D&D 5E New Unearthed Arcana: Heroes of Krynn Revisited

WotC's Jeremy Crawford has announced a new Unearthed Arcana article today with redesigns from the prior Heroes of Krynn UA based on feedback, and in the following video he discusses that feedback and what's in the article:

• New iteration of Kender based on feedback survey, due to mixed response. This time is a back to basics, aiming to capture 1E AD&D fearlessness, curiosity and taunting skills. Delve into their origins from Gnomes in deep history.
• Kender are no longer fey creatures who grab objects from the Feywild
• Tweaked Feats from prior article
• Tweaked Backgrounds from prior article
• Brand new rule giving a list of free Feats for ANY Background
• Free Feat rule for Level 4 for all characters that doesn't take the ASI away, based on a curated list
• Reveals that in the Adventure, healing magic is already back.

Heroes of Krynn Revisited | Unearthed Arcana | Dungeons & Dragons

Explore updated character options from the Dragonlance setting! This playtest document presents revised races, subclasses, backgrounds, and feats.

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[MonsterEnvy]

If you preferred the previous version of the Kender just say so in the survey. That’s what I am going to do. Like they can have magical bags and just not be related to fey.

I love the feats and background stuff here.

 

[Benjamin Olson]

So if Black robes are just ambitious now and white robes just want to protect people does that mean Red is like "I don't want to be selfish but I also don't want to help people.... um guess Im just a wishy washy arsehole?

They're not wishy washy, they just don't care enough about those particular things to join a club bases on them.

If people were actually asked to pick a robe color based on good-evil alignment, the only people who would ever choose a black robe are people with overwhelming guilt complexes about whatever their personal failings were, the white robes would be a few goody two-shoes, but mostly lousy with future arch-villains looking to get away with stuff. Red robes is all the people who don't want to be in one of those two clubs (ie: most people).

Similarly in a black=ambition, white=helping people scheme, red robes are all the people who don't want to join one of those weird, narrow clubs. Most high school students don't want to join the business club or the service club.

 

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

Non-Fey, with an unexplained ability to find something small in their pouches. Leave it up to the player to determine how it gets there and stop sanitizing the game.

Oh, come on. Making Kender magical is somehow "sanitizing"? Good grief.

 

[Parmandur]

If you preferred the previous version of the Kender just say so in the survey. That’s what I am going to do. Like they can have magical bags and just not be related to fey.

I love the feats and background stuff here.

Yeah, it's possible that this is a test, and they will triangulate the survey results between this back to basics version and the other one.

 

[DarkCrisis]

Given that WotC is, with good reason, not going to let them be a race of thieves (and the most hated race in D&D history) which, or something else, would you prefer?

Pretty sure thats Dragonborn or Tieflings.

Oh are we just pulling things out of our ass with no real facts to back it up beside personal feelings?

Trust me though, its Drow. Has been since Drizzt clones started appearing.

 

[Scribe]

Oh, come on. Making Kender magical is somehow "sanitizing"? Good grief.

No, telling the players how it got there, and its certainly not theft, is.

 

[DarkCrisis]

They're not wishy washy, they just don't care enough about those particular things to join a club bases on them.

If people were actually asked to pick a robe color based on good-evil alignment, the only people who would ever choose a black robe are people with overwhelming guilt complexes about whatever their personal failings were, the white robes would be a few goody two-shoes, but mostly lousy with future arch-villains looking to get away with stuff. Red robes is all the people who don't want to be in one of those two clubs (ie: most people).

Similarly in a black=ambition, white=helping people scheme, red robes are all the people who don't want to join one of those weird, narrow clubs. Most high school students don't want to join the business club or the service club.

They are the Hufflepuff group.

 

[Benjamin Olson]

They are the Hufflepuff group.

Finally someone explains Hufflepuff's role to me!

 

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

No, telling the players how it got there, and its certainly not theft, is.

No, that's just nonsense. Before they were told how it got there because Kender just randomly pick up stuff. The previous UA made it magical. Neither are "sanitizing". They're just different approaches and explanations to the same phenomenon.

 

[Scribe]

No, that's just nonsense. Before they were told how it got there because Kender just randomly pick up stuff. The previous UA made it magical. Neither are "sanitizing". They're just different approaches and explanations to the same phenomenon.

If you randomly pick stuff up in a store and put it in your pocket and walk out, what are you going to be called?

Why do you need to make this difficult? Its ok for them to clean up what their current demographic finds problematic. I dont have to like it, even if you do.