UA 2025: The Psion Breakdown
Not even the Ranger has had as many UA releases thrown at it as the Psion (née Mystic). Searching through the dusty, moldering archives of this very website, I see that I last wrote a UA breakdown about psionics in ...
UA 2025: Horror Subclasses Breakdown
I haven’t written an UA breakdown in a hot minute—the last one was before the three core books of 2024-25 dropped!—but this drop sucked me back in. Part of this is to find out where the reading audience is these ...
UA 2023 – Player’s Handbook Playtest 7 Breakdown, Part Five
Is… is it possible, by some strange chance, that I’m coming to a close in this series? Sure, I’m a whole packet behind, but I’m doing my best here, folks. This time, I’m planning to finish the packet. Wish me ...
UA 2023 – Player’s Handbook Playtest 7 Breakdown, Part Four
Let’s make a deal and have that talk about UA’s latest revision of Warlocks. Today, I’ll be bringing you quotes from Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, since it’s sort of an ur-text for the whole concept. It also explains ...
UA 2023 – Player’s Handbook 7 Playtest Breakdown, Part Three
Welcome back! Sorcerers, and without further delay. Delays there have already been, aplenty. But this space still feels weird with only one two lines.
UA 2023 – Player’s Handbook 7 Playtest Breakdown, Part Two
I’m going to need SO many more hours in a day to keep up with the rate of UA releases, book releases, photo flip-throughs of upcoming releases… It’s been a breakneck pace around here and I’m not keeping up. Anyway! ...
UA 2023 – Player’s Handbook 7 Playtest Breakdown, Part One
This packet dropped before I’d even finished covering its cyclopean predecessor, so I took a little time to make progress on other projects (good stuff, Under the Seas of Vodari backers!) before taking up sword and spellbook once again. This ...
UA 2023 – Player’s Handbook 6 Playtest Breakdown, Part Seven
The new packet came out yesterday, but I’m not covering that today. I’m still finishing up the last one, with the Rogue, new or revised spells, and anything else down toward the bottom of the packet. Let’s hit it.
UA 2023 – Player’s Handbook Playtest 6 Breakdown, Part Five
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.
UA 2023 – Player’s Handbook 6 Playtest Breakdown, Part Four
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 ...