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4:42 Two quick product announcements
7:04 A terrible pun to segue into the Feats discussion
7:46 What are feats?
10:21 Why aren’t feats a required part of the game?
18:22 – Artificer Initiate feat
20:09 – Chef feat
25:31 – Crusher, Piercer, and Slasher feats
32:35 – Eldritch Adept feat
37:02 – Fey Touched feat
37:51 – Fighting Initiate feat
41:47 – Gunner feat
42:43 – Metamagic Adept feat
44:25 – Poisoner feat
46:28 – Practiced Expert feat
48:19 – Shadowtouched feat
48:39 – Shield Training feat
50:07 – Tandem Tactician feat
51:48 – Tracker feat
54:50 – Beginning of wrap-up and sign-offWe're LIVE on https://t.co/2KBortFoc5 with Dragon+… Design+ edition! The sage @JeremyECrawford joins host @bart_carroll to discuss the latest Unearthed Arcana's playtest FEATS! okay welcome back everyone it is the

dragon plus a livestream I am your host

Bart Carroll and we have not had a

chance to get together in some time but

joining me as always

Jeremy Crawford lead the design of the

book and designer of Dungeons & Dragons

welcome back Urmi how are you I’m doing

well it’s good to be here yeah we were

just saying before the show started it

feels like it’s been a lifetime since we

had one of these episodes and several

lifetimes since we last did an episode

in the office yeah man yes I can’t even

remember when that would have been and

the last time we got together on a

livestream at all was before the most

recent unearthed Arcana which we will

get to shortly but before we do I know

there have been a few other things that

have been going on notably dandy live

20/20 took place a couple of weeks ago

and you were involved how was that it

was a ton of fun I got to DM as you know

for a group of WWE Superstars they were

all amazing players and it it just made

me want to get to DM for them many more

times and at least I will get to DM

again for Xavier woods that is WWE

Superstar Xavier woods in our next

episode of acquisitions incorporated

which we will be doing as a part of PAX

online yes and and we did want to

mention that with and right now with

social distance teens still very much in

place packs like many other conventions

and get-togethers has gone virtual and

that still gives us an opportunity to

tune in safely and remotely and enjoy

the games as an audience members so good

to hear that you’ll be dungeon master

aim for that pax this year I will

definitely miss the live audience

participation you know not having a

crowd they’re yelling out green

flame but well we’ll carry the green

flame in our hearts what I know I just

mentioned this before we went live but

as an avid sports fan I’ve been

following the major league sports and

what they’re doing to fill that role

with games without the audience and I

know for baseball that they’re going to

experiment with the laugh track style

version of acting in fan noise i watch a

lot of boxing and the other version or

take that they’re trying is you can log

into their app and kind of everyone

participates remotely they’re sort of

audience feedback and however they kind

of filter it together in a way that

still allows for the dump button I’m

sure but they’re they’re working on it

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so yeah before we get into the the most

