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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[Scars Unseen]

One thing I'm sure WotC won't do is produce a long complicated list of banned/nerfed subclasses.

I'm fairly certain that if I want a 5E Dragonlance setting to be unique or interesting in any way, I'm going to have to take any material WotC publishes as a starting point, subject to heavy revision based upon TSR era material. As usual.

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

WotC can tells a lot of things, but in my tabletop I am who chooses what is allowed or not. If I want there are psionic mystic or aasimars in Krynn, and druids and paladins wouldn't need a god or patron, and Huma's son created the bloodline of the spellcales (a dragontouchd race from "Races of Dragons"). Or I would add some new class, a mixture of dragon adept, dracolyte and dragon shaman.

 

[Weiley31]

And don't forget, you can always keep Kenders the same, or not from the Feywild, at your tables.

 

[James Gasik]

I thought Drizzt was living in Neverwinter? It's been awhile since I read one of his books.

 

[cbwjm]

Let me change track. What would a curious/collector Kender non magical non thief unless by individual choice, that does not create extra work at the table look like? Also the Feywild is overused these days and doesn't fit DL.

They'd look like a lightfoot halfling. They're brave, nimble, and lucky with could easily explain why kender have survived. They're naturally stealthy and they're charismatic (though less important with the race changes). If you want to throw in slight of hand as a skill, you'd have a great representative of a kender. If you don't want to give them sleight of hand, then I feel like you'd still have a good representation of a kender.

 

[darjr]

I just ran a game with elements from this playtest and they were pretty amazing.

 

[cbwjm]

I can rule that my druid's powers have nothing whatsover to do with the gods if I choose.

You can, but if the DM says that you need a god to get your druid powers then you're out of luck.

 

[Parmandur]

I just ran a game with elements from this playtest and they were pretty amazing.

Do tell.

 

[darjr]

Do tell.

We had a knight of Solamnia in the game, oh and one player had previously played a Kender out of the UA playtest.

 

[cbwjm]

I just ran a game with elements from this playtest and they were pretty amazing.

I think the knightly order feats would make for a cool character. I think playing as a fighter or paladin moving through the orders would be pretty rad and the extra abilities in the feats provide some nice additional powers.