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