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What Do I Know About First Impressions? Unearthed Arcana 2020 Psionic Options Revisited (D&D 5e)

Posted on 04/14/2020 by Jared Rascher Leave a comment

Psionics continue to evolve in Unearthed Arcana. If you haven’t been keeping track, WOTC’s first playtest of psionic material was the Mystic, the dedicated psionic “caster” class. That disappeared for a while, and last year, WOTC introduced several psionic subclasses, flavors of existing classes with psionic themed abilities. Online, many voices cried out that anything psionic must have a

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What Do I Know About First Impressions? Unearthed Arcana 2020 Spells and Magic Tattoos

Posted on 03/27/2020 by Jared Rascher Leave a comment

The pace of this year’s Unearthed Arcana articles was going really fast, but recently, we’ve had a bit of a chance to digest the previous offerings. Good thing nothing major has happened in the world since the last time we had one of these. Ahem. Anyway, let’s take a look. Today’s Unearthed Arcana is for Spells and Magic Tattoos. Most

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What Do I Know About First Impressions? Whispers in the Dark Quickstart Rules (5e OGL)

Posted on 03/16/2020 by Jared Rascher Leave a comment

During the d20 boom, there were a lot of RPGs that created d20 versions of multiple genres. Many of these d20 games did not do much to instill a feeling of mastery of the rules from the designers. There wasn’t much of an examination of what genres best utilized a level-based structure, or why some of the rules that existed

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What Do I Know About First Impressions? Unearthed Arcana 2020 Subclasses Part 3 (D&D 5e)

Posted on 02/25/2020 by Jared Rascher One comment

Even more subclasses, this time with (I’m pretty sure) way less controversy attached to them. Unearthed Arcana 2020 Subclasses 3 This time, we’ve got subclasses for the artificer, druid, and ranger. I think it’s interesting that we’re seeing an artificer subclass come up, because that either implies another Eberron source, or it’s a statement of intent that just because artificer

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What Do I Know About Second (?) Looks? Unearthed Arcana 2020 Subclasses Part 2 (D&D 5e) This Time, Officially Released

Posted on 02/07/2020 by Jared Rascher Leave a comment

I’m doing something a little strange today. I’m reposting a blog, because I’ve already written a first impression of the topic. In this case, the Unearthed Arcana Subclasses 2020 Part 2 document was OFFICIALLY released by WOTC now, and it has some changes from the leaked version from earlier this week. Before I start, however, I wanted to restate something

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What Do I Know About First Impressions? Unearthed Arcana 2020 Subclasses Part 2 (D&D 5e)

Posted on 02/04/2020 by Jared Rascher One comment

Since I wrote this piece, it appears the Unearthed Arcana arcticle referenced was taken down. I’m going to leave this up for now, but I may be pulling this article if I hear any further reasons for why the initial article was pulled from WOTC’s site. For now, if you haven’t seen the Unearthed Arcana article it references, this

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What Do I Know About First Impressions? Unearthed Arcana (Subclasses, 1/14/2020)(D&D 5e)

Posted on 01/15/2020 by Jared Rascher Leave a comment

Remember back in 2019, when Wizards was releasing all of those Unearthed Arcana articles, non-stop, and it seemed like they were never going to end. Everyone was really wondering what they were all leading up to. It’s like it was yesterday. Oh, hey, what’s this? Another Unearthed Arcana article with three more playtest subclasses? Okay, twist my arm, I’ll take

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What Do I Know About First Impressions? Mordenkainen’s Fiendish Folio Volume 1 (Dungeons and Dragons 5th Edition)

Posted on 12/04/2019 by Jared Rascher Leave a comment

I wanted to do a quick first impression article on the newly released DM’s Guild Product, Mordenkainen’s Fiendish Folio Volume 1, which, despite being a DM’s Guild Product, is a Wizards of the Coast release developed by the D&D team to support the Extra Life Charity. Extra Life Homepage All of the monsters in this volume are alumni of

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What Do I Know About First Impressions? Unearthed Arcana Psychic Soul Psionic Playtest (5e)

Posted on 11/26/2019 by Jared Rascher One comment

I wasn’t in the habit of commenting on every Unearthed Arcana that came down the pike, especially since Brandes Stoddard does a much better job of it than I can, but WOTC has been putting out such juicy options, and I’ve got a special reason to dive into this particular Unearthed Arcana. The most recent article details Psionic versions of

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What Do I Know About First Impressions? Talisman Adventures Playtest Guide

Posted on 10/31/2019 by Jared Rascher 2 comments

I was a latecomer to the Talisman boardgame, and I actually played Fantasy Flight’s Relic variant set in the Warhammer 40000 universe before I played Talisman itself. That said, there was a time when I first got the app version of the game that I was playing it obsessively. I was interested to see what a Talisman RPG would