Unearthed Arcana
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| Date | Subject | Article | Author(s) | — |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 Feb. 2 | World, Eberron | “Eberron” (Races, Artificer, Action Points, & Dragonmarks) | Mike Mearls | — |
| 2015 Mar. 2 | Combat, Mass | “When Armies Clash” | Mike Mearls | — |
| 2015 Apr. 6 | Class, Ranger, etc. | “Modifying Classes” | Rodney Thompson | — |
| 2015 May 4 | Class, Race | “Waterborne Adventures” (Minotaur, Mariner, Swashbuckler, Storm) | Mike Mearls | Character Options for a High Seas Campaign. |
| 2015 June 8 | misc. | “Variant Rules” | Mike Mearls | Variant rules that you can use in your campaigns. |
| 2015 July 6 | Class (Mystic) | “Awakened Mystic” | Mike Mearls | — |
| 2015 Aug. 3 | “Modern Magic” | Dan Helmick | Expanding the two pages in chapter 9, “Dungeon Master’s Workshop”. | |
| 2015 Sep. 9 | “Ranger” | Mike Mearls | — | |
| 2015 Oct. 5 | “Prestige Classes and Rune Magic” | Mike Mearls | Character concepts that were prestige classes or paragon paths in earlier D&D. | |
| 2015 Nov. 2 | “Light, Dark, Underdark!” | Mike Mearls | New character options ideal for an Underdark campaign. | |
| 2015 Dec. 7 | “That Old Black Magic” | Mike Mearls | As the Rage of Demons storyline season continues to boil over in the Underdark, this month’s Unearthed Arcana offers new demonic options for your campaign. | |
| 2016 Jan. 4 | Class (fighter) | “Kits of Old” | Mike Mearls | If you played AD&D second edition back in the 1990s, you probably remember kits—the character options first introduced in The Complete Fighter’s Handbook. |
| 2016 Feb. 1 | Class (Mystic) | “Psionics and the Mystic, Take Two” | Mearls & Crawford | |
| 2016 Mar. 7 | misc. | “March 2016 Review” (Dungeon Masters Guild material) | ||
| 2016 Apr. 4 | “Gothic Heroes” | Mike Mearls | This month, Unearthed Arcana takes a look at a few new character options appropriate to gothic horror. | |
| 2016 June 6 | “Feats” | Mearls & Crawford | Based on feedback from our surveys and a number of requests on Twitter, this month’s Unearthed Arcana introduces new feats for fifth edition D&D. | |
| 2016 July 25 | “Quick Characters” | Mike Mearls | Sometimes you need quick characters for a D&D session. | |
| 2016 Aug. 1 | “The Faithful” | Mearls & Crawford | This month, Unearthed Arcana presents two new options that allow arcane casters to express their faith in the gods. | |
| 2016 Sep. 12 | “The Ranger, Revised” | Mike Mearls | Over the past year, you’ve seen us try a number of new approaches to the ranger, all aimed at addressing the class’s high levels of player dissatisfaction and its ranking as D&D’s weakest class by a significant margin. | |
| 2016 Oct. 10 | “Encounter Building” | Mike Mearls | This edition of Unearthed Arcana introduces an alternative set of encounter-building guidelines for D&D. | |
| 2016 Nov. 7 | “Barbarian Primal Paths” | Mearls & Crawford | Barbarians receive new Primal Path options in today's Unearthed Arcana. But that’s not all. | |
| 2016 Nov. 14 | “Bard: Bard Colleges” | Mearls & Crawford | Bards receive new Bard College options in this week's Unearthed Arcana. The College of Glamour and the College of Whispers are ready for their debut! We invite you to read their descriptions, make characters with them… | |
| 2016 Nov. 21 | “Cleric: Divine Domains” | Mearls & Crawford | Clerics are blessed with new Divine Domain options in this week's Unearthed Arcana: the domains of the Forge, the Grave, and Protection. We invite you to read their descriptions, make characters with them, and see… | |
| 2016 Nov. 28 | “Druid Circles and Wild Shape” | Mearls & Crawford | New options sprout for the druid this week: three new Druid Circle options and an optional rule for gaining different beast shapes for Wild Shape. We invite you to read the options' descriptions, make characters with… | |
| 2016 Dec. 5 | “Fighter: Martial Archetypes” | Mearls & Crawford | The fighter faces four new Martial Archetype options this week: Arcane Archer, Knight, Samurai, and Sharpshooter. We invite you to read the options' descriptions, make characters with them, and see whether you like… | |
