D&D (2024) Jeremy Crawford Gives an Overview of the New Unearthed Arcana

The upcoming Unearthed Arcana playtest packet for One D&D gets a preview from WotC's Jeremy Crawford. This is apparently the largest of these playtest packets so far, and the biggest Unearthed Arcana they have ever done, at 50 pages long.

It contains 5 classes, new spells, new feats, a revised rules glossary, and the new weapon mastery system.

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[UngainlyTitan]

because I presume they'd want to touch on a lot of the concepts that are in the PHB first. If they don't do a big "adapting all the popular old subclasses" book, I'd expect that the first few new books to cover the 2014 PHB options first.

Well they have said (as far as I know), that there will be 4 subclasses per class. So, I would expect that they will break with the past and the traditions of new edition and go with stronger archetypes.
Afterall the compatibility means that you can use the old stuff if you want.
The more I look at it the more I am convinced that as far as classes and subclasses this will be possible. There may even be guidance for it.

 

[UngainlyTitan]

To be fair, they've implied that each class in the '24 PHB will get four subclasses in the book, and that means they can't fit all of the core Wizard subclasses built around specific schools of magic (Enchantment, Transmutation, etc.) as is.

But if they were to develop some sort of generic "School Specialist" to pick up all eight (no idea how that would work mechanically, just floating the idea), then they would have room to touch on other Wizard subclasses like Bladesinger as well.

I wonder if they will drop schools of magic or bake into the base class. Could schools of magic be the channel divinity of the mage classes?

 

[Incenjucar]

I'm curious how flex is going to be applied to non-versatile weapons.

 

[Bolares]

Well they have said (as far as I know), that there will be 4 subclasses per class. So, I would expect that they will break with the past and the traditions of new edition and go with stronger archetypes.
Afterall the compatibility means that you can use the old stuff if you want.
The more I look at it the more I am convinced that as far as classes and subclasses this will be possible. There may even be guidance for it.

I really hope that's what they do.

 

[Neonchameleon]

I'm curious how flex is going to be applied to non-versatile weapons.

It's not

 

[OldSchoolGamerGirl]

I'm curious how flex is going to be applied to non-versatile weapons.

man imagine if a fighter could make a knife into a d6 weapon

 

[Incenjucar]

It's not

That would kind of undermine the whole idea of a fighter being able to swap traits.

 

[Erandeni]

That would kind of undermine the whole idea of a fighter being able to swap traits.

Yeah that's the problem with flex and nick

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

But if they were to develop some sort of generic "School Specialist" to pick up all eight (no idea how that would work mechanically, just floating the idea), then they would have room to touch on other Wizard subclasses like Bladesinger as well.

I have been playing an illusionist for years, and my expectation is that school specialization will either get made into a feat (which it is in either C7d20 or Project Black Flag Tales of the Valiant, I forget which) or there will just be a single school specialist subclass, similar to 3E's Master Specialist prestige class. (I've been playing this illusionist for a long time.)

 

[Minigiant]

It has a long an honourable tradition in the game.

Wait...

You can draw a new weapon every turn now, right?

Oh no.