D&D General Arcane Subclasses UA Survey is up

[Parmandur]

UA in the 5e era almost never includes context/story/lore/fluff.

They tried the Rune Carver as a Prestige Class in a UA ages ago. I rather liked it, but also I was someone coming back to the game after 20 years away so I didn't understand the baggage.

I started playing with 3.x, and I personally gave the Prestoge Class concept bad marks in the uA survey at the time. Never again, please.

I did like the proposed Multiple Class Subclasses, and I would personally have been fine if they had standardized progression to make that more feasible...but neither is it really necessary.

 

[Mistwell]

I was never a fan of prestige classes. They were intended for one special career themed path, and optimizers used them like a Halloween grab bag of candy, Frankensteining one prestige class on another on another in a hodge podge of abilities never intended to work with each other to dominate the mechanics.

Subclasses do a much better job of silo'ing PCs, and the 2024 version where they all only come on line at level 3 makes it even better for that focus. If I never see another Hexblade 1 level dip I'll be a happy man.

 

[Tinker Gnome]

I was never a fan of prestige classes. They were intended for one special career themed path, and optimizers used them like a Halloween grab bag of candy, Frankensteining one prestige class on another on another in a hodge podge of abilities never intended to work with each other to dominate the mechanics.

Subclasses do a much better job of silo'ing PCs, and the 2024 version where they all only come on line at level 3 makes it even better for that focus. If I never see another Hexblade 1 level dip I'll be a happy man.

I like PrC's, but the DM needs to enforce roleplaying restrictions on them. No taking four different PrCs, all meant for different campaign settings.

 

[leozg]

UA in the 5e era almost never includes context/story/lore/fluff.

Not explicitly while they are in UA, but when they become oficial it doesn't change. I mean, they include a text, but the abilities are not linked between them. It seems just a bunch of mechanics not glued with a layer of lore explaining how the character developed these abilities in a way that makes some sense.

 

[pukunui]

EDIT: Never mind. I see someone else already mentioned the Rune Carver UA.