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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MerricB" data-source="post: 6082745" data-attributes="member: 3586">In a couple of weeks, Unearthed Arcana for AD&D will be rereleased, in a form that (hopefully) excludes the detachable cover of the original printings. It's probably too much to hope for the errata to be included, as TSR never included it in a printed version of the book.However, this brings my 44-session AD&D campaign into an interesting place, where several of the players are using the recent reprints of the AD&D books as their reference tomes. Will they leap upon the new release and clamour for its introduction into the game?It must be said that Unearthed Arcana is something of a mixed bag: it introduces the Cavalier and Barbarian, gives alternative advancement options for the Druid and Thief (Acrobat), gives weapon specialisation, raises level limits and allows a bunch of new subraces. All of which show rather less thought than any class since the 1E Monk. I thought it was great when it first came out, showing what my teenage-self knew of game design, but 28 years on it's rather a different story.However, I'm tempted to let it be used as-is, in all its broken glory. Let's face it: I'm running a campaign where one character has a vorpal sword!The one rule I'll definitely *not* implement is that of Comeliness. (It wasn't bad as-written in the World of Greyhawk. In UA, they decided to add all these references to the "Fascinate" spell, which made it utterly broken).Any thoughts on the upcoming release? Anything I should absolutely ban or allow?Cheers!</blockquote>

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