I fully don’t expect my random packets to be exactly correct. But if WotC wanted to they could make it pretty clean.
As for the FR book, I’m assuming a setting specific UA drop is more likely to have new options than UA drops for a possible everything book.
The Explorers Guide and Netherdeep were both published by WotC but through a licensing deal with Critical Role. None of the options have since be reprinted in other books because they can’t be.
The only time those options can be used by WotC is in Critical Role licensed products. It’s very...
And because I am already knee-deep in this, if we take away the subclasses they can't use (Wildmount) and the subclasses that are clearly not coming back (Death Cleric, Oathbreaker, Undying), this is the spread of subclasses (including the new options that have been added in UA's since 2024...
Piggy-backing off this. So far the two themed UA's included 8 subclasses (not including the Hexblade rework in Arcane which bumped it up to 9) and 2 of them were new, so other themes will likely follow a similar pattern.
Elemental Subclasses
Storm Herald Barbarian
Forge Cleric
Tempest Cleric...
If we remove the Eberron, Forgotten Realms, and Psion subclasses assuming those are not for an “Everything” collection book, the subclass distribution looks like this:
Artificer: 1
Barbarian: 0
Bard: 1
Cleric: 2
Druid: 0
Fighter: 1
Monk: 1
Paladin: 0
Psion: 0
Ranger: 2
Rogue: 1
Sorcerer: 2...
The Black and Red are adult dragons and this Blue is an ancient. Their sizes aren’t comparable. If anything, the Black and Red are fixed because the old adult dragon minis are oversized for their actual size category.
I mean, the only reprint we are getting in the FR book that was in an Everything book is Bladesinger, and that started in a FR book. Plus they likely aren’t printing any Wizards in the Everything book outside of the missing four and maybe Scribe.
Meanwhile the reprints we have been seeing in...
Remember the Everything book will likely be a reprint of Tasha’s and Xanathar’s. It’s going to be a Monsters of the Multiverse, not a wholly new Everything product. They want to get old options updated sooner rather than later.
The October book just can’t be for any of these UAs. It’s too close to release. Even the Horror Subclass one was on the razors edge of print schedules. It’s far more likely the October book is either delayed or something that doesn’t require UA, like an adventure anthology or something.
I think this screams 2026 to me and frankly I think the Horror ones are for sure that also, at this point.
My guess is these and that UA are all for the Tasha’s Xanathar’s combo book next year, but being tested in thematic bulks. Psion I still think is for something different, my guess being...