D&D 5E New Unearthed Arcana: Folk of the Feywild!

Wander into the magical realm of the Feywild with our latest Unearthed Arcana: Folk of the Feywild!

Your character can be a member of one of the new D&D races: fairy, hobgoblin of the Feywild, owlfolk, or rabbitfolk. Which will you choose?

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[Parmandur]

Hmm... The names seem awfully generic and there isn't much lore on each race. I'm going out on a limb they are placeholder info for some rules and the real lore if being hidden to not give away the project...

Anyone know enough about MTG lore to see if these line up with any creature types? Lorwyn perhaps?

I could be wrong, but this feels a little like the centaur minotaur UA or the School of Invention/Circle of Spores UA...

I feel that you might be on to something here. This doesn't feel like Kaldheim or Innistrad.

Strixhaven is the upcoming Magic: the Gathering Set, which is set in a Magic University (nothing like Hogwarts, perish the thought) that has five Houses each founded by an Elder Dragon, and has Owl people and some other Fey things going on. This could fit both the Draconic Subclasses and the Fey lineages. We don't know to much about it, but there are Humanoid Owl people, for sure, and Dragons.

 

[YosemiteSam]

Owlkin and Rabbitkin are ripoffs of Humblewood.

 

[BookTenTiger]

Not the direction of the game.

No culture. No ASI. No Alignment.

Is there anything you do like about it, or is this going to be the limit of your contribution to the conversation?

 

[BookTenTiger]

I play a dwarven wizard with an Owl familiar, and a player in another group I know keeps getting mixed up and thinks I'm playing an owl wizard. The next time he drops in as a guest player, I should switch to the Owl Folk just to mess with him.

 

[Geoff Thirlwell]

I’m never going to be convinced about the ancestry rules but as long as they give some archetypical stats increases for each race as an option I’ll live with it.
The rabbit hop is the only thing in the game that isn’t measured in increments of 5ft so playing on a grid is going to be awkward

 

[ccooke]

I play a dwarven wizard with an Owl familiar, and a player in another group I know keeps getting mixed up and thinks I'm playing an owl wizard. The next time he drops in as a guest player, I should switch to the Owl Folk just to mess with him.

Monkey familiar? Wearing robes?

 

[Parmandur]

Is the term 'boggart' in use anywhere else in this edition?

That's a term that has a history in Magic: the Gathering.

 

[DariusArgent]

Owlkin and Rabbitkin are ripoffs of Humblewood.

Humblewood races are much better defined than in this UA.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Owlkin and Rabbitkin are ripoffs of Humblewood.

Talking bipedial animal people are far, far older than Humblewood.

 

[Weiley31]

Owl Folk eh? I guess we got our Hsiao for 5E then. They were pretty much Lawful Good Fae Owl Clerics basically that could wear armor. Appeared in one of the Creature Crucibles for Basic.

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