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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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I guess, perhaps the Spellplague scared off people from visiting from space for awhile.

It was Spelljammer canon that crystal spheres shifted position relative to each other in the phlogiston for various reasons, which means time, the Spellplague, and/or Second Sundering all would justify Realmspace having become hard-to-reach at best.

 

[James Gasik]

That is a change from 2e, to be sure, where smoke powder was in the magic item tables, but non-magical.

 

[James Gasik]

It was Spelljammer canon that crystal spheres shifted position relative to each other in the phlogiston for various reasons, which means time, the Spellplague, and/or Second Sundering all would justify Realmspace having become hard-to-reach at best.

I wonder how that affected people in Realmspace at the time; as I recall, that's where Rock of Bral was officially parked.

 

[darjr]

Huh?

Is this why Roll20 has been pushing so hard to get isometric maps working?

 

[Yaarel]

Waterdeep: Dragon Heist, p.192.

"Casting dispel magic on smokepowder renders it permanently inert."

I am fine with gunpowder overlapping with "alchemy". Dispel Magic is a good solution.

 

[Marandahir]

I am fine with gunpowder overlapping with "alchemy". Dispel Magic is a good solution.

After all, the secrets of fireworks and gunpowder are the secret skills specialized in by the Istari Gandalf and Saruman.

 

[Micah Sweet]

I am fine with gunpowder overlapping with "alchemy". Dispel Magic is a good solution.

I don't like the idea of Dispel Magic cancelling an entire weapon class. Regular black powder/gunpowder for me, thanks.

 

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

I don't like the idea of Dispel Magic cancelling an entire weapon class. Regular black powder/gunpowder for me, thanks.

Smokepowder is specific to the Forgotten Realms, and isn't "base D&D's" version of Gunpowder. Gunpowder is (which is found in the DMG).

 

[Micah Sweet]

Smokepowder is specific to the Forgotten Realms, and isn't "base D&D's" version of Gunpowder. Gunpowder is (which is found in the DMG).

Yeah, I know. I just think "smokepowder" is a silly way TSR came up with limit firearms in the Realms.

Also an old thing I'd be happy to see changed.

 

[Dire Bare]

Like . . . the classic example: Nazis. A culture that was evil. There's a reason they've been used as movie villains for decades. Not because Germans in the 1930s-40s were "born evil", but because their culture was evil and lead to the deaths of tens of millions of people.

Well . . . . Nazism isn't really a culture, but rather an ideology within a culture. Nazi ideology is evil, no doubt. But were all members of the Nazi Party truly evil? Some certainly were, but the average soldier or citizen swept up in the madness? Was German culture at the time evil? Were all Germans, or even most Germans, evil?

IMO, we shouldn't ascribe inherent evil to a race or species . . . but we also need to be careful ascribing inherent evil to a culture.

In the real world, the only real difference between peoples is culture, not biology. The differences in skin tone, facial structure, etc are all very superficial . . . it's culture that makes us diverse and different from each other. There can be negative cultural themes or tropes, but rarely can they be applied to everyone in that culture, that's stereotyping, of course.