Unearthed Arcana Unearthed Arcana: That Old Black Magic

Random racial spells.... not my cup of tea but could be fun.

Summoning demons seem like fun spells. Reminds me of the instinctive actions of some 4e summons.

 

[TwoSix]

I feel like the spells should have the ritual tag and also be warlock spells. I do like the subraces, though, random spells would be pretty fun.

Nothing like summoning 32 demons to gum up game for a while (Conjure lesser demon, at 8-9th level). That just seems like reckless spell design (which I assume is what they want feed back on). It is certainly possible to have clever ways for a good DM to handle it, but for many games it seems like handing people more then enough rope to hang themselves with. It's the sort of thing that could be really funny once, but once the humor wears off (and it may rather quickly depending on the group) I feel this creates a mess that will be more trouble than it could possibly be worth.

[obviously this isn't the main point of the spell, etc, but it's on the sheet, so it exist to tempt people to do this...]

Well, it's already in the game, several of the PHB conjure spells have the same capability. Not a fan of it there either.

 

[MechaTarrasque]

The conjure demon spells are interesting. Kind of a bummer that they aren't on the warlock's list as well as the wizard and sorcerer's list. It seems like they would be good thematic fits.

Random spells abysmal tiefling would certainly add to the chaos of a chaos sorcerer, but I think I would rather you roll for what kind of demon your ancestor was and get a spell/body modification from that.

 

[Minigiant]

The conjure demon spells are interesting. Kind of a bummer that they aren't on the warlock's list as well as the wizard and sorcerer's list. It seems like they would be good thematic fits.

Well the current warlock is Infernal, Fey, GOO, or Light. They need to make the Abyssal warlock first.

 

[Trance]

I'm just wondering when the updated Mystic rules will come out.

 

[Salamandyr]

I like the summoning spells (or at least the idea of them-haven't investigated the actual implementation as yet). Demon summoning is classic wizard stuff, which has never been as prominent in D&D as it is in the source material.

I'm not loving the random spells aspect to the tiefling. Randomness screams "Limbo" to me, not "Abyss".

 

[Larrin]

Well, it's already in the game, several of the PHB conjure spells have the same capability. Not a fan of it there either.

Oh yeah...
At least those spells "hide" it a little better by offering you more manageable numbers of higher CR creatures.

 

[Xohar17]

Im not saying this isnt nice or interesting, bit werent we promised that the new updated rules for psionics woyld be released in this monts UA? Im extremely disapointed that it isnt the case u.u

 

[TwoSix]

Well the current warlock is Infernal, Fey, GOO, or Light. They need to make the Abyssal warlock first.

If only they would release a Unearthed Arcana article where such a warlock subclass would have been topical!

On that note, wouldn't it make more sense to release Unearthed Arcana articles focused on Adventure Paths before or at the release date so they can be used for starting characters?

 

[maceochaid]

I was wondering where the heck the conjure Demon spells were. I really do like that they made them "evil" to summon. I like the thought of deliberating running down my wizards spells only to have him presented with one of these as a scroll right before the big bad evil guy.

I'm really having trouble parsing the Tiefling random spells though. At 5th level do you know a cantrip, 1st, and 2nd level spell or just a cantrip and 2nd level spell? Does your first level spell cast at 2nd level at fifth level automatically?

 

[MechaTarrasque]

Well the current warlock is Infernal, Fey, GOO, or Light. They need to make the Abyssal warlock first.

I was under the impression that fiend was supposed to cover demons too, but I will admit outside of the quasit familiar there is very little that screams "demon" to me in the fiend patron.

It wouldn't hurt my feelings to have another, more demon focused warlock patron type and a new cleric domain that gets some of these as bonus spells.