recent on earth dark Anna other things

in your your area of the world in terms

of what you’re I always like to ask what

you’re reading watching playing yourself

so the last month and a half almost two

months what I have mostly been reading

is the D&D book we have not yet

announced so I had been in here in my in

my little-known workshop working very

hard along with the rest of the team on

our next major book which is coming

together very very well so most of what

I’ve been reading is the material we are

writing I also haven’t been playing much

although actually just last night after

we hit a pretty big milestone with the

book I was able to breathe a little bit

and finally start playing my copy of

persona 5 Royal I think I played persona

5 back when

originally came out I loved it and

personified royal if you’re not familiar

is the same game but even longer and

with all sorts of new features and I’m

only in like 90 minutes into it and I’m

already loving it you know speaking of

products I will say that there were two

announced today of interest and relation

to Dungeons and Dragons over on Hasbro

pulse and other online retailers you can

find adventure begins is one of the new

Dungeons & Dragons board games that was

announced today and also cutie marks and

Dragons which is the My Little Ponies

Dungeons & Dragons crossover set so if

you haven’t had a chance to take a look

at those you can head on over to has

repulse and both of those are now listed

ya see this this is me going like white

why do you know why don’t I have these

My Little Ponies they are as anticipated

Lee adorable there are five of them in

each one sort of you know represents a

Dungeons & Dragons class they are quite

adorable there thank you I am actually

searching for them right now

why I wasn’t kidding why do I know there

we go so I lost them it yes they are

they are so cute Pelham I should have

sent you an image of those knowing they

were gonna go alive but yeah for

everyone tuning in go ahead and hit

Hasbro pulse and you should in addition

I will mention we we haven’t had a

chance to get together on a stream in

some time I have always appreciated the

folks that have taken time out of their

day live to tune in we are running a

very quick

way I’m the winner is going to get a

copy of lost laboratory of Qualis which

Jeremy and I had discussed in depth a

couple of years ago oh my gosh at this

point so I’ll be glad to purchase the

winner a copy of that since the proceeds

still do benefit children Miracle

Network Hospitals so thanks as everyone

for tuning in and perhaps without

further ado let’s talk about one of my

favorite topics because I just got out

of my rehab boot and I am fiddling with

my rehab stretchy band because we are

going to talk about feats today oh so

you you just you just dealt 3d10 psychic

damage to me for a while but I don’t

think you’re gonna be talking about the

same feats that I am that’s why that’s

my segue what our feats in the context

of Dungeons & Dragons so-so feats in D&D

and that spelled a heavy eighty they

they are a way for people to customize

their character they are an optional

rule there in the players handbook in

the same chapter will you find the multi

classing optional rule and both of those

rules give you methods to take your

character you know it could be a member

of any class and tweak them in ways that

make your character unusual in some way

so I view feats and multi classing

together as a way to sort of go off the

grid and explore character concepts and

character capabilities that are not

confined to a particular class it’s also

important to point out that each of

these optional rules stands on its own

so you could have a

that uses multi classing but not feeds

you could have another group that uses

feats and not multi classing you could

have a group that uses neither of them

or you could have a group that uses both

I know it’s also true that in many D&D

groups you will have individual players

even though the DM might have given

everyone the option of using both multi

classic and feats individual players

will opt in or opt out on their own so

you might have you know one person at

the table who is multi classing another

maybe couple people who are using feats

and then maybe two people at the table

who aren’t using either the thing is we

designed fifth edition’ D&D to support

all of those combinations so if you’re

ever concerned as a group like well if

one person uses feats does everyone have

to use feet the answer isn’t no we made

it so that these two options are truly

modular in that you can sort of activate

them or deactivate them as you like on a

character by character basis and let

really each person pursue the kind of

character customization that matches

their tastes I get asked sometimes this

was something we got asked before fifth

edition was released and it’s a question

that has come up over the years since

and in fact it’s a question I’ve seen on

Twitter just within the last few days

and that is why not just make feats it

required part of the game hmm

and there’s a very good reason why we

don’t do that and that’s because we

discovered in our design of fifth

edition

there are many D&D players who don’t

want to use them that in fact many Danby

players like just the simple choice of I

have my class I get my class features

and that’s all I want

and they those players really lean into

role-playing choices how they use their

abilities their characters background

and other elements of the character

really dig into the distinctiveness of

who their character is that said we know

there are also players who love the

mechanical levers that things like feats

and multi classing give them which is

why we made sure these options are in

the game but we knew that there were

enough people who essentially wanted to

be able to just pick their class and be

done that we did not want to force feats

