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UA 2025: Horror Subclasses Breakdown

Brandes Stoddard — Mon, 19 May 2025 03:26:13 +0000

I haven’t written an UA breakdown in a hot minute—the last one was before the three core books of 2024-25 dropped!—but this drop sucked me back in. Part of this is to find out where the reading audience is these days. I’m sad to see that they’ve dropped bylines for UA articles; I liked knowing whose ideas I was reading. Also, the very short turnaround on this feedback window is a travesty. I’m sure they have reasons, but since the […]

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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: Giant Options Breakdown

Brandes Stoddard — Sat, 28 May 2022 18:07:24 +0000

There’s a new Unearthed Arcana to take us into Memorial Day weekend, and “giant” is both its leading adjective and its subject matter. We get three subclasses and ten feats in this document; it’s not clear what exact book this will be for, but it’s got giants on its mind one way or another. This UA’s byline includes Makenzie de Armas, James Wyatt, Ben Petrisor, and Jeremy Crawford. Self-promo Digression: Let me tell you about some cool giant-based content I […]

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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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Arcadia Issue 5 Breakdown

Tomás Giménez Rioja — Wed, 23 Jun 2021 21:00:10 +0000

All art belongs to MCDM These curses are all made to resist the boring remove curse spell and give new twists to your campaign. They go all the way from wacky to scary, all of them resembling curses we have already read or seen in other stories. They all are made to easily create adventure hooks, give examples on how the curse could be cast, and how to remove them. Additionally, these curses come with side box text that lets […]

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Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything Breakdown, Part Four

Brandes Stoddard — Thu, 04 Feb 2021 13:00:25 +0000

It’s been several weeks, but today I’m back to continue this series, in which we dig into Tasha’s Cauldron and find out just what she put in that soup. Monk’s subclasses, while common in Rentonese cuisine, are not often to be found in Washington, D.C. (I’m also covering paladins.) Part One | Part Two | Part Three | Part Four Monk There are four new monk features, all of them extra stuff (that is, no replacements). Dedicated Weapon at 2nd level might represent the […]

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Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything Breakdown, Part Three

Brandes Stoddard — Sun, 20 Dec 2020 20:01:57 +0000

It’s been a few very busy weeks of not getting to explore Tasha’s Cauldron (not a euphemism or metaphor), but today I’m back to cover druid and fighter content. I mean, you’d think that I could cover more than two classes’ subclasses per article, but ha ha no. Uh, settle in, this is a real long one. Part One | Part Two | Part Three Druid The new druid features are fairly tidy. Additional Druid Spells adds 16 new spells to the […]

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Brief Description of 5e Classes and Subclasses (Ideal to Show to your Players), Part 6

Tomás Giménez Rioja — Wed, 18 Nov 2020 14:00:41 +0000

Thumbnail from Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything’s cover With the arrival of Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything, tons of new things have arrived to play with. I managed to get the subclasses as fast as I could and write brief descriptions for them so you can decide from the get-go if you are interested in the content from the book or not, or what to play from it. After surfing the web for a while, I could not find any place in […]

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UA: Fighter, Ranger, and Rogue Breakdown

Brandes Stoddard — Sat, 19 Oct 2019 00:14:51 +0000

UA on a two-week cycle, you say? Don’t mind if I do. This time out, we complete a cycle through all of the Player’s Handbook classes with the fighter, ranger, and rogue. Let’s see where this takes us… Barbarian and Monk | Sorcerer and Warlock | Bard and Paladin | Cleric, Druid, and Wizard | Fighter, Ranger, and Rogue Rune Knight Fighter Archetype Here’s another fine example of “you had me at [$subclass name]. Yes, sure, I’ll still study […]

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Unearthed Arcana: Barbarian and Monk Breakdown

Brandes Stoddard — Thu, 15 Aug 2019 22:46:49 +0000

A new UA article! On a Thursday? Don’t these monsters know that this does strange things to my writing schedule for the week? They don’t? Weird. Anyway. Two new subclasses, one for barbarians and one for monks. The Path of the Wild Soul What if Wild Magic sorcery… but a barbarian? Makes sense to me – if you’re raging too much to control magic, let’s try some uncontrolled magic. The early flavor text mentions the Feywild, but that’s the only […]

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