D&D 5E Unearthed Arcana: 16 New Feats

"Today’s Unearthed Arcana presents a selection of new feats for Dungeons & Dragons. Each feat offers a way to become better at something or to gain a whole new ability."

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The feats include Artificer Initiate, Chef, Crusher, Eldritch Adept, Fey Touched, Fighting Initiate, Gunner, Metamagic Adept, Poisoner, Piercer, Practiced Expert, Shadow Touched, Shield Training, Slasher, Tandem Tactician, and Tracker.

 

[Weiley31]

Have you ever eaten ice cream after it's served? 8 hours after it's served? Also, temp HP because since we know HP also reflect energy and focus, and we know food can give you a temp boost of energy, it makes total sense.

But it seems like this UA clearly isn't for you since you seem to be focused on how bad it is.

I'd be totally disappointed if Ice Cream DIDN'T give Temporary HP of any kind.

 

[Gladius Legis]

Don't know:

Metamagic Adept

Sorcery points and Metamagic is sorcerer's thing. I like them having a feat to boost it but am iffy on it being too useful for others. But you really can't do much with 2 sorcery points if you don't already have them.

It looks fine to me. As you said, 2 sorcery points on a class that doesn't have them already isn't going to do anything near what an actual Sorcerer can do. Twinned Spell, for example, is only going to work on another caster class' 2nd-level spells at best, and only once a day if they use it on a 2nd-level spell.

Looks like a feat that gives the Sorcerer a much-needed expansion of their Metamagic repertoires, which addresses a big drawback for them, and is occasionally useful for other spellcasting classes.

 

[WayOfTheFourElements]

Sugar rush being THP works for me.

"Before we fight this dragon, eat all these cookies."

Sugar rushes are a myth.

 

[Dausuul]

Hey, I like the Poisoner feat. It's about time we had a way for non-caster PCs to be poison specialists.

Though I'm not sure the ability to ignore poison resistance is worth devoting any space in the rules. Hardly anything has poison resistance. It's immunity or nothing.

 

[Undrave]

Guys: Crusher Monk!!! It's not super good for my GNOME monk, but regular human monks?! Heck yeah!

 

[WayOfTheFourElements]

Hey, I like the Poisoner feat. It's about time we had a way for non-caster PCs to be poison specialists.

Though I'm not sure the ability to ignore poison resistance is worth devoting any space in the rules. Hardly anything has poison resistance. It's immunity or nothing.

I would love to see it replaced by a way to better poison food and drink.

 

[DemoMonkey]

HP are 100% a measurement of Blood Sugar.

When you are wounded, you become progressively less sweet until you are finally so weak and hangry you fall unconscious.



...what?

It's as logical an explanation as any of the other nonsense we've come up with to explain them!

 

[Minigiant]

Sugar rushes are a myth.

Dragons are a myth.

Sugar rushes are real at my table.

I could also think that the typically unhealthy rations adventurers eat would restore more energy if supplemented with cookies.

 

[DND_Reborn]

Some look good, some are decent, some are repetitive, the rest are bad. Still, I am glad they are finally exploring adding more feats.

 

[Sacrosanct]

Sugar rushes are a myth.

No, no they are not.