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

[Angelo Pantano]

Neither.
By pulling in everything (which includes a hell of a lot more subclasses than they're actually doing) it really highlights how much space there is in the book that is unknown: i.e half the book.

I suspect we'll see the ranger (since it's close to done, really desired, and needs less work than the artificer and mystic) And feats as they're unlikely to find a better place and we haven't seen any prior.

That's the definition of "guess" in my book. I'd rather wait for official answers on this, so I'm going to assume just was Mearls and Crawford said: New Spells, Archetypes, Downtime and Traps.

 

[Prakriti]

That's the definition of "guess" in my book. I'd rather wait for official answers on this, so I'm going to assume just was Mearls and Crawford said: New Spells, Archetypes, Downtime and Traps.

Feats are confirmed on the product page.

 

[Angelo Pantano]

Awesome! Thanks

 

[Olive]

As for the revised ranger, the replies on Twitter from Mearls are vague on this. Vague enough that I feel they will release it as an official, but free, pdf, like the Elemental Evil Player's Guide. It really sounds like they do not want people to feel the have to buy an entire new book just to get the class. They are not that greedy with this edition of the game.

On one hand I like that approach. On the other, how would they make it so revised subclasses etc work with the revised ranger?

 

[Satyrn]

I will readily join your fight on "Flavor" hill... Down with Fluff! Up with Flavor!

And you have my bow!

 

[Rellott]

And you have my bow!

Which one of you is Guy Fieri, trying to take this forum to Flavortown?

 

[Jester David]

As for the revised ranger, the replies on Twitter from Mearls are vague on this. Vague enough that I feel they will release it as an official, but free, pdf, like the Elemental Evil Player's Guide. It really sounds like they do not want people to feel the have to buy an entire new book just to get the class. They are not that greedy with this edition of the game.

Free would be cool. But they haven't done anything similar since the EEPC, so I'm uncertain of it was well received. And they've even reprinted much of the contents. Having the content in a hardcover just makes it that much more accessible at the table.

Ideally they'll do both. Release the ranger in the book and as a free PDF...

 

[smerwin29]

As tickled as I am to see my name in that group, I am not a WotC employee. I am just a freelancer who is lucky to get a writing gig for D&D every now and then. :-D

 

[Chaosmancer]

Free would be cool. But they haven't done anything similar since the EEPC, so I'm uncertain of it was well received. And they've even reprinted much of the contents. Having the content in a hardcover just makes it that much more accessible at the table.

Ideally they'll do both. Release the ranger in the book and as a free PDF...

I'm wondering if they will put it on the DMs Guild like they did the Artificer and Mystic

 

[Jester David]

I'm wondering if they will put it on the DMs Guild like they did the Artificer and Mystic

If they were going to do that for playtesting, I imagine they would have done it already.