Hey! So building up my online collection of 5e materials, when I came across this question:
Let's say that I buy the Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide. As part of that book/bundle, I would receive the Dwarf subrace, the Gray Dwarf "Duergar." Then let's say I want to buy Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes for its selection of Tieflings next. Now not only does MToF have all those Tieflings, but they also have a Gray Dwarf "Duergar" within its contents.
So my question is, if I make both purchases, what happens to the copies of Duergar? Will there be two different Duergar subraces under the Dwarf base race? Or will one replace the other (namely, would MToF replace SCAG because it's newer)?
And furthermore (not my point in asking this query, but still worth asking), hypothetically if there was some drastic change between the racial features of the SCAG Duergar and the MToF Duergar, would that constitute two different subraces? Or again would one supersede the other?
If anyone has had any experience in purchasing two separate books/bundles with reprinted races, please let me know how that resolved in the character creator. Thanks!
If a race (or a spell, or a subclass, or anything else for that matter) comes from two different books, that race will appear only once in the toolset. WotC made it that the reprints are either the same from previous books, or the newest book updates the old.
Hey! So building up my online collection of 5e materials, when I came across this question:
Let's say that I buy the Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide. As part of that book/bundle, I would receive the Dwarf subrace, the Gray Dwarf "Duergar." Then let's say I want to buy Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes for its selection of Tieflings next. Now not only does MToF have all those Tieflings, but they also have a Gray Dwarf "Duergar" within its contents.
So my question is, if I make both purchases, what happens to the copies of Duergar? Will there be two different Duergar subraces under the Dwarf base race? Or will one replace the other (namely, would MToF replace SCAG because it's newer)?
And furthermore (not my point in asking this query, but still worth asking), hypothetically if there was some drastic change between the racial features of the SCAG Duergar and the MToF Duergar, would that constitute two different subraces? Or again would one supersede the other?
If anyone has had any experience in purchasing two separate books/bundles with reprinted races, please let me know how that resolved in the character creator. Thanks!
If a race (or a spell, or a subclass, or anything else for that matter) comes from two different books, that race will appear only once in the toolset. WotC made it that the reprints are either the same from previous books, or the newest book updates the old.
Clear and concise! Thank you filcat!