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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[GMforPowergamers]

Yes. Half-elves had infravision back in the day. I wish it still existed as a lesser form of darkvision (or replaced darkvision. That would be cool too).

infravision was like what the predator has in the movies and was heat based. Darkvision is more like magic night sight that replaced it. I too wish we had both.

 

[darjr]

It seems so weird to me that here in the middle of this fantasy elves thing they have a sci fi power. It was part of what I loved really.

 

[wellis]

Yes. Half-elves had infravision back in the day. I wish it still existed as a lesser form of darkvision (or replaced darkvision. That would be cool too).

That or possibly darkvision also includes infravision in it? Or is that too much from a RAW perspective?

 

[cbwjm]

I think 1e also had ultravision which saw into the ultraviolet spectrum. I did quite like 3e low-light/darkvision, I thought that was the best version for special eyesight. Not 100% sure, but I think 3e dragonlance combined the 2 into elfsight.

 

[Stormonu]

Count me as another who liked low-light vision.

I remember too many arguments about infravision back in the day, though, to ever want it back. Also, infravision was different in that you couldn't see undead with it, as their dead bodies were the same temperature as the surroundings.

Ultravision was peculiar, the only race I remember having it was Drow.

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

Animals with infravision from the real life.

Animals That Can See Infrared Light

Cold-blooded animals such as blood-sucking insects, some snakes, fish and frogs can see infrared light.

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25 Animals That Can See Infrared (Updated 2022)

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* Some times I miss the knight as class, not only a subclass. Why not anything like the cavalier class from Pathfinder?

Also I like the idea of dracolyte, like a hybrid fighter-arcane, or an arcane version of paladin, but whose boss is a dragon, or a dragon-worshipper cult.

Or a remake of the crusaders class, from 3.5 Tome of Battle.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Isn't that just down to gear?

 

[Stormonu]

It seems so weird to me that here in the middle of this fantasy elves thing they have a sci fi power. It was part of what I loved really.

Back in the day, D&D (and the rest of media - for ex., Krull) tended to be much more free about mixing fantasy & sci-fi. It's a lot more gated and separate these days.

 

[wellis]

Back in the day, D&D (and the rest of media - for ex., Krull) tended to be much more free about mixing fantasy & sci-fi. It's a lot more gated and separate these days.

Honestly, I don't think WotC nowadays has the creativeness of TSR. It may have been a poorly run company but it seems like it was a hell of a lot more creative.

 

[Stormonu]

Honestly, I don't think WotC nowadays has the creativeness of TSR. It may have been a poorly run company but it seems like it was a hell of a lot more creative.

Oh, I think they're plenty creative, but the constraints have changed - from above and below. Every time they try to reach too far out of the box that "is D&D", they get yelled at by the fans as either too different or straying too far from established canon.