into the core game but yet we still

support them in the core so that those

who want them can have them which if

you’re coming from a different edition

or a different system entirely might

work a little bit differently in fifth

edition but it seems like it’s a an

approach that seems to be seems to be

working for for a lot of folks the

modularity absolutely we we know that in

terms of so player statistics there are

more players who don’t use feats than

who do yet again we know that the people

who use them really like using them

which is why we had this most recent on

there star Cano where we introduce some

more feats because even though even

though we’re not going to sort of open

the floodgates and you know fill the

game with feats we want to make sure we

are providing some really juicy options

for the people who who do like feats and

and again so enter enter this on art

Arcana and it’s been a number of years

since we’ve done an honor for Cano

focused on feats so I’ve you know I

thought this this is a good time for us

to explore some new options yes

so speaking of which for folks that

might not have had a chance the latest

unearthed Arcana is simply entitled

feats you can find it now in the

homepage of the DND website or in the

articles section in addition I’ll also

call out it’s been out for about a week

now I think we dropped it on July 13th

so there is a separate survey which is

also live

and ready for for user feedback if

you’ve had a chance to look at the beats

playthrough the faithless and have

thoughts please do take the time if you

if you have it to to fill out the survey

and let us know your your thoughts on

that on the material

yeah because those surveys that we post

with each under Turkana article usually

a a week or two after the article was

originally posted those surveys are the

best way for people to give us their

feedback we also of course when we have

time look at Twitter reddit and and

other locations on the internet to see

what people are saying but the place

where we go through all of the feedback

is in that survey so anyone watching if

you if you have thoughts you want to

make sure we see about these feeds or

really any under other uh North Arcana

the survey that gets posted about a

particular you a is the best way to

reach us because we we go through it

meticulously to make sure we are really

understanding what the DND community is

thinking about whatever new option it is

that we’ve presented now here in these

in this set of feats we really hit a

pretty broad range of of different

themes different game mechanics the

three line in these different feats is

that they’re all ways to customize your

character in a meaningful way and that

that’s the through line really for all

good feats in fifth edition they need to

customize your character in a way that

is meaningful and one of our design

goals is that a feat should have a

chance to manifest in play every session

not necessarily like if it’s a combat

oriented feat not necessarily every

single round in combat

we want to make sure that it has enough

heft that it’s likely to show up in play

at least you know once or twice every

time you play D&D we have that as a

North Star because we want to make sure

we don’t design feats that are so corner

case that you take this thing which

should be character defining and then go

session after session after session and

never actually see it manifest we also

have to make sure that feats are are

nice and chunky and have some heft

because if you take a feat it means

unless you’re a variant human in the

players handbook it means you’ve given

up an ability score increase to take it

and an ability score increase is

remarkably good and so a feat that you

take in its place also needs to be very

good I and you’ll see sometimes in these

feats not only the ones here but also

the ones in the players handbook as well

as in the feats that we published in

Zanna thar’s guide to everything

occasionally a fee will still give you

part of an ability score increase that’s

usually a sign that we felt the feats

effects on their own were not quite good

enough to justify taking the feet and so

we give the feet a lift in terms of its

game mechanics heft by putting into it

an ability at least a partial ability

score increase so you sort of get

halfway there when you take the

particular feat it is a careful choice

I’m tend to be one that goes with the

ability to score modifier most of the

time but if I do have a especially if I

have a particular character concept in

mind that I want to flesh out with feats

that’s nice to have that that option so

why don’t we take a look over at the

feats we’ve got the I’ve got the PDF

right here and Pelham’s got the pages up

as well so let’s see it looks like we

gave a quick count I believe it’s about

15 feet that appear in the on earth NAR

canna 16 I think 16 all right well where

should we begin should we leave it to

chat or do you want to start running

through them as far as where they came

from how they developed what their

intent was yeah yeah how about I do a

flyover and then we can take questions

from the audience yes a good point if

folks do have questions please do put it

into chat please do preface it with

question if we do not get to it this

time we do compile the questions and do

look to get to them in future live

streams so taking a look now at the

material let’s have at it

all right let’s start at the top with

artificer initiate so this feat is the

sibling to the magic initiate feat

that’s in the players handbook and this

is specifically for anyone who wants to

just get a little flavorful dip into the

artificer allowing you to learn a can

trip from the artificer spell list first

level spell and you also gain

proficiency with type of artisans tools

of your choice and then you can use

those tools as a spell casting focus

