D&D (2024) Jeremy Crawford Gives an Overview of the New Unearthed Arcana

The upcoming Unearthed Arcana playtest packet for One D&D gets a preview from WotC's Jeremy Crawford. This is apparently the largest of these playtest packets so far, and the biggest Unearthed Arcana they have ever done, at 50 pages long.

It contains 5 classes, new spells, new feats, a revised rules glossary, and the new weapon mastery system.

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[Parmandur]

Crawford is REALLY hyping up that +1 avg. damage over any other sword-and-board user in the game.

That doesn't fill me with a whole lotta confidence about this UA.

...?

Because it's amazing in practice.

 

[darjr]

Do you think that will step too much on the martial’s toes?

Yea, maybe.
If the idea is to give martial more toys why also give them to spell casters? Which presumably have more already.

But honestly I liked the style of the 2014 martials with the idea of extemporaneous play vs relying on what the rules letter is.

Maybe either way this isn’t for me.

 

[HammerMan]

Have you managed to actually playtest any of it? I'm playing with everything released so far in multiple games,

I not only have I have posted about them.

 

[LvHollow]

I'm very blackpilled on this, I got no hopes they'll actually fix martials especially after they said Monks aren't getting masteries immediately

Is not that Monks are getting it, is that Monks arent on the f***********&´?% UA, cause WotC development team hate Monks

 

[LvHollow]

Take heart, it means that while doing the internal playtest they didnt think it stood up to the other martial options so they are trying to make it even better before releasing it into the wild.

Or againg they thought on cool abylities and the test team thought wrongly that was too broken, Again.

 

[FitzTheRuke]

Is not that Monks are getting it, is that Monks arent on the f***********&´?% UA, cause WotC development team hate Monks

That's an... extreme take. I think it's more likely that new company policy forces it to pass through the sensitivity reader process.

 

[Zaukrie]

Given that the goal of weapon masteries is to add tactical options, it seems odd to have masteries (eg. flex) that act as a simple damage increases. Perhaps this is intended as a way for players to "opt out" of added complexity, but limiting it to specific weapons makes it harder for it to serve that purpose.

It also seems odd for the monk to be highlighted as a class that will make use of weapon mastery. This is a class that (outside particular subclasses) is specifically designed around unarmed combat. I worry this is an example of the developers forcing similarities in class groups to the detriment of unique class identities.

The monk has always used weapons if they want. Plus, maybe their body gets mastery stuff? I doubt it, but possible. The monk is about movement and effects on hits.

 

[OldSchoolGamerGirl]

Can we please leave the compatibility arguments to the thread about it?

no offense, but isn't this thread about the video and on the video they brought it up, so why can't we talk in the thread about the video about something they brought up in the video?

 

[OldSchoolGamerGirl]

Color me skeptical. Unless they’re getting much bigger changes than have been teased so far.

Yeah I don't see much round to round tactics here, maybe it makes your choice of weapon/weapons interesting for character creation though so it's a start,

 

[LvHollow]

Maybe the druid is the reason they are raising the bar on what goes in to UA?

Nah, they just hate Monks.