Those are the only classes that really needed an explanation for appearing on Krynn. Since I was making my own timeline though, and not attempting to publish a “faithful conversion”, I also wrote up how the War of Chaos and Takhisis’ repeated piercing of the Gray between Krynn and the Abyss resulted in sorcerers and warlocks making an appearance. Which make for more playable and less disruptive PCs, to be perfectly honest.
#Draconian 5e series#
Fans of the classic Dragonlance book series and campaign setting might recognize the name Fizban, which is the human persona of Paladine, the Platinum Dragon from the campaign setting. the 5 Gem types (not in the MM for 5E) Deep Dragons (not in the MM for 5E) Dragon Turtles (expanded from the MM) Fairie Dragons (expanded from the MM) Moonstone Dragons (not in the MM for 5E) Shadow Dragons (expanded from a template in the MM) The 5 choices outside of the three major groupings are fascinating, I am curious about the lore. Part of why I took this approach was laziness, but another part was that with the disappearance of the Greygem at the end of DoSF, it seemed reasonable that the madness of the gnomes, dwarves, gully dwarves, and kender would leave them, and you’d be left with the more toned down versions you find in the 5E PHB. Like several 5E D&D books Fizban’s Treasury of Dragons features a point of view character offering insights and quips throughout the book’s pages. It’s pretty obvious from all the Dragonlance references throughout the 5E books that 5E was designed with this approach in mind. The death throes rules of “the firstborn draconians” make for good monsters but bad player characters IMO. PC draconians are the “natural born” descendants of the original dragonians and just use the 5E dragonborn stats. The recent UA rules for centaurs and minotaurs can be used as-is. Kender are just halflings, Tinker Gnomes are just rock gnomes, etc. Phaethons (for instance) are just winged tieflings (per SCAG) with a few rules for their wings being made of fire (dim light, combust materials, etc.). I’ll admit my approach was just to reskin or only lightly touch up the available 5E races and classes as much as possible. I just ignored the whole Age of Mortals/War of Souls timeline and branched off from DoSF. Cool! I'm running a Dragonlance 5E campaign myself (set 300 years after DoSF).