Hi, I'm new to dnd, but have been cooking up a heck ton of characters. I would like to know what I can and can't do, as my attempts to look it up have failed. Thank you!
-Can you play as a spirit character, and if you can, any large rules?
- Could there be a tiefling/goblin hybrid character?
- Could you have a character that is comprised of two similarly powered smaller characters, similar to the Ice Climbers in SSB in concept?
1. Not by default in 5e, but consult your DM. There's also probably a supplement on the DM's Guild (but again, requires approval from your DM)
2. Probably so. Your DM would work with you to establish a hybrid, as the 5e rules only cover half-human/half-orc and half-human/half-elf. 5.24 erased cross-species hybrids entirely, so it's also going to depend on what table you're playing at.
3. Not familiar with it, but usually no because two characters would mean two actions per turn, which is very imbalancing over the long term.
Hi, I'm new to dnd, but have been cooking up a heck ton of characters. I would like to know what I can and can't do, as my attempts to look it up have failed. Thank you!
-Can you play as a spirit character, and if you can, any large rules?
- Could there be a tiefling/goblin hybrid character?
- Could you have a character that is comprised of two similarly powered smaller characters, similar to the Ice Climbers in SSB in concept?
Thanks again!
1. In 3e, there was a ghostwalk campaign options book that gave you the classes Eidolon and Eidolancer for playing as a ghost. 5e doesn't have this (yet?) in RAW, but it can be hombrewed in. I allow it at my table; but it's better suited to more experienced play rather than beginner play because without much mcguffining, the character doesn't actually exist on the material plane, residing exclusively in the ethereal plane as a materially incorporeal being and so largely can't really interact with the rest of the party in typical fashion.
2. Yes, but it's not called that, or at least it didn't used to be, I think the 2024 revision expands the Tiefling concept to be applicable to any base race, and of course includes goblins as a base race... species...
Contrary to above however, I actually don't allow this at my table. Goblins are evil monsters for combat encounters, not a viable player race, and tieflings are exclusively a sub-type of human, though there are equivalents by other names for other races.
Also to note re my table contrary to current RAW, Tieflings are not descended from fiends, there is another creature for that, Cambion I think. Tieflings, as was in older lore, are a result of a progenitor ancestors pact with Asmodeus (or at least another potent fiend) for warlock power whose line bears the evidence of the pact evermore, basically as a curse. I believe WOTC changed this because a lot of the folk around here don't like the concept a races being created as the result of a curse due to irl connotations associated with the concept.
3. Also not necessarily in the raw. But it hasn't stopped people from making characters such as 3 Kobolds in a trench coat. As someone mentioned the character needs to have only 1 characters worth of actions, but there are concepts that merge two or more characters into 1 body. Aasimars for example and an Ebberon race of dream inhabited folk, possibly whatever Laudna is on critical roll.
I once let a player play a character like Ghostrider or Glory from Buffy, not a god etc. though, just a brother and sister who were cursed to share 1 body. The brother would present during the day and the sister at night, though they could speak silently to one another at all times. The character was a druid, though the possibility existed for each one to be their own class.
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Hi, I'm new to dnd, but have been cooking up a heck ton of characters. I would like to know what I can and can't do, as my attempts to look it up have failed. Thank you!
-Can you play as a spirit character, and if you can, any large rules?
- Could there be a tiefling/goblin hybrid character?
- Could you have a character that is comprised of two similarly powered smaller characters, similar to the Ice Climbers in SSB in concept?
Thanks again!
2. Yes, but it's not called that, or at least it didn't used to be, I think the 2024 revision expands the Tiefling concept to be applicable to any base race, and of course includes goblins as a base race... species...
It doesn't. Tieflings are still a species.
As has been said above, the answers to OP's questions are:
Ask your GM, but be clear on what you're asking for
Ask your GM
Ask your GM, but expect the answer no unless it's a less-serious game.
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Hi, I'm new to dnd, but have been cooking up a heck ton of characters. I would like to know what I can and can't do, as my attempts to look it up have failed. Thank you!
-Can you play as a spirit character, and if you can, any large rules?
- Could there be a tiefling/goblin hybrid character?
- Could you have a character that is comprised of two similarly powered smaller characters, similar to the Ice Climbers in SSB in concept?
Thanks again!
Using Rules as Written (RAW) - no.
But, luckily this is D&D, you can do whatever you and the DM collaborate and agree upon.
Playing D&D since 1982
Have played every version of the game since Basic (Red Box Set), except that abomination sometimes called 4e.
1. Not by default in 5e, but consult your DM. There's also probably a supplement on the DM's Guild (but again, requires approval from your DM)
2. Probably so. Your DM would work with you to establish a hybrid, as the 5e rules only cover half-human/half-orc and half-human/half-elf. 5.24 erased cross-species hybrids entirely, so it's also going to depend on what table you're playing at.
3. Not familiar with it, but usually no because two characters would mean two actions per turn, which is very imbalancing over the long term.
1. In 3e, there was a ghostwalk campaign options book that gave you the classes Eidolon and Eidolancer for playing as a ghost. 5e doesn't have this (yet?) in RAW, but it can be hombrewed in. I allow it at my table; but it's better suited to more experienced play rather than beginner play because without much mcguffining, the character doesn't actually exist on the material plane, residing exclusively in the ethereal plane as a materially incorporeal being and so largely can't really interact with the rest of the party in typical fashion.
2. Yes, but it's not called that, or at least it didn't used to be, I think the 2024 revision expands the Tiefling concept to be applicable to any base race, and of course includes goblins as a base race... species...
Contrary to above however, I actually don't allow this at my table. Goblins are evil monsters for combat encounters, not a viable player race, and tieflings are exclusively a sub-type of human, though there are equivalents by other names for other races.
Also to note re my table contrary to current RAW, Tieflings are not descended from fiends, there is another creature for that, Cambion I think. Tieflings, as was in older lore, are a result of a progenitor ancestors pact with Asmodeus (or at least another potent fiend) for warlock power whose line bears the evidence of the pact evermore, basically as a curse. I believe WOTC changed this because a lot of the folk around here don't like the concept a races being created as the result of a curse due to irl connotations associated with the concept.
3. Also not necessarily in the raw. But it hasn't stopped people from making characters such as 3 Kobolds in a trench coat. As someone mentioned the character needs to have only 1 characters worth of actions, but there are concepts that merge two or more characters into 1 body. Aasimars for example and an Ebberon race of dream inhabited folk, possibly whatever Laudna is on critical roll.
I once let a player play a character like Ghostrider or Glory from Buffy, not a god etc. though, just a brother and sister who were cursed to share 1 body. The brother would present during the day and the sister at night, though they could speak silently to one another at all times. The character was a druid, though the possibility existed for each one to be their own class.
Thank you for your time and please have a very pleasant day.
It doesn't. Tieflings are still a species.
As has been said above, the answers to OP's questions are: