Top products from r/UnearthedArcana
We found 10 product mentions on r/UnearthedArcana. We ranked the 10 resulting products by number of redditors who mentioned them. Here are the top 20.
1. The History and Art of Personal Combat (Dover Military History, Weapons, Armor)
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2. Player's Handbook Races: Tieflings (4th Edition D&D)
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Number of reviews: 1
3. Renaissance Swordsmanship: The Illustrated Book Of Rapiers And Cut And Thrust Swords And Their Use
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Number of reviews: 1
4. The Complete Renaissance Swordsman: Antonio Manciolino's Opera Nova (1531)
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Number of reviews: 1
Translated into English by Tom LeoniModern photographsExtensive Technical IntroductionIllustrations from original sources
6. Saga Book One (Saga DLX Ed Hc)
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Number of reviews: 1
Saga Book One
7. Olympia Tools 9-Pound Cast Iron Hobby Anvil 38-789
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CAST IRON ANVIL: Hammer and form any metal work piece with this 9-pound anvil featuring a graded cast iron body with polished surface and log shaped horn. It's the perfect size for hobbyists.ERGONOMIC DESIGN: This solid and durable cast iron anvil features secure holes on all four sides of its base,...
8. Metal Gear Solid: The Legacy Collection
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The Legacy Collection includes Metal Gear, Metal Gear 2, Metal Gear Solid 2: HD Edition, Metal Gear Solid 3: HD Edition, Metal Gear Solid 4 Trophy Edition and Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker HD EditionAlso includes Metal Gear Solid 1 and Metal Gear Solid: VR Missions via included voucher codes92+ Ave...
10. Impact! Miniatures D14 - Unusual Dice - Multi-Colored Set of 12 dice - 14 Sided die
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12 dice set ... 12 different colorsDice are read top down like normal dice.All dice were chi squared tested for rolling equal probabilities.14 sided die. Suitable for Dungeon Crawl Classics RPG.
What it says on the tin. Want to have a displacer beast as an animal companion? How about a guard drake, or one of the fern hounds from Guild Wars 2? Then this is for you!
More Companions
14 new ranger companions are found here that add to the utility options that the ranger excels at. Rather than give the beast master more combat power, I largely focused on giving each companion its own quirks which makes playing with each feel completely different. Inspiration came from all over - Final Fantasy, Twig, Saga, and the WotC campaign books themselves.
Dialing Back from UA
The current UA revised ranger has a lot of advantages with multiclassing that are not yet balanced, and this seeks to dial those features back a bit. It is a mix of the PHB ranger and the UA ranger, and in terms of pure combat potential this version veers closer to the PHB than the UA. It encourages creative use of the beast, but still wariness. The action economy is tied back to the Ranger and the auto revival no longer happens.
This is my first major homebrew document, so any feedback is helpful. All the companions can of course be used with the UA Revised Ranger, if one should choose to do so.
What I wanted to do was to get more utility out of the choice of animal (rather than just picking between Pounce or Pack Tactics, for example). That's how this thing started.
I thought it'd be worth sharing here. :)
On page 1 I give a detailed explanation for how I went about deciding to make the changes I did, and Page 2 summarizes the changes so you don't have to do a 1:1 comparison with existing articles out there.
Really Really Rushed Flavor Text
Not yet incorporated, but if you want more about the companions this is the fluff for them.
For convenience, UA Revised is here and leuku's post is here. Finally, the inspirations behind the 14 companions are here and here.
There's a lot to unpack in this one. I like the ideas and prefer using things more akin to historical martial combat, but some of these are a bit adjacent to the usages. It is an excellent jumping-off point, so good work on that!
Blade and Dagger (Most commonly, Rapier and Dagger) would provide greater defense, yes, since you've got both hands involved and can easily catch a blade with either weapon. It also provided some distinct advantages with various guards or methodology. I would recommend looking into Joseph Swetnam's style, which originates from England, just to get a sense of how it could effectively spring-load the blade of the rapier for more vicious attacks. This could manifest in either greater damage, or "Reach." A Swetnam-sized Rapier and Dagger set would be 4 feet and 2 feet respectively, and I'd be willing to argue that - provided you have the correct footwork - you can easily attack someone within 10 feet and retreat before they can attack, though you can do this without the dagger. A major advantage of this weapon setup is that it gives you a "Cone" of defense, allowing you to guard two lines at once. This could be advantageous against multiple attackers, or provide an advantage on an opponent using a one-handed weapon.