| 2016 Dec. 12 | “Monk: Monastic Traditions” | Mearls & Crawford | Two new Monastic Tradition options arise for the monk in today’s Unearthed Arcana: the Way of the Kensei and the Way of Tranquility. We invite you to read the options' descriptions, make characters with them, and see… | |
| 2016 Dec. 19 | “Paladin: Sacred Oaths” | Mearls & Crawford | Paladins have two new Sacred Oath options to ponder in today’s Unearthed Arcana: the Oath of Conquest and the Oath of Treachery. We invite you to read the options' descriptions, make characters with them, and see… | |
| 2017 Jan. 9 | “Artificer” | Mearls & Crawford | Unearthed Arcana greets 2017 with a new character class: the artificer, a master of magical invention. In a previous installment of Unearthed Arcana, we experimented with the artificer as a subclass of the wizard. Now… | |
| 2017 Jan. 16 | “Ranger and Rogue” | Mearls & Crawford | Two classes—the ranger and the rogue—discover new playtest possibilities this week. The ranger receives two Ranger Archetype options: the Horizon Walker and the Primeval Guardian, both of which work with the Player’s… | |
| 2017 Feb. 6 | “Sorcerer” | Mearls & Crawford | The sorcerer unearths new magical possibilities this week. The class receives four playtest options for the Sorcerous Origin feature: Favored Soul, Phoenix Sorcery, Sea Sorcery, and Stone Sorcery. … | |
| 2017 Feb. 13 | “Warlock and Wizard” | Mearls & Crawford | The warlock and the wizard reach new arcane horizons this week. The warlock receives two playtest options for the Otherworldly Patron feature: the Hexblade and the Raven Queen. That class also gets a collection of… | |
| 2017 Feb. 21 | “Mass Combat” | Mearls & Crawford | Mass combat. Updated after receiving… | |
| 2017 Feb. 27 | “Traps Revisited” | Mearls & Crawford | Traps—how to design and survive them—are the focus of this week’s Unearthed Arcana, which expands on the trap rules in the Dungeon Master’s Guide. Please give the new rules and traps a read, try them out in play, and… | |
| 2017 Mar. 13 | “The Mystic Class” | Mearls & Crawford | The mystic class, a master of psionics, has arrived in its entirety for you to try in your D&D games. Thanks to your playtest feedback on the class’s previous two versions, the class now goes to level 20, has six… | |
| 2017 Mar. 20 | “Wizard Revisited” | Mearls & Crawford | After releasing the 28-page mystic last week, we have a short Unearthed Arcana installment this week: two Arcane Tradition options for the wizard. The Theurgy tradition has appeared in Unearthed Arcana before, but… | |
| 2017 Mar. 27 | “A Trio of Subclasses” | Mearls & Crawford | Three classes each receive a playtest option this week. The monk gets the Way of the Drunken Master. The paladin gets the Oath of Redemption. And the ranger gets the Monster Slayer, a reimagining of the Monster Hunter… | |
| 2017 Apr. 3 | “Starter Spells” | Robert J. Schwalb & Crawford | New spells have been unearthed this week, a collection of cantrips and 1st-level spells for characters to choose from at the start of their spellcasting careers and beyond. We invite you to read these spells, give… | |
| 2017 Apr. 10 | “Downtime” | Mearls & Crawford | Sometimes the weeks between adventures are as eventful as the time on an adventure. This installment of Unearthed Arcana explores that in-between time by offering new and revised downtime activities for DMs to… | |
| 2017 Apr. 17 | “Feats for Skills” | Robert J. Schwalb & Crawford | This week we introduce new feats to playtest. Each of these feats makes you better at one of the game’s eighteen skills. We invite you to read them, give them a try in play, and let us know what you think in the… | |
| 2017 Apr. 24 | “Feats for Races” | Robert J. Schwalb & Crawford | Today we're offering another batch of feats to playtest. This time, the feats are associated with the races in the Player’s Handbook. We invite you to read them, give them a try in play, and let us know what you think… | |
| 2017 May 1 | “Revised Subclasses” | Crawford & Mearls | Last week, we reached the end of a series of weekly Unearthed Arcana installments, which came out for several months. Today Unearthed Arcana returns to being monthly, appearing on the first or second Monday of a month… | |
