D&D 5E Dragonlance book (180 pages) for players & DMs coming December 6!

[GMforPowergamers]

Dragonlance Companion’s backgrounds you can play as a Knight of Neraka or a Seeker Guard. Both include feats that build upon each other making your background selection even more definitive for your character.⁠

this sounds amazing, are the based (even just loosely) on the same patron as the tower and knight in the main book? Will it be something like background gives feat A then you can take feat B,C or D or you can take A later if you hit a prereq? I don't know if it would be more lock out like you can't be BOTH red and white robes, but you CAN be all the knights?

also I think you REALLY buried the lead with:

Bring time travel to your table with spells like detect temporal anomaly, nullify, paradox, time hop, and timereaver

THAT Sounds like the 2e chronomacer handbook, and I loved that.

 

[Micah Sweet]

this sounds amazing, are the based (even just loosely) on the same patron as the tower and knight in the main book? Will it be something like background gives feat A then you can take feat B,C or D or you can take A later if you hit a prereq? I don't know if it would be more lock out like you can't be BOTH red and white robes, but you CAN be all the knights?

also I think you REALLY buried the lead with:

THAT Sounds like the 2e chronomacer handbook, and I loved that.

God I love that book! I converted a bunch of it to my 5e game, actually.

 

[Splinterverse]

this sounds amazing, are the based (even just loosely) on the same patron as the tower and knight in the main book? Will it be something like background gives feat A then you can take feat B,C or D or you can take A later if you hit a prereq? I don't know if it would be more lock out like you can't be BOTH red and white robes, but you CAN be all the knights?

also I think you REALLY buried the lead with:

THAT Sounds like the 2e chronomacer handbook, and I loved that.

Yes, the backgrounds in the book are patterned after those in the official WotC Dragonlance book with hierarchal feats.

And, yes, there are quite a few things in the book that are conversions of stuff from the 2E chronomancer material.

 

[Splinterverse]

God I love that book! I converted a bunch of it to my 5e game, actually.

You'll be happy to know we have multiple things in our book that were converted from it to fifth edition!

 

[GMforPowergamers]

God I love that book! I converted a bunch of it to my 5e game, actually.

me too... but I have a "temporal Druid" subclass I made for an upcoming world and this alone might make this book a must buy

 

[GMforPowergamers]

Yes, the backgrounds in the book are patterned after those in the official WotC Dragonlance book with hierarchal feats.

And, yes, there are quite a few things in the book that are conversions of stuff from the 2E chronomancer material.

now I just need to wait for dec 6th and figure out the price of the PDF

 

[Splinterverse]

now I just need to wait for dec 6th and figure out the price of the PDF

Thankfully, you won't have to wait long for the 6th. The price for the 180-page PDF, which also includes some VTT tokens and a few maps, is $19.99.

 

[Weiley31]

It will be but not at launch due to the amount of time it takes to prepare the files on the printer's side and the print proof process. I'd expect within about a month of launch, it will be available. That said, if you choose to purchase the digital edition before the hardcover comes out, just email me your receipt or screen cap of proof of purchase, and I'll send you a discount to get the hardcover at essentially what the cost would've been if you had bought the digital + hardcover bundle. That way you can use it day one digitally and then get the POD without incurring more cost than you would have if POD+digital had been available day 1.

Thankfully, you won't have to wait long for the 6th. The price for the 180-page PDF, which also includes some VTT tokens and a few maps, is $19.99.

Absolutely generous for ya to do something like that and the price itself for the PDF is a flipping steal! Consider me a happy customer once Dec 6th gets here!

 

[GreyLord]

NO offense intended...BUT...

If someone wants a more traditional DL rules thing, I think the fallback would be Tasselhoffs Pouches of Everything.

Has a LOT of what people seem to be looking for from the WotC release (which were not in it).

Of course, from what I've seen, this release could work hand in hand for much of it, though I'd probably lean more towards TPoE taking precedence over this from a rules standpoint if I were going to more traditional DL route and wanted more of the races and classes from DL that have traditionally been there.

 

[Splinterverse]

NO offense intended...BUT...

If someone wants a more traditional DL rules thing, I think the fallback would be Tasselhoffs Pouches of Everything.

Has a LOT of what people seem to be looking for from the WotC release (which were not in it).

Of course, from what I've seen, this release could work hand in hand for much of it, though I'd probably lean more towards TPoE taking precedence over this from a rules standpoint if I were going to more traditional DL route and wanted more of the races and classes from DL that have traditionally been there.

I hear you. I've been in touch with the authors of that book. I've also seen the Table of Contents of the previous edition. There is very little overlap between the two so they can work in tandem.

Both books are sourcebooks/supplements. You pick and choose want you want to use for your campaign. And whatever you don't use for that campaign, you might use for another one. Also, there's nothing stopping you from using anything in either book for a non-Dragonlance campaign as well.

Having seen the previous edition of Tasselhoffs and our book, I'm confident it is worth purchasing both. I think it would give you a great pool of things to plug and play for any campaign.