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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Fenris-77

Small God of the Dozens
Supporter
I think D&D can now officially run a furry campaign if you onw enough supplements. Bunny people, cat people, bear people, it's got it all.

Mechanically, adding proficiency to Init is cool. Rabbit Assassins could be a common sight. :unsure:
 

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Levistus's_Leviathan

5e Freelancer
I should have mentioned I was considering 3rd party stuff. Bear people are in the Midgard books from Kobold press.
Ah, I have that book. Never really used it, though.

(On a tangent: One of my NPCs from my Eberron campaign is a baby Werepanda (Werebear) that the PCs met in Xen'drik. It was just sitting there eating bamboo, and the players eventually went back to adopt him.)
 
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54% of players are younger than 30. I think it's quite clear that the oldschool way of playing is not in the majority anymore.
I have no doubt an older player doesn't rest their head in the majority. But things change. I have said it a thousand times. D&D shifts on culture, not the other way around. So if the culture suddenly sprawls to a Conan aesthetic, D&D will shift that way too. It doesn't matter if you define it "new" or "old school" or "furrie" or "apocalyptic." It's just the swing of popularity and culture. It is all good, no matter the swing.
 

Dude. Can you turn down the hostility a bit? What did I ever do to warrant this level of condescension and mockery?!

Yes, I do say that statement as if it were true because I sincerely believe that it is true. When did anyone ever in this thread say that Harengon should be in every setting and aren't campaign-dependent? When did anyone ever start forcing others to use races that they don't like?

Also, when did you ever get statistics for public opinion on a race this new? I mean, the book isn't even officially out yet.
What hostility? This is what I said:
"You say this as if you actually believe the statement is true. ;) If it is pointed out statistically that it is different, will you "untrue" it?"

I am sorry, and I am being serious - what in there is hostile? All I said is races might be dependent on setting. And then said those that argue over race often view it as an end-all be-all, instead of as part of a setting. That's it. There is no hostility in my comments. If you read them as such, please explain.
 

Levistus's_Leviathan

5e Freelancer
What hostility? This is what I said:
"You say this as if you actually believe the statement is true. ;) If it is pointed out statistically that it is different, will you "untrue" it?"

I am sorry, and I am being serious - what in there is hostile? All I said is races might be dependent on setting. And then said those that argue over race often view it as an end-all be-all, instead of as part of a setting. That's it. There is no hostility in my comments. If you read them as such, please explain.
1. "You say this as if you actually believe the statement is true" is mocking and condescending. A non-hostile response would be something akin to "I disagree, for the following reasons".
2. "If it is pointed out statistically that it is different, will you 'untrue' it" is a hostile distrustment of my sincerity and accusing me of arguing in bad faith.

How the f**k would that not be taken as hostile?
 

Stormonu

Legend
Fitzing around on heroforge, came up with this ... a haregon hagborn (hexblood)? Or perhaps a haregon warlock of the archfey?
 

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bedir than

Full Moon Storyteller
D&D shifts on culture, not the other way around.
As long as you don't think TV, books, movies, comics, and gaming are part of culture, you could be correct.

I would argue that D&D created a cultural shift that purists were unable to stop. D&D definitely lead to an entire genre of video gaming, popular TV shows, massive booklines and more. The culture of D&D is echoed in memes by non-players of the game ever single day with alignment charts and attributes based on faces. The culture of D&D is even echoed by the elder GenXs running tech companies now.
 

Khelon Testudo

Cleric of Stronmaus
Whatever do you mean? We only have Turtle/Tortoise-folk, Dragonfolk (Dragonborn and Kobolds), Lizard-folk, Goatfolk (Satyrs), Birdfolk (Aarakocra, Owlins, and Kenku), Sasquatch-folk (Bugbears), Catfolk (Tabaxi and Leonin), Fishfolk (Locathah and I guess Tritons count), Snakefolk (Yuan-Ti Purebloods), Lycanthrope-folk (Shifters), Horsefolk (Centaurs), Elephantfolk (Loxodons), Cowfolk (Minotaurs and maybe Exandria Firbolg), Squid-Crab-folk (Simic Hybrids), and Frogfolk (Grung, Grippli, and Bullywugs, though the last two aren't playable)! We obviously need more!

(I mean, I could get behind some more Bug-folk; like Grasshopperfolk, Dragonflyfolk, Bee/Waspfolk, Ladybug-folk, and playable Thri-Kreen, but that's about all we need, IMO. Well, that and Fox-folk/Kitsune. Oh, Echidna/Platypusfolk could work, too! And Lupins.)
If you want platypus folk, there are minis on Etsy.
Also moth-folk.
 

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