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 […]
I haven’t had a chance to write my UA breakdown article on the Bastions and Cantrips packet for Tribality yet, but today I’m makin’ gravy without the lumps! This is content that should be fun even if you’re not using whatever comes from the Bastion rules in the end. I […]
As the Unearthed Arcana development of 5e.24 continues, the design team’s apparent campaign against the Short Rest has pivoted hard toward everyone getting back something but almost no one getting back everything on a Short Rest. Long-time readers may recall that I called for this exact thing more than a […]
Back in December, I created a collection of new Divine (Holy) Orders for the Cleric class, and pointed out that Holy Orders really needed to show up at 1st level rather than 2nd level. In the new Player’s Handbook 6 playtest document, WotC renames Holy Orders to Divine Orders (presumably […]
In the new UA packet, the Create Spell spell requires expensive material components that are consumed on use: an arcane focus worth 1000 gp per level of the spell you’re creating. In my breakdown article on it, I pondered what a 9,000-gp arcane focus even looks like, if you’re not […]
One Leak (with apologies to the Barenaked Ladies) It’s been one week since you leaked to us Codega’s article dropped, you said, “We’re greedy” Five business days in the US Saying, “We’ll be sharing more soon, thanks for your patience.” Three days since the D&D Beyond tweet We realize it’s […]
Just to be the first kid on the block dipping a toe into homebrewed One D&D design, I’m offering some new Holy Orders for the Cleric Class, as released in the new UA document. I really like the idea of the Holy Order feature, as it provides both a playstyle […]