Cloak and Blade (More commonly seen as Rapier and Cloak) would be used similarly to how you've mentioned, but was also used as a disabling and disarming technique. You could easily wrap the cloak around the arm of your attacker, or use the (often times, weighted in some way) edges of the cloak as another weapon entirely. You wouldn't be wearing the cloak while using it this way, it would be in your off-hand, moving in a circular pattern. Take a look at this video and others on youtube. In this particular one, they use their cloaks as offensive tools (throwing the cloak at the weapon, attacking the swords directly, tossing it at their faces) rather than just for parrying. The Martinez academy has a few up that are useful, but they focus on Spanish techniques, which have a very different intention of movement (More circular than Linear, focus on defense, lack of lunges, etc.) I would personally say that (for the sake of mechanics) allowing you a moderate/high DC disarm or grapple as a reaction when the opponent misses on an attack roll.
Gauntlet defense makes sense, but this would also fall in the vein of how most single-handed swordsmanship is applied. If you look at McBane, Talhoffer, or Giganti (among other 15th-18th century Swordmasters) they'll often employ the off-hand in these techniques. Now, wearing a leather gauntlet would often suffice for this, but it would come down to the specific instance. If someone is trying to perform - say - Zornhau, a slashing technique involving the whole of the body, I couldn't much use my Gauntlet to protect with that. I would, however, catch or beat a thrusting attack depending on the weapon, or attempt to grab my opponents weapon from a parry of my own. Or just punch them in the face. The big thing here is effectively "I would sacrifice my hand if it means I can kill you" - the way it reads now is "Damn, I'm glad I got my hand in the way of that!" There's a lot of versatility in this one, since you can use your off-hand for pretty much anything in a fight. The most common usage I see is using it as a parry/riposte - Someone thrusts at me, I beat with my hand, and immediately return a thrust as I parry with my hand. Maybe this can effect AC? I would argue it's certainly a Dexterity based skill.
There's a ton of books I would recommend, but this one is a good starting point. The History and Art of Personal Combat. The biggest issues with a lot of these manuals and treatises is that they're intentionally vague and obscure, oftentimes written in poetry that would require you to be well-learned, but also possess a prior understanding of the swordsmanship. This was done to protect trade secrets, so far as I know.
I like the direction and ideas you're heading in, I hope this helps! Keep it up! I look forward to seeing where this goes!
If you want to learn more about rennisaiance swordsman ship, check this book out.
It has an excellent introduction about the basics of Bolognese style fencing and some history. Then goes into a translation of Manciolino who was a fencing master from Italy. It's excellent and is one of the sources I use for teaching HEMA.
https://www.amazon.com/Complete-Renaissance-Swordsman-Antonio-Manciolinos/dp/0982591136/ref=asc_df_0982591136/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=312029778645&hvpos=1o1&hvnetw=g&hvrand=108549007198241022&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=m&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9002001&hvtargid=aud-801381245258:pla-493580792297&psc=1
If you're looking for more interesting ideas, Sword and Sorcery came out with a cool book called DragonMech. Its for 3e. Some of it is a bit over the top, but nevertheless, some really interesting elements.
Ah, I should've provided some explanation for the Cobra doc.
1st, none of the features are in any particular order. They don't have levels yet.
2nd, I was just trying to write down as many things as I could about the Cobras' abilities and how they might translate into 5e mechanics, so there are bound to be overlaps.
I suppose actually knowing what the Cobras can do would be the critical factor, so I highly recommend you purchase yourself a copy of MGS3 (or the Metal Gear Solid Legacy Collection).
MGS3 is a great place to start, because that is game that is the earliest in the chronological order of the game history, set in time prior to all the other game settings!
>I change it to a “bench anvil”, which is basically a smaller anvil that weighs ~30 pounds, meant to be used one a table to support lighter work.
Which is what I attempted to do here. Any sort of flat steel or cast iron surface can qualify as an anvil in a pinch, even a simple block of steel. Immunity to malleability is the primary goal, because then it can act as a suitable working surface.
I understand why it'd be strange to have a standard sized anvil, and I agree, but I also imagined a smaller, portable sized anvil.
Here is an example of what I had in mind: https://www.amazon.com/Olympia-Tools-38-789-Hobby-Anvil/dp/B003ES5T9C
It may have the same drawbacks as you mentioned, as it is smaller for the sake of portability, but I personally think it fits with the tool kit.
There's a lot in that 4e book that's where i got the month long blood ritual origin comes from. i'll look up the brimstone angel thing. http://www.amazon.com/Players-Handbook-Races-Tieflings-4th/dp/0786954892/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1451105506&sr=8-1&keywords=4e+tieflings
https://www.amazon.com/Renaissance-Swordsmanship-Illustrated-Rapiers-Thrust/dp/0873649192
Probably this?
Reading a book called The Blue Mage Raised by Dragons by Virlyce https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0738SBVTF/ref=ppx_yo_mob_b__o0_img?ie
Impact! Miniatures D14 - Unusual Dice - Multi-Colored Set of 12 dice - 14 Sided die https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07TCVC7SB/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_BPb4DbVVD31QS