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]

Spin to Win it is then!!!

Oh goodness, I just realized, I just opened the channel for all Dragonlance/Krynn Gunslingers now due to this.

Don't hate me everybody!

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

I guess the racial traits of the kenders are right, not broken, loyal to the spirit or essence, that childish touch but not too dumb in a world with lots of menaces, and enough flexibility to avoid typecasting. A feytouched kender subrace may be possible, but like an optional variant. The Feywild is too interesting to be not explored by the kenders.

One of the iconic traits of Krynnians draconians is the "death throes", even when this is useless for PCs. Maybe the draconians started as "ordinary" dragonborns, but Takishins's clerics used "transgenic magic" to create a "perfect soldier", but somebody escaped as desertors to avoid be "brainwashed". Other dragoborns are slaves by a punishment or they didn't pass the tests during the hard training, and after the escape or the liberation of the prison they become mercenaries/adventurers.

Maybe with some "cheap" magic item (only draconian worshipers of Takishis can be attuned) could use a power like "disguise self" to avoid be discovered by players when PC see "mysterious hooded figures" in the street. This "amulet" has got a curse effect, the new owner can mind-controlled by Takishis clerics.

* Maybe Hasbro has got plans about a digital(videogame) version of the board wargame "Warriors of Krynn".

* Ursines should be a PC race. Is there are way to allo gully to be PC races?

* With a right redesign the spider-dragon should be canon again, at least to can sell miniatures.

* I imagine Sithicus, the former dark domain by Lord Soth now not within the demiplane of the dread but relocated in the Krynnspace-Shadowfell. Maybe the new dark lord is a black-robe necromancer who tried to become the one supreme deity.

* In the novel "Tanis, the shadow years" the main character travel to a "dream realm". I suggest the concept of "Akashic realm", a demiplane that "copies" a timeline. This place could be visited and explored by PCs, or even by "isekai" characters, and we shouldn't worry about possible changes in the continuity.

 

[Raunalyn]

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.

I don't think they did in the previous version either. The KoS did, though.

I liked the Moon Sorcerer OK, though I think their spell list could have used a little revision. Otherwise, it was fine.

 

[UngainlyTitan]

Gone! They're just like everyone else, now. As an exercise, replace the word "kender" with "humans": "Kender sometimes amass impressive collections of curiosities. Some might collect mundane knickknacks or relics from magical sites, while others might become professional thieves."

AKA Adventurers

 

[Weiley31]

Also: Knight of Solamnia Barbarians can have Superiority Die. It's only six once you finally reach up to a Prof Score of 6, but it's a Barbarian with the "closest" thing to a Fighting Style that isn't Reckless Attack. That can be used alongside with Reckless attack.

 

[Weiley31]

The fact that Martials are getting so much love in this UA is really hammering the point home that ya: THIS IS WAR!

 

[Superchunk77]

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).

That is not going to happen. Tasha's was the book where WotC basically said psionics will be a combination of feats and subclasses. I also doubt we will see either Planescape or Dark Sun as a classic setting for 5e. Both are likely too "mature" for the grey mass that 5e has become.

 

[Parmandur]

Variant Human Scout, who chooses Prodigy and Skilled at Level 1, Skill Expert at Level 4 for their ASI, will be at Level 6 proficient in 13 Skills and get Expertise in 8 of those Skills. And a bonus Feat at Level 4!

 

[Raunalyn]

I was really hoping this wouldn't turn into an edition war...sigh

 

[Weiley31]

Well, I know for a fact that everybody will give the new Kender high scores now that it's no longer Feywildish....maybe....allegedly. The code is more of a guideline really.