Now, they did promise to have “setting agnostic versions” of these races, which some are taking to mean won’t include things like Eberron’s Kalashtar or Warforged, or the specific races in the Magic: the Gathering settings–but there are a fair few that feel like they’d slot right into D&D anyway.įor instance, it’s hard to imagine not playing a Warforged after the success of Eberron: Rising from the Last War, which brought us four new races altogether:Īnd if we look at Guildmaster’s Guide to Ravnica, we find two more that are already in the monster manual with the Centaur and Minotaur. But what might we see? Here’s a comprehensive look at races officially published by Wizards of the Coast.įirst up, there are the races out of the Elemental Evil Player’s Companion:įirst up, we have the races from Volo’s Guide to Monsters: But Mordenkainen’s Monsters promises more than 30 “updated player character races.” Which is quite a bit. Doubtless, the new core rules, coming in 2024 will tackle the classics like elves and dwarves and tieflings, as the design team clarified that we wouldn’t see PHB races in the new book. These dragonborn are a little more flexible, and they plug into any class a little more seamlessly.

Here’s an example of one of the new, updated, dragonborn:Ĭompared to the old dragonborn, this one feels a lot more fun to play. And in the upcoming Fizban’s Treasury of Dragons, we get a look at what an updated race might feel like. Especially options like goblins or kobolds, whose ability score packages were often outliers. We got a look at how WotC plans to tackle races going forward:īut, as many folk have noted, some of the older player races don’t wrote hold up. With Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything, player races got an update in general which the unearthed arcana for Ravenloft made clearer. We’ve already been seeing the evolution of D&D. Announced at D&D Celebration, as part of the ‘Future of D&D’ panel, the new book, Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse will be a good level setting guide for the upcoming rules changes in 2024. One of the exciting new things about the upcoming rules gift set is the chance to dig into a new book that updates monsters and playable races. Mordenkainen’s Monsters of the Multiverse promises to update more than 30 player races from throughout 5E.

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