unearthed-arcana Archives - Tribality https://www.tribality.com/tag/unearthed-arcana/ D&D / Role Playing Fri, 05 May 2023 02:20:14 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.2.2 https://www.tribality.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/cropped-logo-2020-icon@2x-32x32.jpg unearthed-arcana Archives - Tribality https://www.tribality.com/tag/unearthed-arcana/ 32 32 Unearthed Arcana 2023: Player’s Handbook Playtest 5 Breakdown, Part Two https://www.tribality.com/2023/05/04/unearthed-arcana-2023-players-handbook-playtest-5-breakdown-part-two/ https://www.tribality.com/2023/05/04/unearthed-arcana-2023-players-handbook-playtest-5-breakdown-part-two/#respond Fri, 05 May 2023 02:20:14 +0000 https://www.tribality.com/?p=34329 Okay, I took the weekend off from writing about this packet so that I could go to the Georgia Renaissance Festival and my house could flood. So, you know, life. Anyway, last time I covered everything up to the Fighter class and Champion subclass, and that brings us to the Sorcerer. It will be absolutely necessary to examine the new Sorcerer-only spells in the first part to get a sense of what this class even means; likewise for the Warlock […]

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]]> https://www.tribality.com/2023/05/04/unearthed-arcana-2023-players-handbook-playtest-5-breakdown-part-two/feed/ 0 UA 2023: Player’s Handbook Playtest 5 Breakdown https://www.tribality.com/2023/04/28/ua-2023-players-handbook-playtest-5-breakdown/ https://www.tribality.com/2023/04/28/ua-2023-players-handbook-playtest-5-breakdown/#respond Fri, 28 Apr 2023 17:02:04 +0000 https://www.tribality.com/?p=34327 There’s a staggeringly huge new Unearthed Arcana playtest document from WotC, with the new weapons table, five classes (barbarian, fighter, sorcerer, warlock, and wizard), a bunch of new spells, a reversion to 2014 spell prep/spell knowledge (but with the meaning of those terms inverted for some reason), a few new feats, and a few changes to the Rules Glossary. I’m going to say right now that finishing this in one article is not bloody likely, not even with the ridiculous […]

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]]> https://www.tribality.com/2023/04/28/ua-2023-players-handbook-playtest-5-breakdown/feed/ 0 UA 2023: Player’s Handbook – Druid and Paladin Breakdown https://www.tribality.com/2023/02/25/ua-2023-players-handbook-druid-and-paladin-breakdown/ https://www.tribality.com/2023/02/25/ua-2023-players-handbook-druid-and-paladin-breakdown/#respond Sat, 25 Feb 2023 20:55:50 +0000 https://www.tribality.com/?p=34275 January was a hell of a year, but we’re back with a new Unearthed Arcana for One D&D in the tail end of February. This time we’re looking at the other two Priest-group classes, the Druid and the Paladin, as well as more revised spells and some significant changes to the Rules Glossary. Character Origins | Expert Classes | Cleric & 3 Revised Species | Druid & Paladin No obvious changes in the opening boilerplate, but there’s a document-wide easing off of capitalizing like […]

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]]> https://www.tribality.com/2023/02/25/ua-2023-players-handbook-druid-and-paladin-breakdown/feed/ 0 Unearthed Arcana 2022: Cleric and Revised Species Breakdown https://www.tribality.com/2022/12/05/unearthed-arcana-2022-cleric-and-revised-species-breakdown/ https://www.tribality.com/2022/12/05/unearthed-arcana-2022-cleric-and-revised-species-breakdown/#respond Mon, 05 Dec 2022 21:31:34 +0000 https://www.tribality.com/?p=34097 Welcome to the third packet of OneD&D public playtesting! In this article – as usual – I’ll be digging into the content of the packet: what it means now and what it might mean in the development of OneD&D. This packet brings us the Cleric class, the Ardling, Dragonborn, and Goliath Species, and new Rules Glossary sprockets. This one is mercifully shorter, at a mere 26 pages! Character Origins | Expert Classes | Cleric & 3 Revised Species The first two pages […]

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]]> https://www.tribality.com/2022/12/05/unearthed-arcana-2022-cleric-and-revised-species-breakdown/feed/ 0 Unearthed Arcana 2022: Expert Classes Breakdown https://www.tribality.com/2022/09/30/unearthed-arcana-2022-expert-classes-breakdown/ https://www.tribality.com/2022/09/30/unearthed-arcana-2022-expert-classes-breakdown/#respond Fri, 30 Sep 2022 23:14:43 +0000 https://www.tribality.com/?p=33912 Following Wednesday’s announcement with Jeremy Crawford and Todd Kenreck, we now have the new Unearthed Arcana packet in our grubby little nubbies. Metaphorically, anyway, unless you also printed a copy? It is a heckin’ chonker of a packet, with three classes (one subclass each), a mess of feats and epic boons, the complete PH spell lists, and a hefty new rules glossary that overwrites the previous one. I know exactly how tempting it is to discuss all of this as […]

