D&D 5E What new linages do you want?

[BookTenTiger]

Mind Flayers

Hear me out. I know these are supposed to be the super alien, absolutely evil guys... But they're so cool! And there could be a great story reason why a mind flayer might give up the life of brain eating for adventuring!

 

[Mind of tempest]

Mind Flayers

Hear me out. I know these are supposed to be the super alien, absolutely evil guys... But they're so cool! And there could be a great story reason why a mind flayer might give up the life of brain eating for adventuring!

as I said playable aberration is where it is at.

 

[BookTenTiger]

For lineage (using as WotC does) there's not a playable were-person that could follow rules similar to dhampir and the rest from Van Richten's.

For a new race I would dig Hybsil

A playable werewolf (or other lycanthrope) is such a big trope in fantasy video games and stories that I'm surprised it's not an official race! It's also just a lot of fun to play.

In a Dresden Files FATE game, I played a homeless werewolf in San Francisco... One of my favorite characters!

 

[ART!]

Oh, and it is the DM that decides what is allowed at the table. No one else. The players ratify those decisions by either staying, or walking away from the table. A D&D table is not a democracy.

That is definitely an opinion you can have. You be you!

 

[Umbran]

You are taking an imagined scenario at the table and deciding that it should limit the options in the game that others are fine with.

It is, in effect, a slippery-slope argument. It plays on fear of the hypothetical end result to make that result sound likely, without having to actually demonstrate or logically support how likely it is.

 

[J.Quondam]

• Aranea
• Octopoids
• Fungusfolk
• Flying Monkeys!!!!

A little more outre...

• pure Energy beings of some sort (I'm envisioning these in a corporeal "shell," like Vorlons or something)
• Sentient swarms (of insect-ish things)
• Origami construct beings (shapeshifters, more focused on assuming "object" qualities than animal qualities)
• higher-Dimensional beings (eg, with dimension door abilities, "ranged" touches, maybe some time-hopping?)

And also

• Flying monkeys!!!!

 

[Weiley31]

I just thought there were already rules for gnoll PCs in one of the supplements. I could be wrong.

There is, but it's in Exploring Eberron which is "technically" third partyish.

I mean Kobold Press also has Gnolls in the Heroes of the Southlands supplement as well, but I feel the Exploring Eberron version is better. The Kobold Press version is more like the runt/weaker versions of Gnolls if ya wanna be technical about it. But 5E doesn't have an "official" Gnoll racial pc write-up.

 

[Weiley31]

I thought there was an official Gnoll player race too. I think I was thinking of the write-up in Volo's, which is great but doesn't make them playable.

Exploring Eberron and Midgard has em.

 

[Maxperson]

I'd love to see half races. Half-demon, half-dragon, half-elemental, etc.

 

[Weiley31]

See at first I was for/excited for Lineages. Especially if they were to be designed as an overlay/mesh to be applied to races. But, the last couple of books, and the more recent Multiverse/Spelljammer UA seems to be a more better direction. Especially now that WoTC seems to be trying to wade out of the kiddie side of the pool, ish, by giving us new racial typing options. The Ooze one was unexpected, at least for how soon of a UA debuted it. So I'm still keeping my fingers crossed for more options to be made available, such as Aberrations and Undead. And they can pull an Autognome with "handwaving" some of the racial complications away by playing as such options.