D&D 5E New Unearthed Arcana: Heroes of Krynn Revisited

WotC's Jeremy Crawford has announced a new Unearthed Arcana article today with redesigns from the prior Heroes of Krynn UA based on feedback, and in the following video he discusses that feedback and what's in the article:

• New iteration of Kender based on feedback survey, due to mixed response. This time is a back to basics, aiming to capture 1E AD&D fearlessness, curiosity and taunting skills. Delve into their origins from Gnomes in deep history.
• Kender are no longer fey creatures who grab objects from the Feywild
• Tweaked Feats from prior article
• Tweaked Backgrounds from prior article
• Brand new rule giving a list of free Feats for ANY Background
• Free Feat rule for Level 4 for all characters that doesn't take the ASI away, based on a curated list
• Reveals that in the Adventure, healing magic is already back.

Heroes of Krynn Revisited | Unearthed Arcana | Dungeons & Dragons

Explore updated character options from the Dragonlance setting! This playtest document presents revised races, subclasses, backgrounds, and feats.

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[Raunalyn]

Non-Battle Masters are still getting Six superiority Die and some techniques though. And College of Swords Bard could use both their Inspiration Die and Superiority Die and still get some mileage outta it. Barbarians still have Rage and that's more Superiority Die added on top of the Rage Damage while Reckless Attacking. Paladins can probably Smite/Superiority Die as well.

Rangers can, added Superiority die onto their Two Weapon Fighting/Ranged attacks.

Which shows that these feats are very strong...arguably almost too strong.

I will wait to see how they revise/finalize it. But I don't think these are balanced well...my opinion, of course.

Edit: Case in point. The Martial Adept feat...are these feats stronger than Martial Adept?

 

[DarkCrisis]

Kender, or 5e?

OMG this post is amazing.

 

[Greg Benage]

Basically, if people were complaining about Strixhaven's Background+feats giving Spellcasters too much goodness, then Squire of Solamnia is the Martial's answer/goody this time.

Now do Initiate of High Sorcery.

 

[Weiley31]

Also, making a Warlord style of character just became a heck of a lot more interesting now. Especially if you bring in the EnWorld class Noble into this and give em the one UA Taction Tandem feat.

 

[Weiley31]

Now do Initiate of High Sorcery.

I'll let somebody else have fun with that.

 

[DarkCrisis]

Non-Dragonlance gnomes have a fey origin. Tinker Gnomes are divinely transformed humans.

Gnomes were an original god-made race that screwed around with something they shouldn’t have and made them “tinker” Dwarves and Kender were also made out of them in the same magical circumstance.

Basically 3 new races from the original “normal” Gnomes. Each cursed with their own affliction.

 

[Raunalyn]

Now do Initiate of High Sorcery.

Wonder if they are going to add the Moons and their influence on magic. I am not talking about the Moon Sorcerer, I'm talking about the increase/decrease in spell power from the moon phases.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

Feat at L1 and a Feat at L4. Interesting, definitely a change of direction from the "Yo Feats are totally optional" of 5E initial. I get that this is campaign-specific but unless it's unpopular I daresay DND2024 will make not having Feats be the weird optional state.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

They fixed Kender! Hahaha yes!

Is it wrong that I pictured you as the "Sickos" guy from The Onion or was the intended effect lol?

 

[NaturalZero]

I think that backgrounds giving out multiple bonus feats could be a fine... if every background worked that way. Right now, I think they need to turn off the free-stuff faucet until the edition gets a refresh and all of the backgrounds get boosted in the same way. It feels super lazy and grimy to give new backgrounds way more than classic ones.