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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[Weiley31]

That... That... I WANT TO PLAY THIS NOW!

Or you have your Fairy PC be a Drakewarden Ranger.

 

[Horwath]

Continuing with floating ASIs in races,
Also every subclass that appeared is more powerful than 90% of PHB subclasses,

Smells like 5.5E...

but we should get UA with rewrite of EVERY race and sub-class from PHB. Maybe even XGtE...

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

Have you noticed the kemonomimi as the bunny girls are ones of the most popular no-human races from Asian fantasy fiction?

Teaser of a new setting? I guess this will be Stryxhaven.

Rip off of Humblewood? Maybe, but at least if WotC creates her own franchise then we haven't to worry about buying 3PPs for the new IPs. I wouldn't be too surprised if Hasbro boughts Onyx Path/White Wolf, or the Pugmire franchise at least, or even the complete acquisition of Paradox Entertaiment. (Disclaimer: I am not saying this is going to happen, but only it shouldn't be totally impossible).

With the owlfolk I miss the raptorans from Heroes of Wild.

If a humanoid race has got wings this means they can't wear most of jackects, shirts....and armours. Not only they can fly, or glide at least, also if they can spread their wings, then they should avoid damage by fall. Technically they are born with a parachute. Aren't they?

Now the D&D hobgoblins are the klingons from the Feywild. I am OK about this. If they were the slavers of gnomes ex-slaves who escaped from the feywild there is a good reason they don't like those.

When we talk about the faewild I can't avoid the great influence of the lore of Changeling: the Dreaming. And also I feel a hard temptation to mix the factions from World of Darkness with Innistrad and Ravenloft.

If rabbitfolk have got ears as the rabbits then the design of the skrulls should show the right ear canal. And we have to remember maybe they can't most of helms.

* Where are the ponyfolk, and when are they going to be published? sorry, I mean ipotane.

Ipotane

I guess WotC wants to start a new kid-friendly franchise as a hook for future players. It will be a D&D setting, but the main goal is the cartoon and toys. Of course with lots of spells with no-lethal effects (web, hold person, grease, sleep..) to avoid the violence.

 

[see]

They just so happen to release a UA that includes two races from a setting that's been increasingly popular with nearly identical mechanical traits?

So "increasingly popular" that I can't recall coming across any mention of it, anywhere, any time, until you mentioned it in this thread. Well, sure, maybe that's just me not having my finger on the pulse of what's cool anymore.

On the other hand, I can Google "rabbitfolk" or "owlfolk", set the date range to only give results that pre-date the opening of the Humblewood Kickstarter (March 2019), and find all sorts of D&D homebrew results.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Curiouser and curiouser.

 

[Sword of Spirit]

In case no one brought it up yet, rabbitfolk can use the extra jump movement to go straight up without the normal high jump reductions.

 

[Azuresun]

Rip off of Humblewood? Maybe, but at least if WotC creates her own franchise then we haven't to worry about buying 3PPs for the new IPs. I wouldn't be too surprised if Hasbro boughts Onyx Path/White Wolf, or the Pugmire franchise at least, or even the complete acquisition of Paradox Entertaiment. (Disclaimer: I am not saying this is going to happen, but only it shouldn't be totally impossible).

I'm honestly curious--is there any announcement WotC could make about anything that you wouldn't take as an indication of a big inter-franchise crossover?

 

[QuentinGeorge]

I'm honestly curious--is there any announcement WotC could make about anything that you wouldn't take as an indication of a big inter-franchise crossover?

Yes but what if Vecna and Elminster got married, and there was a twelve part series by Paramount, followed by a zombie apocalypse and then a crossover etc....

 

[Tonguez]

Disappointed they still dont provide for Tiny sized PCs

 

[Reynard]

Good thing you can still do that. And people that like to have a lot of species can do their thing, too. As far as defined, deep cultures, telling interesing stories, etc. you can do that with diverse species, too—the only limit is the effort a DM wants to put into it and how much players actually give a damn about all the DM's juicy fluff.

I think Eberron, for example, benefits from the inclusion of a distinct set up of ancestries in its background and setting information, even though some of those are not "traditional" ancestries. I think settings can when new ancestries have to be shoehorned in. And someone is going to say "you don't have to allow it" but we all know that if something exists in an official book it is an extra effort to disallow it.