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UA 2023 – Player’s Handbook Playtest 6 Breakdown, Part Two

Brandes Stoddard — Fri, 07 Jul 2023 20:03:13 +0000

Onward to the cleric! You can find my article on the UA Bard here. As we go on, keep in mind that this is UA’s second shot at all of its classes except the Monk. Cleric For my comments on the previous iteration of the cleric, clicky clicky. Divine Order has dropped down to 1st level, as I suggested that the Holy Order feature (its predecessor) absolutely had to. They also trimmed out Scholar and shoved the most important piece […]

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Unearthed Arcana 2022: Cleric and Revised Species Breakdown

Brandes Stoddard — Mon, 05 Dec 2022 21:31:34 +0000

Welcome to the third packet of OneD&D public playtesting! In this article – as usual – I’ll be digging into the content of the packet: what it means now and what it might mean in the development of OneD&D. This packet brings us the Cleric class, the Ardling, Dragonborn, and Goliath Species, and new Rules Glossary sprockets. This one is mercifully shorter, at a mere 26 pages! Character Origins | Expert Classes | Cleric & 3 Revised Species The first two pages […]

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Arcadia Issue 9 Breakdown

Tomás Giménez Rioja — Wed, 27 Oct 2021 22:44:01 +0000

All art belongs to MCDM The spooky month arrived, and surprisingly, no spooky Arcadia articles came to accompany it. However, what we received in exchange was content from some of my favorite content creators! This issue definitely won’t disappoint, but let’s examine it in detail, shall we? What about James’ letter though? This one was an interesting one for me! It focuses on telling people to try out other games besides D&D to improve their games. I definitely agree with […]

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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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New Clerical Domain: Earth

Brandes Stoddard — Fri, 10 Jul 2020 12:00:30 +0000

Of all the domains that have seen official support in 5e, there are a few ongoing, surprising gaps compared to the 3.5 list of domains and, for that matter, 4e builds. In this case – as if the title of the post didn’t give it away! – I’m talking about a domain of Earth or Stone. Nature, Forge, and Grave all touch on the edges of that general kind of idea, while leaving tons of open space. This article, originally posted […]

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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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UA: Class Feature Variants Breakdown, Part One

Brandes Stoddard — Tue, 05 Nov 2019 04:11:33 +0000

I don’t want to alarm you, but this week’s UA is absolutely huge in both its actual volume (13 pages) and its impact (it touches every class in the Player’s Handbook to one degree or another). The article title suggests that it’ll be mostly replacing features (“variants”), but in actuality it’s mostly direct enhancements to features. These are almost universally quality-of-life improvements and efforts to solve for what the designers have learned about their game in ongoing development. It’s definitely […]

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Unearthed Arcana: Cleric, Druid, and Wizard Breakdown

Brandes Stoddard — Fri, 04 Oct 2019 20:56:05 +0000

Another UA release dropped today, with subclasses for the cleric (Twilight – not a vampire thing), druid (Wildfire – not a NERF gun), and wizard (Onomancy: divination through names). Not only am I into those concepts, the file name of the document sells the coolness on its own: “Twilight Fire Names.” Sounds like some powerful ritual magic to me! I’m going to talk a bit about supporting-fiction inspirations for each subclass. The funny thing: from things Dan Dillon said on […]

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Pathfinder Second Edition Playtest Breakdown, Part Three

Brandes Stoddard — Wed, 29 Aug 2018 12:00:36 +0000

Welcome back to the next section of my deep dive into the Pathfinder playtest rules. This time, we’re tackling the bard and cleric classes and, if time is on our side, the druid as well. No promises – oaths are for the paladin class, and that’s still some time away. Part One | Part Two | Part Three Bards Now, bards were the first class I covered in my History of the Classes column for Tribality. Way back in those mist-shrouded […]

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