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UNEARTHED ARCANA 2022 CLERIC AND REVISED SPECIES
This document is the third in a series of Unearthed Arcana articles that present material designed for the next version of the Player’s Handbook. The material here uses the rules in the 2014 Player’s Handbook, except where noted. Providing feedback on this document is one way you can help shape the next generation of D&D! Inside you’ll find the following content:
Cleric Class. The Cleric Class is available for playtesting, along with one Subclass: the Life Domain. More Subclasses will appear in Unearthed Arcana in the months ahead.
Revised Species. Three revised Species appearin this document: the Ardling, the Dragonborn, and the Goliath.
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All I wanted was the "extra attack" breath rule, because there is something satisfying about crisping up a bunch of goblings, followed by jumping through the flames to split their squad leader in half
Only thing that would make it better is if it was Bonus Action (still limited by PB/ LR of course, don’t want to get crazy with it).
@Ant Cannone make it better? Yes. But replacing extra attacks is such a cool option.
Something I hoped was that all half casters get the bladesinger extra attack. I do that at my table and it's a blast... literally
I would actually love if they made it a feat! I still think racial/ancestry feats are good just have them focus on improving abilities the races get as supposed to giving them entirely new abilities that lock them out from the others. With an exception for ones that give the races back the older racial abilities that had to be cut from the baseline versions.
Just make sure the feat improves something else than *just* the extra attack modification, like either more dice so non-martials are still incentivized to get it or fold in the special breath weapon types into the feat!
@jemm13 DB breath weapons suffer the same issue as martials. The scaling is just not on pace with casting. It's why I like the new metalic dragonborn option, as you get a pretty sweet utility breath weapon that is useful no matter the level.
Also, that's why I like ttrpgs. On the table, rules can always be bent in ways to make it more fun
Pretty much every time I used my breath weapon as a fighter, I thought that using the Attack action probably would have been better.
I almost always did it for the flavor, not because it was the tactically optimal option.
now you can re-live the whimsicalness of the Dragons v. Giants War every day within your own party with PH Dragonborn & Goliath!
I like the ardlings being specifically from the beastlands. They're still celestial, but now they're unique from aasimar
i agree. Though as a lore guy it seems weird that animals that go to animal heaven.....for some reason evolved into humanoid animal people. Like it would have been better to say they were perhaps somehome who had travel there and died or were only the servants of the beastlords. Mixing it is a little weird
After this UA ardlings have grown on me, I like the idea of having the beast-person on the PBH. I still think they should draw power and inspiration from nature and the Primal spell list tho, instead of the Divine.
@@jkl1110 Actually, the animals in the Beastlands aren't animals that died and went there, they just live there, which is I think makes them divine beasts, and I think it makes sense for them to be able to take on a humanoid form. and as far as I know the souls of more chaotic-good dead people can also turn into them? that might be wrong though.
@@PSIworld13 animals that die go to the beastlands, there are just also animals there. Petitioners that are chaotic good can also go there and they usually are the talking animal variety. But yeah animals go die and go to learn from their attributed beastlord before they are reborn, I assume to explain why they are born with instincts. But even if animals just lived there it is weird that they could turn humanoid as that is specifically the purview of beastlords, otherwise there is no point to them. You can look up all the stuff about the beastlands in planescape. Probably some youtube videos too.
@@jkl1110 i mean, Angels and celestial beings, so they are basically the construct of a god, if we take that path animals wouldt evolve into an ardling but they are creations of a divine entity on the beastlands to serve a purpose, specifically one thst needs to travel to the material plane, say a messager, a guardian angel or something lime that.
Btw, just to clarify, I'm not saying that angels are literally constructs, just living beings that were created by a god directly to fufill whatever task the god want.
Well frick. Now I wanna play all of these, they really made Dragonborn one of the sickest races to play after all these years of pain and suffering! AND THEY FINALLY GAVE GOLIATHS WHAT THEY NEEDED!
The standard Goliath was never that interesting to me, but the new added variety does make it a lot more interesting.
I can see some DMs banning this race. 30 feet teleportation that always works, extra damage that always applies, knock prone on a hit every time. Really cool abilities for players but could be a pain for balancing encounters.
I'm sad that "Stone's Endurance" is missing from this new Playtest Material. Remarkable Goliath Trait that saved my skin a lot.
@@markredblue it is still there in the stone giant ancestry
@@XanderHarris1023 It's not every time. It's proficiency bonus per long rest so it caps out at 6 times per day
@@XanderHarris1023 you choose one. You don’t get access to each option. It’s also only limited to proficiency. 🤷🏻♂️
Now we’re talking!! Feels good to see WOTC taking such a hands-on approach to feedback on the next edition. As a result, we’ve got some really interesting changes to the Dragonborn and Goliath! I really like the idea of changing AOE on the breath weapon!
Love your channel, dude. Keep up the good work!
