D&D (2024) One D&D Cleric & Revised Species Playtest Includes Goliath

"In this new Unearthed Arcana for the One D&D rules system, we explore material designed for the next version of the Player’s Handbook. This playtest document presents the rules on the Cleric class, it's Life Domain subclass, as well as revised Species rules for the Ardling, the Dragonborn, and the Goliath. You will also find a current glossary of new or revised meanings for game terms."

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WotC's Jeremey Crawford discusses the playtest document in the video below.

 

[Incenjucar]

There are Athas elves, Greyhawk elves, space elves...

No reason that there can't be a generic Warforged. I have one in my Realms game right now.

Agreed. Construct species have some basic components in common, and then you just give them a few specific features to choose from to help differentiate them so homebrewers have an idea of where they can swap things out.

 

[Micah Sweet]

Agreed. Construct species have some basic components in common, and then you just give them a few specific features to choose from to help differentiate them so homebrewers have an idea of where they can swap things out.

And yet warforged were one of the very few heritages not represented in MMoM. Why was that?

 

[Incenjucar]

And yet warforged were one of the very few heritages not represented in MMoM. Why was that?

The missing heritages were too cool to hang out with their MMoM and had a party in their tree house.
I'm not a WotC employee, I have no idea why they make specific decisions.

 

[Xamnam]

I would love love love it if we got official support for a sylvan or mineral type warforged. The name probably needs to change if it's meant to be a core schmorp outside of Eberron, but that's fine by me, both from a history and what the name suggests standpoint.

 

[mellored]

I would love love love it if we got official support for a sylvan or mineral type warforged. The name probably needs to change if it's meant to be a core schmorp outside of Eberron, but that's fine by me, both from a history and what the name suggests standpoint.

4e had shardmind.

 

[Maxperson]

And yet warforged were one of the very few heritages not represented in MMoM. Why was that?

Could be something as simple as, "We don't have room for all of them, let's spin the spinner to see which races aren't going to be in the book." No sense speculating about this one. No way to know or even give a good guess at it.

 

[Maxperson]

4e had shardmind.

Those are really cool. I would definitely play one.

 

[Staffan]

When dazed, can you take a legendary or lair action?

The way I read it, yes. Dazed affects what you can do on your turn, and legendary/lair actions happen outside your turn.

 

[shadowoflameth]

Flying isn't an issue with me personally or my table.

Mine either. I've had a winged tiefling and an Aarakocra fighter at my table and they were both strong but not game breaking. Giving a dragonborn wings though is a change that isn't really backward compatible. I would say though either give them flight meaning a flight speed or make winged dragonborn a variant. You could have feats that allow the dragonborn to gain wings too as a suggestion. I have similar thoughts on the Goliath suddenly having supernatural powers and changing sizes. It just isn't compatible with who the goliaths have been. Just make them large or able to grow permanently to large size.

 

[Faolyn]

And yet warforged were one of the very few heritages not represented in MMoM. Why was that?

They might be too closely tied to Eberron. Most worlds have lycanthropes, so a "half-were" species would work almost everywhere. Warforged are very specifically tied to the Last War in Eberron. They also didn't include kalashtar in MMoM, probably for the same reasons--they don't work without quori.