Dungeons & Dragons Announces Arcana Unleashed, New Magic-Themed Sourcebook at $49.99 Price Point

[Remathilis]

Psion is an odd one. It could (at a stretch) go in horror, it could go in arcane. But I think WotC will want to introduce it as a core class rather than a Dark Sun specific class, so they will want to get it published before Dark Sun.

It's gonna get Dark Sun first and then reprinted in something generic later like the Artificer. That way they can use it pump sales of Dark Sun to people who otherwise wouldn't use the setting and then later reprint it.

 

[Parmandur]

I think this is overdoing it by a lot

Right, by design, for guesstimate purposes. I assume ~100 pages is an overshoot.

I don't think we have enough info to say what might be excluded from a storyline supplement until we know more about the storyline.

 

[Parmandur]

You could make a case that this is a magical barbarian (like a tattooed monk is a magic monk) if you wanted to stretch the theme to include more cool stuff (and increase the page count).

But I think cavalier stretches the theme beyond breaking point. But updating 5.0 content is a pretty high priority. Maybe more “DLC”?

Psion is an odd one. It could (at a stretch) go in horror, it could go in arcane. But I think WotC will want to introduce it as a core class rather than a Dark Sun specific class, so they will want to get it published before Dark Sun.

Yeah, we don't really know enough to ay what it may exclude yet.

Psion was pretty clearly for Dark Sun given the Wild Talent code d Feats they promised would be tied to Backgrounds, similar to what we now know are in Ravenloft.

 

[GarrettKP]

Right, by design, for guesstimate purposes. I assume ~100 pages is an overshoot.

I don't think we have enough info to say what might be excluded from a storyline supplement until we know more about the storyline.

But guessing the most extreme is doing the product a disservice. I know you don’t mean to, but someone on here is going to see that post, start building an expectation for this to be nearly 20 subclasses, and then be disappointed when it’s only 8.

 

[GarrettKP]

Psion is an odd one. It could (at a stretch) go in horror, it could go in arcane. But I think WotC will want to introduce it as a core class rather than a Dark Sun specific class, so they will want to get it published before Dark Sun.

Psion will 100% be Dark Sun first. Hell, I think the fact that Dark Sun is something they want to do is the only reason Psion is coming as a class at all. I doubt they’d have tried it again if they didn’t feel it was 100% necessary to get in the setting.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Psion was pretty clearly for Dark Sun given the Wild Talent code d Feats they promised would be tied to Backgrounds, similar to what we now know are in Ravenloft

Wild talents have been part of D&D since 1st edition, and predate psionic classes and the Dark Sun setting.

 

[Parmandur]

But guessing the most extreme is doing the product a disservice. I know you don’t mean to, but someone on here is going to see that post, start building an expectation for this to be nearly 20 subclasses, and then be disappointed when it’s only 8.

Well, I stated clearly what I meant, I can't really worry about that sort of misreading.

 

[Parmandur]

Wild talents have been part of D&D since 1st edition, and predate psionic classes and the Dark Sun setting.

Sure, but realistically this was intended for Dark Sun.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Sure, but realistically this was intended for Dark Sun.

They could have put a lot more flavour into it if they wanted it to only be for Dark Sun. Consider a Stephen King/Stranger Things domain for Ravenloft - highly likely IMO. That’s going to want psionics. Great Race of Yith? Psionic.

 

[Parmandur]

They could have put a lot more flavour into it if they wanted it to only be for Dark Sun. Consider a Stephen King/Stranger Things domain for Ravenloft - highly likely IMO. That’s going to want psionics. Great Race of Yith? Psionic.

Well, any Class they do want to be able to be used broadly and not be too specific, sure. But contextually, it is pretty clear what they are doing with this.