@@denizshalamanov1999 thanks so much!! 😊
Yes! More ancestry. Goliath were always really cool but just lacking that spice. You love to see it
You love to see it!
Called shot from Treeantmonk on the fifth level flight!
Yeah, it was a great call on his part!
The fact that the spectral wings are made of elemental energy is some extra cool factor, though.
Yes!! I have always thought that their was a wealth of design space within the Goliath that was not being used as they were all stone giants so very excited to see an exploration of the giant kin in this new unearthed arcana
Love the new UA! I like the changes on ardlings, but wouldn't it make more sense if they drew power from the Primal spell list instead of the Divine one?
Sure and they can still pick up the new Resistance cantrip because it’s on both spell lists.
Good point! Since WotC is playing up the Primal as its own magical force, different from divine and arcane, making the Ardlings fill more of that nature-power role sounds like it makes way more sense than having *another* divine race!
@@babymordred121 exactly! And like the first response pointed out there wouldn't be that much of a difference mechanically from the divine spell list
I was fine with Goliaths as they were in Monsters of the Multiverse and was almost afraid they got rid of stone's endurance as I was reading but was relieved to see they kept it for the specific subtype of goliath you are. I was also fine with Goliaths only be descended from Stone Giants before but sure, have them come from other giants as well. Why not? A bit sad cold resist is left off but oh well.
I am still underwhelmed by Ardlings, but only because the race itself is just 'meh' to me as far as flavor.
Pleased the Dragonborn have been updated but darkvision is starting to be a bit too overused for my tastes. I wish there was less use of it.
Overall I am pleased to see a shift to making the species more narrowed in that subspecies (hill dwarves, stout halfling, etc) are left off in the PHB as I believe they will add these subspecies to specific campaign settings with their own benefits unique to those campaign settings.
Agreed on darkvison starting to wonder if they want to even care about lighting when only two of your races need a torch.
I think the frost giant variant of goliath could be better. It's like they're saying Ray of Frost is just as good as fire bolt; it's not, I would pick Fire bolt every time unless I wanted to fit a theme at the cost of a better spell.
Ardling being a catch all beast person race is fine, especially if it means there won't be like two new beast person species in every single book, some of which are bound to be wildly imbalanced in either direction.
I'm a bit meh on the beast people overall, but I think that's mostly as they're so frequent and full species of their own, having a sort of Egyptian Pantheon descendants is pretty cool imho. Mechanically they're looking flexible and cool too
@@portsyde3466 It is if you need to slow the thing down. 10ft means it gets to you slower than it would otherwise, giving you more time or preventing it from outrunning you if it tries to run away.
And imagine being a Frost Giant goliath with Ray of Frost. You are effectively killing 20ft of its movement. That ability has no range limit.
@@portsyde3466 Fire Bolt's main advantage over Ray of Frost is that it can target objects in addition to creatures. With the frost giant ancestry, that limitation no longer applies and these abilities also work on any attack roll, which means they work on ranged attacks too (for now). Speed reduction is amazing battlefield control, probably going to be much more impactful than ~2 extra points of damage on average.
I really loved the vibe of the celestial-blooded lineages being "good" reflections of the tiefling lineages, so I was a little worried when I saw the new version of Ardlings in the UA moving away from that concept. It's very pleasing to hear that the Aasimar are still being considered to fill that role, while the Ardlings are being given more of their own identity.
hey on page 10 of the new ONE D&D UA
Regarding the Large Form for Goliath's I noticed that there is no Damage addition other than advantage on STR checks and a speed increase. Is this done on purpose? Enlarge/Reduce only adds a single d4 to weapon attacks, the fighter sub-class rune knight feature giant's might has an additional d6 to weapon attacks which increases to a single d8 @10th level, and I believe in the DMG on page 293(I can't remember off the top of my head rn) the only mention of an increase of size correlating to an increase of damage output is when coming up with the base damage of the weapon for every size a stage up from medium is to add an additional weapon die.
Personally I like the idea of combining the d4 with enlarge/reduce and the DMG's additional weapon damage die to help boost my player's ability to do damage in regular 5th edition. as getting hit with the spell to grow in size should offer an additional bit of damage outside of the increase in # of damage die. Makes players using the option to grow big and break everything empowered.
Is there an intended effect on damage when a Goliath at 5th level grows in size to do additional damage or is the intention just to grow big?
I find issue with the latter statement in regards to the video as the purpose of adding the goliath to the PHB is to provide players with another option for a certain archetype. the Goliath's racial ability will be redundant for a Goliath Barbarian will already have advantage on STR checks and saving throws as well as an additional 10ft of movement in D&D5e. The recommended height for a goliath in both the playtest and Elemental Evil Player's Companion is 7-8ft. which is just about a foot shorter than what it takes to be considered large.
Hope this encourages some kind of discussion.
This dragonborn is what I expected last time, and is on par if not better than the dragonborn in Fizban's (if the latter are given darkvision, if completely vanilla this one is just straight up better).
