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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[Weiley31]

So Dark Sun background, with a curated feat offering Wild Talent and other things. Perhaps the Psionic Die could return for other classes. And then if you follow the Spelljammer 5E's boxed set approach, you could dedicate a single book to everything 5E Psionics!!!! (ONCE they hammer down the rules even more once we get there).

 

[Scribe]

Doesn't bother me at all. Generic? Yes, but playable.

Kender, or 5e?

 

[bedir than]

Doesn't bother me at all. Generic? Yes, but playable.

Weaker than the halflings and a loss of story.

 

[darjr]

i would do back flips....

*** I will not really in my 40's I bearly walk up stairs without pain, but metaphorically I will be doing back flips.

I’ll do em for you.

 

[darjr]

Exactly...it almost seems as if they are gearing up the setting as a potentially deadly world...almost as deadly as Dark Sun.

Just stay away from the backflips

It’s a world at war.

 

[Weiley31]

Just stay away from the backflips

It’s a world at war.

Spin to Win it is then!!!

 

[Parmandur]

So Dark Sun background, with a curated feat offering Wild Talent and other things. Perhaps the Psionic Die could return for other classes. And then if you follow the Spelljammer 5E's boxed set approach, you could dedicate a single book to everything 5E Psionics!!!! (ONCE they hammer down the rules even more once we get there).

I wonder if the generic Background rules are also q stealth test for the new Starter Set? They said all the books this year are meant to play nice with the 2024 revision.

 

[Weiley31]

Just stay away from the backflips

It’s a world at war.

 

[RoughCoronet0]

I’m glad to hear that the Lunar Sorcerer got good reviews and is pretty much guaranteed to be released!

The Kender didn’t interest me before and it certainly doesn’t interest me this time around.

The Backgrounds and feats are interesting, will need to look over them more when I have time.

 

[Weiley31]

I too am happy the Lunar Sorcerer was met with positivity.
Although, if you all want your Hit Die spending to make it through, it seems like only the Black Robe Mages still spend the Hit Die. The other two don't.