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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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Arcadia Issue 8 Breakdown

Tomás Giménez Rioja — Wed, 29 Sep 2021 20:00:24 +0000

All art belongs to MCDM This month I come to wake you up before September ends (I’m a 90s kid! I was obligated to write this!) to bring you the latest breakdown from Arcadia. This one is quite different from the past ones in a few ways I’ll be detailing. The constant within this and the previous ones is that you won’t want to miss this issue either! As James indicates in his letter from the editor, September’s issue is […]

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Brief Description of 5e Classes and Subclasses (Ideal to Show to your Players), Part 7

Tomás Giménez Rioja — Wed, 26 May 2021 13:00:28 +0000

Thumbnail from Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft’s cover Van Richten’s Guide to Ravenloft came to spook us much earlier than Halloween, and it’s come with new character things to play with! This week we’ll be taking a look at the terrifying subclasses the book has for us. After surfing the web for a while, I could not find any place in which all the classes and subclasses were briefly explained for a quick read. What I want to create is 4 […]

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Bard – College of Mixology (5e)

Shawn Ellsworth — Wed, 06 Jan 2021 17:36:31 +0000

This week on the Campaign Trail, I thought I’d share a subclass I created for one of my players who expressed interest in being able to play a charlatan/snake oil type character for our upcoming western fantasy-themed campaign. This bard uses this idea as a jumping-off point for what if the snake oil salesperson actually created useful tonics, tinctures, and drinks… Design Notes: It made more sense for this bard to boost allies vs. being a ranged prisoner somehow getting […]

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Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything Breakdown, Part Two

Brandes Stoddard — Wed, 25 Nov 2020 16:32:58 +0000

This week, we’re starting with bards and going through… oh, who knows. Whatever 3-4,000 words gets us. Since you don’t mainly come here to read exordia, let’s plunge in. Part One | Part Two Bard First off, bards get a few new features, just as barbarians did (just as every class but the artificer does). Additional Bard Spells expands the bard spell list with a combination of spells from the Player’s Handbook and this book. Prismatic spray and prismatic wall […]

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Bardic College of the Sunlit Seas

Shawn Ellsworth — Fri, 21 Aug 2020 15:27:03 +0000

This week on the Campaign Trail I wanted to share a subclass I am working on that is intended for our upcoming Under the Seas of Vodari. Back when we were writing the original Seas of Vodari book we looked bringing in a sea singer type bard similar to Rich Howard’s College of the Sea Singers which focuses on enchantment. For the book, we ended up going with the College of Nature and College of Shanties, but I kept this concept […]

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Bardic College of the Deep Dreamer

Brandes Stoddard — Thu, 20 Aug 2020 12:00:54 +0000

This subclass is intended for our upcoming “Under the Seas of Vodari.” Like most bardic colleges, I’m sure they claim to be the eldest and most important of all colleges. That’s just colleges for you. Anyway, carving out seriously new space for bardic colleges isn’t always easy, and this one is pretty weird. It takes some mechanical inspiration from the recent UA College of Spirits. Bardic College of the Deep Dreamer | Bardic College of the Sunlit Seas College of […]

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UA 2020 – Subclasses, Part Four Breakdown

Brandes Stoddard — Thu, 06 Aug 2020 04:58:14 +0000

Surprise! Is werewolf. No, sorry, I meant that it is a new Unearthed Arcana release, bringing us a new bardic college and a new warlock patron. We’ve got some Big Spooky Vibes going this time, with a College of Spirits and an Undying Undead Patron. Sorry, Undying Patron from Sword Coast Adventurer’s Guide, you didn’t deliver on the mechanics, and now you’re not going to deliver on your name. Cuz you deaaaad. Bardic College of Spirits My experience of […]

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UA 2020: Subclasses, Part 2B Breakdown

Brandes Stoddard — Fri, 07 Feb 2020 05:58:05 +0000

Déjà vu, all over again! There’s been a whole thing that is why this got retracted and reissued. You either know about it or don’t, you have opinions about it or don’t, but I’m not getting into it here. College of Creation Bard There was Eru, the One, who in Arda is called Ilúvatar; and he made first the Ainur, the Holy Ones, that were the offspring of his thought, and they were with him before aught else was […]

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UA 2020: Subclasses, Part 2 Breakdown

Brandes Stoddard — Tue, 04 Feb 2020 16:39:31 +0000

Tonight, at the Pit, Everyone. Gets… A New. Subclass. In the second part of the deviously-named “Subclasses” series of UA drops, we get a bardic college, a cleric domain, and a sorcerous origin. For those of you keeping score at home, seven of the thirteen classes have gotten a new subclass in this run, to say nothing of the many, many subclasses of the past few months. Personally I’m hoping to see what’s new in feat design soon. EDIT (2/4/2020, […]

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