UA to Become Weekly! Pendleton Ward Helped On New AP!

WotC is currently at Gamehole Con, a convention in the US Midwest. According to a GameholeCon attendee at one of WotC's D&D panels, featuring Jeremy Crawford, Chris Perkins, and Mike Mearls, Unearthed Arcana (Mike Mearl's monthly rules column) is going to become a weekly column. Not only that, Sage Advice will be pausing for a while while Jeremy Crawford joins Mearls on the UA columns. There will be a new Unearthed Arcana every Monday, with the next being three new barbarian options.

WotC's Chris Perkins also said that "The next D&D story is *not* based on Adventure Time. However, Pendleton Ward did help us create it." Ward is, of course, the creator of the US cartoon Adventure Time.

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[gyor]

So 3 new Barbarian Options. Sounds interesting.

 

[samursus]

I like the sound of both of these announcements!

 

[Kobold Avenger]

I'm guessing that there's a push for a big expansion to the rules.

I think the Barbarian has most of its archetypes covered, so these 3 subclasses might go into something niche an elemental "Inferno Rager" or an actual "bearskin" that's sort of a shifter.

 

[jayoungr]

They did mention that they're aiming to produce a major rules expansion soon; that's probably the reason for the increase in UA. Should be fun, anyway!

 

[Curmudjinn]

Very cool. I look forward to this.

 

[NiClerigo]

What did they say about rules expansion? Was it mentioned at Gamehole Con? Thanks!

 

[pukunui]

[MENTION=6855149]Prakriti[/MENTION]: *ahem*

 

[Ath-kethin]

I doubt it will stop people from whining about a lack of options or support. If it's free it doesn't count, it needs to be in a hardcover so we can complain about how pricy the books are.

 

[darjr]

just one thing. Pendleton Ward!