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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[AnotherGuy]

Item Save. Or whatever it was when ya had to worry about a Dragon breathing it's bad breath on you and you had to roll for your magic weapons or what not to survive.

I think you have misunderstood. We were not discussing the effects on items but on persons.

 

[humble minion]

The heroes of the lance are maybe the most important hook of the franchise. WotC worries more about to sell toys of Tanis and Laurana or skins in Fortnite than publishing new novels.

But the older generation can buy those new products as gift for the youngers to pass on the hobby. Older is Star Trek and there is a Enterprise spaceship by Playmobil. Michael Bay's Transformer movies weren't produced for the old generation but the new audences.

The heroes of the lance are the most important hook of the Dragonlance franchise maybe (Critical Role is the most important single hook for modern D&D more broadly), but it's been a long time since Dragonlance has mattered to WotC. There has never, in nearly 25 years of WotC owning D&D, been a WotC-published Dragonlance. Even in the 3e era they licenced it out.

Dragonlance at the moment matters to people in my age bracket. And there was a survey recently that said only 13% of D&D players are over 40. WotC won't be making a 5e Dragonlance to appeal to that 13%, they'll be trying to make a modernised version targeted at people born since the development of the web browser. For an older gamer, trying to 'pass on the hobby' by buying classic, un-updated Dragonlance stuff with 80s big hair Elmore artwork for a young gamer would be like a parent playing the music of their youth to their teenage kids. Probably just met with eye-rolling.

 

[Hussar]

/edit to remove offensive remark.

 

[Stefano Rinaldelli]

No. It really, really doesn't. No one has to "prove" anything to you. You do not get to be the arbiter of what someone else can find offensive.

Aggressive.

One thing you miss: I don't want to be the arbiter. I'm telling you that the offended can't be the arbiter.
If you believe something is offensive you can denounce and let a judge decide.

The present situation is that to avoid POTENTIAL offenses, you cannot express your freedom of speech.
You say I cannot be the arbiter and you are right. BUT even the self proclaimed offended can't be the arbiter.
If you accuse me of being anti LGBT, anti POC anti something, you have to prove it. Otherwise, applying your statement:

Ok. I find the last message you wrote extremely offensive. Please remove it, NOW.

 

[Hussar]

Aggressive.

One thing you miss: I don't want to be the arbiter. I'm telling you that the offended can't be the arbiter.
If you believe something is offensive you can denounce and let a judge decide.

The present situation is that to avoid POTENTIAL offenses, you cannot express your freedom of speech.
You say I cannot be the arbiter and you are right. BUT even the self proclaimed offended can't be the arbiter.
If you accuse me of being anti LGBT, anti POC anti something, you have to prove it. Otherwise, applying your statement:

Ok. I find the last message you wrote extremely offensive. Please remove it, NOW.

Ok.

Done.

See how easy that is. You succeeded. Well done you. My apologies for offending you.

 

[Morrus]

Something that seems like a woman that keep staying silent to avoid slaps by a violent husband.

Comparing people who disagree with you to domestic abusers is completely out of line.

 

[Stefano Rinaldelli]

Ok.

Done.

See how easy that is. You succeeded. Well done you. My apologies for offending you.

Now do the same for all the message you wrote since the last 5 years. (I'm joking... just in case...)

I think you avoid the problem I've posed to your attention, but don't want to force your answer. I'm simply sorry for that. This is not the first time this issues emerges in this forum, proving the fact that is a real issue. But i feel the general mood is not so open to arguing about it, so maybe it's better if we let the whole discussion fade away.

 

[Eubani]

At this rate we will only end up with slight variations of Care Bears, having said that I am sure some people would still find a way to be offended on behalf of some group or other.

 

[FrozenNorth]

At this rate we will only end up with slight variations of Care Bears, having said that I am sure some people would still find a way to be offended on behalf of some group or other.

People have been making that argument since the 1980s. Overall, during that timespan we have seen more diverse and better media, not worse.

At this point I’ve relegated the “everyone is so sensitive that only bland, easy material will be made” to the same scrap heap as the “if I made a female video game protagonist that isn’t flawless, I will be shut down” argument.

 

[Cadence]

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

What counts as a hard reboot?

Staying within medium, Duck Tails?

Are the different seasons of Power Rangers all one thing because of the few cross overs, or different?

Cross-medium radio to TV with Gunsmoke? Movie to TV with M*A*S*H?