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]

I am not totally surprised with the UA, but I din't guess it would be now.

The cavalier/knight class would perfect in Dragonlance. I imagine something like the class from Pathfinder, but with some little touch of the 3.5 crusader, the martial adept from "Tome of Battle: Book of the nine Swords".

Here the retcon about the mages of the high sorcery was justified.

How should be the lore about the gullys?

* About the kender ace trait. If a character use the gold coins to buy something, and later these coins disappear, then it would be practically scam. Other point is if this gift could be used for smuggling, or to hide the picklock you would need to escape from the cage.

gullies?

 

[Micah Sweet]

I hate it. Because the PHB says you can build your own background but granting a feat is obviously much better than a regular background feature. So then every sane player should build a background that grants a feat. In addition, what happens to feat-granting backgrounds in a game where the DM doesn't allow feats but otherwise thinks this background is interesting?

And I am even a huge fan of feats, and think there's always room for more.

I can see how that would be a problem for some, and I sympathize. But I don't play in featless games.

 

[This Effin’ GM]

gullies?

Gulley dwarves.

 

[Weiley31]

I like it, sets them a part from other wizards in the setting. Also helps reinforce the setting idea that wizards of high sorcery ARE clerics of the moons

Which we now have in the Taldorei Reborn book too!

 

[This Effin’ GM]

Which we now have in the Taldorei Reborn book too!

True! That two moon cleric is bonkers.

 

[Sacrosanct]

1984 to 2022: Everyone hates Kender! Ban them!
2022, UA release: How dare they change the lore of Kender!

 

[Micah Sweet]

1984 to 2022: Everyone hates Kender! Ban them!
2022, UA release: How dare they change the lore of Kender!

I never hated kender.

 

[Mind of tempest]

Gulley dwarves.

define them as they do not sound good?

 

[Parmandur]

define them as they do not sound good?

Like a race of mentally handicapped Gollums with beards.

Offensive on several levels, in practice.

 

[This Effin’ GM]

define them as they do not sound good?

I heard them described as the cockroaches of the setting. Intended to be a comedic race of pathetic dwarves, it’s an extremely problematic portrayal.