Playtest Archives - Tribality https://www.tribality.com/previews/playtest/ D&D / Role Playing Thu, 10 Mar 2022 13:35:46 +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 Playtest Archives - Tribality https://www.tribality.com/previews/playtest/ 32 32 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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]]> https://www.tribality.com/2021/06/10/unearthed-arcana-2021-mages-of-strixhaven-breakdown/feed/ 0 Unearthed Arcana 2021: Gothic Lineages Breakdown https://www.tribality.com/2021/01/26/unearthed-arcana-2021-gothic-lineages-breakdown/ https://www.tribality.com/2021/01/26/unearthed-arcana-2021-gothic-lineages-breakdown/#respond Tue, 26 Jan 2021 22:39:12 +0000 https://www.tribality.com/?p=32039 Oh hey, there’s a new Unearthed Arcana release today, the first of 2021! It’s giving us three new races lineages and signaling the future of lineage design for 5e, with the dhampir, hexblood, and reborn. There’s also a substantive lead-in and sidebar discussing the new ways we’ll see lineages presented, which I’ll cover first. The byline here names F. Wesley Schneider, Ben Petrisor, and Jeremy Crawford, with input from the rest of the design team. First Things First The intro […]

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]]> https://www.tribality.com/2021/01/26/unearthed-arcana-2021-gothic-lineages-breakdown/feed/ 0 UA 2020 – Subclasses, Part Four Breakdown https://www.tribality.com/2020/08/06/ua-2020-subclasses-part-four-breakdown/ https://www.tribality.com/2020/08/06/ua-2020-subclasses-part-four-breakdown/#respond Thu, 06 Aug 2020 04:58:14 +0000 https://www.tribality.com/?p=30936 Surprise! Is werewolf. No, sorry, I meant that it is a new Unearthed Arcana release, bringing us a new bardic college and a new warlock patron. We’ve got some Big Spooky Vibes going this time, with a College of Spirits and an Undying Undead Patron. Sorry, Undying Patron from Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide, you didn’t deliver on the mechanics, and now you’re not going to deliver on your name. Cuz you deaaaad.   Bardic College of Spirits My experience of […]

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]]> https://www.tribality.com/2020/08/06/ua-2020-subclasses-part-four-breakdown/feed/ 0 Unearthed Arcana 2020: Feats Breakdown https://www.tribality.com/2020/07/14/unearthed-arcana-2020-feats-breakdown/ https://www.tribality.com/2020/07/14/unearthed-arcana-2020-feats-breakdown/#respond Tue, 14 Jul 2020 20:53:14 +0000 https://www.tribality.com/?p=30734 Oh hey, there’s a new UA document, this time with sixteen new feats. Relative to 5e, that’s a lot of feats! It’s been awhile since we last had a collection of feats in UA, and a few of these did appear in another form in that long-long-ago. And that’s probably enough introductory faffing around – let’s get to it. I should have been doing this all throughout UA breakdowns, but the byline here is Taymoor Rehman, Jeremy Crawford, Ben Petrisor, […]

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]]> https://www.tribality.com/2020/07/14/unearthed-arcana-2020-feats-breakdown/feed/ 0 Unearthed Arcana 2020: Subclasses Revisited Breakdown https://www.tribality.com/2020/05/13/unearthed-arcana-2020-subclasses-revisited-breakdown/ https://www.tribality.com/2020/05/13/unearthed-arcana-2020-subclasses-revisited-breakdown/#respond Wed, 13 May 2020 12:58:00 +0000 https://www.tribality.com/?p=30142 I don’t know how to tell you all this, but we live in a fallen world… the bad timeline… a land of ill omen: the Onomancy wizard didn’t make it to further UA development following surveys. I know you all join me in mourning its loss, with rending of garments and great wailing. (Also the world is on fire, you might have noticed.) And that’s the news that’s fit to prin… Oh, right. There’s a new UA release, and it […]

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]]> https://www.tribality.com/2020/05/13/unearthed-arcana-2020-subclasses-revisited-breakdown/feed/ 0 UA 2020: Psionic Options Revisited Breakdown https://www.tribality.com/2020/04/15/ua-2020-psionic-options-revisited-breakdown/ https://www.tribality.com/2020/04/15/ua-2020-psionic-options-revisited-breakdown/#respond Wed, 15 Apr 2020 06:01:04 +0000 https://www.tribality.com/?p=29944 The WotC team plunges in again on psionics design, in the new UA release. Unlike a lot of UA documents, this one spends about a page discussing the winding path of psionic/mystic development in UA to date, including the official deprecation of some prior UAs – the Psionics wizard and several psionic attack spells. My only issue is that I like Int as the psionic casting stat more than Cha. (Apropos, I am glad that we have the artificer as […]

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]]> https://www.tribality.com/2020/04/15/ua-2020-psionic-options-revisited-breakdown/feed/ 0 Unearthed Arcana 2020: Spells and Magic Tattoos https://www.tribality.com/2020/03/28/unearthed-arcana-2020-spells-and-magic-tattoos/ https://www.tribality.com/2020/03/28/unearthed-arcana-2020-spells-and-magic-tattoos/#respond Sat, 28 Mar 2020 19:17:10 +0000 https://www.tribality.com/?p=29645 A new UA drops while I’m furiously writing my Wildemount review? I picked the wrong day to quit taking horse tranquilizers, y’all. This document holds 11 new spells and 11 new magic tattoos. Let’s hit it. New Spells Acid stream (sorcerer, wizard) gives us a line effect at 1st level – no more waiting for Aganazzar’s scorcher or lightning bolt. It’s really easy to miss how powerful this spell is, because it’s not a one-and-done line of acid. Concentration duration! […]

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]]> https://www.tribality.com/2020/03/28/unearthed-arcana-2020-spells-and-magic-tattoos/feed/ 0 UA 2020: Subclasses, Part Three Breakdown https://www.tribality.com/2020/02/25/unearthed-arcana-subclasses-part-three-breakdown/ https://www.tribality.com/2020/02/25/unearthed-arcana-subclasses-part-three-breakdown/#respond Tue, 25 Feb 2020 18:48:38 +0000 https://www.tribality.com/?p=29495 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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]]> https://www.tribality.com/2020/02/25/unearthed-arcana-subclasses-part-three-breakdown/feed/ 0 UA 2020: Subclasses, Part 2B Breakdown https://www.tribality.com/2020/02/07/ua-2020-subclasses-part-2b-breakdown/ https://www.tribality.com/2020/02/07/ua-2020-subclasses-part-2b-breakdown/#respond Fri, 07 Feb 2020 05:58:05 +0000 https://www.tribality.com/?p=29398 Déjà vu, all over again! There’s been a whole thing that is why this got retracted and reissued. You either know about it or don’t, you have opinions about it or don’t, but I’m not getting into it here.   College of Creation Bard There was Eru, the One, who in Arda is called Ilúvatar; and he made first the Ainur, the Holy Ones, that were the offspring of his thought, and they were with him before aught else was […]

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