which of course is a big part of the

artificers stick now one of the things

about this feat and this is true of

several of the feats in the players

handbook and it’s also true of several

other feats in this document you can

also take the speed if you’re an

artificer so let’s say you’re an

artificer and you’re just like I just

really want an extra can trip I want a

free casting each day of one of my

artificer first level spells and you

want you know even more proficiencies

you could also take this feat it’s been

tailored for the non artificer but I

just want to make it clear that even an

artificer could take

and again that’s gonna be a theme we’ll

come back to with several of the feats

in this document because feats remember

are mentally flexible they’re meant to

give people the ability to fine tune

their characters capabilities in ways

that classes don’t typically allow so

after the artifice our initiate we get

into chef which is a delightful feat

this one was designed by tamer Raymond

and I should say about the sort of

design process of this document what I

did is I designed five of the sixteen

feats as examples then went to some of

the designers on staff four of them and

said all right now please each of you

design a couple and so the group then

designed you know the other those four

people designed the other nine feats to

go with the five I had designed Taymor

so wrangled their work and we gathered

it together and so we ended up with this

bunch designed by me Taymor Dan Dylan

and Petra Soren Artie Levitch and then

we all work together as a group to

develop them into the state that you see

here and that’s typical for us that we

will often sort of have an initial

design gathering set a direction each of

us will then write our portion of it and

then we come back and develop it

together as a group and and as a part of

that process chef’s made it through

which I’m delighted about because who

doesn’t like being able to make tasty

treats I agree this one speaks to me

this is just a proposed a more did you I

ever tell you the story of how I met him

originally mm-hmm so I don’t know if you

know this but this was maybe three or

four years ago he would volunteer when

we were doing the extra life

live-streaming especially for the

all-day marathon streaming

he was I believe at university is well

was interested in in working at Wizards

of the coast and and just came all day

and volunteered his his efforts here as

part of extra life so I was super

excited when he sort of joined the

department yeah yeah well it quick oh

sorry go ahead oh no go ahead if we have

a question a question with you we have a

question on chef in particular so it

before you get into it and the details

might answer some of this it talks about

the work that a chef is doing during

short rest long rest is the work done by

the chef strenuous or light activity so

I II do they need to make cookies while

the rest of the party takes a short rest

or can they make the cookies during a

short rest

it does it does it cancel their short

rest or is it sort of you know at the

same time so the intent is that those

treats have to be made during a long

rest or as a part of an hour of work

that’s not a short rest because you’ll

see the previous option is the short

rest one and then the final option is

the long rest one or the hour of non

restful work and then that’s a great

example of the kind of thing we can make

clearer if this feat makes it through

the feedback process and you know makes

its way into a book we would definitely

want to clarify that of whether you

could do this during a short rest or not

the the intent of this version is no you

cannot and again you can that intent

becomes a little clearer when you

compare that final benefit to the one

right before it that talks about being

something you do as part of a short rest

until that short rest one is sort of

like the bard song of rest where you

make everyone’s healing during a rest

more beneficial because of the meal that

you make for

whereas that final bullet lets you make

portable goodies that people can munch

on to get temporary hit points and it’s

good to remember the temporary hit

points do not necessarily represent

health per se they they can represent

all sorts of things you know they can

represent strength of will they can

represent force fields in this case

we’re just imagining you feel great

because my goodness was that muffin

delicious and and I have I have eaten

pumpkin muffins that I swear have given

me temporary high points they were that

good

I mean maybe a few almond scones have

also given me temporary hit points ah

yes there are I will also call out I

don’t know if this is good or bad but

there is a number of bakeries that now

offer delivery and curbside pickup that

that’s pretty pretty dangerous I I do

not need that in this very sedentary

quarantine all right we also have in

this document three feats the first of

which is called crusher that each should

speak to a different damage type the

crusher feat speaks to bludgeoning

damage we have later in the document the

piercer feat that speaks to piercing

damage and then finally we have the

slasher feats that speaks to you guessed

it slashing damage I read this name by

the way and always think that no this is

not the Michael Myers or Jason Voorhees

effete it’s not that kind of slasher

these are each meant to speak to the

person who wants to be very good at one

of these three traditional types of

physical damage we know that people who

are in defeats often want there to be

weapon

oriented feats and in fact a number of

years ago we did an under Turkana that

had weapon oriented feats those feats

didn’t actually test particularly well

and one of the issues that they had is

that they were too specific they ended

up being sort of going so far down a

rabbit hole on a particular weapon or

type of weapon that they could very