Honestly they need to stop giving every race darkvision
@@blackpeoplestorytime802 Or just give it to everyone so it doesn.t matter (since so many has it already), but to say that "decendants of dragons" wouldn't/shouldn't have DV is strange to me. Sure they were created by the dragons of their world. But they were created to be slaves in, for example their mines. It is then strange to NOT give them DV, if you ask me :)
I feel like all 1DD thus far has contained shadow buffs for monks, which were really needed. I really like
1) new Ardling or (hill giant) Goliath races for monk
2) grappling with dexterity and as an attack of opportunity
3) Tavern brawler and grappler feats
4) rebalancing martials not to require SS or GWM for reasonable damage
I think this might become the first edition where monks aren't underpowered if all goes well.
I like the idea of their being different Giant ancestries for Goliaths; but I'm not so sure about the increased speed, lack of damage resistances for some ancestries (like Frost and Fire), and them being able to Hulk-Out as a racial ability.
I can be a celestial shark and my Dragonborn can friggin' fly!? Yes please!
Nothing emphasizes the impact of CRITICAL ROLE more than making sure a species used in Campaign 1 and is in the PLAYER'S HANDBOOK.
(Although it would be rather annoying that the goliath is found in four different 5e books and there would be three entirely different versions.)
I do like the refocusing of the ardling as the "beastfolk" species. I don't see why it even needs the ties to the planes for that reason. As a generic animal-folk it could just as easily be from the mortal world or the Feywild. As a beastfolk being a fey makes more sense than a celestial.
I want Ardlings to be of the Natural/Primal side, not upper planes
My guess is that ardlings are descended from guardinals, which we haven't seen since 3rd edition.
Ngl, I don’t like that the animal heads are now being linked to traits, I did like that it was a “choose what fits”. My issue was it was treading too far into aasimar territory
I like what they have done with the Goliath. I have been home brewing things like this for my world as half giants. I’m looking forward to rolling one for play test.
Love ALL of these changes. I think some of the Goliath giant traits need to be reworked a little to make them more appealing compared to cloud or stone, and I'd like to see more ardling variety! A ardling trait I could see that would be cool is:
Preadator (lion, tiger, snake, etc):
You gain a bonus to your passive stealth and stealth ability checks equal to your pb. The first time per combat you attack with a melee Weapon while being hidden, you deal extra 1d6 damage of that type.
I don't think that's perfect but more options could be really cool!
Being able to knock some one prone automatically means maritals are getting gauranteed advantage strikes and halved movement of your enemy increases a martial ability to lock an opponent down. You.could even knock flying enemies out of the sky So hills not bad and is pretty darn good.
Similar things can be said for for cold as there are numerous way to reduce movement in a turn that stacks. Keeping your enemies immobile is good even a caster which these work on since they don't require weapons and just attack rolls and damage to be dealt.
Fire and lightning are meh with lightning definitely being worst
Yeah, there's not really a fantastic stealth or rogue option. I guess the climbing, jumping or racer options are pretty mechanically viable even if it's a bit weird there's not a stealth or ambush predator based type
I love the Dragonborn change! Brings me back to my Lightning Dragonborn Barbarian (Suxal or Laxus backwards for Fairy Tail fans) who was killed by a mind flayer.
I feel like the Goliath should have had some sort of ancestry resistance depending on its giant ancestors like the Dragonborn.
I hope the ardling gets like, expanded options for their animal ancestry (like "aquatic" givving letting you breathe water and maybe other stuff, and "flying" givving you the winged option back, and the current flying being turned to gluiding and getting a bit of a buff, and so on) the keen senses and divine magic being turned into animal ancestry options (and maybe also getting a primal magic option? an arcane one would fit an owl or cat and such)
and then it's made so you get to pick two animal ancestry options at level one, another one at level three, and one more at level five
with the flavour being that ardlings gain their divine animal features as they grow, and different ardlings get them at different times (so a cat kid may have senses and climbing and jumping while a young adult might only have divine magic and senses)
Had commented this on the other cleric video but
Ardlings are still cool, the new ancestry is nifty and really does make things work for letting you flavor as you will. The flyer option feels rather week out of all of them but that isn't too bad given the jump action doesn't count as part of your movement so it still is useful. it feels closer to being good but its still missing something that i cant put my finger on
Dragonborns are much better now and they addressed alot of what i was worried about in my survey such as the full action breath weapon which is now part of the action if you have multi attacks. Being able to chose either line or cone is beneficial and amuses me as i imagine dragons practicing tongue placements to focus it :p as well as the damage scaling is better. the flight is a nice bonus and isn't overpowered all round no notes
Goliath seems like they should just call it a half giant at this point . The unique traits are all interesting though Hills tumble having no save to resist prone seems peculiar. I was concerned about large form for a moment as i was concerned with interactions with rune knight but that one already specifies smaller than large so you don't have to worry about gargantuan rune knights.
