D&D 5E (2014) No New Races in Xanathar Guide to Everithing

[MechaTarrasque]

According to http://www.sageadvice.eu/2017/06/28/does-xanathar-guide-to-everithing-comes-with-pc-races/, there will be no new races in XgtE, as they added a bunch in Volo's last year.

 

[Elon Tusk]

That was kind of expected.

 

[MechaTarrasque]

That was kind of expected.

That is true, and the advertisement doesn't mention races, but I figured that there might be a few people who assumed there would be new races.

 

[ccs]

Good. The game doesn't need rules for more character races. If you want to play a ______? Work it out with your DM

 

[CapnZapp]

While your choice of race might influence your roleplaying, it is really a very small part of the mechanical crunch of your character.

And that's the hard part we want WotC to create for us. The crunch, that is.

More build options and subclasses and especially "depth options" that can enhance and complexify existing builds like spells and feats and entire new subsystems (like metamagic, superiority dice, deepened high-level play, epic options, and entirely new things like psionics or warlord-y stuff etc...) is what the game lacks in its current state.

In comparison, whipping up a race (or background etc) is simple. We can do that ourselves.

WotC has far too long gotten away with only the "easy crunch". They point to yet another meh subclass when we ask for crunch, when it is entirely new classes and their subsystems - the difficult design - we want them to do.

 

[Ralif Redhammer]

Since they just put out a bunch of new races in Volo’s, I’m perfectly happy with this. Sure, there are still races I’d like to see released, but I don’t think we need another batch so soon after the last.

Though, part of me wonders if the races of Volo’s Guide would’ve been better-presented in Xanathar’s, with Volo’s Guide made completely a DM’s product?

 

[Mr. Wilson]

It makes sense.

I suspect setting specific races are being held for products revolving around their release, so my guess is, other than the UA article, we won't see Shifters, Warforged, Kalashtar, Mul, or Thri-Kreen anytime soon.

 

[lowkey13]

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[Sacrosanct]

This is a good thing, IMO. Don't take up page count for something that only a very tiny % of gamers would actually ever use. Even the "popular' Three-kreen probably only has a very small amount of players who will actually play it. For things like that, it should be a DM-player collaboration thing, and not main rulebook thing. Give me material that is more widely used.

 

[doctorbadwolf]

Good. The game doesn't need rules for more character races. If you want to play a ______? Work it out with your DM

By that logic the game needs nothing but the basic rules, and even the options there are overkill.