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2019-10-10, 08:45 AM (ISO 8601)
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Speculation: Next week, or in three weeks, we'll see a special Unearthed Arcana
Follow my logic:
In an interview back in June, Mike Mearls had an interview alongside the developers of Baldur's Gate 3. They spoke about how the Ranger in the PHB doesn't translate well at all to the video game; DM dependent features, etc. And Mearls agreed, and stated that over this past summer, we'd see a playtest for tabletop of alternative Ranger features.
Interview here: https://kotaku.com/the-ranger-class-...-ba-1835659585
People took to Twitter to get a comment about this, and Jeremy Crawford responded: https://twitter.com/JeremyECrawford/...939884544?s=20
Now, obviously, summer is over. Its October 10th as I write this. Why didn't we see the Ranger material? A little known thing happened... Unfortunately, JC had a death in the family, and took some time off over the summer. Understandable, of course.
I surmise the Ranger stuff was understandably delayed due to what happened, and that it is going to be released as part of the recent UA that's been getting released every two weeks.
We've seen a UA subclass on every class thus far, except three: Fighter, Ranger, Rogue.
My hunch tells me that the next will be Fighter and Rogue, with the final UA being a new Ranger conclave as well as the alternative Ranger features for playtest.
Now, Ranger could happen first (next week) or the last one (three weeks from now). I'd guess it'd be the last UA released as part of this run, barring some sort of "Revised Subclasses UA", which would be a new pass of some previously released ones.
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2019-10-16, 09:08 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Jul 2016
Re: Speculation: Next week, or in three weeks, we'll see a special Unearthed Arcana
Either today or tomorrow we should see a UA, based on past scheduling.
My apologies, but if I'm correct, I will absolutely be taking my victory lap
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2019-10-16, 12:27 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Nov 2014
Re: Speculation: Next week, or in three weeks, we'll see a special Unearthed Arcana
I'm all for it. I'm still not sure why we're suddenly getting flooded by UA again, but it's nice to see.
Any idea what project this is all for? Maybe something like a Xanathar's 2?
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2019-10-16, 12:37 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Jul 2016
Re: Speculation: Next week, or in three weeks, we'll see a special Unearthed Arcana
I have some ideas. I'm all about speculation, and while some of my opinions are... "informed"... This is purely speculation.
I think these are to accompany a campaign book. XGtE had us playtesting 2-3 archetypes per class leading up to it. This round of UA has been one archetype per class.
They've released two archetypes with the Ravnica book, Circle of Spores and Order Domain. I wouldn't be surprised at all to see WOTC put more archetypes into campaign books like Ravnica because that way, it gets players to also purchase the book as opposed to mostly just DMs. Purely speculative on my part.
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2019-10-16, 12:43 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Nov 2014
Re: Speculation: Next week, or in three weeks, we'll see a special Unearthed Arcana
That was my thought with the first set, but by now I'm not sure. These don't really feel like any setting that currently exists.
But maybe that's the point. I remember rumblings right before Eberron's announcement that they wanted to make an original 5e setting. Perhaps this is that lead up.
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2019-10-16, 12:47 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Aug 2016
Re: Speculation: Next week, or in three weeks, we'll see a special Unearthed Arcana
I think we will get three subclasses this week, one for each remaining class.
We don't know yet how many subclasses they will release in UA, right now it's pretty similar to XGE playtest: one subclass for two or three different classes.
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2019-10-16, 01:10 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Jul 2016
Re: Speculation: Next week, or in three weeks, we'll see a special Unearthed Arcana
The one you linked to was an anomaly in their scheduling. The UAs were released as UA: Monk, UA: Cleric, UA: Druid, etc and each had two or three subclasses.
Wizard and Warlock were combined, and that's what gave us the Lore Wizard. In an article similar to yours, we got War Wizard.
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2019-10-16, 06:23 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Jan 2017
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- Canada
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Re: Speculation: Next week, or in three weeks, we'll see a special Unearthed Arcana
Is it too simplistic to think these new subclasses will lead to a manual of planes book?
I'm also seeing opposites here:
Fire Druid, Water Warlock;
Fey Barbarian, Ethereal/shadow Cleric;
Logical (Mechanus) Bard, Primal (Ysgard?) Paladin
Astral Monk, Far realm Warlock.