It does feel like there's something missing with the Ardling. Not sure what either. The other two get a feature at level 5, so maybe something like that?
Dragonborn got the earlier version of Ardling's spectral wings.
I'm totally okay with this, I've made a Silver Dragonborn Divine Soul Sorcerer, using draconic wings instead angelic wings. I'd be able to use the wings earlier, and when the character reaches 14th, I'd be able use the wings without the time limit of the new base Dragonborn wings.
Ardlings need alot more.
Why would I pick the Climbing Ancestry if I can just be a Tabaxi and actually be better.
Flyer Ancestry = I can just be a Aarakocra or a Owlin and actually be better.
Racer Ancestry = Tabaxi wins again.
Swimmer Ancestry = Sea Elf is better, Triton is better, Simic Hybrid is better, etc.
because not a single one of those are in the PHB.
If you're looking at speed over multiple turns, a Racer Ardling can almost always outpace a Tabaxi, and having a free cantrip shouldn't be overlooked.
Aren't the Ardling too similar to the Shifter now?
Oh man I'm so glad that goodberry life cleric hack is going, it never made sense to me. Interesting to hear it was never what was intended.
Hell yeah! They showed my Dragonborn some love! My only thing is that they should live at least a few hundred years if they’re related to Dragons which live like millennia on end
So much fun stuff! I’ll put it in the next survey but for Goliath a “rock toss” would also be a very cool giant themed feature.
Stoked about the Goliaths 💪🏻
Personally I really like the idea of Giant Ancestry for Goliaths. I am however a little disappointed they don't get some kind of elemental resistance. I mean a Frost Giant is immune to cold damage but a Frost Goliath isn't even resistant? Even Dragonborn get a damage resistance based on their ancestry. Also not a fan of their Large Form ability. It just feels weird. Personally I feel like they should just make it so you can choose between being medium or large sized at character creation like how a lot or newer races can choose to be medium or small. People have been asking for large player races in 5e for years. And if they're rewriting all the rules and stuff for One D&D anyways this would be the perfect opportunity. Why not make it possible?
I love goliaths! The original goliaths are my favorite race, and it's nice seeing some love for them in this edition!
Great news with your handling of the ardling and goliath. Looking forward to this!
Cloud giant Goliath should have levitation instead of a misty step.
I really think Fizban's was a big part of the dissatisfaction with the 1d&d version of dragonborn.
I also want some art for the new heritages.
gotta leave Air Genasi with something.
I personally don't think there should be different types of goliath. In Volo's Guide it's noted that the Goliath are defended from giants. In my experience, good fantasy is rooted but not locked into reality. Saying that there are fire goliath and stone goliath and ice goliath really doesn't make sense evolutionarily: that wouldn't be one speices: that'd be extreme coincidental convergence on one niche. It should really be: all goliath decended from one kind of giant but branching into different groups. Maybe you have moss goliath and cave goliath and forge goliath but saying each type comes from a different giant type is dumb. The dragonborn just barely pulled something like this off because they're assumed to be mythological or alchemical in nature.
giants are mythological creatures by definition... and this many kinds of giants are in game like 20+ years. Volo's Goliath is stone giant-kin.
@@notsochosenone5669
This is exactly why I'm writing my own game and setting. D&D doesn't have good lore, and then when any realism or culture is suggested people go: _"uh, but d&d is fiction"_ . Yes I am aware of this. However, saying that five different kinds of giant evolving into the same human sized niche doesn't make sense. You could say that there are differing types of goliath which split and are culturally associated with the giant types but of course that isn't the case. What I intended when I said Dragonborn are mythological or alchemical in nature is that it's somewhat implied based on what's written about the guard drake that dragonborn arose as alchemically. Not that we actually get any lore about dragonborn to begin with. We don't even get a brief description of any kind of culture aside from the faint implication of dragonborn being "nomadic". Saying a people group is tribal describes advancement and structure, it doesn't describe architecture, norms, taboo, music, art, clothing styles, lifestyle, or any kind of material or non material culture. Please don't suggest that D&D is a game about making your own worlds because, as much as I enjoy doing that, D&D is marketed as a setting: not just a rules system. Critiquing D&D's lore is not _"insulting 20 years of game history."_
Dungeons & Dragons is a creative *_mess._*
So far from the UA Doc i personally, love the Dragonborn changes. The Breath Weapon change is great. The Wings at lvl 5 on top of that actually makes it even very strong and a top tier class if not even a little too strong ^^.
The Goliath is great, the perfect counterpart of the Dragonborn being Dragon flavored, Goliaths being Giant descent flavored is awesome. Growing large as ability and some additional effects are nice, may need a bit of tweaking, but great design choice.
