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**Twin Razor Bucklers**
*Armor (Shield) and Weapon (Martial Melee), Uncommon*
**Cost:** 200 gp
**Weight:** 6 lbs (pair)These steel bucklers are held in each hand. The outer circumference of each shield is ground to a sharp edge. Wielding these items occupies both hands, preventing the use of other weapons or the performance of somatic spell components unless a feature explicitly allows it. You must be proficient with both shields and martial weapons to utilize this item without mechanical penalties.
**Armor Class Bonus**
While wielding both bucklers, you gain a +2 bonus to your Armor Class. You cannot benefit from any other shields while using these items.**Melee Attacks**
You can make martial melee weapon attacks with these items. They possess the Light property.
* **Bludgeoning Strike:** 5 foot reach. On a hit, it deals 1d6 bludgeoning damage. This attack relies on mass and force and uses your Strength modifier for attack and damage rolls.
* **Slashing Edge:** 5 foot reach. On a hit, it deals 1d6 slashing damage. This attack requires edge alignment and precision. It possesses the Finesse property, allowing you to choose your Strength or Dexterity modifier for attack and damage rolls.**Bonus Action Push**
You can use a bonus action to attempt to push a target within 5 feet of you that is no more than one size larger than you. The target must make a Dexterity saving throw. The save DC equals 8 plus your proficiency bonus plus your Strength modifier.
* **Failure:** You push the target in a single direction away from you. You move into the spaces the target vacates. This movement uses your available walking speed and is treated as difficult terrain. If this forced movement pins the target against an immovable object or terrain, the target becomes grappled. If the target is not pinned at the end of this movement, it must succeed on a second Dexterity saving throw or fall prone.
* **Success:** The target evades the push. You move through the target space using your movement. This movement provokes an opportunity attack from the target.**Defensive Reaction**
When you are hit by an attack, you can use your reaction to add a +5 bonus to your Armor Class against that single attack, potentially causing the attack to miss.#DnD #DnD5e #DungeonsAndDragson #ttrpg #homebrew #DnDHomebrew #UnearthedArcana
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UNEARTHED ARCANA - EVEN MORE VILLAINOUS OPTIONS: Evil Gets a Second Draft - RPGBOT.Podcast S6E89
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There exists a swale, a shallow dip in the ground, a low run between owned plots of land, about 30 feet wide, twice as long, and 3 feet deep. This swale contains a single, elderly tree, massive in girth and standing unfailingly straight and unbelievably tall.
During the rainy season, the swale fills with rainwater. Up and down the water level goes, collecting rain and evaporating away. When the swale overflows, the tree blossoms, blooms, and fruits. It's like a laser-light show, even during the day, each little flower, each leaf, each bud and bloom, even the cracks in the bark, everything lit up.
And the fruit! The Lumenfig, a pale, waxy fruit about the size of a large fig, with skin that you're pretty sure was pearl white, but now looks faint gold. The inside, dense and honey-dark, segmented like a small pomegranate, each seed encased in a translucent membrane that catches the light and holds on to it for a moment before releasing it as a faint glow. A smell of petrichor with underlying floral notes, a taste that begins bright and sharp like an underripe pear, continues through a slight and brief honey sweetness, and ends cool like a refreshing cup of ice water.
The swale is dry now. Has been for three years. The tree stands the same as ever, straight and tall, but dark. No blossoms, no fruit, no light. Ask anyone in town about it and they'll reminisce the way people do about the best day of their lives. Three years, the swale has dried up, the grass has died, leaving only cracked mud in its place. There has been no drought, the rainy season came and went as wet as ever, but the swale just... isn't itself.
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This is a prompt, not a finished side-quest. Drop it in your adventure, and see what your players do with it. Possible reasons behind the story include:
* The swale's underground water source has been blocked by a collapsed aquifer or new construction upstream.
* Something has nested in the tree and is feeding off of its energy.
* The tree knows something is coming and has gone dark deliberately.
* Somebody has figured out how to harvest the light or the fruit, has been doing so in secret, and has over-harvested, killing the tree slowly.
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#dnd #DungeonsAndDragons #TTRPG #DMTools #Homebrew #unearthedarcana #sidequest #Worldbuilding -
UA MORE VILLAINOUS OPTIONS!!! - The Most Emotionally Unstable Unearthed Arcana Yet - RPGBOT.Podcast S6E62
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UNEARTHED ARCANA - VILLAINOUS OPTIONS: When Your Character Sheet Turns Against You - RPGBOT.Podcast S6E54
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MORE! UA 2025 ARCANE SUBCLASSES: Old Wizards, new tricks, and spell slot math - RPGBOT.Podcast S5E130
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UA 2025 ARCANE SUBCLASSES UPDATE - Unearthed Arcana and the Art of the Fastball - RPGBOT.Podcast S5E129
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THE PSION REVISITED - Unearthed Arcana, Albuquerque, and the Future of D&D Psionics - RPGBOT.Podcast S5E124
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UNEARTHED ARCANA THE PSION - Breaking brains and game balance: mind powers or just headaches? - RPGBOT.Podcast S5E121
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Am I the only one who thinks that the Psion is missing Catapult as the quintessential psi-spell? #dnd5e #dnd2024 #UnearthedArcana
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UA 2025 - APOCALYPTIC SUBCLASSES - Captain Planet Joins the Gladiator Arena: Unearthed Arcana Gets Weird - RPGBOT.Podcast S5E105
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UNEARTHED ARCANA 2025 ARCANE SUBCLASSES 2 - Wizarding Responsibly, A Work in Progress - RPGBOT.Podcast S5E90
#DnD #DnD5e #2024DnD #TTRPG #CharacterOptimization #UnearthedArcana
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KNOWLEDGE SKILLS Remastered - Know thy enemy - or at least what page it’s on in the Monster Manual - RPGBOT.Podcast S5E89
In this episode, the RPGBOT.Podcast crew breaks down the often-overlooked but mechanically vital Knowledge skills in tabletop RPGs like Dungeons & Dragons and Pathfinder.
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OPTIMIZING D&D 2024 WARLOCKS I - Making Deals with Devils... and also with Gabe Greenspan - RPGBOT.Podcast S5E88
In this episode, the RPGBOT crew puts on their wizard hats and dives face-first into the latest batch of Unearthed Arcana content from Wizards of the Coast. What’s on the menu? A buffet of subclasses that range from “pretty okay” to “who let this out of playtesting?”
#TTRPG #Podcast #DnD #DnD5e #2024DnD #UnearthedArcana #CharacterOptimization
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Unearthed Arcana: Arcane Subclasses Review
https://rpgbot.net/unearthed-arcana-arcane-subclasses-review/
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New #UnearthedArcana is out! This time we get arcane-themed subclasses, including Arcane Archer, Tattooed Monk and Hexblade Pact Warlock, as well as the remaining four basic specialty wizards! https://media.dndbeyond.com/compendium-images/ua/arcane-subclasses/zepvK7DBkeSt6dqv/UA2025-ArcaneSubclasses.pdf
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HORROR SUBCLASSES - D&D UA 2025: Screams from the Spreadsheet - RPGBOT.Podcast S5E64
New horror subclasses just dropped, and we’re here to reanimate them, roast them, and regret reading the action economy aloud.
https://rpgbot.net/horror-subclasses-dd-ua-2025-screams-from-the-spreadsheet-rpgbot-podcast-s5e64/