Unearthed Arcana (5e)

Unearthed Arcana is a series of playtest material published by Wizards of the Coast on their website in the form of free PDF files. Although the content is distributed freely, it is still copyright Wizards of the Coast.

Each Unearthed Arcana document is usually between 2 and 10 pages long, relatively dense with game mechanics, and formatted with plain black text on a white background. Most of these files begin with a section emphasizing that the game mechanics are in draft form, are not refined by full game development and editing, and are not officially part of the game. Some of the content initially introduced through Unearthed Arcana has been refined and later reintroduced through official hard copy publications, such as Volo's Guide to Monsters and Xanathar's Guide to Everything.

List of Unearthed Arcana material

Title	Publication Date	Author(s)
Eberron [1]	2 February, 2015	Mike Mearls
When Armies Clash [2]	2 March, 2015	Mike Mearls
Modifying Classes [3]	6 April, 2015	Rodney Thompson
Waterborne Adventures [4]	4 May, 2015	Mike Mearls
Variant Rules [5]	8 June, 2015	Mike Mearls
Awakened Mystic [6]	6 July, 2015	Mike Mearls
Modern Magic [7]	3 August, 2015	Dan Helmick
Ranger [8]	9 September, 2015	Mike Mearls
Prestige Classes and Rune Magic [9]	5 October, 2015	Mike Mearls
Light, Dark, Underdark! [10]	2 November, 2015	Mike Mearls
That Old Black Magic [11]	7 December, 2015	Mike Mearls
Kits of Old [12]	4 January, 2016	Mike Mearls
Gothic Heroes [13]	4 April, 2016	Mike Mearls
Feats [14]	6 June, 2017	Mike Mearls with Jeremy Crawford
Quick Characters [15]	25 July, 2016	Mike Mearls
The Faithful [16]	1 August, 2016	Mike Mearls with Jeremy Crawford
The Ranger, Revised [17]	12 September, 2016	Mike Mearls
Encounter Building [18]	10 October, 2016	Mike Mearls
Barbarian Primal Paths [19]	7 November, 2016	Mike Mearls and Jeremy Crawford
Bard: Bard Colleges [20]	14 November, 2016	Mike Mearls and Jeremy Crawford
Cleric: Divine Domains [21]	21 November, 2016	Mike Mearls and Jeremy Crawford
Druid Circles and Wild Shape [22]	28 November, 2016	Mike Mearls and Jeremy Crawford
Fighter: Martial Archetypes [23]	5 December, 2016	Mike Mearls and Jeremy Crawford
Monk: Monastic Traditions [24]	12 December, 2016	Mike Mearls and Jeremy Crawford
Paladin: Sacred Oaths [25]	19 December, 2016	Mike Mearls and Jeremy Crawford
Artificer [26]	9 January, 2017	Mike Mearls and Jeremy Crawford
Ranger and Rogue [27]	16 January, 2017	Mike Mearls and Jeremy Crawford
Sorcerer [28]	6 February, 2017	Mike Mearls and Jeremy Crawford
Warlock and Wizard [29]	13 February, 2017	Mike Mearls and Jeremy Crawford
Mass Combat [30]	21 February, 2017	Mike Mearls and Jeremy Crawford
Traps Revisited [31]	27 February, 2017	Mike Mearls and Jeremy Crawford
The Mystic Class [32]	3 March, 2017	Mike Mearls and Jeremy Crawford
Wizard Revisited [33]	20 March, 2017	Mike Mearls and Jeremy Crawford
A Trio of Subclasses [34]	27 March, 2017	Mike Mearls and Jeremy Crawford
Starter Spells [35]	3 April, 2017	Robert J. Schwalb and Jeremy Crawford
Downtime [36]	10 April, 2017	Mike Mearls and Jeremy Crawford
Feats for Skills [37]	17 April, 2017	Robert J. Schwalb and Jeremy Crawford
Feats for Races [38]	24 April, 2017	Robert J. Schwalb and Jeremy Crawford
Revised Subclasses [39]	8 May, 2017	Mike Mearls and Jeremy Crawford
