Dragonlance Dragonlance: Solamnic Knights & Mages of High Sorcery Preview

WotC has shared another preview of the upcoming Dragonlance setting/adventure with a look at backgrounds and feats for Solamnic Knights and Mages of High Sorcery.

Feats include Squire of Solamnia and Initiate of High Sorcery. Interestingly, one prerequisite is "Dragonlance Campaign", which implies that the feats can't be used outside that setting.

Dragonlance Backgrounds and Feats: Answer the Call as Knights and Mages

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[cbwjm]

So, for sorcerers I'd probably do something like the following for their background/feat.

Academy sorcerer background/feat
List spells related to the realms of sorcery. A sorcerer chooses 2 realms and gains a cantrip and a 1st level spell from each realm.

This gives them additional 2 cantrips and 2 additional 1st level spells related to a theme. Might even create a subclass for them that expands on this.

I'd also be tempted to allow sorcerers to use intelligence instead. One of the issues with wizards transferring from sorcerer to wizard or vice versa was the difference in the casters intelligence/charisma scores. I kind of feel like at least some of the sorcerers in the 5th age were harnessing their sorcery through methodical study rather than just a certain knack for magic.

 

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

The complete lack of mustache on those Knights is killing me.

Like, why even change that? Why was that needed to change?

If your biggest complaint so far is that the book doesn't have enough mustaches, it looks like it's going to be a great book

 

[JEB]

Interesting bit is that the “Dragonlance Campaign” is a feat prerequisite.

That's bizarre. What purpose does including that restriction serve?

 

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

That's bizarre. What purpose does including that restriction serve?

So DM has an excuse for why they're not allowing these feats in another setting.

 

[JEB]

So DM has an excuse for why they're not allowing these feats in another setting.

Except some DMs (novice DMs and/or those who are very RAW) may also read it as "I'm not running a Dragonlance game, so I guess I can't include those feats in my setting, even though I'd like to." That's anti-fun.

 

[cbwjm]

Except some DMs (novice DMs and/or those who are very RAW) may also read it as "I'm not running a Dragonlance game, so I guess I can't include those feats in my setting, even though I'd like to." That's anti-fun.

Then that's on those DMs.

This is clearly a way to say that they backgrounds and feats are made specifically for this campaign setting, if others aren't willing to override that for their games, it's not the game's/designers fault.

 

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

Except some DMs (novice DMs and/or those who are very RAW) may also read it as "I'm not running a Dragonlance game, so I guess I can't include those feats in my setting, even though I'd like to." That's anti-fun.

Do DMs usually feel restrained by the player limitations in a book? Because even before TCoE, I knew DMs that let me play a Bladesinger without being an elf.

 

[JEB]

Do DMs usually feel restrained by the player limitations in a book? Because even before TCoE, I knew DMs that let me play a Bladesinger without being an elf.

Wizards seems to think so, since Tasha's specifically dropped that restriction. (I dropped it immediately after SCAG, myself.)

 

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

Wizards seems to think so, since Tasha's specifically dropped that restriction. (I dropped it immediately after SCAG, myself.)

WotC has been encouraging the "make D&D your own" approach a lot recently. This restriction just seems like it's there to help DMs that don't want to allow the feats in non-Dragonlance campaigns.

 

[JEB]

WotC has been encouraging the "make D&D your own" approach a lot recently. This restriction just seems like it's there to help DMs that don't want to allow the feats in non-Dragonlance campaigns.

Recently indeed, since Strixhaven didn't have any similar restriction for its feats. Nor Eberron (though to be fair, anything pre-Tasha is basically a different era at this point).