D&D 5E New Unearthed Arcana Today: Giant Themed Class Options and Feats

A new Unearthed Arcana dropped today, focusing on giant-themed player options. "In today’s Unearthed Arcana, we explore character options related to the magic and majesty of giants. This playtest document presents the Path of the Giant barbarian subclass, the Circle of the Primeval druid subclass, the Runecrafter wizard subclass, and a collection of new feats, all for use in Dungeons & Dragons."

Giant Options | Unearthed Arcana | Dungeons & Dragons

Explore character options related to the magic and majesty of giants! This playtest document presents new subclasses for the barbarian, druid, and wizard, and a collection of new feats, all for use in Dungeons & Dragons.

dnd.wizards.com

New Class options:

• Barbarian: Path of the Giant
• Druid: Circle of the Primeval
• Wizard: Runecrafter Tradition

New Feats:

• Elemental Touched
• Ember of the Fire Giant
• Fury of the Frost Giant
• Guile of the Cloud Giant
• Keeness of the Stone Giant
• Outsized Might
• Rune Carver Apprentice
• Rune Carvwr Adept
• Soul of the Storm Giant
• Vigor of the Hill Giant

WotC's Jeremy Crawford talks Barbarian Path of the Giant here:

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Works for me. Although it might not help the prehistoric feel.

You can't do prehistoric in 5e, since there is no extinction. Every jungle and plateau in the multiverse is infested with bloomin dinosaurs. Can't get away from them.

You could do transformer dinobots though.

 

[Minigiant]

You can't do prehistoric in 5e, since there is no extinction. Every jungle and plateau in the multiverse is infested with bloomin dinosaurs. Can't get away from them.

You could do transformer dinobots though.

Predacons TERRORIZE!

 

[Micah Sweet]

The argument is that it is actually you who does not like fun, because the argument, which tends to be quite elaborate and often gets heated, is that rolled stats overall decrease fun, rather than increase it.

The is unquestionably the majoritarian view at this point, I'd suggest. By a large margin too. I have to admit, I feel like, whilst it's narrower than people admit in terms of fun, but the way D&D handles randomized stats is at best, fun-neutral.

I mean, you say that but there's a reason clearly the vast majority of people use fixed HP gain and use stat array and point-buy. Every survey with a reasonable number of recipients I've seen in the last decade concurs on this, as did all the evidence from DNDBeyond. Going back to earlier editions, huge numbers of people who did roll stats or HP had house-rules or simply traditions allowing re-rolls of poor rolls, too. At this point truly random stats and HP are basically confined to the OSR and unpopular or optional approaches in more mainstream games.

Even serious 5E fans like you may have to admit some of your preferences are somewhat idiosyncratic.

I think you can say that the majority of EN World posters don't roll, but not necessarily the majority of 5e players. As has been said many times before, we aren't representative of much of anything.

 

[Crimson Longinus]

You can't do prehistoric in 5e, since there is no extinction. Every jungle and plateau in the multiverse is infested with bloomin dinosaurs. Can't get away from them.

Oh, there will be extinction! Just unleash the PCs; those dinos are worth of a crap ton of XP!

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Oh, there will be extinction! Just unleash the PCs; those dinos are worth of a crap ton of XP!

My PCs have already murderized several jungles full of dinosaurs, but they keep coming back. Either they breed like rabbits or there are a load of very busy John Hammond clones.

 

[bedir than]

You can't do prehistoric in 5e, since there is no extinction. Every jungle and plateau in the multiverse is infested with bloomin dinosaurs. Can't get away from them.

You could do transformer dinobots though.

Why do you need extinction for something to be prehistoric? Maybe I'm confused about what some thing being before history means

 

[Maxperson]

We use point-buy so players can create characters outside of game time. Even for the best of us, the probability of rolling six 18s rises dramatically when the roller is unobserved.

Everyone knows that you want to have one 17 to throw off suspicion!

 

[Maxperson]

I think having an extra +1 over someone else isn't really a big deal. Maybe have everyone roll stats, then record only the highest numbers to create an array, but, unless you actually rolled one of those numbers, you have to have a score 1 lower.

I think it's really group dependent on what is a big deal and what isn't. In the game that I play in we rolled stats and there are a few of us that rolled okay and a few that rolled really well...................................and nobody cares. My group doesn't suffer from stat envy, so we're all having a blast even though there are a few PCs with multiple +s over the others. If you play in a group that does suffer from stat envy, then you will need to come up with a method like the above or point buy/array to make the game fun.

 

[Maxperson]

Why do you need extinction for something to be prehistoric? Maybe I'm confused about what some thing being before history means

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[Minigiant]

I think you can say that the majority of EN World posters don't roll, but not necessarily the majority of 5e players. As has been said many times before, we aren't representative of much of anything.

Rolling really was for 0e and 1e where rolls didn't matter besides 8- and 16+.