easily result in a situation where you

pick the feet but it turned out in a

particular session you didn’t actually

want to use that type of weapon or

you’ve got a magic item from the Dragons

treasure trove that wasn’t that kind of

weapon but it was so good you wanted to

use it now suddenly your feet doesn’t

work with it with all of that in mind

and with with the desire to still create

something that would speak to weapon use

I urged the team to explore a set of

feats that would have broader utility

that would work with a variety of

weapons and so we landed on these feats

related to damage types because there

are many different types of piercing

weapons there are many different types

of bludgeoning weapons and there are

many different types of slashing weapons

so if you pick one of these feats let’s

say you pick the piercing weapon one

well that’s gonna work not only with the

arrows you fire from your bow but that’s

also going to work if you suddenly

decide to wield a spear so there’s still

going to be you know it’s not that it’s

not going to work with every weapon that

you pick up but it’s gonna work with a

broad range of weapons and so again you

have you have more options here and this

was also a chance to explore little sort

of add-on effects that that are nods

toward what it might feel like to get

clobbered by one of these damage types

you know this is why you know the

bludgeoning damage one can can move you

with this idea of you getting you know

crushed or smash

and hurled around the piercing damage

one lets you reroll one of the attacks

damage dice and this is speaking to you

know if you’re getting pierced by

something the odds are it’s really going

to hurt

and then the slashing damage one lets

you reduce the person’s speed the

thought here is this this is basically a

very distant nod at things like you know

hamstringing somebody slashing their

achilles tendon which is horrifying but

that’s that’s why there is this speed

reduction idea that if you get if you

were getting enough cuts you would very

likely be slowed down so these are just

some you know things were we’re

experimenting with here just fun add-on

effects for the person who picks one of

these feats but also because we know

even if let’s say you’re kidding out

with all sorts of things that will do

your piercing damage

you’re still gonna end up with

situations where this feat isn’t going

to help you which is why remember i

notice i mentioned earlier that some

feats get a little lift with the partial

ability score increase that’s why all

three of these feats have the ability

score increase in them as well because

we know as broad as these are you could

still end up in a situation where the

feat might not help you enough in a

particular session for you to feel good

about having taken that feat so here’s a

question that sort of came in regarding

all three slash uh pierce and crusher

chapel tonasket is it intended for those

feats to be missing the weapon keyword

or is the intent that no no these these

are still inherent feats to your weapon

use so we very intentionally did not use

the word weapon here in fact the word

appeared in at least one of the feats in

one of our earlier drafts and we cut it

because we want these to have broad use

what that means is if you happen to have

one of these feats

you cast a spell that deal let’s say you

appear sir and you cast a spell the

deals piercing damage this feat will

work with that spell and that’s an

that’s an intentional part of the feet

to to again reward you for making the

resource commitment in your character

building to a feat because again picking

a feat is a big deal because you’ve

given up you know your your fall ability

score increase for that level when you

choose a feat yeah a similar question

had come in if it applies to unarmed

attacks ranged weapons spell attacks

that do those kinds of damage types

absolutely yeah you this is one of those

cases where it it is intended to be as

generous as the wording implies you know

where it says you know if when you hit a

creature with an attack that deals

bloody bludgeoning damage you get this

benefit so if you hit somebody with an

unarmed strike that deals bludgeoning

damage you get this benefit and that’s

very intentional the only basically the

only requirements you have to meet for

like I’m looking at the crusher feed for

that second bullet is you have to hit a

creature with an attack that deals

bludgeoning damage full stop so that

could be a spell it could be your fist

it could be a club it could be a table

leg any of those things would work with

this yeah it’s any other fans of Street

Fighter 2 it reminds me a little bit of

a Honda and his you know hundred handed

punch yeah if you can find it with a

with a monk’s flurry of blows and a nice

way yeah so then so there we have

crusher piercer and slasher that’s right

so which takes us next to eldritch adept

this feat allows you to learn an

eldritch invocation option from the

Warlock class even if you’re not a

warlock and this this feat is in the

same family of feats that a few of the

feats in players hamburger in

have my players handbook open over here

feats like magic initiate martial adept

these are feats that let you snatch a

little bit of a class’s goodness and

enjoy it whether you are a member of

that class or not some people online

will refer to this as multi class in

light and that’s that’s an apt

description of it and that is an

intentional part of the design but with

this very important qualification

remember that a member of the class can

also take this so like you can’t multi

class into your own class a non warlock

can take this Eldridge of depth feet and

gain an Eldridge M invocation from the

Warlock but a warlock can also take this

to get an extra eldritch invocation and

that that is very much an intentional

part of this design because this is a

