D&D 5E New Unearthed Arcana Today: Giant Themed Class Options and Feats

A new Unearthed Arcana dropped today, focusing on giant-themed player options. "In today’s Unearthed Arcana, we explore character options related to the magic and majesty of giants. This playtest document presents the Path of the Giant barbarian subclass, the Circle of the Primeval druid subclass, the Runecrafter wizard subclass, and a collection of new feats, all for use in Dungeons & Dragons."

Giant Options | Unearthed Arcana | Dungeons & Dragons

Explore character options related to the magic and majesty of giants! This playtest document presents new subclasses for the barbarian, druid, and wizard, and a collection of new feats, all for use in Dungeons & Dragons.

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New Class options:

• Barbarian: Path of the Giant
• Druid: Circle of the Primeval
• Wizard: Runecrafter Tradition

New Feats:

• Elemental Touched
• Ember of the Fire Giant
• Fury of the Frost Giant
• Guile of the Cloud Giant
• Keeness of the Stone Giant
• Outsized Might
• Rune Carver Apprentice
• Rune Carvwr Adept
• Soul of the Storm Giant
• Vigor of the Hill Giant

WotC's Jeremy Crawford talks Barbarian Path of the Giant here:

 

[Vaalingrade]

You guys need to take your cultural blinders off.

To be fair, D&D thinks everything from spyglasses to lung dragons to antimatter rifles happened in 'Medieval Europe' and will stubbornly insist on that to the heat death of the universe.

 

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

Well, that's certainly not what I'm saying.

I'm not saying that's what you were, but this whole tangent came up when someone was saying that.

 

[Demetrios1453]

So, your evidence that Dinosaurs are connected to Primordials is that most of the Forgotten Realms' Dinosaurs are in Chult and Ubtao (a Primordial-turned-God) is the god of Chult.

I don't find that particularly persuasive. It's just one setting's lore for only a single god tangentially connected with Dinosaurs. Not some smoking gun that the Druid subclass is actually connected to Giants somehow.

Ubtao wasn't "tangentially" connected with dinosaurs, he was the god of dinosaurs. In 2e, his avatar was actually a giant T-rex!

 

[doctorbadwolf]

You guys need to take your cultural blinders off.

Oh dear. Our cultural blinders…from the person who insists that a very international venue type is Eurocentric. Sure.

You are historically accurate, but the first exposure I had to the word cafe was referencing French and Italian cafes.

Sure, but ever since about the 13th century, every region of the world with a lot of coffee drinking has had cafes, to some degree.

 

[doctorbadwolf]

In fact, I’m fairly certain that in Medieval and early Renaissance Europe, most people who knew what a café was thought of it as a distinctly foreign idea that had come to Europe via her great port cities and trade routes.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

And my first exposure was Starbucks when I was a kid. Doesn't mean cafés are American.

Though now that I say that, I wonder if there is a generational difference? As a Milleniel, I don't think Europe when I hear café, because it is just a normal part of everyday life.

Growing up in England in the 1970s, I think of a café as somewhere you go for a cup of tea and a cheep meal. Similar to American "diner" I think. It had lost it's association with coffee, I guess due to WW2 shortages and foul-tasting substitutes making coffee drinking fall out of fashion. Coffee was basically repopularised around the 1980s by Starbucks and it's imitators, but I still tend not to think of "a Starbucks" as a café.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

double post.

 

[glass]

Growing up in England in the 1970s, I think of a café as somewhere you go for a cup of tea and a cheep meal. Similar to American "diner" I think. It had lost it's association with coffee, I guess due to WW2 shortages and foul-tasting substitutes making coffee drinking fall out of fashion. Coffee was basically repopularised around the 1980s by Starbucks and it's imitators, but I still tend not to think of "a Starbucks" as a café.

More eighties than seventies for me, but otherwise I am much the same. Like I would expect a cafe to serve coffee, but probably only two types (black and white). The more modern* establishments with twenty-seven different coffees I do not understand and (usually) terrible tea are "coffee houses" to me, not "cafés".

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glass.

* At least they feel that way to me, even though they may be closer to traditional historical cafes.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Then we have the tea shop, which is a gentrified café with added doilies, and nothing like a Chinese tea house.

 

[Seramus]

I'm just grumpy so many people think Thor is blonde and has a brother named Loki.
Or that the Caduceus is getting conflated with the Asclepius!