Arcana Unleashed: Dungeons & Dragons

Magic has always been the beating heart of Dungeons & Dragons, but it has been a long while since it got a book of its own. Arcana Unleashed fixes that. This is a high-magic toolkit for tables where legendary spellcasters, rival arcane factions and centuries-old traditions decide the fate of entire realms — not just who wins the fight in the corridor. If your wizard has been eyeing the same handful of subclasses since the Player's Handbook, this is the book that finally widens the field.

What's inside

• 8 new subclasses drawn from powerful arcane traditions
• 33 new and revised spells, including some long-missed returning favourites
• 47 magical items, among them evolving relics that grow in power as your character levels
• 19 magical creatures, from useful allies to things that very much want you dead
• 9 arcane factions and 6 group patrons to hang a whole campaign on
• Tomb of the Shadow Serpents — an introductory adventure good for one to two sessions

Best for

• Players who want their caster to feel like a genuine specialist rather than a generalist with a spell list
• DMs building a world where magic shapes the politics, the economy and the wars
• Tables ready to turn the dial up from "adventurers who know a few spells" to real arcane power

The evolving magic item system is the quiet star of the show — hand out a relic at low level and it is still worth carrying twelve levels later, which saves the DM a pile of loot admin and gives the player something to genuinely get attached to. The setting guidance for running high magic across the classic D&D worlds is a proper DM's toolkit too, not filler.

Hardback sourcebook for D&D 5th Edition. Works hand in glove with the Map Pack and the Deadfall campaign — browse the rest of the D&D books range or the full Dungeons & Dragons collection.