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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[DarkCrisis]

As morbidly curious as I am to see how they've "updated" Dragonlance, I can't wait to see how they gut and change Planescape.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

For the record, none of the rune-casting feats are "viking style".

For the viking era, runes are a normal alphabet. The magic is in writing any intention or any mnemonic for an intention to focus on and imbue ones mind into the object.

Viking fantasy-style then, if pedantry is the order of the day.

 

[CleverNickName]

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.

Yes! This kind of list is what I'm looking for. (Though this thread is probably not the place to find it. Sorry, I'll stay on topic.)

I found the relevant thread. See ya'll over there.

 

[Parmandur]

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!).

They remove flavor from UA all the time, and Crawford outright admits that they did that here in the video, though he also laughed and said that players can still probably draw conclusions from what's here. But they did scrub what they are working on to remove the context.

 

[Parmandur]

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.

Problem with Ritual Caster for Acolyte is that Clerics are already Ritual Casters, so it would be redundant for the intended combo. Sticokg to Feats that arr not invalidated by any core Class Features is probably an important consideration to making the Backgrounds work for any Class anyways.

 

[Horwath]

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.

I know what you would like, but that is just needless hassle.

We know what feats could be problematic at level 1, at current game

 

[Horwath]

Are we also going to get a bonus feat at 4th level or was that only for one UA?

 

[Parmandur]

Are we also going to get a bonus feat at 4th level or was that only for one UA?

That was in at least one prior UA, but it could be that didn't test as well as a single Level 1 Feat tied to a Background. They also wanted to emphasize the limitations feat Trees here.

 

[MonsterEnvy]

Are we also going to get a bonus feat at 4th level or was that only for one UA?

Maybe we don’t know they are not going into extreme detail.

 

[MonsterEnvy]

I know what you would like, but that is just needless hassle.

We know what feats could be problematic at level 1, at current game

That’s why it’s currently just a restricted list.