D&D 5E Xanathar's Guide to Everything -- new mechanical expansion/UA book! -- November 10 with a limited-edition cover by Hydro74

[gyor]

I think it will have some playable races as well, like the Grund, I don't think it will be in the Chult AP like some people think.

 

[gyor]

Let's run the numbers:
All the subclasses to date fill around 35 pages. Downtime is 14 pages, feats are 5, traps are 13, and spells are 5. Battlesystem is 5 pages and encounter building is 4. Revised ranger is 8.
That's less than 100 pages, and we know that not all the subclasses are making it in.

There's a lot of pages of content we know nothing about...

Factor in room for new art, so increase that page count by say a quarter, so say just a little under 125 pages so far accounted for.

And I think spells will ultimately be more then 5 pages, so far we've just seen 1st level spells, and cantrips, but I think it likely there will be higher level spells too. My guess is 30 to 35 pages when all is said and done. After all the spells we're refered to as a host of new spells, nor just some new spells.

 

[Rellott]

Xanathar is the head of the Waterdeep Thieves guild, right? If Volo's Guide to Monsters allegedly presented that character's knowledge on the subject stated, then wouldn't it make sense to get Xanathar's commentary on things he knows about? That would mean illicit operations, factions and geopolitics in Waterdeep and the surrounding areas, goody-two-shoes who like to try to stop him and/ or the underlings who work for him (the player character options). As a beholder, he might have additional knowledge about the planes or the Far Realm that he might share, too.

 

[gyor]

Xanathar is the head of the Waterdeep Thieves guild, right? If Volo's Guide to Monsters allegedly presented that character's knowledge on the subject stated, then wouldn't it make sense to get Xanathar's commentary on things he knows about? That would mean illicit operations, factions and geopolitics in Waterdeep and the surrounding areas, goody-two-shoes who like to try to stop him and/ or the underlings who work for him (the player character options). As a beholder, he might have additional knowledge about the planes or the Far Realm that he might share, too.

If it's anything like Volo's Guide to Monsters, it's Xanather's name on the tin, but he'll be relagated to mostly just the odd posted note in the background, so I doubt he will have much if any impact on the actual content of the book, he's just involved to attract realms fans.

 

[Li Shenron]

"More details from Crawford My italics. "Xanathar's Guide to Everything has over 25 new subclasses; a host of new spells; new rules on magic items, downtime, traps; and more. #DnD" 

So there are also new rules for magic items, new spells as well, a host of them even.

Mmm... has there been new rules for magic items in some Unearthed Arcana? Right now I don't remember any... except for the Runes in the UA about a sample prestige class, which I seriously doubt it has received enough good feedback.

 

[Shardstone]

Runes were put into SKT as magical items.

 

[Rellott]

If it's anything like Volo's Guide to Monsters, it's Xanather's name on the tin, but he'll be relagated to mostly just the odd posted note in the background, so I doubt he will have much if any impact on the actual content of the book, he's just involved to attract realms fans.

But it still has to be things he would generally know about for him to leave the occasional comment on. Volo (to my limited knowledge) is a researcher, who went out and researched the monsters and their ecologies (or at least that was the hypothetical premise). Xanathar's not going out to research, so it's likely things he would know about based on his life experiences as a beholder and Thieves guild leader.

 

[Edwin Suijkerbuijk]

Let's run the numbers:
All the subclasses to date fill around 35 pages. Downtime is 14 pages, feats are 5, traps are 13, and spells are 5. Battlesystem is 5 pages and encounter building is 4. Revised ranger is 8.
That's less than 100 pages, and we know that not all the subclasses are making it in.

There's a lot of pages of content we know nothing about...

Was anything said about what the page country will be.
I asume it will be a multiple of 32 like they normale are

 

[GarrettKP]

Was anything said about what the page country will be.
I asume it will be a multiple of 32 like they normale are

They said around 200. Since the price is the same I expect it to have a similar page count as Volo's Guide: around 224

 

[Gladius Legis]

No new surprises then? Bummer. I'll have to keep waiting for my Paladin of Freedom/Liberty.

Don't give up hope just yet. The UA Paladin subclasses were all VERY unpopular. It's possible for that class that WOTC just ditched them all and started over.