Editing Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition (section)

===Unearthed Arcana===
[[Unearthed Arcana]] has also become very controversial. For starters, the release date of "one UA per month, on the second Monday of a month" annoys people because, well, we're not getting a lot of content other than UA. This wouldn't be so bad, in and of itself, if each UA article didn't tend to be so short, rarely containing more than a single subclass or other idea. Add to that a rather lackluster quality control in the content - the "new Initiative" and "new Overland Travel" articles are particularly infamous - and it really pisses people off. The basic complaint is that it all too often feels like WotC is half-assing things, with many suspecting they just slap something together at literally the last minute. The Mystic class, the first attempt at psionics this edition and the first new base class released since launch, had several internal ([[soulknife]] was terrible) and external (being able to shift a lot of things on a bonus action) balance problems. Don't even get people started on the months when there was no UA because "the developers were tired" or because they decided a sneak-peak at some [[duergar]] character generation tables from the then-upcoming Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes was sufficient for a UA entry.

Worse, they previewed a reworked ranger, only to later say that it will never be officially released, despite the base class needing some significant upgrades to be on par with a every other class with similar abilities outside of specific situations. 

As of 2019 this lack of consistency became complete absence. There was no UA at all for January of that year, with the promise of a February release of the [[Artificer]]. Come the promised date, and no release, with only a lame excuse about the winter snowfall, and a claim that instead the Artificer release would be done on the last Monday of the month. And yeah, despite having had two whole months to work on shit, the Artificer and tweaks to it have been the only releases for months. After this they announced that UA updates would no longer be forced on a strict schedule (as if they were bothering to stick that schedule anyway) and instead only updating, basically, when they felt like it. Fans are ''furious'' over this, and you can't really blame them; it's supposed to be the team's '''job''' to sit around and cook up new ideas for the game, and 5e has the simplest base mechanics of any edition, so it should be ''easy'' to produce a steady supply of new spells, new magic items, new races and new subclasses. Especially when you consider the vast array of crap that WotC produced in just the last two editions alone to draw inspiration from or try to convert, never mind all the stuff they inherited from TSR! It just makes Mearls, Crawford, and their team look like the most ass-lazy bastards you can envision, especially if you recall just how much content WotC used to release online for 4e as part of [[Dragon Magazine]] and [[Dungeon Magazine]], which put 5e's Unearthed Arcana to shame. That's not even mentioning the sheer amount of free, official, ([[Erudite#How_to_break_it|mostly]]) high quality content that's interesting and original that was put on Wizard's website for free during third edition.