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) |
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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 |
Gothic Lineages [75] | 26 January, 2021 | F. Wesley Schneider, Ben Petrisor, and Jeremy Crawford, with input from the rest of the D&D design team |
Folk of the Feywild [76] | 11 March, 2021 | Taymoor Rehman, Ari Levitch, and Jeremy Crawford, with input from the rest of the D&D design team |
Draconic Options [77] | 14 April, 2021 | Ben Petrisor, Taymoor Rehman, Dan Dillon, James Wyatt, and Jeremy Crawford |
Mages of Strixhaven [78] | 8 June, 2021 | By Makenzie De Armas, Dan Dillon, and Jeremy Crawford |
Travelers of the Multiverse [79] | 8 October, 2021 | By Christopher Perkins and Jeremy Crawford |
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