Dragonlance DRAGONLANCE LIVES! Unearthed Arcana Explores Heroes of Krynn!

The latest Unearthed Arcana has arrived and the 6-page document contains rules for kender, lunar magic, Knights of Solamnia, and Mages of High Sorcery.

In today’s Unearthed Arcana, we explore character options from the Dragonlance setting. This playtest document presents the kender race, the Lunar Magic sorcerer subclass, the Knight of Solamnia and Mage of High Sorcery backgrounds, and a collection of new feats, all for use in Dungeons & Dragons.

Kender have a (surprisingly magical) ability to pull things out of a bag, and a supernatural taunt feature. This magical ability appears to replace the older 'kleptomania' description -- "Unknown to most mortals, a magical phenomenon surrounds a kender. Spurred by their curiosity and love for trinkets, curios, and keepsakes, a kender’s pouches or pockets will be magically filled with these objects. No one knows where these objects come from, not even the kender. This has led many kender to be mislabeled as thieves when they fish these items out of their pockets."

Lunar Magic is a sorcerer subclass which draws power from the moon(s); there are notes for using it in Eberron.

Also included are feats such as Adepts of the Black, White, and Red Robes, and Knights of the Sword, Rose, and Crown.

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[Enevhar Aldarion]

Interesting reply by Margaret Weis to a question about this UA on Twitter:

 

[darjr]

Interesting reply by Margaret Weis to a question about this UA on Twitter:

That answers that question.

 

[This Effin’ GM]

Interesting reply by Margaret Weis to a question about this UA on Twitter:

There goes a chunk of my excitement

 

[Growing Brains]

Kender should be immune to fear by lore. Sure some epic magic catches Tass once in the books but he's immune every other time.

 

[darjr]

The post that started that thread. She excitedly shares the UA link.

 

[Micah Sweet]

Kender should be immune to fear by lore. Sure some epic magic catches Tass once in the books but he's immune every other time.

Lore is what WotC wants it to be, or what we want it to be, depending on the context.

 

[Benjamin Olson]

What I didn't like about this UA were the Kender. Kender are not just a bit resistant to fear, they are completely immune. If the Kender is not immune, it's not a Kender.

Agreed. I don't even care for the Dragonlance books and am hardly a fan of Kender, but the distinct element of their identity I do appreciate (in theory), and would actually find an interesting rather than an annoying roleplaying element, is them simply being biologically incapable of fear.

But then I just dislike fear effects, because I often play characters where they feel like an inauthentic imposition on the personality of my character when they take hold. Perhaps I just need to rp more in line with my stats, but I don't feel like I should have to have to be wise to be foolhardy. Having the occasional high-level, truly otherworldly enemy have some sort of explicitly magic mystical evil eye that pierces the heart of the bravest man is one thing, but the idea that my Warrior is likely to get disadvantage and movement issues because he sees a Dragon no matter how many dragons he fights and no matter how consistently he puts honor and glory above self-preservation in every other part of his adventuring career just doesn't compute.

 

[Minigiant]

You know if that where going to do Dragonlance and change bits of it, they might as well did what they do with most of 5e and dump magic in the nonmagical parts.


When are us 30 year olds gonna get our deep customizable magical armor and weapon transformation subclasses?

 

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

WHAT

Yep! There's stat blocks for all three of them, and they're all pretty powerful. The weakest one is CR 7 (the Farastu, that can disarm people as a reaction), with the most powerful one being CR 15 (the Shator, which has slime that can paralyze people that attack it in melee if they fail a DC 18 DEX save).

 

[Weiley31]

You know if that where going to do Dragonlance and change bits of it, they might as well did what they do with most of 5e and dump magic in the nonmagical parts.


When are us 30 year olds gonna get our deep customizable magical armor and weapon transformation subclasses?

That was a legit badass show growing up.

EXCALIBUR, BE MY STRENGTH!