D&D 5E Xanathar's Guide to Everything -- new mechanical expansion/UA book! -- November 10 with a limited-edition cover by Hydro74

[gyor]

Hello everyone.

Sorry if this has been asked/posted before. If all upcoming subclasses in XGTE have appeared in UA at some point, that means that rogues will only get the inquisitive and the scout... am I right? , that would be a bummer. I was hoping for new and cool rogue subclasses, like daggerspell mage ...

You know what would have been a cool is a trap setting bounty hunter rogue subclass, especially given the book is giving us new traps as well.

 

[vecna00]

So we have 14 of the 25+ subclasses confirmed for Xanathar's Guide:

Path of the Ancestral Guardian (Barbarian)
College of Swords (Bard)
Forge Domain (Cleric)
Circle of the Shepherd (Druid)
Arcane Archer (Fighter)
Cavalier (Fighter)
Way of the Kensei (Monk)
Oath of Conquest (Paladin)
Horizon Walker (Ranger)
Inquisitive (Rogue)
Scout (Rogue)
Favored Soul (Sorcerer)
Celestial (Warlock)
Hexblade (Warlock)

Is there a source on this confirmation?

 

[GarrettKP]

Is there a source on this confirmation?

Cavalier, Horizon Walker, and Inquisitive are confirmed on the product page.

The rest have been confirmed as some of the highest testing subclasses from the Unearthed Arcana, and Crawford and Mearls have confirmed (either on Stream or on Twitter) that the new subclasses in the Guide are the high testing UA subclasses, so putting two and two together we can confirm these are present.

 

[vecna00]

Cavalier, Horizon Walker, and Inquisitive are confirmed on the product page.

The rest have been confirmed as some of the highest testing subclasses from the Unearthed Arcana, and Crawford and Mearls have confirmed (either on Stream or on Twitter) that the new subclasses in the Guide are the high testing UA subclasses, so putting two and two together we can confirm these are present.

So beyond the three mentioned in the product description, the rest are speculation and prediction. Nothing else has been confirmed.

 

[GarrettKP]

So beyond the three mentioned in the product description, the rest are speculation and prediction. Nothing else has been confirmed.

Semantics at this point. Cavalier appeared in the revised articles and is confirmed in the book. The rest of these will be there. If you wanna wait till Crawford or Mearls say so that's fine, but it isn't hard to put 2 and 2 together here.

 

[vecna00]

Semantics at this point. Cavalier appeared in the revised articles and is confirmed in the book. The rest of these will be there. If you wanna wait till Crawford or Mearls say so that's fine, but it isn't hard to put 2 and 2 together here.

Semantics are important in managing one's expectations, my friend. Confirmation comes when it's in a preview or you see it in the actual book.

 

[CapnZapp]

Jeremy Crawford confirmed on Twitter that some SCAG subclasses will be reprinted here. He said the 25+ number are all new ones and not reprints, but that some SCAG reprints are present in addition to the 25+ new Subclasses, presumably to make them work with the AL +1 rule.

Great.

Not only little and conservative crunch, but reheated crunch too.

They really challenge us to buy their stuff with as little new system-widening crunch as they possibly can...

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[GarrettKP]

Great.

Not only little and conservative crunch, but reheated crunch too.

They really challenge us to buy their stuff with as little new system-widening crunch as they possibly can...

Sent from my C6603 using EN World mobile app

25+ new Subclasses, dozens of new feats and spells, new magic items, new rules for Traps and Downtime.

How is that "very little crunch?"

 

[GarrettKP]

Also Jeremy Crawford confirmed on twitter that there are no more than 4 of the SCAG subclasses in Xanathar's Guide, and that Forgotten Realms specific subclasses (Like the Purple Dragon Knight and presumably Battlerager and Bladesinger) will not be included.

 

[Kobold Avenger]

I felt that Phoenix Sorcerer was the worst one out of the Sorcerer subclasses, and that the Sea Sorcerer was the best.

Bladesinger is not FR specific, as I remember it being first introduced in 2e's Complete Handbook of Elves which was a quite campaign-neutral book, I think there certainly was the implication that Valley Elves from Oerth could take that kit.