D&D 5E The New D&D Book: Tasha's Cauldron of Everything!

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The new D&D book has been revealed, and it is Tasha's Cauldron of Everything, "a magical mixture of rules options for the world's greatest roleplaying game." The 192-page book is due out November 17th, with standard and alternate covers, and contains more subclasses, spells, character options, group patrons, and rules. Oh, and psionics!

Cover art is by Magali Villeneuve

WHAT WONDERFUL WITCHERY IS THIS?

A magical mixture of rules options for the world's greatest roleplaying game.

The wizard Tasha, whose great works include the spell Tasha’s hideous laughter, has gathered bits and bobs of precious lore during her illustrious career as an adventurer. Her enemies wouldn’t want these treasured secrets scattered across the multiverse, so in defiance, she has collected and codified these tidbits for the enrichment of all.

• EXPANDED SUBCLASSES. Try out subclass options for every Dungeons & Dragons class, including the artificer, which appears in the book.
• MORE CHARACTER OPTIONS. Delve into a collection of new class features and new feats, and customize your character’s origin using straightforward rules for modifying a character’s racial traits.
• INTRODUCING GROUP PATRONS. Whether you're part of the same criminal syndicate or working for an ancient dragon, each group patron option comes with its own perks and types of assignments.
• SPELLS, ARTIFACTS & MAGIC TATTOOS. Discover more spells, as well as magic tattoos, artifacts, and other magic items for your campaign.
• EXPANDED RULES OPTIONS. Try out rules for sidekicks, supernatural environments, natural hazards, and parleying with monsters, and gain guidance on running a session zero.
• A PLETHORA OF PUZZLES. Ready to be dropped into any D&D adventure, puzzles of varied difficulty await your adventurers, complete with traps and guidance on using the puzzles in a campaign.

Full of expanded content for players and Dungeon Masters alike, this book is a great addition to the Player's Handbook and the Dungeon Master’s Guide. Baked in you'll find more rule options for all the character classes in the Player's Handbook, including more subclass options. Thrown in for good measure is the artificer class, a master of magical invention. And this witch's brew wouldn't be complete without a dash of added artifacts, spellbook options, spells for both player characters and monsters, magical tattoos, group patrons, and other tasty goodies.

Here's the alternate cover:

UPDATE! An online event called D&D Celebration from September 18th-20th will be hosted by Elle Osili-Wood, which is "an epic live event with panels, gameplay, & previews of the book!" See the video in the Tweet below!

Gather your party and join the adventure at  D&D Celebration 2020, an online gaming event open to fans all over the world!

Celebrate the release of  Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden  with a weekend of Icewind Dale–themed virtual play sessions and help us create the biggest virtual tabletop roleplaying game event ever! Fans will also get the chance to preview some content from  Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything, the forthcoming book featuring massive rules options, subclasses, and more for the fifth edition of Dungeons & Dragons. Watch featured play sessions with D&D luminaries and learn something new with a slate of panels led by the D&D design team and community.


UPDATE! Check out the Nerdarchy site for some previews.

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[Micah Sweet]

Probably! There's certainly a bit of my cultural upbringing behind how i interpret the word. When i hear 'angel' my brain goes directly to 'white robes, feathery wings, halo, harp' etc. Which is where my personal mental disconnect comes in, because it's hard to envisage an entity like that serving the aforementioned Vleshnak the Unhygenic.



Works for me. Archons, exarchs, heralds, emissaries, shards, exemplars, choristers, servitors - just not 'angels'. I know Planescape/2e's LG celestials were called archons, but it wouldn't be the first time D&D has reinvented a creature. Hell, I remember a time before kobolds were dragony, when they were sort of dog-critters...

It wouldn't be the first time D&D re-purposed the word archon. They used it in 4th ed to describe what were later referred to as elemental myrmidons. As a Planescape fan, I didn't care for the change, any more than making eladrin a type of elf.

 

[Weiley31]

I prefer my Archons 3.0/3.5 edition, but Archon seems like a usable term as well.

 

[ChaosOS]

Now I am wondering, if with this handbook you will can summon undead minions, why not deathless? A special undead monster subtype from Book of Exalted Deeds, healed by positive energy and hurt by negative, controlled by good clerics and turned by evils.

How will be the future new PC races after this book? I hope also with optional list of racial traits for more flexibility and to avoid typecasted with the classes.

Not sure if you're aware, but Deathless are probably better known for their place in the Eberron Campaign setting as the rulers of the elves.

 

[Rabulias]

Wait, don’t tell me... they’re all Wizard spells, right?

Spoiler

Yes, they are. Judging from the page-through on YouTube, it looks like they are blade of disaster (along with a living blade of disaster creature over in the monster appendix), create magen (along with some magen entries in the monster appendix), and frost fingers.

 

[Haldrik]

What about Archons?

"Archon" is neutral but connotes an archangel, or an archfiend, even an archfey. It seems to signify the legendary tier levels 17 to 20.

I was wondering about "potentate". Then these potentates might be a Good angel, or Evil fiend. The Neutral counterparts are simply called potentates.

The Evil potentates, the fiends, subdivide further into Lawful Evil devil, Neutral Evil aberrant (!), or Chatotic Evil demons.

Potentates are personifications of the alignment system.

 

[Undrave]

Works for me. Archons, exarchs, heralds, emissaries, shards, exemplars, choristers, servitors - just not 'angels'. I know Planescape/2e's LG celestials were called archons, but it wouldn't be the first time D&D has reinvented a creature. Hell, I remember a time before kobolds were dragony, when they were sort of dog-critters...

Heralds or Emissaries could be a good generic name as well. With Angels being a type of them.

 

[Micah Sweet]

"Archon" is neutral but connotes an archangel, or an archfiend, even an archfey. It seems to signify the legendary tier levels 17 to 20.

I was wondering about "potentate". Then these potentates might be a Good angel, or Evil fiend. The Neutral counterparts are simply called potentates.

The Evil potentates, the fiends, subdivide further into Lawful Evil devil, Neutral Evil aberrant (!), or Chatotic Evil demons.

Potentates are personifications of the alignment system.

Archon is not a neutral term; it has specific meanings in various editions of D&D. How creatures are referred to in the history of the game matters, if for no other reason than to alleviate confusion. If we were going to have an angel-like servitor for evil deities (and aren't just going to say angel), then we need to find a new term, and probably a new statblock.

 

[ChaosOS]

Herald is a good term but I'm personally fine with angels of all stripes in my games.

 

[Weiley31]

Ooooh ooh what is the Blade of Disaster wizard spell?

 

[Parmandur]

Ooooh ooh what is the Blade of Disaster wizard spell?

It appears to be an old AD&D spell, that was in the Infinity Engine games. Like a super powerful Spiritual Weapon, sort of?