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]]> https://www.tribality.com/2022/09/30/unearthed-arcana-2022-expert-classes-breakdown/feed/ 0 Unearthed Arcana 2022: Wonders of the Multiverse Breakdown https://www.tribality.com/2022/07/19/unearthed-arcana-2022-wonders-of-the-multiverse-breakdown/ https://www.tribality.com/2022/07/19/unearthed-arcana-2022-wonders-of-the-multiverse-breakdown/#respond Tue, 19 Jul 2022 20:47:45 +0000 https://www.tribality.com/?p=33608 We have a new twelve-page UA release from WotC, offering a wide range of playtest content. It’s not particularly clear what titles any of it might go with – there’s some Giant-related material salient to that previous Giant UA, but there’s also some cosmic stuff with some Planescape vibes that might be part of Spelljammer instead? Life is full of mysteries, and I’m not solving this one today, so let’s dive in. The byline for this UA goes to Makenzie […]

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]]> https://www.tribality.com/2022/07/19/unearthed-arcana-2022-wonders-of-the-multiverse-breakdown/feed/ 0 Unearthed Arcana 2022: Giant Options Breakdown https://www.tribality.com/2022/05/28/unearthed-arcana-2022-giant-options-breakdown/ https://www.tribality.com/2022/05/28/unearthed-arcana-2022-giant-options-breakdown/#respond Sat, 28 May 2022 18:07:24 +0000 https://www.tribality.com/?p=33529 There’s a new Unearthed Arcana to take us into Memorial Day weekend, and “giant” is both its leading adjective and its subject matter. We get three subclasses and ten feats in this document; it’s not clear what exact book this will be for, but it’s got giants on its mind one way or another. This UA’s byline includes Makenzie de Armas, James Wyatt, Ben Petrisor, and Jeremy Crawford. Self-promo Digression: Let me tell you about some cool giant-based content I […]

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]]> https://www.tribality.com/2022/05/28/unearthed-arcana-2022-giant-options-breakdown/feed/ 0 Unearthed Arcana 2022: Heroes of Krynn Revisited Breakdown https://www.tribality.com/2022/04/26/unearthed-arcana-2022-heroes-of-krynn-revisited-breakdown/ https://www.tribality.com/2022/04/26/unearthed-arcana-2022-heroes-of-krynn-revisited-breakdown/#respond Tue, 26 Apr 2022 04:42:02 +0000 https://www.tribality.com/?p=33468 It has been a month and a half since the first Heroes of Krynn UA release. Then there was a round of surveys, as usual, and today we get a new attempt. I’m very glad to see that they’re going to UA early enough that revisions are even possible. F. Wesley Schneider, Ben Petrisor, and Jeremy Crawford have the byline on this one. Before getting into what is here – the Lunar Magic sorcerous origin apparently got top marks and […]

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]]> https://www.tribality.com/2022/04/26/unearthed-arcana-2022-heroes-of-krynn-revisited-breakdown/feed/ 0 Unearthed Arcana 2022: Heroes of Krynn Breakdown https://www.tribality.com/2022/03/10/unearthed-arcana-2022-heroes-of-krynn-breakdown/ https://www.tribality.com/2022/03/10/unearthed-arcana-2022-heroes-of-krynn-breakdown/#respond Thu, 10 Mar 2022 13:00:39 +0000 https://www.tribality.com/?p=33316 Spelljammer Dragonlance confirmed! In the first UA of the year, we get a bunch of player-facing mechanics for Dragonlance: a race, a subclass, two backgrounds, and a fistful of feats. My commentary will, as a result, be all over the place. The byline on this one includes Ben Petrisor, F. Wesley Schneider, and Jeremy Crawford. Kender I think I can safely say that kender are the single most divisive element, among D&D fans, in all of Dragonlance. This text sets […]

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]]> https://www.tribality.com/2022/03/10/unearthed-arcana-2022-heroes-of-krynn-breakdown/feed/ 0 Unearthed Arcana 2021: Mages of Strixhaven Breakdown https://www.tribality.com/2021/06/10/unearthed-arcana-2021-mages-of-strixhaven-breakdown/ https://www.tribality.com/2021/06/10/unearthed-arcana-2021-mages-of-strixhaven-breakdown/#respond Thu, 10 Jun 2021 14:45:18 +0000 https://www.tribality.com/?p=32638 Last weekend, Amazon leaked the titles of the next two D&D hardbacks: The Wild Beyond the Witchlight and Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos. Monday, WotC announced those books, and on Tuesday, we got a new Unearthed Arcana with five new subclasses from Strixhaven. In case you’re unfamiliar, Strixhaven is a Magic: the Gathering block, making this the third official M:tG crossover into D&D. Its story, insofar as I understand it, is “Tom Brown’s School Days but for spellcasters,” which is […]

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