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Sounds like it could be a rustic Artificer subclass, that uses an herbalist kit as their tool-implement.

There's an article at Gizmodo with some commentary by Jeremy Crawford on the changes in the book. I found this bit interesting - “We also removed any traits that were cultural as opposed to physical or magical—you’ll also see we’ve done something on the game design side, which is that the...

I'm family linked to my parents' Prime account, so I'll be able to watch this with no money out of my pocket, but a lot of the people that actually backed it won't. o_O

Yes, and the even more recent level based ASIs can follow them right out the door.

Interesting. So the goblinoids aren't fey themselves, but descended from something that was/is fey? An fey Ur-Goblin perhaps?

One interesting effect of changing the goblinoids to fey is that they are now subject to the OotA Paladins ability to Turn the Faithless.

I fully expect to hear people both complain about it being a pointless cash grab that didn't make needed changes and that they were "lied to" about it being backwards compatible.

Looks like Changelings got a couple of buffs, can now change between medium and small and are now fey. I think the Shifters were a missed opportunity, they should have let them switch up the inner beast like Eladrin do their seasons.

Three feats worth of abilities, no ASIs.

Yep, in a D&D world I'd expect that heredity works more like how Pliney the Elder described it, than how Charles Darwin did.

I wouldn't mind if they treated the Shifter's inner beast like the Eladrin seasons, giving you the option to switch it up on a long rest.

A new system built on the bare bones of the magic system. minor at-will abilities Up-casting for stronger abilities A currency for upcasting at-wills Level gate the up-cast effects in the at-will discriptions, and there's no need for scores of discrete spell listings.

Not really in favor of a "one cosmology to rule them all", but for a simple and flavorful one I'd go with: Prime Material - Center (Main stage of campaign) Celestia - Above (Elemental Air, Astral Sea, & Saintly Planes) Chthon - Below (Elemental Earth, Border Ethereal, Shadowfell, & Diabolical...

Clueless Supplicant: "Please tell me Great Sage, of the plane known as the Twin Paradises of Bytopia." Great Sage: "First my child, know that Bytopia is not a separate realm from our own, such as the domains of angels and demons. It is our own prime material plane, in its primordial innocence...