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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[MonsterEnvy]

Pretty sure thats Dragonborn or Tieflings.

Oh are we just pulling things out of our ass with no real facts to back it up beside personal feelings?

Trust me though, its Drow. Has been since Drizzt clones started appearing.

Drow, Teiflings, and Dragonborn have always been fairly well liked. Kender were always fairly disliked from what I have seen.

 

[DarkCrisis]

Drow, Teiflings, and Dragonborn have always been fairly well liked. Kender were always fairly disliked from what I have seen.

Is “what you’ve seen” ENWorld forums?

 

[MonsterEnvy]

I feel like people are ignoring what it said the Red Robes are about. Namely it’s protecting the balance.

 

[Mad_Jack]

A KoS battlemaster is going to be a complicated thing to keep track of...

"These dice are d6s, and you can use them only with the maneuver you gain from this feat and with any maneuvers you gain from feats that have this feat as a prerequisite."

That's two separate pools of superiority dice to keep track of - while you can theoretically use your battlemaster dice or the ones from the extra maneuver feat for any of the maneuvers you know, you can only use the dice you gained from the KoS feats for the maneuvers you learned from the feats.

Additionally, your regular dice refresh on either a short or long rest, but the KoS dice only refresh on a long rest.

 

[Maxperson]

If you preferred the previous version of the Kender just say so in the survey. That’s what I am going to do. Like they can have magical bags and just not be related to fey.

I love the feats and background stuff here.

I'm going to suggest my idea for advantage on Sleight of Hand checks, which better in my opinion than the prior Kender or the new one. And which, despite accusations, isn't racist in the least bit.

 

[MonsterEnvy]

Is “what you’ve seen” ENWorld forums?

No pretty much every forum, site or discord relating to table top games that I am a part of has generally held a low opinion of them.

 

[Scribe]

I feel like people are ignoring what it said the Red Robes are about. Namely it’s protecting the balance.

What balance? If alignment doesnt matter, what balance?

 

[Benjamin Olson]

I feel like people are ignoring what it said the Red Robes are about. Namely it’s protecting the balance.

Personally I purposely ignored that, because I think it's dumb.

 

[DarkCrisis]

I feel like people are ignoring what it said the Red Robes are about. Namely it’s protecting the balance.

Balance of what? Used to be it protected the balance between good and evil.

So, now it’s between protection and ambition?

What’s the middle ground? Being a couch potato?

And if only evil wizards could see the Black Moon of the evil magic god. Is it now the Ambitious Black Moon that only those who strive for greatness can see?

 

[MonsterEnvy]

A KoS battlemaster is going to be a complicated thing to keep track of...

"These dice are d6s, and you can use them only with the maneuver you gain from this feat and with any maneuvers you gain from feats that have this feat as a prerequisite."

That's two separate pools of superiority dice to keep track of - while you can theoretically use your battlemaster dice or the ones from the extra maneuver feat for any of the maneuvers you know, you can only use the dice you gained from the KoS feats for the maneuvers you learned from the feats.

Additionally, your regular dice refresh on either a short or long rest, but the KoS dice only refresh on a long rest.

No they all stack together, and the pools merge we have confirmation on that.