D&D 5E New Unearthed Arcana: Wonders of the Multiverse

WotC has posted a new Unearthed Arcana featuring the Glitchling race, the Fate domain, and a handful of backgrounds, feats and spells.

In today’s Unearthed Arcana, we explore D&D character options from across the multiverse. This playtest document presents the glitchling race; the Fate Domain cleric subclass; and the gate warden, giant foundling, planar philosopher, and rune carver backgrounds. Additionally, a collection of new feats provide links to giants and other primordial forces of the planes, while a selection of new spells highlight the power of fate and chance.

Wonders of the Multiverse | Unearthed Arcana | Dungeons & Dragons

Explore character options related to the Wonders of the Multiverse! This playtest document presents a new race and subclass and a collection of new backgrounds, feats and spells, all for use in Dungeons & Dragons.

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[Parmandur]

I was hoping for more individual faction backgrounds (with feats) if they are doing Planescape, but I wouldn't be mad at a single background.

That may need more feat diversity though...

Overall, I'm pretty happy with this.

Crawford laid out in the video that the unified Background Geat isntonorevent cheering the Feat Tree by making only a single path available to a PC.

 

[Parmandur]

While I like "Proficiency bonus times per day" as a generalization, I don't like the over-use of that mechanic. And this UA way uses that mechanic.

Just wait till 2024: pretty clear at this point that the PB/day is going to be very mi h the norm in the new Core instead of Short Rest abilities.

 

[Mecheon]

I’ll just throw my voice in as another who doesn’t think Bariaurs will show up in this. Even back in 2e they were just, there, plus with centaurs already around and working like any other race there’s not as much push

 

[CleverNickName]

The most interesting part of this UA for me, is the continued mention of "background feats." It looks like that is definitely going to be the norm, going forward.

Has anyone created a house-ruled list of Core Backgrounds correlated to Core Feats yet? Asking for a friend. Who is me.

 

[Horwath]

Just wait till 2024: pretty clear at this point that the PB/day is going to be very mi h the norm in the new Core instead of Short Rest abilities.

short rests only 5min for using HDs and maybe some minor abilities that will be 1/short rest.

also we will get a number of short rests per long rest equal to prof bonus, hahaha.

 

[Horwath]

The most interesting part of this UA for me, is the continued mention of "background feats." It looks like that is definitely going to be the norm, going forward.

Has anyone created a house-ruled list of Core Backgrounds correlated to Core Feats yet?

all feats available for all backgrounds except:
HWM,
PAM,
SS,
CE,
HAM,
Lucky,

 

[Parmandur]

short rests only 5min for using HDs and maybe some minor abilities that will be 1/short rest.

also we will get a number of short rests per long rest equal to prof bonus, hahaha.

No, I mean Short Rest abilities will not exist anymore, they will all become proficiency bonus per day instead.

 

[CleverNickName]

all feats available for all backgrounds except:
HWM,
PAM,
SS,
CE,
HAM,
Lucky,

That's a solid list.

I was hoping that someone had created a list that corelates directly, though. I'm thinking something like, "If you take the Acolyte background, you start with Ritual Caster. If you take the Sage background, you start with Magic Initiate." That sort of thing. Might save me some time later tonight.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

The flavor was more or less intentionally removed, but that's because they don't really test fluff in UA tandem they want some level of plausible deniability.

I don't buy it's removed for the UA. It's intentionally removed because it's for a generic-ass MotP. There's enough detail (Sigil is mentioned for example, as are small-f factions), and more to the point, the structure is one that strips out Planescape-ness, like the single ultra-generic "planar philosopher" background stuff, and the appalling four combat-centric feats that flow from the weaksauce generic Feat you get for picking that (particularly impressive that for Good and Evil, the most common likely origins - they picked terrible combat cantrips for the generic Feat too!).

 

[Parmandur]

The most interesting part of this UA for me, is the continued mention of "background feats." It looks like that is definitely going to be the norm, going forward.

Has anyone created a house-ruled list of Core Backgrounds correlated to Core Feats yet? Asking for a friend. Who is me.

Yup, it seems to be working out in their public tests, so it will likely be the new norm.

As for a houserule, it's pretty easy: give everyone a Feat at Level 1. Now, tying specific Feats to specific Backgrounds is a bit more work, but should be easy enough, e.g. giving Dungeon deliver to Criminals, or Keen Mind to Sages.