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Xanathar’s Guide Breakdown, Part Eleven

Brandes Stoddard — Wed, 14 Mar 2018 12:00:31 +0000

Here I’d been thinking I’d be writing a UA breakdown this week, but no. I don’t think you really need me to tell you what goes on with one page of character development tables for duergar from Mordenkainen’s Burn Book. (Anyone who keeps a Tome of Foes is skating way too close to Richard Nixon for comfort.) Anyway, let’s hit it with some more spells. Barbarians and Bards | Clerics, Druids, and Fighters | Monks and Paladins | Rangers and Rogues | Sorcerers, Warlocks, and Wizards | Backstory and Feats | Rules […]

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Xanathar’s Guide Breakdown, Part Ten

Brandes Stoddard — Wed, 07 Mar 2018 13:00:36 +0000

I’m plowing back into Chapter Three: Spells of Xanathar’s Guide to Everything this week. I got through the Fs last week, so let’s see what I can get done before I have to click “Publish” this week. Also, many thanks to the alert reader who pointed out my error on danse macabre – it does indeed play nice with the Necromancy feature Undead Thralls. Barbarians and Bards | Clerics, Druids, and Fighters | Monks and Paladins | Rangers and Rogues | Sorcerers, Warlocks, and Wizards | Backstory and Feats | Rules Clarifications […]

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Xanathar’s Guide Breakdown, Part Nine

Brandes Stoddard — Wed, 28 Feb 2018 13:30:47 +0000

We’re getting close to the end of Xanathar’s Guide to Everything now, but Chapter Three: Spells is no joke. I wouldn’t count on me getting through this whole chapter in one article. I’ll be going through the spells in alphabetical order, and I’ll to note which classes get each spell, for conversational ease of reference. (It’s my one big complaint about how spell information is presented – you have to flip back and forth between the class lists and the […]

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Xanathar’s Guide Breakdown, Part Eight

Brandes Stoddard — Thu, 22 Feb 2018 13:00:50 +0000

I’ve been asked to put off my adventure review for a week, so I’m pressing forward with the back half of Chapter Two in Xanathar’s Guide to Everything. This includes traps, downtime activity, and magic items, all of them quite hefty sections. Barbarians and Bards | Clerics, Druids, and Fighters | Monks and Paladins | Rangers and Rogues | Sorcerers, Warlocks, and Wizards | Backstory and Feats | Rules Clarifications and Encounter Building | Traps, Downtime, and Magic Items Traps, Reset If traps – especially large, complex deathtraps – are your […]

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Xanathar’s Guide Breakdown, Part Seven

Brandes Stoddard — Thu, 08 Feb 2018 13:00:25 +0000

Hey, it’s Part Seven and we’re finally out of Chapter One! I expect Chapter Two to go a good bit faster, as we get into optional rules modules and suggested handling for unusual cases. Still, there’s a lot here, and it’s some of the content I care about most in this book. Barbarians and Bards | Clerics, Druids, and Fighters | Monks and Paladins | Rangers and Rogues | Sorcerers, Warlocks, and Wizards | Backstory and Feats | Rules Clarifications and Encounter Building Falling If you’re falling from a […]

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Xanathar’s Guide Breakdown, Part Six

Brandes Stoddard — Wed, 31 Jan 2018 13:00:25 +0000

After a month-and-a-bit to cover a few other things, I’m back to continue my deep dive into Xanathar’s Guide to Everything. Today, I’ll finish up Chapter One with This Is Your Life and Racial Feats. On the plus side, this means I have time to play with the backstory generator a bit more. By the time I’m done with this article I’ll have two new characters ready to go in everything but stats. Barbarians and Bards | Clerics, Druids, and Fighters | Monks and […]

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Xanathar’s Guide Breakdown, Part Five

Brandes Stoddard — Thu, 21 Dec 2017 13:00:40 +0000

Wow, so we’re coming up on the end of Xanathar’s Guide to Everything and I want to thank the Academy… wait, say again? We’re not even coming up on the end of Chapter One…? Well, uh, all right then. In this article I’m discussing four calling birds, three (sorcerous) origins, two warlock patrons, (a whole bunch of new Eldritch Invocations,) and a War Magic tradition. I am being informed that I must write “Filking Twelve Days of Christmas is completely […]

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Xanathar’s Guide Breakdown, Part Four

Brandes Stoddard — Thu, 14 Dec 2017 05:22:08 +0000

Today I’m taking my best shot at the ranger and rogue subclasses of Xanathar’s Guide to Everything. With seven in total, I may have to be a bit briefer than my usual. Or not. I’ll find out as I write, I guess! Barbarians and Bards | Clerics, Druids, and Fighters | Monks and Paladins | Rangers and Rogues Rangers The additional flavor text for rangers says, “A relationship with civilization informs every ranger’s personality and history.” That’s an awfully […]

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Xanathar’s Guide Breakdown, Part Three

Brandes Stoddard — Thu, 07 Dec 2017 13:00:59 +0000

Today I’m moving on to monastic traditions and paladin oaths in Xanathar’s Guide to Everything. There are a mere five subclasses this time, so we’ll get through 18 of 31 subclasses. Let’s see what we’ve got going on here. As a reminder, I’m avoiding describing features as I go, because this article is in no way intended as a replacement for owning a copy of the text. Where this makes the breakdown harder to read, you have my apologies. Bards […]

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Xanathar’s Guide Breakdown, Part Two

Brandes Stoddard — Wed, 29 Nov 2017 13:00:45 +0000

The next piece of Xanathar’s Guide to Everything is… more subclasses. Let’s be real, there are 53 pages of subclasses in this book, we’re going to be doing this for a bit. Today I’ll be talking about clerics, druids, and fighters, with seven new subclasses between them. Bards and Barbarians | Clerics, Druids, and Fighters Clerics The three new distinguishing features of clerics are pretty great – the temple where you completed your novitiate, a keepsake that is pretty […]

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