Unearthed Arcana New UA: 43 D&D Class Feature Variants

The latest Unearthed Arcana is a big 13-page document! “Every character class in D&D has features, and every class gets one or more class feature variants in today’s Unearthed Arcana! These variants replace or enhance a class’s normal features, giving you new ways to enjoy your character’s class.”

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[Jay Verkuilen]

So now who doesn't think something like Xanathar's 2 isn't in the works?

Xanathar's 2: Electric Boogaloo?

 

[Undrave]

my interpretation was that you can draw as many weapons as you have attacks. So a fifth level dual wielding fighter could draw and throw three daggers (2 normal plus bonus offhand weapon), all with an additional +1 damage.

We can finally make a knife thrower fighter

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

I like the concept of variants, where you can customize your PCs changing some class features, like the archetypes of Pathfinder. Do you remember the gladiator from "Dark Sun"? it was a fighter with some little changes.

I like the concept of class and racial feats from Pathfinder. And I miss something like the article "martial cultures" from Dragon Magazine, where some races had got a different list of racial traits to can play with nature classes as ranger or druid.

And I say again some concepts as swashbuckler, knight, assassin, ninja or samurai shouldn't only subclasses but base classes. Some 3rd Party have done it.

 

[tetrasodium]

Xanathar's 2: Electric Boogaloo?

I think that it's more "Rather than reprint every core class with fluff & boundaries more linked to eberron than FR, there will be some fluff & some optional x replaces/extends y ability" things like how PF archtypes work

 

[Ashrym]

Welcome to 5.5th edition.

That's exactly what my first thought was, lol.

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

It is not 5.5 but "remastered/reforged edition".

 

[Jay Verkuilen]

My guess is that they see that people both like to play one character through an entire campaign AND like to try out different builds and stuff. Interesting.

Right. One thing I often find is that one build either doesn't fit the story of the character over time, it starts to get boring in play/doesn't fit with the character concept, or both. Some people switch out characters entirely, which is fine in some cases, but others want to respec. I tend to try to tie story changes with respec, but it may be driven by the way the character is going or dissatisfaction with the play.

 

[Hussar]

Under Monks - Quickened healing - what is a "Martial Arts die"?

 

[Tales and Chronicles]

Under Monks - Quickened healing - what is a "Martial Arts die"?

The damage dice of your unarmed strikes.

 

[Al2O3]

I wonder how much of this is intended to address power creep in other areas. The UA Artificer Battlesmith seemed on the verge of being a better Beast master than the Ranger. This UA solves that issue, probably. So there might be some power creep, but at least this might help making it balanced power creep.