We have hints at Dragonlance material being released for 5e soon, and was wondering if we will get a dragonlance content filter in the Home step of the character builder for that material and Fizban's when that happens. Would be nice if my players would be able to turn that content off, as i don't really use the character options from it.
Is Fizban himself not a dragonlance character? At least i recall him being one. Any information provided from his perspective in Fizban's Treasury of Dragons would likely be applicable to dragonlance lore-wise.
The stat blocks themselves are likely not setting specific, but at the very least, having more content be filterable even if its only at the character level would be nice.
If you have a book, you will be able to use it's content, otherwise you wont. I don't see why Dragonlance books would be different from other setting-specific material, i.e. Forgotten Realms, Eberron or Ravenloft.
Fizban is the Avatar of Paladine and certainly a Dragonlance characters, but as all worlds are now part of the same multiverse, borders got slightly blurred. Xanathar is a Forgotten Realms character as well and you can use Xanathar's Guide to Everything in other settings.
Dragonlance is maybe a little bit more difficult to integrate into the multiverse, as it has a very detailed creation myth and magic system that makes it somehow difficult to integrate new content. There were i.e. no paladins in Dragonlance 3.5, while clerics and wizards were only available at certain time periods. There are also no orcs and halflings in Dragonlace, though Kender fill a similar role as halflings.
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There’s only two subclasses in the book, you could just say don’t by a drake warden ranger or ascendant dragon monk. I guess there’s also a buffer dragonborn race and 7 spells. And a bit of rp flavor stuff. Not too hard to tell them not to use it.
But I’m also getting the impression you haven’t looked the book, maybe see what the options are before you ban them. Everything in there is very setting agnostic, as others have said.
There is a dragonlance product set to come out this fall, which will have some setting specific feats and races. Maybe you were thinking of that.
There’s only two subclasses in the book, you could just say don’t by a drake warden ranger or ascendant dragon monk. I guess there’s also a buffer dragonborn race and 7 spells. And a bit of rp flavor stuff. Not too hard to tell them not to use it.
But I’m also getting the impression you haven’t looked the book, maybe see what the options are before you ban them. Everything in there is very setting agnostic, as others have said.
There is a dragonlance product set to come out this fall, which will have some setting specific feats and races. Maybe you were thinking of that.
I have read Fizban's cover to cover, its one of my favourite book releases for 5e, in terms of worldbuilding and information. I'm just not a fan of the races, spells, magic items, and feats presented there. I have some gripes with the subclasses, but I have adjusted homebrew copies of them my players are free to use (and which wouldn't get filtered out by a setting content filter, as they are technically homebrew).
The "it's not hard to ask your players to just not use the options" response is one I get a lot when i present problems like this. Its not that I disagree, persee, but that it would be better if I could take the time to set up what they can and cannot see, and simply say "If you see it, you can use it". It's not that we can't make do with what we have, that's what we have been doing, it's that it could be better than it currently is.
Some of my neuro-divergent players need help making their characters because they are overwhelmed by the number of things that they can and cannot use, and the duplicates of things I have modified. Not to mention all the homebrew in other players collections which I cannot prevent appearing (I have a lot of homebrew myself, they cannot simply turn homebrew off entirely). While a whitelist/spreadsheet of allowed content might work for most, there are some who cannot keep track of things like that. More in-depth filters for character options and the ability to decide who can and cannot share homebrew would go a long way in helping with those sorts of things.
We have hints at Dragonlance material being released for 5e soon, and was wondering if we will get a dragonlance content filter in the Home step of the character builder for that material and Fizban's when that happens. Would be nice if my players would be able to turn that content off, as i don't really use the character options from it.
While can't say what filters will be introduced when the Dragonlance adventure releases, I'm curious as to what you mean by having one "for Fizban's"?
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Is Fizban himself not a dragonlance character? At least i recall him being one. Any information provided from his perspective in Fizban's Treasury of Dragons would likely be applicable to dragonlance lore-wise.
The stat blocks themselves are likely not setting specific, but at the very least, having more content be filterable even if its only at the character level would be nice.
Fizban's Treasury of Dragons is not a setting specific book, therefore would not fall under a setting specific toggle.
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If you have a book, you will be able to use it's content, otherwise you wont. I don't see why Dragonlance books would be different from other setting-specific material, i.e. Forgotten Realms, Eberron or Ravenloft.
Fizban is the Avatar of Paladine and certainly a Dragonlance characters, but as all worlds are now part of the same multiverse, borders got slightly blurred. Xanathar is a Forgotten Realms character as well and you can use Xanathar's Guide to Everything in other settings.
Dragonlance is maybe a little bit more difficult to integrate into the multiverse, as it has a very detailed creation myth and magic system that makes it somehow difficult to integrate new content. There were i.e. no paladins in Dragonlance 3.5, while clerics and wizards were only available at certain time periods. There are also no orcs and halflings in Dragonlace, though Kender fill a similar role as halflings.
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There’s only two subclasses in the book, you could just say don’t by a drake warden ranger or ascendant dragon monk. I guess there’s also a buffer dragonborn race and 7 spells. And a bit of rp flavor stuff. Not too hard to tell them not to use it.
But I’m also getting the impression you haven’t looked the book, maybe see what the options are before you ban them. Everything in there is very setting agnostic, as others have said.
There is a dragonlance product set to come out this fall, which will have some setting specific feats and races. Maybe you were thinking of that.
I have read Fizban's cover to cover, its one of my favourite book releases for 5e, in terms of worldbuilding and information. I'm just not a fan of the races, spells, magic items, and feats presented there. I have some gripes with the subclasses, but I have adjusted homebrew copies of them my players are free to use (and which wouldn't get filtered out by a setting content filter, as they are technically homebrew).
The "it's not hard to ask your players to just not use the options" response is one I get a lot when i present problems like this. Its not that I disagree, persee, but that it would be better if I could take the time to set up what they can and cannot see, and simply say "If you see it, you can use it". It's not that we can't make do with what we have, that's what we have been doing, it's that it could be better than it currently is.
Some of my neuro-divergent players need help making their characters because they are overwhelmed by the number of things that they can and cannot use, and the duplicates of things I have modified. Not to mention all the homebrew in other players collections which I cannot prevent appearing (I have a lot of homebrew myself, they cannot simply turn homebrew off entirely). While a whitelist/spreadsheet of allowed content might work for most, there are some who cannot keep track of things like that. More in-depth filters for character options and the ability to decide who can and cannot share homebrew would go a long way in helping with those sorts of things.