Unearthed Arcana: Fiendish Options Breakdown
I don’t know about you, but my September 2017 felt like one of the longest months of my life – so it feels like it’s been ages since the last Unearthed Arcana came out. Today, however, we get a collection ...
D&D Tomb of Annihilation Review
The new D&D book, Tomb of Annihilation, has already been available at your Friendly Local Gaming Store (FLGS) and is available everywhere as of Tuesday September 19th, 2017. Tomb of Annihilation drops players into the deadly jungles of Chult, tasked ...
UA Race Options: Eladrin and Gith Breakdown
It’s the first non-holiday Monday in the month, so Unearthed Arcana is back with a new article. This time, Mearls and Crawford bring us one elf subrace, the Eladrin; and the gith race with its two subraces. It’s a comparatively ...
Shapeways – Digital 3D Printing Services for Tabletop Games!
I had the fortunate opportunity to visit with the gracious Lise Keeney at the Shapeways booth at Gen_Con this summer. The booth was near the miniature painting competition, and the group paint & take tables that was ongoing. There were several ...
UA: Three-Pillar Experience Breakdown
The August Unearthed Arcana article addresses an alternate approach to awarding experience. In particular, it promises to promote exploration and palaver as primary providers of XP, to keep up with combat. I would love to see polling on the XP ...
Plane Shift: Amonkhet Breakdown
James Wyatt recently released the fourth conversion of a Magic: the Gathering setting to D&D 5e. Amonkhet is an Egyptian-inspired dark fantasy setting, which James describes in the Introduction as “outside the core D&D experience,” but I’m not completely sure ...
UA: Greyhawk Initiative Breakdown
Several weeks ago in Twitter, Mearls explained a variant initiative system that he had been playing round with, and today in Unearthed Arcana, he has explained it in full so that people will stop arguing about a piecemeal presentation of ...
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 ...
Draconomicon: Dragonbound Breakdown
Back in March, I received a request from Ross Wilkin to consider a breakdown article on his Draconomicon: Dragonbound PDF, available through the DM’s Guild. As you already know, though, we’ve had basically no weeks since mid-March that I wasn’t ...
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 ...