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

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

 

[doctorbadwolf]

IN my group I already have someone that wants to do a warlock 3/Fighter X (bladelock hexblade/rune thign) that is basically odo from DS9

Oh man that does sound fun.

 

[darjr]

I'm just pleased that for years I've been shouting Planejammer into what I thought was an empty void, only to now realize that there were things in the deep, things with typewriters, that were listening.

When you stare into the outer dark and find yourself staring back.

 

[doctorbadwolf]

I'm a bit surprised that the autognome is small only, come to think of it.

Also, the better and obviously correct name is Autognomaton.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Taking a look at the Simic Glide, this one is clearly much more powerful. I like the reaction "ignore fall damage" I think that's fine but I am slightly concerned by the 5 ft per 1 ft slope. Simic's get 2 per 1. One thing I would do, is I would say that you can't fall 5 ft unless you fall prone and take 1d6 damage. This is important in a simulationist manner, which I generally hate, but you need space to land on your feet, and if you are only a foot up... your nose smashes the ground very quickly.

And I'd stick with the Simic Glide I think. 2 ft per 1 foot is still really good, I don't think that is limiting people in a serious way, so if you fall 30ft, you can land on your ft 50 ft away, or face plant 60 ft away. That is still significant, and I don't thin you really need to be 125 ft and 150 ft

One thing the rules allow is you to jump vertically 3+STR MoD feat into the air if you run 10 ft. So monkey boy with strength 14 can run 10 ft., jump 5 ft. up., glide 25 ft., run another 10 ft., jump again, and glide another 25 ft., for a total of 70 ft. horizontal movement in one round (and that's counting the vertical movement as part of your move). And that's without tricks like bonus action dash or misty stepping straight up. The simic can do the same trick, but they get a much more reasonable 40 ft. move.

In both cases, I think a maximum safe vertical movement cap is needed - the 60 ft. per round of Feather Fall seems reasonable.

As I alluded to earlier, the hadozee gets almost everything granted by the thief subclass for free at level 1.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

I'm a bit surprised that the autognome is small only, come to think of it.

Also, the better and obviously correct name is Autognomaton.

It might be worth mentioning that from the Folk of the Feywild UA, "Rabbit folk" and "Owl Folk" where not the actual names.

 

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

It might be worth mentioning that from the Folk of the Feywild UA, "Rabbit folk" and "Owl Folk" where not the actual names.

But "Autognomes" are already an existing D&D concept from Spelljammer. I highly doubt that they're going to get renamed.

Also, since it hasn't been posted yet in this thread, here's the 2e art for Autognomes.

 

[Mind of tempest]

It might be worth mentioning that from the Folk of the Feywild UA, "Rabbit folk" and "Owl Folk" where not the actual names.

so we might get some changes in name?

 

[Demetrios1453]

It might be worth mentioning that from the Folk of the Feywild UA, "Rabbit folk" and "Owl Folk" where not the actual names.

But they didn't have previous product pedigree that autognomes have.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

But they didn't have previous product pedigree that autognomes have.

Just because it is old doesn't make it good.

 

[Demetrios1453]

Just because it is old doesn't make it good.

Just because it's old doesn't mean it needs to be renamed, either. 5e has been pretty consistent in keeping creature names from older editions, tending to only rename things to make them more inclusive (although 3e did most of the heavy lifting there, changing monster name endings from -man to -folk). Autognome doesn't fall under that category, so no need to unnecessarily change an otherwise perfectly good name.