great way in this feat for some some

character who where you want them to

just have some little magical ability

and we design eldritch invocations in

the warlock almost like so little

magical superpowers and this feat is a

way for any spell casting character to

gain access to those abilities but again

it’s also a way for the warlock who

might be having a hard time squeezing

all of the eldritch invocations they

want you know into the limited number of

eldritch invocations they get from the

class well this feat gives you a way to

get another one and also this feat gives

you flexibility because this feat lets

you every time you level up change which

Eldridge invocation you got from it so

if you have buyer’s remorse about the

Eldridge invocation you picked well when

you level up you can pick another one

the key to go ahead my players I’m just

saying I scrambled back to get my

players handbook to see the applications

for that as well but there are some

really not only useful

eldritch invocations but also very

flavorful eldritch invocations that you

can use to explore a variety of

different magical character concepts now

one thing I do want to point out in this

feat is the sentence that says if the

invocation has a prerequisite you can

choose that invocation only if you’re a

warlock and only if you meet the

prerequisite so that means if the elder

Jindra invocation has a prerequisite of

any conduct whether it’s a level

requirement or something else

only a warlock can pick that invocation

using this feat sorry

go ahead I’m gonna ask for example if

the requisite is that requires a

warlocks spell salat then in a case it

would require the warlock be able to use

it well again what this feed is saying

is it actually doesn’t matter what the

prerequisite is if an invocation has a

prerequisite of any kind only a warlock

can take that you can’t if you’re not a

warlock and you take this feed you can

only use this feat to pick an eldritch

invocation that has no prerequisite

otherwise in eldritch invocations with

prerequisites we designed only for

warlocks whereas the ones that lack

prerequisites are fine for non warlocks

to snatch I have a vested interest

because I play a lot of world mm-hmm

well this again if this feat makes it

into print this will this will give you

even more flexibility with how you build

your warlock as again as well as giving

flexibility to people who want a little

bit of warlock goodness in their non

warlock so next up we have fate touched

this feat gives you a partial ability

score increase and then it also to help

help create a character who has a little

bit of a Fame magic it gives you the

misty step spell because many many fake

creatures in D&D have some kind of

teleportation ability

or other transportation ability of some

kind and then you also get to pick a

first-level spell from the divination or

enchantment school so again this is just

a fun simple way to give a character

some Fae feeling if your characters race

or class isn’t already giving you that

feeling this then leads to the fighting

initiate so here we have another feat

that is about getting some of the

goodness that’s in a class this feat

lets you pick one of the fight fighting

style options in the fighter class

fighting styles are already basically

feat like in their design they are

they’re very chunky to use the word I

used earlier and when I say that by the

way that’s off but that’s a good thing

you know then again it has heft you know

this it has meat on its bones and just

like with eldritch adept not only can a

non fighter take this feat but a fighter

can also take this feat so this is again

one of those feats that is meant to give

you sort of light multi classing if

you’re not a member of the class but if

you are a member of the class it lets

you get some more of that good thing

that you already like and just like with

eldritch adept this feat lets you

whenever you gain a level change the

option you picked if you if you had

buyer’s remorse everyone watching if you

watch to our talk about the class

feature variant you way that we released

a number of months ago you remember that

buyer’s remorse was a design theme then

as well that a number of the variants

were about letting people change their

mind later to fit their character

concept better as their character grows

which it’s not only about avoiding

buyer’s remorse but there’s also a much

more so positive angle

and that is being able to model that

people change you none of us even in the

real world are the same you know you’re

you know year to year when I think back

you know just to myself you know 10

years ago 20 years ago 30 years ago I’ve

changed in many ways and giving people

the ability to change their DMV

character really gets at this that

people evolve that some things we were

good at in the past fall away like I

used to be able to play the piano if you

put me in front of a piano today and you

know that’s that’s why we are more and

more including this kind of thing where

if you want you can change certain

aspects of what your character is good

at your character’s decided to focus on

something else yeah I definitely concur

my high school trombone skills have

definitely decreased but I can now

complete my taxes on my own exactly oh

the playing a musical instrument would

be more fun I don’t know I kind of like

finding my all the you know things I can

get out of out of my texts my tax

returns plus it’s a much quieter hobby

for everyone else in the household

that’s the best truth although

art you might need professional help as

filling out your taxes is your hobby you

might want to explore this marvelous

hobby called Dungeons & Dragons instead

well I will say that the first edition a

D&D character sheets helped set me on

that path

those were a complex beast to say the

least Bo so so after fighting initiate

with the gunner

