steel was successful)
The Lord of the Rings Movies (though, one could argue the original Lord of the Rings and Return of the King were not all the successful when they were made)

etc...

 

[darjr]

Magnum P.I.
Macguyver
Mission Impossible
Batman (The Dark Knight Trilogy)
Star Wars EU (debatable on how successful it is or isn't, but they did wipe the old EU and restore the new)
Spiderman Movies (Debatable [Spoilers]

Spoiler

--because with the new one that just came out as it sort of incorporates everything into one continuity now making it no longer a hard reboot...sort of

Superman (well, I think Man of Steel was successful)
The Lord of the Rings Movies (though, one could argue the original Lord of the Rings and Return of the King were not all the successful when they were made)

etc...

Superman? I can’t really give you that one. It was panned and as much as I like the latest actor he was the only good part.

Spider man? OK. Yea. But also your caveat kinda undies it too.

Manum PI and Macgyuver? Your kidding?

Star Wars? Only in part. Yea, but most folks only really know the movies which were not scrubbed.

Batman, yea I see it.

Mission Impossible. Yea, OK.

 

[darjr]

Sorry for the topic drift. I’ll ox neigh.

 

[GreyLord]

Manum PI and Macgyuver? Your kidding?

Big Magnum PI fan (Old and New).

Fan of MacGuyver as well.

Both have had several seasons of successfully being renewed...so I'd say that's a successful reboot. I don't get Paramount+ for Star Trek...I get it for Magnum...

But...back on topic...

I'd go with the things said before by some, WotC if they CHOOSE to reboot Dragonlance (and there is no guarantee of this) I think it most likely they go back to the War of the Lance period (similar to how they went back to a prior period for 4e Darksun) for adventures and such and do a loose scan of the setting (sort of like SCAG did for FR). They don't have to include every race or every class, just some basic ideas and let it run from there (once again, very much like what SCAG did).

 

[JEB]

I'd go with the things said before by some, WotC if they CHOOSE to reboot Dragonlance (and there is no guarantee of this) I think it most likely they go back to the War of the Lance period (similar to how they went back to a prior period for 4e Darksun) for adventures and such and do a loose scan of the setting (sort of like SCAG did for FR). They don't have to include every race or every class, just some basic ideas and let it run from there (once again, very much like what SCAG did).

The upcoming Weis/Hickman Dragonlance novels are specifically part of "Classic Dragonlance," which (by the authors' statements) includes all the old novels, but also doesn't factor in anything from any 5E version of Dragonlance. Weis has also indicated disapproval of the UA's (proposed) changes.

Meanwhile, Wizards also released a statement last year which clearly indicated that older editions and licensed novels aren't canon for 5E game products (except for any particular bits they feel like keeping). This some time after doing a very thorough reboot of Ravenloft. And the UA does change fundamental assumptions about the character options in the setting.

So while a reboot isn't guaranteed, it seems much more likely than not at this point.

I do agree, though, that going back to the War of the Lance is the likely approach.