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[Stormprince]

wait, the game mechanics are going to be the SAME THING????


Whoa. Thats a rather important detail =)

Actually, I can't discuss the spell mechanics 'cept to say that they're not the same thing But, that's a WotC thing, so 'til they give the go ahead, I can't explain in any true depth...

Christopher

 

[Olive]

and NOT the subterranean dwelling dark-skinned, white-haired 'outcast' elves made popular in the Forgotten Realms and now found in almost every other world in the known universe), there are NO drow on Krynn.

Just a short point: the drow you describe are orringiallyfrom Greyhawk... hardly surprising then that the oringial campaign world has influenced so many.

 

[CrusaderX]

True drow are NOT native to Krynn. Except for the one adventure (which we do not consider canonical) and for the one mention of the word in Dragons of Autumn Twilight (where it is used synonimously to mean "dark elf" and NOT the subterranean dwelling dark-skinned, white-haired 'outcast' elves made popular in the Forgotten Realms and now found in almost every other world in the known universe), there are NO drow on Krynn.

No drow? Well hey, that right there is a good enough reason to roleplay on Krynn.

Count me in as a DragonLance fan who simply stopped reading after the Legends Trilogy. I loved Legends, but I fell out of the DL loop for awhile. And years later, the things that I heard about the novels after Legends kept me away from DragonLance as a whole.

But I'm still very nostalgic for the setting, so I'll be checking out the DLCS. I've always thought that there was a ton of untapped potential to be found on Krynn.

 

[Stormprince]

Just a short point: the drow you describe are orringiallyfrom Greyhawk... hardly surprising then that the oringial campaign world has influenced so many.

Yep, Valley of the Drow and all of that But because of Drizz't's popularity, and the current line of "Forgotten Realms Drow novels" (Because there sure ain't enough drow novels out there!) have created a small, but growing misconception that the drow originated in the Forgotten Realms (in the newcomers, that is, who haven't done a dearth of research into the matter).

Basically, it was decided long ago (although there have been a few writers and designers with other ideas) that there did need to be something more than "cosmetic" differences between the worlds...the word 'drow' meant 'dark elf,' hence the note in Dragons of Autumn Twilight. It ranks up there with the hauberk-wielding guard of Tarsis

Christopher

 

[D-Man]

I skipped all the 5th Age stuff and went right to War of Souls so I'm not sure how Mystics were portrayed prior to the last trilogy.

They wield divine magic from the "power of the heart", correct? And they are more contemplative and less combat oriented than clerics?

Do they occupy a specific niche or are they essentially clerics without deities?

 

[Stormprince]

I skipped all the 5th Age stuff and went right to War of Souls so I'm not sure how Mystics were portrayed prior to the last trilogy.

They wield divine magic from the "power of the heart", correct? And they are more contemplative and less combat oriented than clerics?

Do they occupy a specific niche or are they essentially clerics without deities?

*hrms*

Theoretically speaking, mystics are to clerics as sorcerers are to wizards

Basically, mystics are individuals who have turned their focus inwards, drawing upon the energy within them to accomplish some of the same things that clerics can. Instead of having clerical domains, they have spheres that they have focused upon. In playtest, they've been received pretty well!

Christopher

 

[D-Man]

*hrms*

Theoretically speaking, mystics are to clerics as sorcerers are to wizards

Basically, mystics are individuals who have turned their focus inwards, drawing upon the energy within them to accomplish some of the same things that clerics can. Instead of having clerical domains, they have spheres that they have focused upon. In playtest, they've been received pretty well!

That's cool. Since 3e came out I wished they made a divine caster who casted her spells spontaneously. Basically, as you mentioned, a divine answer to the Sorcerer. Not sure if that's how you have Mystics set up, but they sound cool. Almost like psionicists.

 

[Stormprince]

That's cool. Since 3e came out I wished they made a divine caster who casted her spells spontaneously. Basically, as you mentioned, a divine answer to the Sorcerer. Not sure if that's how you have Mystics set up, but they sound cool. Almost like psionicists.

In a way, that's kind of how I view mystics... Krynn's answer to psionics, since Krynn doesn't allow for psionicists (by the core rules, anyways...though there's always home-tweaked!).

Although mysticism was only truly "discovered" in the Fifth Age, while sorcery was "rediscovered," it is certainly possible that some few people throughout history somehow tapped into that inner reserve of power, but without any formal training, were never really able to develop it.

If you look at some of the design notes and original information about the Silvanesti elves, you discover that they once possessed telepathy, but it had faded over the years until only some of House Royal possessed the power. Given the Silvanesti embracement of the Orders of High Sorcery, over time, anything that wasn't High Sorcery was probably ignored until it faded away.

During the turbulent times of the Fifth Age, however, the raw need for something to replace the "lost" (however temporarily) magic allowed for mysticism to once more begin flourishing.

Christopher

 

[D-Man]

In a way, that's kind of how I view mystics... Krynn's answer to psionics,

Very interesting stuff. In the novels, how did Mystics approach combat?

 

[Aaron L]

Looks really good. But they aren't going to keep using steel pieces as currency, are they? That was always so dumb.