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<blockquote data-quote="buzzardoftheages" data-source="post: 7127766" data-attributes="member: 6791184"><p><strong>Artificer and Mystic released in the DM's Guild.</strong></p><p></p><p>Well this looks promising.</p><p></p><p>"<strong>Unearthed Arcana Update</strong></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Over the past few months, we’ve delivered a stream of new content via the Unearthed Arcana column. Some of that content will show up in future products. Other pieces, having been found lacking by the open playtest process, will drop from our development plans. A few things will follow a third path.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">The subclasses we’ve created have fallen into two categories. Some have proven to have mechanics or story concepts that players have embraced. These subclasses have moved on to deeper design and editing passes and further playtesting. We’ll have news soon about where they might turn up next.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Other subclasses were not embraced. Some had mechanics that were dull or confusing. Others’ concepts were too niche, stepped on the toes of other classes, or just didn’t resonate. Our plan is to either redesign these subclasses from the ground up in a future design cycle or push them aside in favor of new concepts.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">We have already rereleased a few subclasses for further comment. You’ll see a few more revised subclasses in the June installment of Unearthed Arcana.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">We feel confident that the Unearthed Arcana process gives us the feedback needed to develop a subclass into something worthy of publication and official status. Complete new character classes are a different story.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">We debuted two new classes via Unearthed Arcana, the mystic and the artificer. Both have received positive feedback, to the point that we are going to commit more time and energy to refining them for official publication. However, the process for completing a new class requires more resources than a subclass. Here is our plan for completing these classes.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Starting today, we are adding both the mystic and artificer to the DM’s Guild. They are both resources you can use to create your own material to share and sell on the Guild. We are also going to release additional surveys to delve deeper into the classes and identify headaches. Between watching the design work done on the DM’s Guild and monitoring feedback data, we’ll continue to revise these two classes.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Once the classes have robust sets of features and options that are hitting the approval levels we aim for, we will make those classes available for playtesting in the D&D Adventurers League. This step indicates that the new class is slated for official release as part of a D&D product. This step’s goal is to put the classes through the same rigorous testing and DM feedback that the core fifth edition classes received during their open playtests.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Once that step is complete, we’ll add these classes to a future D&D product. We can’t predict how long each step will take, so we don’t have dates to share. We remain committed to releasing material only when it is ready.</span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">Thanks for taking part in the Unearthed Arcana playtests and helping us to make 5e the best game it can be. Your efforts have helped D&D reach heights of popularity and success it has not seen in decades. We’re committed to building on that success by including you in the game’s evolution. Thanks for coming along on this journey with us!"</span></span></p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.dmsguild.com/product/213032/Unearthed-Arcana-The-Artificer-Class-5e?manufacturers_id=44&filters=0_0_0_0_45462_0" target="_blank">Artificer</a></p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.dmsguild.com/product/213033/Unearthed-Arcana-The-Mystic-Class-5e?manufacturers_id=44&filters=0_0_0_0_45462_0" target="_blank">Mystic</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="buzzardoftheages, post: 7127766, member: 6791184"] [b]Artificer and Mystic released in the DM's Guild.[/b] Well this looks promising. "[B]Unearthed Arcana Update[/B] [COLOR=#333333][FONT=Arial]Over the past few months, we’ve delivered a stream of new content via the Unearthed Arcana column. Some of that content will show up in future products. Other pieces, having been found lacking by the open playtest process, will drop from our development plans. A few things will follow a third path.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#333333][FONT=Arial]The subclasses we’ve created have fallen into two categories. Some have proven to have mechanics or story concepts that players have embraced. These subclasses have moved on to deeper design and editing passes and further playtesting. We’ll have news soon about where they might turn up next.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#333333][FONT=Arial]Other subclasses were not embraced. Some had mechanics that were dull or confusing. Others’ concepts were too niche, stepped on the toes of other classes, or just didn’t resonate. Our plan is to either redesign these subclasses from the ground up in a future design cycle or push them aside in favor of new concepts.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#333333][FONT=Arial]We have already rereleased a few subclasses for further comment. You’ll see a few more revised subclasses in the June installment of Unearthed Arcana.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#333333][FONT=Arial]We feel confident that the Unearthed Arcana process gives us the feedback needed to develop a subclass into something worthy of publication and official status. Complete new character classes are a different story.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#333333][FONT=Arial]We debuted two new classes via Unearthed Arcana, the mystic and the artificer. Both have received positive feedback, to the point that we are going to commit more time and energy to refining them for official publication. However, the process for completing a new class requires more resources than a subclass. Here is our plan for completing these classes.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#333333][FONT=Arial]Starting today, we are adding both the mystic and artificer to the DM’s Guild. They are both resources you can use to create your own material to share and sell on the Guild. We are also going to release additional surveys to delve deeper into the classes and identify headaches. Between watching the design work done on the DM’s Guild and monitoring feedback data, we’ll continue to revise these two classes.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#333333][FONT=Arial]Once the classes have robust sets of features and options that are hitting the approval levels we aim for, we will make those classes available for playtesting in the D&D Adventurers League. This step indicates that the new class is slated for official release as part of a D&D product. This step’s goal is to put the classes through the same rigorous testing and DM feedback that the core fifth edition classes received during their open playtests.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#333333][FONT=Arial]Once that step is complete, we’ll add these classes to a future D&D product. We can’t predict how long each step will take, so we don’t have dates to share. We remain committed to releasing material only when it is ready.[/FONT][/COLOR] [COLOR=#333333][FONT=Arial]Thanks for taking part in the Unearthed Arcana playtests and helping us to make 5e the best game it can be. Your efforts have helped D&D reach heights of popularity and success it has not seen in decades. We’re committed to building on that success by including you in the game’s evolution. Thanks for coming along on this journey with us!"[/FONT][/COLOR] [URL="http://www.dmsguild.com/product/213032/Unearthed-Arcana-The-Artificer-Class-5e?manufacturers_id=44&filters=0_0_0_0_45462_0"]Artificer[/URL] [URL="http://www.dmsguild.com/product/213033/Unearthed-Arcana-The-Mystic-Class-5e?manufacturers_id=44&filters=0_0_0_0_45462_0"]Mystic[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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