Like Xanthars Guide, Tashas Cauldron provides its content with commentary, observations, and snark of a narrator character. This time, rather of a floating crime boss with numerous eyestalks, its the creator of Tashas Hideous Laughter who functions as the guide.
Dungeons & & Dragons is getting a brand-new book of guidelines, subclasses, and mechanics this fall, Wizards of the Coast revealed on Monday. The book, entitled Tashas Cauldron of Whatever, follows in the custom of 2017s Xanathars Guide to Whatever, including fresh gameplay alternatives to the existing setting instead of a new setting.
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Tashas Cauldron wont have any brand-new classes, however will rather provide up a collection of brand-new subclasses for every single released class in 5th edition. These subclasses are all drawn from the thoroughly play-tested Unearthed Arcana column on the D&D site. There will be brand-new spells also– consisting of a minimum of one designed by Tasha herself– and magic items to drop into your game.
For those behind the screen, Tashas Cauldron will have a section for Dungeon Masters with setting-agnostic puzzles and magical environments. Fans will likewise see the return of the group customers concept– non-player characters who fund and assist adventurers– from Eberron: Rising from the Last War, but de-Eberron-ed for any setting.
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The most intriguing and essential announcement about Tashas Cauldron is a brand-new and comprehensive set of guidelines for character creation. Tashas Cauldron offers an alternate set of character development rules that will do simply that. While the character creation guidelines are still readily available in 2014s Players Handbook for anyone who desires to utilize them, Tashas will decouple race and origin from their 5th edition mechanics.
Tashas Cauldron wont have any brand-new classes, however will rather use up a collection of brand-new subclasses for every published class in 5th edition. There will be new spells as well– consisting of at least one developed by Tasha herself– and magic items to drop into your video game.
The most crucial and appealing statement about Tashas Cauldron is a brand-new and extensive set of guidelines for character creation.
Tashas Cauldron of Everything will be released on Nov. 17, and will feature cover art by Magali Villeneuve. An alternate (and supposedly Easter egg-filled) cover will be available just in shops with art by Wylie Beckert.
