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This is an hour-long video by a HEMA practitioner far too complex to summarise. Some very interesting comments and analysis about...

I fail to see what this has to do with my gnomish bard, Pete Zah D’Annanas. Edit: made the name more bardy

Unlike the Dodge Rampage which was designed to be hella funny.

Unearthed Arcana was, perhaps oddly, the first AD&D book I got. Having acquired Mentzer Basic and Cook/Marsh Expert in 1985, UA was the...

Witch was teased as being part of D&D as far back as having two illustrations for them in OD&D (including an obligatory hot one where...

I think I'm recalling correctly that your own homebrewed system uses the stat increase for all of the classes. One thing with 2e is...

I've been playing an illusionist in an urban campaign for almost two decades and I basically have to hold myself back or I'd easily...

Count me as a half-ogre super-fan. If it were up to our group, half-ogres, anti-paladins and witches would all have been in UA.

There was one UA polearm (fauchard-fork maybe?) that had a special ability to pull opponents off balance with its hook. The derro from...

When I started playing 1E c. 1986-87, UA was “the new shiny” and everyone was excited to own and read the book, simply because it was...

This is exactly the conclusion that our group came to as well. The Barbarian only worked in a 1-1 game and it's slow advancement made...

I remember quite liking it when it came back. Revisiting it, I have a sneaking suspicion that the Barbarian and Cavalier classes were...

I do like how unearthed arcana became the title of new rules and variants, even used in 5e for the playtest documents of new content.

Also, conversely, I'd argue that the 3E Unearthed Arcana book was the best book of that era. It still has good mechanics and ideas worth...

I loved it as a middle schooler, but mechanically, it's a trash fire, even moreso than the rest of 1E. It just became clear to us, even...