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2019-10-16, 06:28 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Nov 2011
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Re: Speculation: Next week, or in three weeks, we'll see a special Unearthed Arcana
Tell you what, it's really nice having an 'in' like jaappleton around.
Roll for it 5e Houserules and Homebrew
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2019-10-16, 06:36 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Jul 2016
Re: Speculation: Next week, or in three weeks, we'll see a special Unearthed Arcana
I expect this weeks UA to drop tomorrow. Remember Monday was a holiday!
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2019-10-16, 06:43 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Aug 2017
Re: Speculation: Next week, or in three weeks, we'll see a special Unearthed Arcana
I think this week's UA will actually be a feature length movie! I know there have been no reports that filming has even started (or crew selected) but I think it's all been a ploy. Instead of months of marketing hype, they are just going to release it with no notice or warning and it will take the world by storm!
err, well, if not that, then jappleton's speculation seems reasonable :)
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2019-10-16, 06:59 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Feb 2014
Re: Speculation: Next week, or in three weeks, we'll see a special Unearthed Arcana
It would be cool to get a "fixed" Revised Ranger that's balances things a bit better, and accounts for all of the current Conclaves. It's been what, like 2-3 years since it was originally released?
I Am A: Neutral Good Half-Orc Fighter/Barbarian (2nd/1st Level)
Ability Scores:
Strength-16
Dexterity-16
Constitution-17
Intelligence-17
Wisdom-16
Charisma-13
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2019-10-16, 07:01 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Nov 2011
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Re: Speculation: Next week, or in three weeks, we'll see a special Unearthed Arcana
I wonder how many years it will take before they have the guts to just tear the heart out rather than tweaking here and errataing there. Ditto for sorcerer really.
Roll for it 5e Houserules and Homebrew
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2019-10-16, 08:06 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Speculation: Next week, or in three weeks, we'll see a special Unearthed Arcana
It's funny, I was just thinking earlier, 'y'know it's been about two weeks since the last UA. I'll bet that one will be out this week.' Jaapleton gets all the credit for calling this though.
I'm favoring the Planes guide theory, several of these subclasses have had a definite leaning toward one plane or another so far. Fighter and Rogue seem right to me, I'm thinking upper planes rogue, lower planes fighter, so they can go against type for the rogue and make a holy sort of rogue. Maybe some kind of hellfire fighter, that would be pretty neat.
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2019-10-16, 09:29 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Feb 2016
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- Chattanooga
Re: Speculation: Next week, or in three weeks, we'll see a special Unearthed Arcana
Kinda OT, but somehow I missed the thread on the 10/3/19 UA discussion, and my attempts at searching have been unsuccessful, which I attribute to my incompetence with the Advanced Search function. Was there a discussion, and if so, can someone drop a link? I'd really appreciate it.
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2019-10-16, 11:04 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Nov 2005
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- Canada
Re: Speculation: Next week, or in three weeks, we'll see a special Unearthed Arcana
I know Fighter, Ranger and Rogue are next up in this series of UA's, but I'm hoping that we're getting another crack at Psionics. I was interested in seeing what Mearls had been cooking up in his Happy Fun Hour with relation to Psionics. And if the Fighter, Ranger and Rogue are getting Psionic subclasses, better to get Psionics first.
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2019-10-17, 06:47 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Aug 2016
Re: Speculation: Next week, or in three weeks, we'll see a special Unearthed Arcana
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2019-10-17, 07:24 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Feb 2016
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- Chattanooga
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2019-10-17, 01:31 PM (ISO 8601)
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- Jul 2016
Re: Speculation: Next week, or in three weeks, we'll see a special Unearthed Arcana
Todays UA is Fighter, Ranger and Rogue together.
Already made a new topic.
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2019-10-18, 10:24 AM (ISO 8601)
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- Jul 2016
Re: Speculation: Next week, or in three weeks, we'll see a special Unearthed Arcana
So.....
Called it?
I'll mark this down as half credit.
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2019-10-18, 11:41 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Speculation: Next week, or in three weeks, we'll see a special Unearthed Arcana
Or you might get full credit. Be nifty if they released a second Revised Ranger as the next UA playtest in a couple weeks.
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2019-10-18, 11:54 AM (ISO 8601)
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- May 2015