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D&D 5E Preview Witchlight's New Rabbit People

You can take a look at the harengons, a rabbit-themed race in the upcoming Wild Beyond the Witchlight, over at D&D Beyond. Harengons are medium or small humanoids with a bonus to initiative, Dexterity saving throws, and a 'rabbit hop' which lets them jump up to five times their proficiency bonus without provoking opportunity attacks. Creature Type. You are a Humanoid. Size. You are...

You can take a look at the harengons, a rabbit-themed race in the upcoming Wild Beyond the Witchlight, over at D&D Beyond.

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Harengons are medium or small humanoids with a bonus to initiative, Dexterity saving throws, and a 'rabbit hop' which lets them jump up to five times their proficiency bonus without provoking opportunity attacks.

Creature Type. You are a Humanoid.

Size. You are Medium or Small. You choose the size when you select this race.

Speed. Your walking speed is 30 feet.

Hare-Trigger. You can add your proficiency bonus to your initiative rolls.

Leporine Senses. You have proficiency in the Perception skill.

Lucky Footwork. When you fail a Dexterity saving throw, you can use your reaction to roll a d4 and add it to the save, potentially turning the failure into a success. You can’t use this reaction if you’re prone or your speed is 0.

Rabbit Hop. As a bonus action, you can jump a number of feet equal to five times your proficiency bonus, without provoking opportunity attacks. You can use this trait only if your speed is greater than 0. You can use it a number of times equal to your proficiency bonus, and you regain all expended uses when you finish a long rest.

When you create a harengon or fairy using the rules from The Wild Beyond the Witchlight, you can choose to increase one ability score by 2 and another by 1, or choose to increase three different scores by 1. Further, you know Common and will choose one other language to learn.
 

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Stormonu

Legend
I never said they shouldn't exist in D&D, I merely commented that the mental imagery clashed. I would include rabbitfolk (and mousefolk, catfolk, tortoisefolk, and all their animalistic ilk), but not in a standard D&D game of knights, wizards, and dragons.
I wish we actually had a single "animalfolk" race that covered a variety of anthropomorphic races (choose your appearance, choose your stat mods, choose a race ability that you feel matches your appearance, boom - done). Base D&D has been cluttered with a variety of stretched or squashed humans (Dwarf, Elf, Halfling, Gnome, Teifling) for long enough. I don't want the anthro races to get as bad the variety of elves have, but having a single race that can cover lizardfolk, tabaxi, rodentia, tortles, etc. would be nice.
 

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Tonguez

A suffusion of yellow
I wish we actually had a single "animalfolk" race that covered a variety of anthropomorphic races (choose your appearance, choose your stat mods, choose a race ability that you feel matches your appearance, boom - done). Base D&D has been cluttered with a variety of stretched or squashed humans (Dwarf, Elf, Halfling, Gnome, Teifling) for long enough. I don't want the anthro races to get as bad the variety of elves have, but having a single race that can cover lizardfolk, tabaxi, rodentia, tortles, etc. would be nice.

By why an Animalfolk frame? With the new mechanics that allow floating Stat mods and selectable Size, why not just eliminate races entirely and just have a list of traits?
 

MarkB

Legend
Lizards, Dragons, Kobolds...do we though? lol
In all seriousness, I'd like to see such a thing. There are all sorts of specialised types of dinosaur that go beyond just "big lizard" and having a single race that could let you create variants based on different saurs would allow for a lot of personalisation.
 


pukunui

Legend
So, what I'm hearing is that we need to get dinosaurfolk next
Saurials already exist! (c.f. Dragonbait in Tomb of Annihilation)

We just need 5e playable stats for them.


(For the record, I'm in the "too many playable animal people" boat myself, but I have mostly come to terms with no longer being in the game's target market any longer, so I'm not going to kick up a big fuss about it.)
 

Levistus's_Leviathan

5e Freelancer
By why an Animalfolk frame? With the new mechanics that allow floating Stat mods and selectable Size, why not just eliminate races entirely and just have a list of traits?
Because there are still racial features tied to races. This has been discussed to death, but making ability scores floating doesn't turn D&D into a Point Buy Game like GURPS or Mutants and Masterminds.
 

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