D&D 5E Unearthed Arcana: Travelers of the Multiverse

New free content from WotC - the latest 4-page Unearthed Arcana introduces six new races: astral elf, autognome, giff, hadozee, plasmoid, and thri-kreen.

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Looks like Spelljammer and/or Planescape is back on the menu!

 

[Bolares]

Oh, Plasmoid should get some kind of natural armor, otherwise amorphous will basically never get used by non-monk, non-barbarian Plasmoids.

Maybe a caster? wizard sorcerer and warlock may use it

 

[Argyle King]

What actual effect does having legs or not having legs have on Plasmoids? Their speed seems independent of that.

I'm curious to see how Thri-keen interact with builds which require a free hand to work.

It's cool to see Hadozee. I was just looking through 3.5 Stormwrack a few days ago.

Astral Elves seem kinda lame and bland as currently represented.

Some cool ideas. At a glance, the power level for the options seems to vary quite a bit.

 

[Weiley31]

Maybe a caster? wizard sorcerer and warlock may use it

Warlock does have an invocation for Mage Armor.

 

[Bolares]

Is it me or the Giff seem reeeally underpowered compared to the other (great) options offered?

 

[Bolares]

Warlock does have an invocation for Mage Armor.

Also, you slip into a crack in the wall and cast your spells trough it

 

[Weiley31]

Is it me or the Giff seem reeeally underpowered compared to the other (great) options offered?

I'll admit that Hippo Build seems to be the only worthwhile thing on them.

 

[Kurotowa]

There was a hadozee literally on one of the Spelljammer accessories (I thought it was the original Spelljammer boxed set cover, but a quick look shows I was incorrect there.)

Hadozee were one of the PC races detailed in The Complete Spacefarer's Handbook.

Thri-Keen way predate Dark Sun, and were in Spelljammer: I expect WotC wants themt o be the Multiverses generic Buggolk, anyways, and Spelljammer is a good place to introduce them. And hey, if they are doing Spelljammer, why not put in a little Magic the Gathering?

It makes sense to focus on one "bug people" PC race, and Thri-Kreen have more name recognition and clarity of concept than the Rastipede or Xixchil do.

 

[Weiley31]

Also, you slip into a crack in the wall and cast your spells trough it

Plasmoid: I'm a holy cleric.
hides in a hole in the wall and casts spells
Paladin: Wow, she ain't kidding!

 

[Weiley31]

Like I said: a Giff may not seem like much, but a Giff Barbarian, with Hippo Build, seems pretty hardcore legit.

 

[Enevhar Aldarion]

Yep. This is, I imagine, the UA that Perkins mentioned that was so obvious in what it was that they couldn't talk about it at all without revealing what it was.

No, unless he has said that a 2nd time, he was talking about the Strixhaven UA we got that was a total giveaway for the product it was for.