Rumors of the Dragonlance setting returning in Dungeons & Dragons Edition 5 were all but confirmed on Tuesday when publisher Wizards of the Coast released a new pack of playtest footage. Called Unearthed Arcana: Heroes of KrynnThe pack includes a new race, a new subclass, several new backgrounds and a selection of related feats.
The Heroes of Krynn Bundle is free to download. It contains rules for creating a kender, Krynn’s version of the classic halfling race. It also includes rules for the Moon Magic Wizard subclass. Two new backgrounds, the Knight of Solamnia and the Mage of High Sorcery, are also consistent with Dragonlance lore. Wizards stated that, as with all playtest materials, these rules are “in draft form, usable in your D&D campaign, but will not be refined through final game development”.
Originally created by Laura Hickman and Tracy Hickman during a cross-country road trip, the Dragonlance setting became a key product line for D&D’s original publisher TSR throughout the 1980’s and 1990’s. But most fans know Dragonlance best from a series of novels written by Tracy Hickman and Margaret Weiss that began in 1984 Autumn Dawn Dragons
This isn’t the first piece of legacy content rumored to be getting a reboot for Edition 5. Late last year, Wizards released another set of Unearthed Arcana, hinting at the return of the popular Spelljammer setting.