feat this this feat sort of in our minds

because of ever on coming out and D&D

has always had characters in it in

different settings that end up having

some gun like objects that they employ

whether it’s magical or non magical and

the Dungeon Master’s guide as this feat

points out has rules on firearms so this

is this feat is a way for your character

to get proficiency with using firearms

and then it gives you several other

benefits it’s pretty nice feet but for

the person who really wants to be a

gun-toting character

well this feat gives you very direct

access to that part of the rules we also

have meta magic adept here’s again one

of these feats that lets you dip a toe

into a particular class in this case the

class is the sorcerer and here the

person who takes this feat whether they

are a non sorcerer or a sorcerer gets to

learn to meta magic options from the

sorcerer class and then you also gain

so we use those meta magic options

selected and if you’re a sorcerer

picking this feat you get those two

extra sorcery points there is however

the specification that these two extra

sorcery points can be spent only on meta

magic so this as stated in the name of

this feat this is all about meta magic

and giving a little bit of that ability

to manipulate spells even to a non

sorcerer but because this feats sorcery

point pool of exactly two is so limited

there’s no risk of a non sorcerer taking

this feat and in any way outshining the

flexibility the sorcerer has because the

sorcerer has a much deeper pool of

points to spend on that meta magic and

can therefore manipulate their own magic

in ways that a non sorcerer could not

but again this is a way to get a taste

of it or to get more of it if you are a

sorcerer we I’m gonna skip over piercer

because we already talked about the

three damage type feats so we have

poisoner weasoner has several fun uses

one of them is it speaks to the fantasy

of the character and brews poisons but

there is also a very juicy part of this

feat even for somebody who has no

interest in having their character group

poisons and that is its very first

benefit when you make a damage role you

ignore resistance to poison damage so if

a person has a character who likes to

cast spells the deal poison damage or

who has class features that deal poison

damage you could take this feat and this

feat would allow all of those things to

bypass resistance to poison just meaning

you are just so good at poisoning things

that you just go right past the

resistance that they have to this

damage that was a question I was gonna

have was the story sort of take on that

I was assuming something along those

lines you might have a general

resistance to poison but I am so good I

can figure out exactly what you are

vulnerable against yep now it’s

important to see here though this does

not allow you to bypass immunity to

poison so if a creature just simply

cannot be damaged by poison this feat

does not allow you to bypass that but

again if a creature is resistant to

poison this feat just turns that right

off alright I can see a nice synergy

with this and the chef’s feat no don’t

eat those treats yeah they’ve been

sitting on the counter for too long so

we also have the practiced expert feet

now this is actually a nod to the skill

feeds that we released an unearthed

Arcana a few years ago those feats like

the weapon feats I mentioned struggle a

little bit in feedback partly again

because they were so specific and also

one of the challenges for us is anytime

we start making things like feats for

everything in a group so in this case

skills or you can also imagine tools it

then means they all have to be good and

be satisfactory to the audience or none

of them get published what’s the problem

with anytime we try to like create

coverage for an entire group as they all

rise and fall together because like

we’re not going to publish well we have

the medicine feet but none of the other

ones made it and it’s just not

satisfying but we know that people want

some way in the feet system to just make

themselves exceptionally

mmm-hmm at something and so we created

this feat that is much broader

it lets you pick any one skill or tool

so essentially it works with everything

and then you essentially get what we

call expertise with that proficiency and

expertise means simply you get to double

your proficiency bonus when you use the

chosen proficiency and we even throw in

half an ability score increased to boot

so this this is a tasty feat for

somebody for instance who just wants to

be outstanding at a particular skill or

with a particular tool we we also the

shadow touched feet which is the

companion to the Fate touched feet just

like that other feet this gives you some

magic that is themed to a particular

plane they touched was themed to the Fae

wild and this one is themed to the

shadow fell we then have shield training

the game already has one feed in the

players handbook that will give you

proficiency with shields it’s called

moderately armored but it doesn’t really

speak to some of the other things you

might want to be able to do with the

shield and even though we have a shield

master fee there are still things that

even that feat doesn’t speak to so we

have now the shield training fee this

gives you part of an ability score

increase your game proficiency with

fields you can Don or doff shields now

as part of your free object interaction

many people don’t realize that in the

game you actually need to spend your

action to kind of get a field situated

properly on your arm to use it to defend

yourself this feat lets you ignore that

basically you can you can Don or doff

that shield as part of your action or

your move and then finally we’ve also

made it so that if you’re a spell caster

and you have this feet you can channel

your spell’s through the field

this and this is for you no particular