The Ardling is a lot better now than it was before:
But still not fully there, I think. Firstly, they need to change the "An Ardling has a head resembling that of an
animal" wording into one that allows players to choose whether they want a full animal looking head or just partly traits of one like just the ears, eyes etc, more like this "An Ardling has a head showing animal like traits or even completely like one. Also, the keen sense is great and the little divine spark magic is also a nice touch to keep it lore aligned. But to be honest, the abilities are a bit of lack luster for the options. Swimmer is nice, a resistance and a speed, climber gives a speed and a natural weapon added to Unarmed strikes, which won't always come up for anyone who isn't a monk. The running speed is a bit over the top for the runners and the fly speed feels really nurfed should just be a fly speed but limit to no armor at all or so.
For consistency, I hope you add a 5th Level ability unique to each species. I think it's a great idea to have the choice of species keep paying off later, and to have consistency across species (like normalizing subclass selection at 3rd level, which is also a smart move).
It's definitely what I wanted with the kobold in Monsters of the Multiverse. It feels like its Kobold Legacy was lacking. Would have been cooler if it got something at 3rd or 5th level. We got this with the simic hybrid, so nice to see that returning.
So Ardling is a Shifter that stays in half animal form? And the Dragonborne will be "choose a basic dragon, then a breath weapon, and finaly sub-race... like a Lizardfolk with a Croc form, a Chaleleon form, and an Iguana form, but with breath weapons?
It's cool to have climbing and swimming Ardlings, but the playtest rules for swimming and climbing are still skewed. You are stuck with 1 type of speed during a Move and can't change it, even if the numbers are equal. If you are 10 ft from water, you can't just run the 10 feet, jump from the shore and swim the remaining 20 in the same Move. That's a big flop.
I think this is a either misunderstanding or misinterpretion of the rule. The goal for the wording change was so people didn’t use 10 ft. of their walking speed and think they still had 30 ft. of swimming speed left. Using one speed means you pick one of your speeds and stick to it. You can still walk 10 ft. Swim 10 ft. and then walk ten more feet all using your 30 ft. Swim speed. You can not walk 10 ft. Swim 30 ft. and then walk 20 more feet using your 30 ft. Walking and 30 feet swimming speed.
@@XanderHarris1023 I'd like to hope so. The subsection Special Speeds on page 22 is rather unambiguous and leaves little room for interpretation, but I can see how you can come to that conclusion, if you scavenge bits of information all over the document(s) and puzzle them together. We could use some clarification, these rules are anything but concise (as is tradition, lol).
I'm predicting that the Monk's Martial Arts feature will allow you to use Dexterity for your grappling escape DC. (Thinking about how judo and BJJ work, this would make so much sense.) At that point, the best grappler build in the game will be a Hill Giant Goliath Monk, who will be easily able to pronelock Huge creatures without the otherwise requisite dip into Rune Knight.
The prone from Hill's Tumble doesn't scale with the Large Form like basic Unarmed Strike Shove does, so, while thematic and likely handy in general, choosing Hill Ancestry wouldn't make you any better at pronelocking Huge creatures than any of the other subraces.
@@Shalakor True, but it would allow you to damage Large or smaller enemies with the same attack that you knock them prone. Along with the Grappler feat, that means that you would be able to pronelock most enemies without sacrificing any damage. The Hill Giant feature and the Large Form feature are both great for grappler builds, even though they don't synergize.
I loved the original Ardling so much that I wrote my own lore on them. My wife is playing a cow ardling cleric in the game on my channel. It was perfect!
I’m sure this will be fine, too. Just gotta revise.
I think this was a wise choice for ardlings 🎉
I'm definitely gonna check out the Goliath tomorrow.
For those interested, here are my size rules with Dark Sun Halfgiants in mind:
A positive size modifier costs 6 points and gives a +4 Str/Con, -4 Dex and two special benefits (increased movement and/or physical damage reduction). It doubles the weight of the character.
A negative size modifier gives 6 extra points and does the exact opposite.
You buy these in a step in character creation. In short you get 66 points for base ability scores (6+2d4 scores or a 14 12 12 10 10 8 array) with a number of points (6 or 12) to increase base scores or spend on a size modifier. Advanced settings like Dark Sun, the Underdark and the Outer Planes should have 12, but DMs can choose the number for any setting.
Note points can be spend to increase base scores up to 14, with supernatural increases to 15 and 16 costing double. Skills and magic give an enhancement bonus of up to +4.
Note with two size increases (+8 -8 +8 and 4 benefits) this removes the penalties to mental stats to halfgiants/goliaths, but uses up all 12 points. But you can still increase stats later. I made the halfgiants a little smaller, they are only 4 times the weight of humans, at roughly 800 pounds and around 9-10' tall.
Note in my house rules I have many more feats and ability score increases, so epic characters will be really epic. You kind of build towards advanced beings from the start, in a similar way Drow and Outer Planars in 3E had a mix of ECL and racial or paragon levels. This is mixed with an weakened but cooler version of psion.
