Dragonlance Lunar Sorcery: A Preview from Shadow of the Dragon Queen

WotC has posted a preview from the upcoming Shadow of the Dragon Queen on D&D Beyond, diving into the Lunary Sorcery subclass.

Traditionally magic in Krynn has been represented by the Wizards of High Sorcery, who owe their allegiance to one of the black, red, or white moons (and gods) of magic. Sorcerers weren't around in D&D when Dragonlance was created.

Lunar Sorcerers also draw power from the moons, based on the moon's phase (Full, New, Crescent). You choose the phase each day (though at later levels you can do so more often). The subclass gets a lot of spells (15 additional spells!)

Lunar Sorcery Sorcerer Preview From Dragonlance: Shadow of the Dragon Queen

Harness the power of the moon with the Lunar Sorcery sorcerer! Here's a look at the versatile features granted by this celestial subclass.

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[Maxperson]

Let's just go back to 2e era restrictions then. Maybe we can bring back racial ASIs and alignments while we're at it.

Yes! And since I give my child chores, we should go back to indentured servitude while we are at it! And because you are against limiting artificers in Krynn to gnomes, we must get rid of all limitations so you can do anything you want in the game! Want to be a gnome/human/giant/dragon/mouse? We shouldn't stop you because that would be a limitation!!!!

See how silly arguments like that are?

Limiting a single class to one race isn't even a beginning of going back to 1e and 2e. It's just a feature of the setting.

 

[Maxperson]

I thought the first artificer (at least what was recognizable as what we recognize as an artificer) was published in the Spells and Magic book for players options back in the late 90's. Where was the earlier one from?

What do you think mad gnomes who created devices to fly(fly spell), time travel and other things were? It wasn't formalized into "This is an artificer class," but they were artificers. Had there been an artificer class back then, they would have had access to it.

 

[WarDriveWorley]

What do you think mad gnomes who created devices to fly(fly spell), time travel and other things were? It wasn't formalized into "This is an artificer class," but they were artificers. Had there been an artificer class back then, they would have had access to it.

I see what you're referring to.

Based on the original Dragonlance Adventures book and my remembering of the setting the Tinkers inventions were firmly scientific in nature and the rules for building the devices supported a "separation of science and magic". The artificer blends science and magic. Almost like (to steal a term) a techno-wizard.

Yeah I know that there's some overlap. I understand that the term artificer can refer to someone who uses magic or technology or both to create things. And yes I agree that had the mechanics of the artificer class existed the tinker gnomes would have latched onto that like a miniature giant space hamster latches onto a ranger. I just feel that saying "Artificers did in fact exist when DL was first created." is a stretch given the context.

 

[Maxperson]

I see what you're referring to.

Based on the original Dragonlance Adventures book and my remembering of the setting the Tinkers inventions were firmly scientific in nature and the rules for building the devices supported a "separation of science and magic". The artificer blends science and magic. Almost like (to steal a term) a techno-wizard.

Yeah I know that there's some overlap. I understand that the term artificer can refer to someone who uses magic or technology or both to create things. And yes I agree that had the mechanics of the artificer class existed the tinker gnomes would have latched onto that like a miniature giant space hamster latches onto a ranger. I just feel that saying "Artificers did in fact exist when DL was first created." is a stretch given the context.

Par-salian gave Caramon and Tasslehoff the magical Device of Time Journeying to use to go back in time where they met a gnome who tinkered with the now broken magical device and fixed it. That's someone who used both magic and technology in tinkering. An Artificer.

 

[Micah Sweet]

Par-salian gave Caramon and Tasslehoff the magical Device of Time Journeying to use to go back in time where they met a gnome who tinkered with the now broken magical device and fixed it. That's someone who used both magic and technology in tinkering. An Artificer.

Yeah, hard to claim Gnimish at least wasn't an artificer. He might be the only one though.

 

[Maxperson]

Yeah, hard to claim Gnimish at least wasn't an artificer. He might be the only one though.

I suspect that he was just the best of them and the other "mad" gnomes were also Artificers to some degree.

 

[darjr]

wait? I can’t go back to different level charts!

 

[Maxperson]

wait? I can’t go back to different level charts!

I can double or triple yours if you really, really want.

 

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

No it's not the same difference. A race cannot be both smart enough to build catapults and too stupid to build stairs. That's a disconnect that breaks the race. A race can, however, be mentally incapable of wanting to do the simple things and have a compulsion to overcomplicate whatever they do. That does not create a disconnect.

That changes literally nothing about what I said. If they choose not the build stairs because they like to overcomplicate things, they're too dumb to build stairs.

 

[Maxperson]

That changes literally nothing about what I said. If they choose not the build stairs because they like to overcomplicate things, they're too dumb to build stairs.

The bolded is objectively false. They are in fact smart enough to build stairs, but CHOOSE not to.