character concepts where a person might

like to imagine you know they like you

can imagine and of juror wizard

abjuration is all about protecting

somebody who who blasts all of their

protective adoration magic through a

shield so we have we have two more we

have tandem tactician this to me I think

of this as the sneaky feat of the bunch

because it’s very subtle if you’re not

familiar with the ins and outs of our

action system reading a feat that says

you can use the help action as a bonus

action and then it you know it has some

further benefits might seem kind of

lackluster and a person might wonder

well should this also include the

partial ability score increase mm-hmm

anyone listening to me who knows what

the help action does though realizes

this feat is crazy good it might even be

too good and that’s why we’re sending a

how to play test because what the help

action allows you to do is to give your

buddies advantage on attack roles as

well as on other checks so a person who

has this can just as a bonus action

potentially every round basically be

like you get advantage and you get

advantage then you get advantage so this

we created for the person who really

wants to lean into being a tactical help

to their companions and we know there

are a number of people who really love

this kind of character concept and

that’s what this feat is all about

I’m looking at chat right now there are

a lot of folks finding the synergies

with tandem tactics oh it is crazy good

yeah yeah so finally a tracker and this

this is for the person who wants a

little bit of sort of taste of the

wilderness and a little bit of the

Ranger where you get a wisdom increase

you learn the hunter’s mark spell and

you also have advantage on all of your

wisdom survival checks to track

creatures now one thing that this feat

specifies and and in fact attentive

readers will see all of the feats in

this document that involves spell

casting specify this and that is if the

feat teaches you a spell you not only

get the free casting of that spell that

the fee gives you but you can also use

your spell slots if you have spell slots

to cast that spell as well meaning you

aren’t just getting that sort of raw

power bunk of I get a free spell each

day but you’re also getting an increase

in versatility because you now have

another option for what you spend your

spell slots on and that that’s one of

those things where if we were to you

know so turn back the clock and and dig

into a spell like magic initiate in the

players handbook we would have been

clearer about that and made that a part

of the design then as well and someone

listening might wonder well then why

give if that feat doesn’t have it you

know the hammock why give it to these

new feeds our philosophy is not to to

inhibit the good design of newer

material because of things we didn’t

think to do in the past in other words

the game needs to be able to evolve and

if we’ve thought of a better way of

doing something

we’re going to do it and and and just do

and we do that knowingly and we do our

best to keep it balanced so that it can

coexist with other options but again at

the same time we’re we don’t allow

basically well well because we didn’t

think of it and you know 2013 well we

can’t ever do it you know and that’s the

game the game has got to be able to move

forward and see that in things like this

on Earth Arcana oh well my goodness you

managed it we got through all the 15/16

feats in the most recent unearthed

Arkana

I am I am delighted I am even more

delighted that my internet did not crash

out yeah the entirety of this week’s

livestream as always a 50/50 shot so

that’s that’s great to hear

really quickly I know we’re getting

close to the top of the hour I did want

to give a quick congratulations it looks

like number 28 did win the giveaway so

if you can get in touch with the

moderators with your contact information

I’ll be glad to send across the the

prize as soon as possible and thanks to

everyone that has been sending in

questions throughout the entirety of

today’s livestream as well there’s quite

a few that we still need to touch upon

I’ll be compiling these and something

these over to to Jeremy’s attention

immediately and we we should try to have

an episode soon and answer those

questions yes so yes for folks that are

still listening here and you still have

some questions on your mind

we might be close to the top of the hour

but throw them into chat as soon as you

can so that we can get

compiled here yes that was the first

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answer questions and everyone please do

remember to fill out the survey on the

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know what you think about this

collection of feats all right well there

we have it yes we’ll compile these

questions we’ll schedule another

opportunity so that we can have Jeremy

back on so that we can go through the

questions this was our initial

opportunity to at least have him take a

look at the unearthed Arcana material

itself talked through the design

considerations and as always of course

encourage folks please do take a look at

the owner throw a can of material and

please do complete the survey as as you

mentioned very essential for us to get

feedback in that regard so thank you as

always before we tune out here Jeremy

it’s been a pleasure so thank you for

spending an hour out of your busy day

with us I know you were going back to

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you mentioned at the top of the hour

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Here's what I have (WITHOUT consulting the Secret Official Documents):
Abyss: 1485 DR or later
DQ&RTiamat: 1489
SKT: 1490
Phandelver: 1491
PotA: 1491
CofS: 1491
ToA: 1490 or 1491
Wdeep: DH&MM: 1492
DIcespireP: 1492
DAvernus: 1494
AcqInc: 1496#Realmslore

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