A new Unearthed Arcana is exploring the Underdark, with three new subclasses and a brand new feat path to rework a participant right into a thoughts flayer. Two of the brand new subclasses – the Path of Unlight Barbarian and the Imaskarcanist Wizard are tied to Deep Imaskar, whereas the Home Agent Rogue subclass is tied to the drow homes of Menzoberranzan. Apparently, the 2 Deep Imaskar-related subclasses counsel that the Imaskari are making a comeback and are literally trying to beat the Underdark utilizing their “Unlight”-related Arcane skills.
The Path of Unlight Barbarian manifests the ability of Unlight after they rage, granting extra radiant injury to assaults. At greater degree, Unlight infects foes, inflicting persistent injury, and finally the Barbarian can unleash a blinding aura that offers each radiant injury and blinds foes inside 30 toes on a failed Structure save.
Home Agent Rogues achieve a Spider acquainted and achieve a number of choices on charming others. At degree 9, they achieve a Backstab skill that grants them benefit on charmed foes and comes with a Gorgeous Betrayal Crafty Strike possibility that stuns a foe if the goal was both charmed or pleasant to the Rogue. At greater ranges, they will extra simply sway hostile creatures to their aspect and achieve a further Crafty Strike possibility that charms targets who’re hit with a Sneak Assault.
The Imaskarcanist can deal Radiant injury with spell assaults as an alternative of elemental injury and may invigorate pleasant creatures with Unlight, granting them non permanent hit factors and giving them benefit on Energy checks. At greater ranges, the Unlight can heal wounds and remedy circumstances, and the Imaskarcanist can rapidly attune magic objects, ignore resistance to Radiant injury, and may solid Glyph of Warding with out expending a spell slot. The Imaskarcanist can curse an opponent hit with Unlight at Degree 14, inflicting them to take persistent injury and inflicting them to blow up with Radiant mild in the event that they attain 0 Hit Factors.
The Path of Ceremorphosis is a feat path that mimics the restricted ceremophosis seen in Baldur’s Gate 3, during which a participant positive factors psionic skills however isn’t taken over by an elder mind. Preliminary feats grant numerous sorts of psionic skills, however finally gamers can select feats that remodel gamers right into a ulitharid or a conventional thoughts flayer, full with the flexibility to make use of Thoughts Blast and the flexibility to eat brains.
It’s unclear what product these choices will probably be used for. The 2027 slate has no Forgotten Realms-related merchandise introduced up to now, so this might be for a 2028 product or one thing deliberate as a fourth product in 2027. A number of different Unearthed Arcanas, together with one that includes Villainous Choices, haven’t been tied to any introduced D&D initiatives up to now.
