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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[Mind of tempest]

Those are awesome ideas.

I’ve been considering a Longtooth Shifter Lunar Sorcerer myself. I love Lycanthropes and moon magic.

someone playing a shifter what a novelty

 

[Marandahir]

You know, with the Lunar Sorcerer subclass, having a Lunar Sorcerer Haregon or even a Grey Wolf (refluffed Dog PC from Animal Adventures) Lunar Sorcerer would be incredibly on point theme wise.

Just in time for Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty, even. Expecting that to be our next M:tG setting book…

 

[Mind of tempest]

Just in time for Kamigawa: Neon Dynasty, even. Expecting that to be our next M:tG setting book…

do we get guns?

 

[James Gasik]

We had one or two firearms back then, but mostly as novelties. The exploding damage dice was neat, but most PCs ended up sticking with their bows and swords.

I think a big part of it is that the foundational fantasies back then were worlds without firearms - Middle-Earth, Hyperborea, Nehwon, etc. I could point to Barsoom, but by the 80s I don't know how much people were into Barsoom. I certainly didn't come to it until much later, though I confidently suspect that younger Ralif would have chafed at the blurring of fantasy and sci-fi lines. Younger Ralif was a purist in that regard and didn't know what he was missing out on.

But as we see more and more fantasy series that include magic and technology like Mistborn, The Craft Sequence, the Grishaverse, and tons of anime, people are going to be growing up with different visions of what fantasy is and can be. Some younger people I've run with are all for firearms in D&D, others still draw a hard line there.



Getting back to Dragonlance, if it's an adventure, I kinda hope Takhisis isn't the big bad (or at least, not the one the PCs fight). Do we need a rematch with Tiamat after Tyranny of Dragons? I know, she's the iconic villain of Dragonlance, but there are plenty of other great choices.

Just want to say, I was fortunate enough that one of my mom's friends had some old, well-read paperbacks of the John Carter series, and I totally loved the heck out of those stories. Kind of a shame Disney dropped the ball on the movie's advertising, it was decent.

 

[Mind of tempest]

Just want to say, I was fortunate enough that one of my mom's friends had some old, well-read paperbacks of the John Carter series, and I totally loved the heck out of those stories. Kind of a shame Disney dropped the ball on the movie's advertising, it was decent.

wait do you mean the movie with the white hippo apes?

 

[James Gasik]

The one with Willem Dafoe as a bug man!

 

[Mind of tempest]

The one with Willem Dafoe as a bug man!

do you mean this one?

 

[James Gasik]

That's the one alright. Yes, it had some questionable CGI, lol. Still, for an adaptation it was ok. I remember seeing it with my friends and they were griping about tired old heroic action tropes and I was like, DUDE, this is where those tropes came from!

 

[Mind of tempest]

That's the one alright. Yes, it had some questionable CGI, lol. Still, for an adaptation it was ok. I remember seeing it with my friends and they were griping about tired old heroic action tropes and I was like, DUDE, this is where those tropes came from!

it was oddly enjoyable but needed a more cool name.

 

[James Gasik]

I guess they could have went with "A Princess of Mars". Or the much more awesome, "John Carter, Warlord of Mars".