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Here we go with another installment of our Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything coverage! This post will continue looking at the changes between the Unearthed Arcana versions of the subclasses that appear in Tasha’s and their official versions.
The first part of this series covered the artificer and barbarian. This post covers the bard and the cleric subclasses!
Continue readingHey, folks! Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything is here, and with it come a plethora of new subclasses to try. These subclasses appeared in previous Unearthed Arcana articles. In these posts, I’ll compare the Unearthed Arcana versions of these mechanics to the official versions present in Tasha’s.
There’s a lot to cover, so this will be a multi-part series of posts! This post discusses the artificer and barbarian subclasses.
Continue readingAn end-of-October surprise, a new Unearthed Arcana with two subclasses. Both of these subclasses use draconic power: the monk’s Way of the Ascendant Dragon and the ranger’s Drakewarden.
(Psst, also, hey! If you’re eligible to vote in the 2020 general election in the United States, make sure to vote if you haven’t already!)
Let’s take a look at these subclass features!
Continue readingIt’s hard to wait for the next D&D session! As a Dungeon Master, I’m happy to have some time to prep the next part of the adventure. But, as a player, it’s much more difficult to be patient. I want to do more with my character, see what happens next, but the constant rate that time progresses keeps me from fast-forwarding to next month.
So, what is there to do?
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No matter how well-thought out your concept for a character is, that concept isn’t going to survive the trip from your brain to your mouth to your gaming group’s ears unchanged. As much as I’d like to just pull my ideas straight from my head, like the origin of Athena, and throw them into play, that’s just not how things work around here. But that’s ok!
If you’ve ever used the Dungeon Master’s Guild to make a purchase, you probably made a DM’s Guild or DriveThruRPG account to do so. That account keeps track of the purchases you’ve made so that you can download them again later.
It also reminds you of which products you’ve bought and haven’t rated or reviewed! The DM’s Guild allows you to leave a one to five star rating and write a review of the product you purchased. Anyone who visits the product page can also leave a comment.
If you purchased something on the DM’s Guild and liked it, I really recommend leaving some feedback for the creator! This can be as simple as leaving a rating. This affects the Average Rating that appears on the product page. The Average Rating shows both the star rating average and the total number of ratings. When you leave a rating, you’re contributing to that overall average.
Continue readingThis week, Wizards of the Coast announced a new rules expansion book titled Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything. This announcement came with a lot of teasers among the tweets, so let’s sort through some of this information!
This book seems to be in the same vein as Xanathar’s Guide for Everything, with options for both players and Dungeon Masters.
We’ll get more information at the upcoming D&D Celebration event this September. But, for now, we already have some tidbits confirmed that I’m pretty curious about!
Continue readingWe got some new Unearthed Arcana this week! This new playtest content includes two new subclasses—one for the bard and one for the warlock. And both of them have spooky vibes for those of us counting down the days until autumn and Halloween!
So, let’s talk about the College of Spirits and the Undead patron!
Continue readingJuly’s Unearthed Arcana introduces a variety of new feats for player characters. Feats are an optional mechanic in D&D. When you level up and get an Ability Score Increase, you can choose to instead take a feat. It’s up to your Dungeon Master whether your campaign will use these. Feats can help you customize your character according to your vision for them.
Let’s take a look at these new feats!
Continue readingOur group tried out Ancestry & Culture: An Alternative to Race in 5e recently, and it went great! In this post, I’ll talk about what Ancestry & Culture is, why we tried it, and our experience with it.
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