I think Aardlings would be perfect to finish a sort of trio between Arcane Tieflings, Divine Aasimar, and Primal Aardlings. I don't think there's anything wrong with their celestial heritage considering druidism and its ties to divinity and the land- but I imagine the game would be better served by implementing a Primal focus for Aardlings while preserving the Celestial legacies of Aasimars.
I like all the species changes as well as the base cleric changes. I don't like the life cleric domain much however and think it could definitely be improved because I think there will be better subclass options than it down the line.
It was already somewhat of a trap option since in-battle healing has never been super efficient in 5E, but the slower feature progression really hurts it. One way they might be able to make it a bit more viable without undoing the current progression is if its features also worked with the new Divine Spark Channel Divinity, substituting Proficiency Bonus for spell slot level in the equation. At least, given the new context, the Domain Spell selection is probably better than 2014's? Other than losing 1st level spells.
I'm really glad that you restored the Breath attack to be part of the Attack Action. And the flight is a big plus.
but it seems that you forgot to give the Dragonborn Draconic language! XD
you don't get languages from species now. you get it from background
That's because languages are something that you learn, not something that is inherit to your biology
@@Wyrmshield it was on the first UA.
Using the word Species instead of Race?
Fucking finally.
Liking a lot of the changes to the ardling and the flexible dragonborn. No flight at L1 but getting them at L5 is such a good choice. Other giant lineages for Goliath is also very cool, I know they don't match Genasi in lore but I wonder if they'll tread too closely in vibe to have a Stone, Fire, and Lightning version of both species.
I'm seeing a potential in giving more racial features at higher levels
I feel like it'd be cooler if goliaths were always large, but had the ability to occasionally count as medium for the sake of dealing with doors'n junk.
Settings are going to need massive lore updates, like how do Ardlings, Fire/Cloud/Frost/Storm/Hill Goliths (Stone already has a place), and this General Dragonborn vs Fizban Dragonborn fit into say the Forgotten Realms or Eberron or Greyhawk?
I think having more options for Goliath is good, allows for more focus and class comparability.
I think stone is just great, but the other do have some use.
I would like 2 changes for Goliath 1. Give them a dmg resistance aciosatied with their giant type.
2. Change the wording on goliaths large form ability from "you become size large" to "you become one size larger."
I would change the 5th lvl dragonborn ability to something else, the dragon flight is to similar to the gem dragonborn an removes its uniqueness while being flat out better lasting 10 minutes rather then the 1.
sounds like some cool new race options
What I think would be better is a “recharge roll” for the breath attack like what happens for actual dragons, but have it start at a higher die roll. And every level progression where you can increase an ability score or gain a feat, the die decreases to the next one down, so by the time you’re spell casters are casting 9th level spells you’re rolling a recharge on a D6.
I think that keeping it tied to uses equalling your PB is still probably best, but I’d love to see a racial feat called Heavy Breather or something. Where after you’ve used your PB allotted uses, you can roll a d6 at the start of your turn to find out if you get a charge back that is only good for that turn.
This is all very exciting.
The only question I still have about Goliaths... How are they giant kin? Did someone just look at a giant one day and... Y'know...
Make it make sense!!
Yes
The Dragonborn in this new UA is so much better. On top of the changes making them mechanically consistent with the FToD Dragonborn, their breath weapon is more versatile now that they can freely choose between a 30f line or a 15f cone. Their new flight power at 5th level is great, and the added bonus of darkvision makes them better than the FToD variants while giving them the sweet flavour of a humanoid dragon.
So psyched to give the goliaths a go, they are sounding awesome!
This still doesn’t Justify not including Gem Dragonborn’s, you already are getting the gems flight, Sardior is also clearly stated now to be the third entity in the Dragon Pantheon.
Just add gems to the lineage option, keep the stuff you are doing.
Fizban’s instead have the secondary breath weapons and psionic mind
Not so sure about the enlarge ability on Goliath, that feels like it should stay in spells and sub-classes. Also I'm not sure dragonborn need a flying speed; just having the extra flexibility on the breath weapon and darkvision is plenty IMO, though a 1/day limited blindsight might be nice.
Hm... the ardlings were introduced to give the players an option to play a celestial (good!), like a counterpart to tieflings, but here you're basically stripping them off of everything that made them celestial (bad!). If the ardlings are pretty much just a beast race, why not add aasimars to PHB? You're already adding goliaths to it, a race that wasn't there before and that already appeared in an updated version, why not aasimars as well? Introduce aasimars as a counterparts to tieflings, as they were before in canon for years, and add ardlings as a beast race.
This is good. Every decision made here is good. Very good new races, will be using the new Goliaths immediately
Please don't touch my Githzerai Armorer Artificer Fey Touched build!
