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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[This Effin’ GM]

They're leaving it up to the DM and players because they are either too uncreative to come up with their own ideas, or too afraid of blowback to take a stab at it.

Or they know what they own and what they can speak to without having to be concerned with stepping on other peoples toes or being accused of using their big name status to grab up all possible ideas and put their logo on it? Or their job is to just give us stuff to use or not use at our leisure, but toss in some flavor so we don’t feel like we are reading a textbook?

I mean what do we want them to do, word for word reprints of previous books with only updated stat blocks? That’s what Goodman games is for, can I get a “What whaaaaat”?

 

[Charlaquin]

what races had ties to the Shadowfell? Just shadar-kai as I recall.

Dhampir and Reborn from Van Richten’s.

 

[Enevhar Aldarion]

Old tired take: dwarven women should have beards.

hot wired take: you from solamnia? Get ready for MUSTACHE CITY MY DUDES

For all you mustachios:

 

[ersatzphil]

My hope for Dark Sun (if they do it) is that they at least restrict subclasses. For example, you can play a cleric, but only a cleric of one of the four elemental domains. Paladins could have Oath of the Templar, warlocks could have The Sorcerer-King patron, etc. Then, you know, have a sidebar saying DMs can allow other subclasses if they want, but this is what’s available by default.

This would be pretty reasonable, to be honest. I still feel that restricting classes and races from a given campaign setting is a completely reasonable design space though - I think tieflings are super cool as an element of a Planescape game; I have no desire to see them in a Dark Sun one.

 

[This Effin’ GM]

For all you mustachios:

I’m rocking a Lemi on my face right now so I would consider myself a mustachio

 

[Minigiant]

So it's appliable to other settings.

Kennder are one of the few D&D races that are problematic special enough to not be made generic to fit in other settings

 

[This Effin’ GM]

Kennder are one of the few D&D races that are problematic special enough to not be made generic to fit in other settings

Can we all just agree that Kender were specifically created because some player wanted to play a precocious 10 year old and the DM had reservations about constantly having guys with swords take a swing at a kid?

 

[Charlaquin]

This would be pretty reasonable, to be honest. I still feel that restricting classes and races from a given campaign setting is a completely reasonable design space though - I think tieflings are super cool as an element of a Planescape game; I have no desire to see them in a Dark Sun one.

I agree! Restrictions can really help set a setting apart, and I think they’re under-utilized. Just throw in a “your DM might or might not allow other options; work with them if you want to play something not included here” sidebar and you’re golden.

 

[RoughCoronet0]

I’m not really all that much of a fan of Dragonlance to be honest compared to other settings like FR, Eberron, or Exandria.

Still, I’m loving the Lunar Magic Sorcerer a lot!

 

[This Effin’ GM]

I’m not really all that much of a fan of Dragonlance to be honest compared to other settings like FR, Eberron, or Exandria.

Still, I’m loving the Lunar Magic Sorcerer a lot!

Get out of here. GET.

naw I’m just kidding, it’s a neat subclass for sure.