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UA 2023: Player’s Handbook – Druid and Paladin Breakdown

Brandes Stoddard — Sat, 25 Feb 2023 20:55:50 +0000

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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Monthly Encounter #19: The Underwater Dark Squad (lvls 1-4)

Tomás Giménez Rioja — Wed, 03 Mar 2021 14:00:56 +0000

Thumbnail art by Andre Wahl If you are looking to run more underwater encounters in a fully underwater campaign setting, check out the greatly successful Kickstarter campaign still going on Under the Seas of Vodari (but about to finish, so hurry up if you plan to get it) Here at Tribality, we’ve decided to provide our readers with Encounters ready to be added to your table. I’ll be creating new ones monthly for you to have a big collection to […]

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Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything Breakdown, Part Three

Brandes Stoddard — Sun, 20 Dec 2020 20:01:57 +0000

It’s been a few very busy weeks of not getting to explore Tasha’s Cauldron (not a euphemism or metaphor), but today I’m back to cover druid and fighter content. I mean, you’d think that I could cover more than two classes’ subclasses per article, but ha ha no. Uh, settle in, this is a real long one. Part One | Part Two | Part Three Druid The new druid features are fairly tidy. Additional Druid Spells adds 16 new spells to the […]

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Five Magic Items for the Circle of the Moon

Brandes Stoddard — Wed, 04 Mar 2020 15:52:04 +0000

Way back in that Twitter thread, I talked about the function of totems as 4e magic items. I suggested that they could be intended for druids, especially the Circle of the Moon, and might boost the stats of lower-CR Wild Shapes, so that if shapeshifting to a wolf or panther is your preferred style, you’re not missing out on the much better hit points and attacks of higher-CR shapes. Nathan Dowdell suggested that they might “grant specific, unique wildshape forms… this silver […]

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UA 2020: Subclasses, Part Three Breakdown

Brandes Stoddard — Tue, 25 Feb 2020 18:48:38 +0000

It’s been a couple of weeks since the chaos of Subclasses, Part Two: Revenge of the Bride of the Electric Boogaloo, so yesterday WotC dropped three more playtest subclasses. We have the Armorer artificer, the Circle of Stars druid, and the Fey Wanderer ranger conclave. (Yes, I know it’s still technically “archetype,” because “conclave” got buried beside the UA Revised Ranger, but – and I cannot stress this strongly enough – you can have it when you pry it from […]

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UA: Class Feature Variants Breakdown, Part One

Brandes Stoddard — Tue, 05 Nov 2019 04:11:33 +0000

I don’t want to alarm you, but this week’s UA is absolutely huge in both its actual volume (13 pages) and its impact (it touches every class in the Player’s Handbook to one degree or another). The article title suggests that it’ll be mostly replacing features (“variants”), but in actuality it’s mostly direct enhancements to features. These are almost universally quality-of-life improvements and efforts to solve for what the designers have learned about their game in ongoing development. It’s definitely […]

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Unearthed Arcana: Cleric, Druid, and Wizard Breakdown

Brandes Stoddard — Fri, 04 Oct 2019 20:56:05 +0000

Another UA release dropped today, with subclasses for the cleric (Twilight – not a vampire thing), druid (Wildfire – not a NERF gun), and wizard (Onomancy: divination through names). Not only am I into those concepts, the file name of the document sells the coolness on its own: “Twilight Fire Names.” Sounds like some powerful ritual magic to me! I’m going to talk a bit about supporting-fiction inspirations for each subclass. The funny thing: from things Dan Dillon said on […]

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New Druid Subclass: Circle of the Deeps

Brandes Stoddard — Thu, 13 Jun 2019 12:00:10 +0000

We’re working steadily on Seas of Vodari, and today I’m showing the first draft of this work. Nothing shown here is at all guaranteed to be in the final version – I just thought that you, ever-faithful readers, would enjoy a sneak peek at work-in-progress. Or: I wanted to kill two birds with one stone. The stone is made out of content. Circle of the Deeps Most of the world is ocean, and the druids of the Circle of the […]

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Pathfinder Second Edition Playtest Breakdown, Part Three

Brandes Stoddard — Wed, 29 Aug 2018 12:00:36 +0000

Welcome back to the next section of my deep dive into the Pathfinder playtest rules. This time, we’re tackling the bard and cleric classes and, if time is on our side, the druid as well. No promises – oaths are for the paladin class, and that’s still some time away. Part One | Part Two | Part Three Bards Now, bards were the first class I covered in my History of the Classes column for Tribality. Way back in those mist-shrouded […]

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Aberrations, Druids, and the Circle of the Zodiac

Colin McLaughlin — Wed, 17 Jan 2018 13:00:39 +0000

A brief discussion of aberration history, a first draft of a druid archetype that would fit in this world of Far Realm vs. the Zodiac - the Circle of the Zodiac.

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