| 2017 May 8 | “Survey: Revised Subclasses” | Crawford & Mearls | Last week, Unearthed Arcana returned to being monthly, appearing on the first or second Monday of a month. To kick things off, we looked back at five of the subclasses from the recent series: the barbarian’s Path of… | |
| 2017 May 25 | “Unearthed Arcana Update” | Mike Mearls | Over the past few months, we’ve delivered a stream of new content via the Unearthed Arcana column. Some of that content will show up in future products. Other pieces, having been found lacking by the open playtest… | |
| 2017 June 5 | “Revised Class Options” | Mearls & Crawford | Part of the fun of playtesting is seeing how feedback and play can push a design in new directions. In this month’s Unearthed Arcana, we revisit class material that appeared in previous installments: four subclasses… | |
| 2017 July 10 | “Greyhawk Initiative” | Mike Mearls | As anyone who’s been playing Dungeons & Dragons long enough knows, there’s more than one way to get into a fight. | |
| 2017 Aug. 7 | “Three-Pillar Experience” | Mike Mearls | Three pillars of adventuring make up the D&D game: exploration, social interaction, and combat. But when it comes to earning experience, the combat pillar often supports most of the game’s weight. | |
| 2017 Sep. 11 | “Race Options: Eladrin and Gith” | Mearls & Crawford | Two race options debut in this month’s Unearthed Arcana: eladrin (an elf subrace) and gith. This eladrin is an alternative to the version of the subrace that appears in the Dungeon Master’s Guide. … | |
| 2017 Oct. 9 | “Fiendish Options” | Mearls & Crawford | In time for the lengthening shadows of autumn, we present a collection of fiendish options for you to playtest: new subraces for tieflings, ways to customize diabolical cults, and demonic boons that wicked NPCs can… | |
| 2017 Nov. 13 | “Elf Subraces” | Mearls & Crawford | After the positive response to the eladrin a couple of months ago in Unearthed Arcana, we decided to explore four more elf subraces: avariel (winged elves), grugach (the wild elves of Greyhawk), sea elves, and shadar… | |
| 2018 Jan. 8 | “Three Subclasses” | Mearls & Crawford | We kick off 2018 with three new subclasses to try out in Unearthed Arcana: the Circle of Spores for the druid, the Brute for the fighter, and the School of Invention for the wizard. Later this month, a survey on these… | |
| 2018 Feb. 12 | “Into the Wild” | Mike Mearls | This month, Unearthed Arcana wanders into the wilderness, with new ways to approach outdoor exploration. Later this month, a survey on this material will appear on the D&D website. Please let us know in that… | |
| 2018 Apr. 9 | “Order Domain” | Crawford & Mearls | Today we present a new playtest option for clerics: the Order Domain. An early draft of it appeared on the Twitch show The Mike Mearls Happy Fun Hour. We’ve refined that draft into the version available here. … | |
| 2018 May 14 | “Centaurs and Minotaurs” | Crawford & Mearls & James Wyatt | Centaurs gallop into Unearthed Arcana this month—a playtest option for when you choose your character’s race. Another type of character from Greek myth joins them: minotaurs. We first showed off minotaurs in a 2015… | |
| 2018 June 11 | “Giant Soul Sorcerer” | Mearls & Crawford | In the age of myth, giants bestowed magical blessings upon smaller folk whom they especially favored. Now sorcerers can playtest descendants of those folk, using the Giant Soul subclass. Later this month, a survey… | |
| 2018 July 23 | “Races of Eberron” | Keith Baker, Crawford, Mearls, et al. | Races from the world of Eberron return to Unearthed Arcana this month, with the kalashtar joining revised versions of the changeling, shifter, and warforged. For more information about that world, see Wayfinder’s… | |
| 2018 Aug. 13 | “Races of Ravnica” | James Wyatt, Ari Levitch, Crawford | A group of races from the world of Ravnica have arrived in Unearthed Arcana: loxodons, Simic hybrids, vedalken, and viashino. While native to Ravnica, these folk could potentially be used in any D&D world. They… |
