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New DnD Unearthed Arcana: Mystic Subclasses. Four spellcasting-focused subclasses! Are we getting a magic-focused splat book this year?
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New Unearthed Archana released this
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week. Let's talk about what's in it. We
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got four subasses and that's it. The
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title of the document is mystic
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subclasses. I guess they already did
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arcane subasses, so they needed a
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different word. Um, it it's very
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spell-casting focused. So, between this
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and the arcane subasses, I wouldn't be
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surprised if we got a magic focused
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supplement sometime in the next year.
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Back in 35, we got a series of books,
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the complete series, complete warrior,
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complete arcane, complete divine,
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complete scoundrel. There were a couple
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of other ones, uh, complete psionics. I
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can't remember their names, but those
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books gave us a ton of character options
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specifically for those variety of
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characters. Like complete warrior was
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all about like fighters and paladins and
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those like complete warrior was about
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fighters and paladins and those melee
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marshall characters. Well, not
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necessarily just melee, but you know
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what I mean. complete was about rogues
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and highskilled characters and people
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who were sneaky, complete divine,
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clerics, complete arcane, arcane
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spellcasters. So like we got a ton of
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character options there. And it seems
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like in the 2024 rules, Wizards is
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leaning a lot more into a 35 style
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production schedule where we're getting
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books much more frequently. And it's
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entirely possible that they're going to
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start doing something similar to the
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complete series. The books with a lot of
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character options tend to sell the best
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because the most people at the table buy
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them compared to like adventures. Just
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the DM buys it. A lot of the books that
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we got late in the 2014 rules only had
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like one or two character options in
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them. Like Glory of the Giants had a
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subclass and a couple of backgrounds and
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a handful of feet. So like very little
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character options. Ton of fluff. And I
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love that book, don't get me wrong, but
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I would understand if it didn't sell
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well because it didn't have all of those
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mechanics. So, it's entirely possible
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that Dn D is pivoting back towards the
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way things were done in third edition
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where we got tons of books that had lots
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of character options in them all the
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time. And that could be a lot of fun.
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But also, they stopped doing that in
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third edition for a reason. Like at the
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end of 35, they said, "Okay, we need to
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slow down." because most of what they
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put out was really really bad. So, I'm
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hoping whatever this Unear Arana turns
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into is something really cool. I hope
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Watsi is comfortable like pump the
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brakes a little bit. Give us a few
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really good books instead of a whole
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bunch of really mediocre books. Like
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that would be better for everyone I
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