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    Dungeons & Dragons Playtests Four New Mystic-Themed Subclasses

    You’re both right. WotC did devise a canonical explanation of the multiverse specifically to incorporate all D&D campaigns, including home games. And, also, the nature of the game is such that canon doesn’t matter worth squat if you don’t want it to.
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    D&D General The "Ease of Long Rests" as a metric for describing campaigns / DM styles?

    We also lean pretty pedantic around here. A lot of us are more inclined to argue why a question is wrong than to answer it on its own terms. Almost any time there’s a poll, you can expect someone to object to the framing and/or the available options. Sometimes it’ll be me doing the objecting 😅
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    D&D General The "Ease of Long Rests" as a metric for describing campaigns / DM styles?

    Yeah, we’re working from the same data. I just thought 15 sounded like a strange number to default to if you aren’t adjusting it level by level. I’d probably pick 12 if I was going to make it a single number for every level.
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    Dungeons & Dragons Playtests Four New Mystic-Themed Subclasses

    Well, on the Magic side of things, zero. D&D crossover cards aren’t considered “universes beyond” because WotC owns the IP, but they are explicitly non-canon, and the Magic creative team has zero intention of bringing D&D into the M:tG canon in the foreseeable future. Incorporating Magic planes...
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    D&D General Friday Fun: What Are Your Top 3 Playable Species

    Tiefling, goblin, halfling for me.
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    Dungeons & Dragons Playtests Four New Mystic-Themed Subclasses

    It’s not impossible, but the public-facing folks from the Magic design team have been pretty explicit about it being a strictly in-universe event, and the stuff that has leaked from it seems extremely Magic-IP-specific. If this UA is MtG crossover related, I think an expansion to Strixhaven is...
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    Dungeons & Dragons Playtests Four New Mystic-Themed Subclasses

    Knights of Mystic Fire, you say? That might also explain the strange choice of words for the title of this UA - “mystic” themed subclasses. I think there’s a very good chance you’ve nailed it here. EDIT: And at least this wiki article specifically calls out these paladins’ ability to strike a...
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    Dungeons & Dragons Playtests Four New Mystic-Themed Subclasses

    There’s a Strixhaven set coming up. If these subclasses are for an MtG tie-in (which I’m personally skeptical of, but it’s possible) that seems like a much more intuitive fit to me than “Jace makes Crisis on Infinite Earths happen in Magic.”
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    Dungeons & Dragons Playtests Four New Mystic-Themed Subclasses

    Strixhaven is the most obvious one, though personally I doubt that’s what this is for. Could easily be Templars.
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    Dungeons & Dragons Playtests Four New Mystic-Themed Subclasses

    I disagree, they’re fine, but the rest of the kit is more interesting. Why? A specific organization would tie it to one setting. 5e subclasses are generally designed to be setting neutral. Literally any organization that has mages and needs a defense force would work for this. The church...
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    D&D General The "Ease of Long Rests" as a metric for describing campaigns / DM styles?

    Interesting in concept, though 15 feels like a high number of encounters to me. By XP, most levels should take 10-12 Medium or Hard encounters.
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    Dungeons & Dragons Playtests Four New Mystic-Themed Subclasses

    Two of its features - warding bond, and the upgrade to warding bond - are specifically about protecting one specific ally. The rest of its features are useful against enemy spellcasters. I very much doubt it’s literally for a Dragon Age setting, it’s just a well-known point of comparison for a...
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    Dungeons & Dragons Playtests Four New Mystic-Themed Subclasses

    It’s not oath of the wizard’s bodyguard, it’s a pretty clearly just as much a mage hunter as it is a mage protector. The theming here seems pretty obvious to me, it’s pretty much a Templar from Dragon Age to a T. The guards at the mage towers who insure the apprentices don’t accidentally harm...
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    Dungeons & Dragons Playtests Four New Mystic-Themed Subclasses

    Ok, but… I’m not seeing the connection to this UA.
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    Dungeons & Dragons Playtests Four New Mystic-Themed Subclasses

    What feat are you talking about…?
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