D&D 5E D&D's official twitter feed is giving previews of art and contents from Monsters of the Multiverse

[MonsterEnvy]

Snakes don't have hair.

I said snake like hair. As in hair that looks like snakes.

 

[Kobold Avenger]

Classic centaur depictions from ancient Greek art and other places, I'd say Centaurs do sort of fit within "medium" the same way there's a bunch of "almost giant" races with powerful build that fit within medium. They're always depicted as having human size torsos and are not much taller than Humans.

Some people here have tried to use Draft Horses for examples, but if a Centaur had a Draft Horse lower body, they'd have an Ogre size upper body.

 

[Stormonu]

That Abashia miniature pretty much matches the miniature I have.

As a current centaur player, it disappoints me that WotC has no problems allowing & counting Small characters as Medium, but is afraid to do similar with Large PCs. Definitely a bias there. Also, I assume as fey creatures, they have sure footing built in. Ladders, though, I could still see being ackward, but not so much mountainous slopes and certainly not stairs.

 

[Parmandur]

Looks like a femalePC Dueregar (the official post cites "Dwarven Resilience")

, so they are being revisited:

 

[Henadic Theologian]

I was not surprised to Playable Centuars or Satyrs, while they were in MtG crossover books they are D&D multiverse staple creature with one degree or another of playability in past editions of D&D, but I was surprised to Eladrin as they were a subrace.

What does this bode for Aasimar, Genasi, Gith, and other subrace based races I don't know

I will say what could be interesting for Eladrin would be getting to pick your creature type. Not Fey AND Humaniod, but rather you pick Fey or Celestial or Humaniod when you make the character, like Owlin and Haregon pick medium or small for size.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

Looks like a femalePC Dueregar (the official post cites "Dwarven Resilience")View attachment 149307, so they are being revisited:

She seems so sad.

With subraces being turned into races it makes a question of what races will be in the book and what gets left out.

So the question of how will this shape the 5.5e revised PHB? I expect alot more races in the 5.5e PHB, maybe including Duergar and Deep Gnomes.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

I was surprised to Eladrin as they were a subrace.

Why surprised? We already knew subraces where going.

A lot of the reason subraces where invented in the first place was to give a different distribution of ASIs, which is no longer needed. It was pretty much a 5e thing anyway, not something with a long history.

I suspect some of the more redundant ones will be dropped, like halfling subraces.

 

[Henadic Theologian]

Why surprised? We already knew subraces where going.

They weren't present in FToDs, but Dragonborn never had subraces to begin with so nothing was certain. I mean alot of folks that lineage would replace race for VRGtR, but it didn't, turned out lineage is just an optional replacement, one that likely races can be taken after 1st level.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

They weren't present in FToDs, but Dragonborn never had subraces to begin with so nothing was certain. I mean alot of folks that lineage would replace race for VRGtR, but it didn't, turned out lineage is just an optional replacement, one that likely races can be taken after 1st level.

If the word "race" had issues, that goes double for subrace!

Lineage is a soft replacement. "race" is being phased out. It won't be gone completely until the new rulebooks in 2024. Until then the two systems exist in parallel.

 

[Parmandur]

They weren't present in FToDs, but Dragonborn never had subraces to begin with so nothing was certain. I mean alot of folks that lineage would replace race for VRGtR, but it didn't, turned out lineage is just an optional replacement, one that likely races can be taken after 1st level.

Yeah, with the Tasha rules for ASI, subrace is not really useful mostnof the time. I'm pretty sure the "Astral Elf" from the Last UA is a test for a new core "Elf" for the next Core.