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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[Alzrius]

I'm not a fan of how the changes to the kender alters the lore around them, for reasons that I think are better explained by Graeme Barber.

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[Micah Sweet]

Like rules for adding cannons and guns due to those solamnia books they wrote?

I have all the rules for cannons and guns in 5e I'll ever need.

 

[Enevhar Aldarion]

Looks interesting, though never been a big fan of Dragonlance. I am more here for all the handwringing over the increased emphasis on alignment and feat chains. grabs popcorn

 

[JThursby]

As someone who started with 3e as a kid, Dragonlance is before my time and I know relatively little about it. What would be the big draw to play in the Dragonlance setting rather than FR or Exandria?

 

[Vael]

Still digesting the rest, but I'm a fan of the Lunar Sorcerer. I love all that it does. The metamagic discount is especially good.

 

[Micah Sweet]

Literally changes their very identity. Why even make it connected to the Feywild instead of a mild god curse like in the old lore?

Everything 's connected to the Feywild these days. It's a name they can brand.

 

[Charlaquin]

Does the phase of the moon not actually matter, the sorcerer chooses their "phase"? I mean, in my world, I'd actually, you know, tie it to the moon(s).....otherwise, this all looks pretty good to me. I have no issue with the Kender changes, but then, I generally can't imagine caring about lore if they want to change it.

The actual season doesn’t matter for Eladrin either, so I’m not surprised. Note, though, that tying the Sorcerer’s phase to the current actual moon phase would render their 6th level ability useless, and significantly weaken their 18th level ability.

 

[DarkCrisis]

Everything 's connected to the Feywild these days. It's a name they can brand.

Reeks of "everyone is special". Everything is magic!

 

[Charlaquin]

That weirded me out too. I am wondering if the book will include moon rules in general (this was the case in the 3.5 book) and then the moon sorcerer is special in that they basically can just choose whatever phase they want

My bet would be that it was originally written as attunement to one of Krynn’s three moons instead of a phase of the moon, but then they changed it to lunar phases so it could be ported over to other settings with different numbers of moons. That would explain why there are only three phases instead of four or five.

 

[UngeheuerLich]

That is so great.
I like the new backgrounds that give a feat. I also like, that the knight background feat gives proficiency in weapons and armor. I hope that is the design going forward.

Mountain dwarves can have a background feat that gives dwarven weapon training and armor.
Could be called mountain dwarf guardian.

I really would like that.