Unearthed Arcana – Greyhawk Initiative
After the flurry of Unearthed Arcana articles this year, we’ve had to patiently survive a short break. This month’s Unearthed Arcana offers a different look at initiative. The ‘Greyhawk Initiative’ variant was inspired by Mike Mearls’ preparing to visit to ...
UA: Revised Class Options Breakdown
As the first Unearthed Arcana release following the announcement of Xanathar’s Guide to Everything (coming this November), we have a clearer idea of WotC’s timeline and plans. This article, then, rehashes four subclasses and many of the Eldritch Invocations from ...
UA: Revised Subclasses Breakdown
This, my friends, is the first week of the rest of our lives. (I mean, that’s never not true.) We’ve left the weekly UA schedule and returned to the monthly, but naturally it’s the first of a new month, so ...
Unearthed Arcana – Revised Subclasses
Wizards of the Coast reached the end of their flurry of Unearthed Arcana last week, but they haven’t gone into hiding. This week we get five revised subclasses: Path of the Ancestral Guardian, the bard’s College of Swords, the fighter’s ...
Unearthed Arcana: Feats for Races Breakdown
The final UA article of the Great Content Rush of ’17 is another collection of feats by Robert Schwalb and Jeremy Crawford, this time clustered around races – each race of the Player’s Handbook has one or more feat options, ...
Unearthed Arcana – Feats for Races
The current flurry of articles comes to an end with Racial Feats. This week we get 4 pages of feats that all have racial prerequisites. I’ll leave the in-depth analysis to Brandes. Download the PDF | Read the Full Article ...
UA: Feats for Skills Breakdown
A new collection of feats is always an interesting proposition in 5e, since good feat design is a demanding proposition in the current environment, and that’s what we get in this week’s Unearthed Arcana article. Specifically, it has feats that ...
Unearthed Arcana – Feats for Skills
This week’s Unearthed Arcana gives players a chance to really improve their character’s ability in one of the games 18 skills. “This week we introduce new feats to playtest. Each of these feats makes you better at one of the ...
Unearthed Arcana: Downtime Breakdown
This is the one I’ve been waiting for, y’all: the rework and expansion of downtime activities in Unearthed Arcana. Between my love of domain rulership and mass combat, which you know about if you’ve been reading my column, and my ...
UA: Starter Spells Breakdown
It’s Monday, there’s a new Unearthed Arcana, and we also learn that we’re coming close to the end of weekly UAs and returning to monthly or semi-monthly UAs. Today’s document is all cantrips and 1st-level spells, which means I have ...