As a huge goliath fan, this excites me
Maybe it’s me, but why not add a modifier to your strength when you grow? Maybe equal to your Proficiency bonus? Or even half of your Proficiency bonus? Your growing in size? How do you not get stronger after growing all of that weight around? It would make sense to have some heavier blows. 🤷🏻♂️ at least the rune knight and giant barbarian (ua) include a bonus once per round. While I know they are subclasses, it just makes sense is all. 😅
They/ you WotC, really should use Fizbans dragonborns as core/ base to build on. By what it was said it sounded that there will be a universal dragonborn ( gem/ chro/ metal ) and a specific dragonborn with having chromatics, gems and metallics more distinct and focused. BTW not quite relevant to this video but..4 sub classes each??? Ok. For my favs the Ranger, Sorcerer and Fighter I hope. Draconic Bloodline, Wild magic, Shadow sorc and divine/ clockwork/ aberrant ... Gloom Stalker, Drake Warden, Beast Master/ Horizon Walker and the one tested, Hunter combined with Monster Slayer which makes sense. Beastmaster and Drake Warden COULD be combined to say Beast Warden and at lvl 3 choose which path of companion you want. A draconic summonable soul buddy of chromatic/ gem/ metallic type, a chance to tame a potentially very strong wild animal with strong bond that can very well DIE or its close Tasha version with a spirit companion from land/ sea/ air. For Fighter I just hope the rework the Purple Dragon Knight to just DRAGON KNIGHT. So we can choose any main 5 or less known true dragon type of chromatic/ gem/ metallic families. I would be a true Purple dragon knight but NOT of serving a purplish ass aged Black dragon. No, Im talking about the 4e underdark, roamy, plasma spewing, neighbour of the shroom sniffing Deep dragon, the Purple energy dragon! Not to forget dragon magizne 64/248 coastal salt spewing 120f winged racer, the Yellow dragon (rework the 4e) to Pale/ beige and sand )and the jungle ambush dwelling, oily sodium explosive breathing Orange dragon. The ex Fang now Gray dragon and Brown desert, Steel, Iron etc dragons of 4e could also need Dragon Knight followers ✊️👍
Fire giant and storm giant needs a little bit something more than what they have now, but other than that, I like the options.
What is the red dragon poster behind Crawford?
I feel like Goliaths need to ditch the inflation ability and just be large characters. The rest of their abilities are limited by proficiency, and there's not much that allows me to truly RP that smack-into-doorframes experience
Species sounds too cold. I'm all in on changing from "Race", but "Species" belongs in a SciFi game. "Lineage", "Culture", "Origin", "Ancestry", "Heritage" all better than "Race" or "Species". I know Paizo has digs on the last two.
I'm in love with the Dragonborn changes.
I still don't know who the Ardling is supposed to be. Divine Magic could go entirely. Maybe even link them more firmly to Primal with a Druid Cantrip.
Goliath are also pretty rad, but Large Form feels tacked on and out of place. The Goliath hasn't really had a "get big" ability that I've ever seen. They've just had "is big". Take that off and either make Powerful Build better, or give then another thing that leans into "is big".
aardling are much better in this version since they backed off on the divine aspect a tad but it still feels a bit underwhelming. it feels like it needs like one more thing and/or a ribbon feature and i cant put my finger on it
i agree on the goliath. the get big thing feels out of place, i would wonder if they should add an ability to just deal more damage with a weapon but they've been trying to remove things that make a species feel forced to a specific class
Lineage, culture or origin all sound more like variations to background.
I like species, because it describes it so very well. Two individuals of the same species make a baby and its the same species.
I think goliaths are already big…. They just baked in the getting bigger feature of the rune knight.
This is what I wanted from the Ardling! You choose your special trait (climber, flyer, racer, swimmer) and what beast it is is just limited by your imagination. Perfect! :)
I really don't like the ability to grow, like for one it doesn't really work together with say runeknight, but it also doesn't really make sense to me. Like they already channel and breath their heritage why do they grow? It would have been better to give them a energy resist and a extra bonus based on giant type, like a swim speed, a climb speed, maybe hill giants throw rocks in someway that mimics magic stone, etc. Growing just apes a little too close to already existing stuff since in the giant content that will come out growing is already a big theme
Liking the new Dragonborn stuff especially...
Why not just. MAKE the goliath size large?
I played a rune knight goliath and this excites me xD
Ok I'm a little confuesd I looked at the ardling for one dnd in it's first thing and I thought it efectivly replaced the asimar. is that what will happen or am I wrong?
It doesn't, he brought this up in a previous video. They distantly related to the Aasimar, but intended to be a more common species you find in 5e. Aasimar as I understand were always meant to be rare, once in a blue moon.
After reading through the new Ardling, I have to ask (and I will again in the survey, don't worry), isn't this design space already filled by the Shifter, and why make a new one when that one is already around? Simply expanding on the Shifter with more fleshed out options would seem to make more sense, already has a place in the game and established worlds, and reinforces the existing structures and story ties rather than re-inventing the wheel. A PHB version Shifter would be fantastic and cross promote work you've already done for 3 editions.
I was predicting that Goliaths would become a core race for a while...
