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They're sort of boxed in, aren't they? It can't stay Control Undead, because that's not what it does anymore. It can't be Create Undead or Summon Undead, because those spells already exist and they can't have a naming collision. It would cause great confusion and hilarious multiclassing...

That's a fair take, and where I was before I saw the Greenwood clip. Now, I'm less entirely confident. But I suppose we'll see before too long, won't we? They have to announce the 2026 release slate soon.

I was discussing potential future books on reddit, and someone threw this video short my way. It has a clip of Ed Greenwood in July having a slip of the tongue and mentioning a Ravenloft book coming soon. Which was maybe a mistake, but you put it together with the Horror Subclasses UA and the...

They didn't go anywhere. It's us who moved. We're in "not technically a new edition but really it is in a lot of ways" land now. And they're revising a lot of the subclasses that originally appeared in Xanathar's Guide to Everything to be in line with the new mechanics and evolved design...

Character concept time! The new Oathbreaker Paladin gets a per-hit damage increase from Aura of Hate. And you know what goes well with per-hit damage? Dual wielding, of course. I roughed out several permutations, and a Finesse Dual-Wield Oathbreaker looks like it holds up. Aura of Hate on top...

Well for one, he's DC not Marvel. And for two, it was ham-handed 80's anti-drug messaging. There was quite a lot of that sort of thing back then.

Hmm. How close together were those? Rising was Nov 2019, Theros was July 2020, Tasha's was Nov 2020. So I suppose there's precedent for reprinting material within a year. And looking at the release days, both Tasha's and Xanathar's were in the big Nov release slot. So maybe Dark Sun goes in the...

Thanks for crunching the numbers! If we count the 8 subclasses in Psion and Apocalyptic as earmarked for a Dark Sun book and not the new Everything book, that means there's probably two further UA releases to bring up us to quota. Which is not too surprising, if it's not coming out till mid 2026...

The NPC Oathbreaker didn't have Tenets. This version does, and if you compare them to Conquest there's a decent amount of overlap. So if we go by the theory that the Conquest Paladin was to the 2014 Oathbreaker Paladin as the Grave Cleric was to the Death Cleric, then it makes a certain amount...

It strikes me that they're really updating nearly half the subclasses from Xanathar's Guide with all of these. There's a few getting left out, and a few that already got promoted to the PHB, but between all the UA releases there's been quite a lot. Especially if we take this Oathbreaker Paladin...

Same book as all the other new and updated subclasses that aren't obviously for the Dark Sun book. There's been what? Horror, Arcane, Arcane2, and now this. Looking back to what UA have come out since last May, they've been alternating releases for the Dark Sun book (Psion, Apocalyptic, Psion2)...

We have a new UA! One that updates several older subclasses, finally with a couple of Barbarian ones. We have the Spiritual Guardian Barbarian (formerly Ancestral Guardian), Storm Herald Barbarian, Cavalier Fighter, Intoxication Monk (formerly Drunken Master), and Oathbreaker Paladin. Direct...

And not so small businesses. My family's already signed onto one class action suit against a big tech company that used troves of pirate book scans to train their LLM. But that's the sad world we live in. Move fast, break things, pay the fine later as a cost of doing business.

D&D is constantly walking a fine line between "We can't hold your hand through everything and cover every corner case, you're running your own game and are the final arbiter of the rules for it" and "You know, trap options are probably not a good thing to include, and we should try to put some...

Yeah, that's rather my point. Most of the iconic D&D classes started as emulating one or two characters as their template and expanded from there. The Ranger was Aragorn, the Paladin was Holger Carlsen, the Barbarian was Conan and Fafhrd, the Thief was Bilbo and the Grey Mouser. It started with...

It's funny. The whole reason for "It's not magic, it's psionics!" is John W. Campbell. As the powerful editor of Astounding magazine, he set the standard for a lot of science fiction from the 30's to the 50's. And one of his bugaboos was that he hated magic but genuinely believed in the...

Indeed, it's the same as attempts at a Witch class. Popular culture depictions of the concept are broad and varied, and there's no definitive D&D version history to narrow the options. So either you get a situation where no specific concept will please everyone, or you get attempts that are...

Reading the Patch Notes is always a good idea, and more people should. There's always useful bits hidden in there. Like that one, or the one on Metamorph saying "magic items that provide benefits to Organic Weapons will appear in a future product if this subclass is printed." Which is something...

Exactly! As worded, the strict RAW seem needlessly narrow and punishingly restrictive. And since I don't understand the intent I can't advocate for a RAI implementation instead. So I'm in favor of just kind of ignoring the whole thing, unless someone seems to be abusing a loophole because of it.

That... is way more versatility than most subclasses can manage. Both in role and in stat focus. Usually subclasses are variations on a common tune, not entirely different songs. So I remain unconvinced that this is a viable design path.