Unearthed Arcana The Unearthed Arcana Is Back With Cleric's Unity Domain!

This week's Unearthed Arcana has reappeared, with a renamed cleric domain and a replaced cleric ability! "Unearthed Arcana presents three new subclasses for you to playtest: the College of Creation for the bard, the Unity Domain for the cleric, and the Clockwork Soul for the sorcerer."

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The Love Domain is now the Unity Domain:

"A sense of oneness shines at the heart of healthy communities, whether bound together by friendship, blood, faith, or some other uniting force. The gods of unity deepen such bonds and delight in their strength.

Clerics of these gods preside over marriages and other familial bonding customs, but they also nurture the emotional bonds of friendship and camaraderie. Their divine blessings bolster and protect allies in battle through these deep bonds and turn aside malign influences."

The Impulsive Infatuation power has been replaced with Shared Burden which allows you to distribute an ally's damage taken amongst other willing creatures.

 

[Raunalyn]

Yeah let's just discuss the document as presented.

Feels like the Bard is still missing something... not necessarily stronger, but just more...flavorful.

Yeah, it doesn't interest me at all. I don't know...maybe I'm biased, but it doesn't seem like a bard to me...

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

In my land we have a lot of sayings and one is "rectify is wise"

I don't see mind-controll effects in the remake of the cleric domain. Now is closer to a allies-buffer, like the warlords.

Comicbook has suggested maybe we are seing "teasers" of the revival of Planescape. I think it may be right. Why not? We only need a sourcebook about planes and a chapter about Sigil and the factions, (and I suggest to recover the Gate-Towns as place of encounters for the faction wars, with Sigil as the neutral point).

 

[Undrave]

Yeah, it doesn't interest me at all. I don't know...maybe I'm biased, but it doesn't seem like a bard to me...

I just realized the item doesn't float. It has a speed but no special mean of moving... meaning it's LITERALLY dancing! Probably bouncing up and down! Maybe you could pick a 'dance' when you summon it?

 

[Rikka66]

I feel like the lofty lore of the Creation Bard doesn't match the crunch. Groups gather to stop the dangerous usage of this power of creation such as....making the furniture slam dance, or temporarily conjuring a breastplate.

Mechanically, the partner is the big hook, and I don't think that's strong enough to carry it.

 

[Gladius Legis]

The Unity domain is definitely an improvement over the "Love" rough draft, both mechanically and conceptually. I approve.

 

[Salthorae]

LOVE the improved Clockwork Soul!

I haven't had a chance to re-read the previous version, but I'm always a fan on new Sorcerer Origins. Especially ones that add free spells known.

The Clockwork Cavalcade powers seem... odd. Maybe I'm too hung up on the "cavalcade" portion of the ability's name. "Order's Restoration" or "Balance the Scales" or something seems more in line with the abilities given.

I like the hp recovery and item repair stuff. Ending all spells of 6th level or lower on your creatures of choice is VERY powerful since this an action to call up, and doesn't allow for a save or check against non-allied creatures.

It's a big combat buff and debuff if you can strip all the spells of 6th level and lower on probably all of yoour enemies in a combat (most are much bigger than 30' square/cube) without any save or check against the ability while also healing your allies and maybe repairing things like a wall.

I want it to have a duration over which these things happen, right now it seems instantaneous, which I'm not sure if that is intended or not.

I want it to have a save or a check for opponents or "opposed" objects, like something with an unhallow type effect, to potentially avoid this

 

[Raunalyn]

I just realized the item doesn't float. It has a speed but no special mean of moving... meaning it's LITERALLY dancing! Probably bouncing up and down! Maybe you could pick a 'dance' when you summon it?

 

[Undrave]

making the furniture slam dance,

Mosh pit in the living room section!

 

[Undrave]

Yeah, it doesn't interest me at all. I don't know...maybe I'm biased, but it doesn't seem like a bard to me...

I feel like the lofty lore of the Creation Bard doesn't match the crunch. Groups gather to stop the dangerous usage of this power of creation such as....making the furniture slam dance, or temporarily conjuring a breastplate.

Mechanically, the partner is the big hook, and I don't think that's strong enough to carry it.

How about a Pro Wrestler Bard who enchants folding chairs to attack enemies?!

 

[Bolares]

How about a Pro Wrestler Bard who enchants folding chairs to attack enemies?!

With the One Man Conchairto as a finisher?