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UA 2023 – Player’s Handbook Playtest 6 Breakdown, Part Six

Brandes Stoddard — Wed, 06 Sep 2023 18:29:36 +0000

We’re getting close to the end of this packet, folks. It’s only been one (1) life-age of the Earth since I started! This time out, we’re doing rangers. PH Playtest 6: Bard, Cleric, Druid, Monk, Paladin, Ranger Ranger If you’re aware enough of D&D fandom to read this site – like even 1% aware of what’s up in D&D – you already know that the 5e.14 ranger is an incredibly controversial class. Slightly fewer of you know about the substantial changes offered in Tasha’s […]

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UA 2023 – Player’s Handbook Playtest 6 Breakdown, Part Five

Brandes Stoddard — Fri, 25 Aug 2023 20:21:31 +0000

Illness and wanting to get that Glory of the Giants review posted have delayed my progress through this UA packet, but I’m back today, baby. Paladins, it’s your turn. PH Playtest 6: Bard, Cleric, Druid, Monk, Paladin Paladin The previous version of the paladin was just two packets ago, and in a way it’s amazing that much has changed. I was generally positive on that earlier version. No changes to the Hit Die, weapon, armor, skill, or saving throw baselines. Lay on Hands is […]

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UA 2023 – Player’s Handbook 6 Playtest Breakdown, Part Four

Brandes Stoddard — Fri, 28 Jul 2023 00:32:48 +0000

Okay, we’re on to talking about Monks. As you undoubtedly know, this is the first draft of a new Monk we’ve seen in One D&D playtesting; other than the Artificer, which won’t be in the 2024 Player’s Handbook, it’s the only class still on its first round. Weird, Monks are usually better at Initiative than that! PH Playtest 6: Bard, Cleric, Druid, Monk Monk The 5e.14 Monk has always been a tough class for content design. On one hand, new moves for Monk […]

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UA 2023 – Player’s Handbook Playtest 6 Breakdown, Part Three

Brandes Stoddard — Sat, 15 Jul 2023 01:24:32 +0000

This time around, it’s druids, along with a new Circle of the Moon and our first look at the Circles of Land and Sea. I had… not much good to say about the previous UA Druid. PH Playtest 6: Bard, Cleric, Druid Druid There’s a lot of change going on here, down to the fundamental playstyle options. Druidic, the feature name, teaches you the Druidic language, makes Speak with Animals always prepared (I like that quite a lot), and lets […]

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UA 2023 – Player’s Handbook Playtest 6 Breakdown, Part Two

Brandes Stoddard — Fri, 07 Jul 2023 20:03:13 +0000

Onward to the cleric! You can find my article on the UA Bard here. As we go on, keep in mind that this is UA’s second shot at all of its classes except the Monk. Cleric For my comments on the previous iteration of the cleric, clicky clicky. Divine Order has dropped down to 1st level, as I suggested that the Holy Order feature (its predecessor) absolutely had to. They also trimmed out Scholar and shoved the most important piece […]

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UA 2023: Player’s Handbook Playtest 6 Breakdown, Part One

Brandes Stoddard — Mon, 03 Jul 2023 20:53:51 +0000

This new packet is a sanity-destroying beast with a huge number of reversions and new changes, so I’m going to get right to it. Seventy-seven pages. Most of the boilerplate text of previous documents is trimmed out here, presumably for the same reason. The broad change to understand going in is that every class getting subclass features at the same levels has been reverted: now all classes get their first subclass feature(s) at 3rd level, then follow their previous progression. […]

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Unearthed Arcana 2023: Player’s Handbook Playtest 5 Breakdown, Part Two

Brandes Stoddard — Fri, 05 May 2023 02:20:14 +0000

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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UA 2023: Player’s Handbook Playtest 5 Breakdown

Brandes Stoddard — Fri, 28 Apr 2023 17:02:04 +0000

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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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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Unearthed Arcana 2022: Cleric and Revised Species Breakdown

Brandes Stoddard — Mon, 05 Dec 2022 21:31:34 +0000

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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