D&D (2024) Unearthed Arcana Playtest Packet 7 Live on D&D Beyond

Wizards of the Coast posted the seventh playtest packet for the 2024 update to Dungeons & Dragons. The new playtest packet includes updated class material for the Barbarian, Fighter, Sorcerer, Warlock, and Wizard classes.

Highlights for each class:

Barbarian

• New Path of the World Tree subclass and updated Berserker, Wild Heart (formerly Totem Warrior), and Zealot subclasses.
• Attack recklessly for a full round rather than just one turn.
• Path of the Wild Heart (formerly Path of the Totem Warrior) has updated options.
• Brutal Critical gets damage buffs.

Fighter

• New Brawler subclass excels at using improvised weapons and unarmed strikes.
• Tactical Mind and Tactical Shift expand the use of Second Wind.
• Studied Attacks grants advantage on an attack roll against an enemy after you've missed an attack against them.
• Battle Master and its maneuvers have been updated.

Sorcerer

• Innate Sorcery empowers your spellcasting for a limited time.
• Sorcery Incarnate and Arcane Apotheosis boost your Metamagic while Innate Sorcery is active.
• Sorcerous Restoration is available at 5th level and scales with your sorcerer level.
• Wild Magic Sorcery now more reliably allows you to roll on the Wild Magic Surge table.

Warlock

• Pact Magic is back.
• Eldritch Invocations are now available at 1st level and your options have been revised.
• Pact Boons are now invocations, and Mystic Arcanum is once again a class feature.
• Patron Spells are always prepared.
• Updated Archfey Patron, Celestial Patron, Fiend Patron, Great Old One Patron subclasses.

Wizard

• Spellcasting feature now allows you to swap out a cantrip each long rest.
• Memorize Spell is now a feature. Modify Spell and Create spell have been nixed.
• Updated Abjurer, Diviner, Evoker, and Illusionist subclasses.

Universal changes include a return to class spell lists, more features from Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything, and update to some of the spells including arcane eruption, sorcerous burst, counterspell, and jump.

The official Dungeons & Dragons YouTube account also posted an almost 90-minute-long video doing a deep dive on the playtest packet.

 

[darjr]

I do wish they’d call it something else. But what single word that isn’t already taken be useful?

 

[Cadence]

For a thread of general comments.

https://www.enworld.org/threads/unearthed-arcana-document-7-is-now-live.699670/

 

[Daztur]

Also, as a Battle Master player, I am pleased so far with what I see. ESPECIALLY with Relentless.

As someone who's only played a BM as a one-shot this is enough to make me want to play a BM for a big long campaign right now. The other fighter subclasses don't really measure up though and I don't know WTF they're doing with the barbarian...

 

[Charlaquin]

I do wish they’d call it something else. But what single word that isn’t already taken be useful?

Why a single word? “Use Magic” should be perfectly sufficient.

 

[Divine2021]

It’s remarkable how catty some folks can get over this stuff. Really odd. Anyway, the Fighter stuff looks real cool to my eyes.

 

[niklinna]

Why a single word? “Use Magic” should be perfectly sufficient.

And Wizards should be called Magic-Users once again! (Even though others also use magic. )

Edit: Whoops left out the hyphen.

 

[darjr]

Why a single word? “Use Magic” should be perfectly sufficient.

I’m fine with that. But I bet they wanted a single word.

 

[RoughCoronet0]

So it has been mentioned that the Heavy property for weapons has been changed to requiring a 13 strength.

With this, it's now a requirement to have a 13 strength to not gain disadvantage on both Heavy Crossbows and Longbows as well. An interesting thing to consider for some ranged builds.

 

[Parmandur]

So it has been mentioned that the Heavy property for weapons has been changed to requiring a 13 strength.

With this, it's now a requirement to have a 13 strength to not gain disadvantage on both Heavy Crossbows and Longbows as well. An interesting thing to consider for some ranged builds.

Yeah, so a Halfling or Gnome with 13 Stregnth doesnhave a problem now.

 

[TarionzCousin]

Innate Sorcery for the Sorcerer at Level One

• The spell save DC of your Sorcerer spells
increases by 1.
• You have Advantage on the attack rolls of
Sorcerer spells you cast.
You can use this feature twice, and you regain
all expended uses of it when you finish a Long
Rest.

Having played a sorcerer through Storm King's Thunder, this looks wonderful to me.

Missing often sucked so much that I soon only cast Fireball/Lightning Bolt and Magic Missile in combat.