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!

 

[Weiley31]

Playable Ooze

I'm actually surprised the Playable Ooze happened so soon. It's a pleasant surprise mind you.

 

[Bolares]

Still it's kind of weird way to refer to a none evil race. Even beasts would have been better.

Anyways, I'm looking forward to seeing what Celestial, Fiendish, Aberration creatures they might do.

Playable Ooze is awesome, I already love Plasmoids.

 

[Bolares]

If the autognome survives the UA fase and sees print, I'll probably hamebrew my warforgeds to be constructs with similar features

I know, I know, quoting myself... but this reminds me of a valuable PSA:

Don't get too excited or attached to this.... fun things usually die in Playtest

 

[Weiley31]

If the autognome survives the UA fase and sees print, I'll probably hamebrew my warforgeds to be constructs with similar features

Honestly that seems like a great idea/bases for any Construct race, even if the Autognome doesn't survive the UA. Heck, the Reborn resistances can totally be used for Undead pc races. and it's a lot better model to use than the Dhampir's version.

 

[Charlaquin]

Maybe a caster? wizard sorcerer and warlock may use it

Actually, wait, still no. Casters don’t necessarily need to wear anything, but they do need to carry either a spellcasting focus or material components. Currently monk is really the only class that can take full advantage of amorphous without losing functionality in other areas. Which, fair enough I guess, but I still think some limited natural armor and/or a natural weapon would be a good addition to the ancestry.

 

[Weiley31]

A Plasmoid Warlock with a Robin Williams patron.

 

[overgeeked]

So plasmoids...

"Amorphous. You can squeeze through a space as narrow as 1 inch wide, provided you are wearing and carrying nothing. You also have advantage on ability checks you make to initiate or escape a grapple."

Natural shapeshifting grapplers...I foresee a lot of DMs having to look up the suffocation rules as players decide to grapple a target's face and forming around their heads.

 

[Weiley31]

Actually, wait, still no. Casters don’t necessarily need to wear anything, but they do need to carry either a spellcasting focus or material components. Currently monk is really the only class that can take full advantage of amorphous without losing functionality in other areas. Which, fair enough I guess, but I still think some limited natural armor and/or a natural weapon would be a good addition to the ancestry.

A Plasmoid caster should be able to "store" said Arcane Focus in its body.

 

[Charlaquin]

If the autognome survives the UA fase and sees print, I'll probably hamebrew my warforgeds to be constructs with similar features

Oh, no doubt!

 

[Bolares]

Actually, wait, still no. Casters don’t necessarily need to wear anything, but they do need to carry either a spellcasting focus or material components. Currently monk is really the only class that can take full advantage of amorphous without losing functionality in other areas. Which, fair enough I guess, but I still think some limited natural armor and/or a natural weapon would be a good addition to the ancestry.

sure, but a wand will be pretty easy to carry around, even by pseudopod if needed.