It's more of a DM book than players, but I guess it's both. Mordenkainen's is definitely a DMs book, not players.
But it does have player options in it. There really aren't any DM or Player source books outside the core books. They are all "both". They do that so that they sell more books. Instead of selling 1 book to the DM, now everyone in the group has a reason to buy it.
It's more of a DM book than players, but I guess it's both. Mordenkainen's is definitely a DMs book, not players.
I think they try to put player options in books like Volos and Mordenkainens so players buy them. And making the races playable makes the lore connect to the PCs
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I like once a month just because I have nothing else to do 🙁. But I get the play test thing. Maybe they could give us a teaser or lore drop for the next UA in an off month. Or they could just do one a month but put the surveys out 2 months later instead of one.
Also, I think/hope it’ll come out tomorrow.
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I am starting to think that with all the flak WotC and DnD is getting at the moment via social media, that we won't see another UA for a little while longer.
Orion Black quit and is claiming that it was due to a hostile work environment. Racist stereotypes in current content. Oriental Adventures still being available on the DMsguild. The DMsguild in general. All the usual things really.
Edit: I must admit that I don't actually know who Orion Black is or very many of the others that work for WotC for that matter.
Yeah, at this point I suspect that WotC is in full-on damage control mode and that they will be pushing racial variants as their next top priority. I doubt we’ll see anything else new from them until that’s been addressed.
I agree they're going to lean into improving optics pretty hard. However, I think we're really due for some revisions. Take the Archfey, for example -- great flavor but everyone gets more mechanical benefits. Even fey presence is once per long rest. Other patrons get cantrips, or powerful features like dark one's blessing or among the dead at level one. Even grasp of the deep can be used a number of times equal to your charisma mod. Misty escape is rad but it's easy for early levels to feel like the warlock got a bum deal in this otherwordly pact. The lore of the feywild is so rich there's a lot of material to mine.
I agree they're going to lean into improving optics pretty hard. However, I think we're really due for some revisions. Take the Archfey, for example -- great flavor but everyone gets more mechanical benefits. Even fey presence is once per long rest. Other patrons get cantrips, or powerful features like dark one's blessing or among the dead at level one. Even grasp of the deep can be used a number of times equal to your charisma mod. Misty escape is rad but it's easy for early levels to feel like the warlock got a bum deal in this otherwordly pact. The lore of the feywild is so rich there's a lot of material to mine.
That is interesting, Most cite the great old one as the weakest patron Most in need of an revision, but i can see why you feel a single round duration charm is kinda limited, that being Said it is kinda thematically apropriate for you as an archfey warlock to get an bad deal considering the nature of your ally
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In terms of pure mechanical usefulness I do think GOO is a bit worse than Fey, if only because its cerebral leanings may or may not be of importance in say, a campaign set in a volcanic deathland where every monster is some draconic demon thing and they rarely do psi damage... and since they wouldn't be humanoids your class capstone is also basically worthless as well. The abilities aren't bad, its just that they're too situational to be great, imo.
Also, I thought we were all in agreement that if any Warlock class is getting a rework first, its Undying. Fey and GOO might be underpowered, but with Undying its like you didn't even choose a patron.
But it does have player options in it. There really aren't any DM or Player source books outside the core books. They are all "both". They do that so that they sell more books. Instead of selling 1 book to the DM, now everyone in the group has a reason to buy it.
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I really hope that we get a new UA this week. Feels like it has been a long while since the last one.
*Checks the date of the last UA*
Almost 2 months :(
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It has been a long while.
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I personally think 1 every 2 months is preferabl, gives us more time to actually test the stuff. But that’s just me.
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They still gave the survey after the first month. But 2 months is probably good time for testing
I like once a month just because I have nothing else to do 🙁. But I get the play test thing. Maybe they could give us a teaser or lore drop for the next UA in an off month. Or they could just do one a month but put the surveys out 2 months later instead of one.
Also, I think/hope it’ll come out tomorrow.
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I wish it came out every month, but the surveys were 2 months after release.
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I am starting to think that with all the flak WotC and DnD is getting at the moment via social media, that we won't see another UA for a little while longer.
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Orion Black quit and is claiming that it was due to a hostile work environment. Racist stereotypes in current content. Oriental Adventures still being available on the DMsguild. The DMsguild in general. All the usual things really.
Edit: I must admit that I don't actually know who Orion Black is or very many of the others that work for WotC for that matter.
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Yeah, at this point I suspect that WotC is in full-on damage control mode and that they will be pushing racial variants as their next top priority. I doubt we’ll see anything else new from them until that’s been addressed.
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I agree they're going to lean into improving optics pretty hard. However, I think we're really due for some revisions. Take the Archfey, for example -- great flavor but everyone gets more mechanical benefits. Even fey presence is once per long rest. Other patrons get cantrips, or powerful features like dark one's blessing or among the dead at level one. Even grasp of the deep can be used a number of times equal to your charisma mod. Misty escape is rad but it's easy for early levels to feel like the warlock got a bum deal in this otherwordly pact. The lore of the feywild is so rich there's a lot of material to mine.
That is interesting, Most cite the great old one as the weakest patron Most in need of an revision, but i can see why you feel a single round duration charm is kinda limited, that being Said it is kinda thematically apropriate for you as an archfey warlock to get an bad deal considering the nature of your ally
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In terms of pure mechanical usefulness I do think GOO is a bit worse than Fey, if only because its cerebral leanings may or may not be of importance in say, a campaign set in a volcanic deathland where every monster is some draconic demon thing and they rarely do psi damage... and since they wouldn't be humanoids your class capstone is also basically worthless as well. The abilities aren't bad, its just that they're too situational to be great, imo.
Also, I thought we were all in agreement that if any Warlock class is getting a rework first, its Undying. Fey and GOO might be underpowered, but with Undying its like you didn't even choose a patron.
It's ok Ranger, you'll always be cool to me.. Unless druid gets another use for its wild shape charges.
(The undying is definitely the worst Warlock Patron, and most in need of revision.)
I hope they do Subclass Feature variants, but they basically said that's never going to happen.
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Finally the Unearthed Arcana arrived!
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I like it. I hope these make it in. Also, the planar features confirm my Planescape/Xanathar's 2.0 suspicions.
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This is literally exactly what i wanted. I am happy now
Also the Artificer Initiate feat makes me think that we are more than likely going to see an Artificer reprint
The Planar feats are pretty sweet as well. Now that we have a template for them, it shouldn't be too hard to do the rest of the planes.
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