Revised Class Options [40]	5 June, 2017	Mike Mearls and Jeremy Crawford
Greyhawk Initiative [41]	10 July, 2017	Mike Mearls and Jeremy Crawford
Three-Pillar Experience [42]	7 August, 2017	Mike Mearls
Race Options: Eladrin and Gith [43]	11 November, 2017	Mike Mearls with Jeremy Crawford
Fiendish Options [44]	9 October, 2017	Mike Mearls and Jeremy Crawford
Elf Subraces [45]	13 November, 2017	Jeremy Crawford and Mike Mearls
Three Subclasses [46]	8 January, 2018	Jeremy Crawford and Mike Mearls
Into the Wild [47]	12 February, 2018	Mike Mearls
Order Domain [48]	9 April, 2018	Jeremy Crawford and Mike Mearls
Centaurs and Minotaurs [49]	14 May, 2018	Jeremy Crawford, Mike Mearls, and James Wyatt
Giant Soul Sorcerer [50]	11 June, 2018	Jeremy Crawford and Mike Mearls
Races of Eberron [51]	23 July, 2018	Keith Baker with Jeremy Crawford, Mike Mearls, Ruty Rutenberg, and Kate Welch
Races of Ravnica [52]	13 August, 2018	James Wyatt, Ari Levitch, and Jeremy Crawford
Dragonmarks [53]	10 September, 2018	Keith Baker with Ruty Rutenberg and Ben Petrisor
Magic Items of Eberron [54]	8 October, 2018	Keith Baker with Ruty Rutenberg and Ben Petrisor
Of Ships and the Sea [55]	11 December, 2018	Wizards of the Coast
Sidekicks [56]	17 December, 2018	Jeremy Crawford, Ben Petrisor
Artificer Revisited [57]	28 February, 2019	Jeremy Crawford with Keith Baker, Mike Mearls, Ben Petrisor, and James Wyatt
The Artificer Returns [58]	14 May, 2019	Jeremy Crawford with Keith Baker, Mike Mearls, Ben Petrisor, and James Wyatt
Barbarian and Monk [59]	15 August, 2019	Ben Petrisor, with Dan Dillion and F. Wesley Schneider
Sorcerer and Warlock [60]	5 September, 2019	Dan Dillon, with Jeremy Crawford, Mike Mearls, Ben Petrisor, and F. Wesley Schneider
Bard and Paladin [61]	18 September, 2019	Ari Levitch, Ben Petrisor, and Jeremy Crawford, with Dan Dillon and F. Wesley Schneider
Cleric, Druid, and Wizard [62]	3 October, 2019	Dan Dillon, Jeremy Crawford, and Ben Petrisor, with F. Wesley Schneider
Fighter, Ranger, and Rogue [63]	17 October, 2019	Ben Petrisor, Dan Dillon, and Jeremy Crawford, with F. Wesley Schneider
Class Feature Variants [64]	4 November, 2019	Jeremy Crawford, Dan Dillon, and Ben Petrisor, with F. Wesley Schneider
Fighter, Rogue, and Wizard [65]	25 November, 2019	Jeremy Crawford, Dan Dillon, and Ben Petrisor, with F. Wesley Schneider
Subclasses, Part 1 [66]	14 January, 2020	Ben Petrisor, Dan Dillon, Bill Benham, Jeremy Crawford, F. Wesley Schneider
Subclasses, Part 2 [67]	6 February, 2020	Ben Petrisor, Dan Dillon, Jeremy Crawford, F. Wesley Schneider
Subclasses, Part 3 [68]	24 February, 2020	Ben Petrisor, Jeremy Crawford, Adam Lee, Dan Dillon, F. Wesley Schneider
Spells and Magic Tattoos [69]	26 March, 2020	Ben Petrisor, Dan Dillon, Jeremy Crawford
Psionic Options Revisited [70]	14 April, 2020	Jeremy Crawford and Dan Dillon, with Ben Petrisor, Taymoor Rehman, and F. Wesley Schneider
Subclasses Revisited [71]	12 May, 2020	Jeremy Crawford, Ben Petrisor, Dan Dillon, Taymoor Rehman
Unearthed Arcana: Feats [72]	13 July, 2020	Taymoor Rehman, Jeremy Crawford, Ben Petrisor, Dan Dillon, Ari Levitch
Subclasses, Part 4 [73]	5 August, 2020	Ben Petrisor, with Jeremy Crawford, Dan Dillon, and Taymoor Rehman
Subclasses, Part 5 [74]	26 October, 2020	Dan Dillon, with Jeremy Crawford, Ben Petrisor, Taymoor Rehman, and James Wyatt

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