Thanks.
This is an amazing direction for the ardling, i love it. But on first site... It looks like all their abilities were kneecapped?
I would argue that Dwarves were the other burly muscle option, but now we have three choices for that so I'm not complaining.
Love this
The updated Dragonborn is awesome, just needs the added abilities for Chromatic and Metallic lineages from fizbans to be perfect.
Personally, though, I kinda feel like the term "Species" doesn't really fit D&D. Something like "Lineage" would be more appropriate, imo, especially with the new character creation options.
Always been a fan of Pathfinder 2e's "Ancestry," which feels perfect. Lineage is also good, even heritage would be an improvement. Species does feel a little weird, agreed.
I mean.. all are completely different in terms of structure and abilities. some are literally from different planes of existence and such. I think it applies.
I kinda wish you'd just make an entirely new species and call it giantkin or something like you did with Ardlings, rather than continue perverting the Goliaths into something like a Frankenstein's monster of its foundation. You've done away with literally everything fun about the original: the markings, the lithoderms, the playful attitude, the naming scheme losing its Hawaiian-inspired touch.
If you wanted a more interesting and unique Goliath, you should have brought the "Markings of" feats from Races of Stone and transferred them to the One D&D Goliath. Showcase them as being modern but still built upon the creature it was originally thought of. Make their Lithoderms give a bonus to armor class or something like that.
If you called it "giantkin", I'd actually like it; it's a fun quasi-giant option.
But that's not what the goliaths were originally conceived as. A half-giant half-goliath spawned a "Feral Gargun"; goliaths were conceived of as being non-giant and anti-giant.
P.S. It's also somewhat of a lie/retcon to say "we've always been looking at the Stone Giant Goliath". The original and 4e goliath were not giantkin at all, and were clearly intended as a standalone species.
The new dragonborn kicks so much ass.
The Goliath "Large Form" ability needs a damage increase. When you're bigger, you do more damage, that's just how it is. If your equipment doesn't change with you, then you have to destroy your clothes and armor to use the ability, which makes it pointless.
Goliath is promising but I can't make a good assumption on these until we get the warrior classes. on it's own with the 2014 rules there is some redundancy. And the Ardling with the new cleirc also breeds redundancy.
They have the same problem with existing goblin builds and the new orc build specifically clashing with cunning action for rogues! Fingers crossed they either pick up on these or don't do more. Redundancy is a bummer.
im liking what u guys doing here, but can we be honest... just say itsnot backwards compatible, nor subclasses or races (like the goliath of mpmm) are gonna be usable
While I like some of the Goliath Changes, I feel like they are just less good Dragonborn. Why don't Goliaths also get a resistance based on Giant type affinity? Also, with the Goliath becoming large, do they also gain the benefit of reach, which is not mentioned in the UA document? Also, since all giants are already hardy, why isn't Stones Endurance just a species benefit, and come up with something else for Stone Giants?
The *Dragonborn* feels really polished and complete now, well done!
*10 / 10*
The *Goliath* seems very exciting to me, however because y'all removed their _Cold Resistance_ and _Athletics Proficiency_ it just feels like some sort of minor feature is missing from the race when compared to the Dragonborn.
*8 / 10*
*Ardling* just overall feels underwhelming. I'd say drop the _Celestial lineage_ thing and just make them come from the Feywild. It takes a lot more than a cantrip and a swimming speed to convince me to play an Ardling over a Dragonborn or Goliath.
*2 / 10*
As a counterpoint to the removal of their inherent Athletics proficiency... They can get *Large* now.
Being Large is *very* Athletic.
It seems like we have a lot of Feywild animal folk already. Also, for a non-Monk, a Racer Ardling is even faster than a Tabaxi or a Harengon. Yes, some of the Ardling types are niche, but some build options here are pretty neat.
@@jonp8015 so if being large is being very athletic, why then not give them proficiency in the Athletics skill? 😅
@@dynestis2875 To clarify, my point is that their added proficiency was to reflect the fact that they are very large, but now they can reflect being large by simply *being large.*
Missing cold resistance is kind of a bummer though.
Can we get goblins in the PHB as well? They're iconic
BUT WHERE ARE THE PLAYABLE GNOLLS CRAWFORD? GIVE ME THE GNOLLLLLLLLLS!
Let's get LARGE y'all !
How will this affect the Rune Knight, if that's still a sub-class.
as is rune knight specifies you can only become large if your not already large so they worded it to prevent interaction i believe but you can still make them huge if you have enlarge/reduce
Seems like it creates a redundancy, that also kind impacts barbarian cuz u can't stack advantage to strength checks.
As someone running Rime of the Frost Maiden, taking away Cold Resistance from Goliaths feels super whack
Yes! Flying dragon Borne. Growing goliath!
cool cool liking this so far but ardling needs more
I miss asi's based on species
Does it bother anyone else that he pronounces "Fizban" as "Fizbin"?