D&D (2024) Do you think they will add more races to PHB2024 to make up for dropping other stuff?

[CreamCloud0]

Do we need new races?

maybe not...but is that the same answer to the question of 'do we need old races that aren't in the current edition?'

 

[Charlaquin]

Legacy/Grandfather clause. I drop both in my own, but as you remember, I'm not a fan of removal of things the game released with.

And I’m not a fan of doing anything for no other reason than that it used to be done that way. Half-elves and half-orcs should either stand on their own merit or sit down.

 

[Scribe]

And I’m not a fan of doing anything for no other reason than that it used to be done that way. Half-elves and half-orcs should either stand on their own merit or sit down.

They have. They do, to the people who played them.

 

[Charlaquin]

They have. They do, to the people who played them.

Those people can still play them.

 

[CreamCloud0]

Does it? I would leave that as setting specific. I dont see any reason at all why we need Half-Dwarf/Half-Dragon, that only gets traits from one or the other.

If a setting has need of it, let them provide the option, like Eberron. I had a feeling they would drop the half-elf/orc, but making a grab bag species set ala custom race from tasha's is just not it for me at all.

i think they could really get alot of mileage out of just adding a half-species template alongside every species writeup, with an ammendum of 'if you ever get the same trait from both halves you get to pick one additional trait from one of the base species statblocks, with GM's approval which'

it'd be alot less work than writing up a unique statblock for every combination and much more effective at making half-species than the current 'pick which species you actually are and which species you want to look like'

not opposed to a standalone custom species builder, more than interested in it, so long as it's actually nuanced enough to be worth using to build species with.

 

[Scribe]

Those people can still play them.

As much as this is true, we both know that being in the 'new hotness' officially adds something.

 

[Charlaquin]

As much as this is true, we both know that being in the 'new hotness' officially adds something.

But, they are in the new hotness. As are all other species combinations.

 

[Scribe]

But, they are in the new hotness. As are all other species combinations.

Which has the latest version? The last one I saw was inadequate.

 

[Charlaquin]

Which has the latest version? The last one I saw was inadequate.

We hadn’t previously established a standard for adequacy. Besides which, our key point of contention here is why human/elf and human/orc hybrids should be held to a different standard of adequacy than all other hybrid combinations. I contend that they should not.

 

[Micah Sweet]

Those people can still play them.

If it's the same edition, there shouldn't be something you can do in one printing that you can't in another.