I would want to be a grell, a gelatinous cube, an aboleth, a planetar, one of those rare suits of animated armor that can do actual conversations, or an ankheg.
Turn gnolls into homicidally insane near-demons screwed up the ease of making them into a PC race. Heck, 5E lore makes it sound like they don't even reproduce naturally in this edition. Very disappointing, feels like a reversal of the attempt to move away from the Always Chaotic Evil problems of older editions.
I'd definitely love to see baurier return as a playable race. I tried writing some homebrew stats based on centaur stats but couldn't quite balance keeping the flavor of their Planescape abilities without making them OP.
Heck, pre AD&D Gnolls were Goblinoids.
Yeah, I was confused when I read the first Drizzt Do'Urden book refer to Gnolls as goblinoids.
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Well, Salvatore has always played rather loose with the rules anyway. Sometimes it was because it made a better story, sometimes it was because he apparently couldn't be bothered to to stick to the actual lore of the setting, and sometimes it was this:
For those of you who don't get it, that's a Fiat
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"Canon" is what's factual to D&D lore. "Cannon" is what you're going to be shot with if you keep getting the word wrong.
Well, Salvatore has always played rather loose with the rules anyway. Sometimes it was because it made a better story, sometimes it was because he apparently couldn't be bothered to to stick to the actual lore of the setting, and sometimes it was this:
Turn gnolls into homicidally insane near-demons screwed up the ease of making them into a PC race. Heck, 5E lore makes it sound like they don't even reproduce naturally in this edition. Very disappointing, feels like a reversal of the attempt to move away from the Always Chaotic Evil problems of older editions.
I'd definitely love to see baurier return as a playable race. I tried writing some homebrew stats based on centaur stats but couldn't quite balance keeping the flavor of their Planescape abilities without making them OP.
Heck, pre AD&D Gnolls were Goblinoids.
Yeah, I was confused when I read the first Drizzt Do'Urden book refer to Gnolls as goblinoids.
I just read it and I was very confused lol
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Slaad, easily. I can't recall where, but I remember there was talk in 4e of one slaad who was bested by the githzerai monk Liricosa, and ended up becoming one of his disciples. There was also a skill challenge in 4e that involved trying to communicate with a slaad. Two of the possible failure outcomes were that the slaad would spontaneously fail to recognize the players' existence or that its head would explode followed by its body walking away.
Slaad, easily. I can't recall where, but I remember there was talk in 4e of one slaad who was bested by the githzerai monk Liricosa, and ended up becoming one of his disciples. There was also a skill challenge in 4e that involved trying to communicate with a slaad. Two of the possible failure outcomes were that the slaad would spontaneously fail to recognize the players' existence or that its head would explode followed by its body walking away.
I don't think they'll make races for many monsters that have creature types other than humanoid. Gnolls are fairly likely for Wildemount and Eberron and a rare gnoll in Forgotten Realms. Ogres are possible, but I don't know if they'd keep their creature type as giant. Slaad are probably never coming to D&D as an official race. Modrons could, but they might have to do something similar to Warforged for creature type.
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I want my Ogrillon, they are only Half Ogres after all.
Yeah, but still the problem of WotC's phobia of other creature types and sizes as player characters. They did make Satyr and Centaurs be fey, but that's it. Warforged are humanoids, Centaurs are medium.
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It's not just damage. It's also grappling and spell effects. Not to mention practicality of squeezing. Large creatures are 10 ft tall, my apartment has 8 ft tall celings.
If you want to play a large creature there should be the near constant issue of squeezing for vertical if not horizontal issues.
It's not just damage. It's also grappling and spell effects. Not to mention practicality of squeezing. Large creatures are 10 ft tall, my apartment has 8 ft tall celings.
If you want to play a large creature there should be the near constant issue of squeezing for vertical if not horizontal issues.
It should vary by setting. If you are in a location where a race of Large creatures is common, then culturally the architecture would be structured to better accommodate Large creatures. Other places you'd run into problems fitting.
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I would want to be a grell, a gelatinous cube, an aboleth, a planetar, one of those rare suits of animated armor that can do actual conversations, or an ankheg.
I'm just... you know... friendly... possibly evil necromancer...
I've been working on pureblood variants. Should have 4 published on Monday.
Another Monster I'd like as a Offical race, drider. I MEAN COME ON!! why isnt that a race??
Yeah, I was confused when I read the first Drizzt Do'Urden book refer to Gnolls as goblinoids.
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Well, Salvatore has always played rather loose with the rules anyway. Sometimes it was because it made a better story, sometimes it was because he apparently couldn't be bothered to to stick to the actual lore of the setting, and sometimes it was this:
For those of you who don't get it, that's a Fiat
Find your own truth, choose your enemies carefully, and never deal with a dragon.
"Canon" is what's factual to D&D lore. "Cannon" is what you're going to be shot with if you keep getting the word wrong.
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I just read it and I was very confused lol
“I will take responsibility for what I have done. [...] If must fall, I will rise each time a better man.” ― Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer.
Here are 4 new Yuan-ti variants I just posted under homebrew playable race options:
https://www.dndbeyond.com/races/400915-yuan-ti-impure-fang
https://www.dndbeyond.com/races/400887-yuan-ti-impure-feyblood
https://www.dndbeyond.com/races/403612-yuan-ti-impure-scale
https://www.dndbeyond.com/races/399355-yuan-ti-impure-tainted-one
Slaad, easily. I can't recall where, but I remember there was talk in 4e of one slaad who was bested by the githzerai monk Liricosa, and ended up becoming one of his disciples. There was also a skill challenge in 4e that involved trying to communicate with a slaad. Two of the possible failure outcomes were that the slaad would spontaneously fail to recognize the players' existence or that its head would explode followed by its body walking away.
That is hilarious
I don't think they'll make races for many monsters that have creature types other than humanoid. Gnolls are fairly likely for Wildemount and Eberron and a rare gnoll in Forgotten Realms. Ogres are possible, but I don't know if they'd keep their creature type as giant. Slaad are probably never coming to D&D as an official race. Modrons could, but they might have to do something similar to Warforged for creature type.
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I want my Ogrillon, they are only Half Ogres after all.
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Yeah, but still the problem of WotC's phobia of other creature types and sizes as player characters. They did make Satyr and Centaurs be fey, but that's it. Warforged are humanoids, Centaurs are medium.
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Oh that reminds me. Why the heck cant we get a large size character? I'd definitely play a Ogre.
Incubus/ Succubus
jk
but for real an umber hulk
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Rangers are the best, and have always been the best
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I hate paladins
Warrior Bovine
It messes up damage. Large creatures do an additional damage dice on melee weapon attacks.
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I'm sure if you put a level cap on how much extra damage you can deal, it could work
Eh I wouldnt be opposed to all 3
It's not just damage. It's also grappling and spell effects. Not to mention practicality of squeezing. Large creatures are 10 ft tall, my apartment has 8 ft tall celings.
If you want to play a large creature there should be the near constant issue of squeezing for vertical if not horizontal issues.
It should vary by setting. If you are in a location where a race of Large creatures is common, then culturally the architecture would be structured to better accommodate Large creatures. Other places you'd run into problems fitting.