Dragonlance Dragonlance: Solamnic Knights & Mages of High Sorcery Preview

WotC has shared another preview of the upcoming Dragonlance setting/adventure with a look at backgrounds and feats for Solamnic Knights and Mages of High Sorcery.

Feats include Squire of Solamnia and Initiate of High Sorcery. Interestingly, one prerequisite is "Dragonlance Campaign", which implies that the feats can't be used outside that setting.

Dragonlance Backgrounds and Feats: Answer the Call as Knights and Mages

Will you join the Knights of Solamnia or the Mages of High Sorcery? Each offers a unique background and feats for Dragonlance characters. Get a sneak pe...

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[wellis]

Listen,

Women who join the Knights of Somalia have mustaches on their souls, which is what really matters.

They should've had tinker gnomes or mages develop some sort of paste female recruits could spread on their upper lip to grow luxurious mustaches.

Gives them that great Larry Elmore mustache.

 

[Weiley31]

So, Dwarven women who join the Knights of Somalia have beards, right?

 

[whimsychris123]

Those people are free NOT to buy the follow up setting material.

The point of my post remains. This idea of "deep" worldbuilding (multiple supplements, etc) was not an aspect of early D&D, and avoiding such is not necessarily shallow worldbuilding.

 

[bedir than]

The point of my post remains. This idea of "deep" worldbuilding (multiple supplements, etc) was not an aspect of early D&D, and avoiding such is not necessarily shallow worldbuilding.

Plus, deep worldbuilding doesn't see time at the playing table. It's great for self-play, but it's a lot of creator time spent on something that's read once

 

[Fifinjir]

So, Dwarven women who join the Knights of Somalia have beards, right?

A dwarf’s true beard is on the inside, not the outside.

Okay, to actually contribute slightly, I cannot get over how crisp that image of the knights is. It’s no wonder Wizards is showing it off all over the place.

 

[Velderan]

So, Dwarven women who join the Knights of Somalia have beards, right?

I mean according to this chart, yes.

 

[Reynard]

The point of my post remains. This idea of "deep" worldbuilding (multiple supplements, etc) was not an aspect of early D&D, and avoiding such is not necessarily shallow worldbuilding.

While Greyhawk did not follow up with setting material, literally every other setting did. The implication that "early D&D didn't care about world building" is a disingenuous way to present that, especially considering it was the very beginnings of the hobby. I mean, many of the small companies the appeared in response to the existence of D&D were focus primarily on their own deeply detailed settings.

 

[Stormonu]

A blackened skull with pinpricks of flame for eyes. He's skeletal, not wraithlike.

Yep, he's one crispy critter (courtesy of DL9 - Dragons of Deceit)

 

[wellis]

His THAC0 is pretty high. I guess that means he's relatively easy to hit?

 

[whimsychris123]

While Greyhawk did not follow up with setting material, literally every other setting did. The implication that "early D&D didn't care about world building" is a disingenuous way to present that, especially considering it was the very beginnings of the hobby. I mean, many of the small companies the appeared in response to the existence of D&D were focus primarily on their own deeply detailed settings.

You stated that worldbuilding was a staple of early D&D, and I'm making the case that heavy worldbuilding wasn't really a thing until the mid-eighties, ten years after the appearance of the game. Yes, 2nd and 3rd editions went crazy with the world-building. You obviously prefer having multiple sourcebooks for a given world, but I don't. You call that shallow. I disagree. You say that the people at WotC don't care about worldbuilding. For me, to say that people like Chris Perkins and Wes Schneider don't care about worldbuilding or the history of the game is ludicrous.