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

[CreamCloud0]

I'm sure I could build a party of fire immune PCs that could obliterate a red dragon. Or a bunch of necrotic immune PCs that laugh at nearly every undead in the game.

sure but in those circumstances you're providing you're assuming the party has coordinated themselves to all be immune to the same element, but the dragon's bite and claw and tail attacks still work perfectly well and they're stuffed if a blue dragon comes along instead, don't any of those undead have a poison attack? or B/S/P damage? can't they grapple them? even if they don't there's nothing stopping you from giving them one.

 

[Scribe]

You're confusing not perfectly balanced for not balanced. Right now, if I want a dragonborn breath weapon, I get the rest of the not good kit with it. But a hybrid system lets me trade that for better things. Why would I EVER pick a regular dragonborn when there is a hybrid that will be better (even situationally, like water breathing in a high seas game)? There is no cost to being a hybrid, even multi-classing forces you to slow down feature progression as a cost.

Once a hybrid system enters play, you will never see full blooded species on PCs again. The allure of choice and customization will mean everyone takes it. Regular humans, elves and such will be the minority without specifically tailored species traits to keep it in check.

I'd just put it in the DMG, and ban it in my games.

Or put the options in the mix and match least, at a lower rate than what the 'real' species get.

 

[Cadence]

I'd just put it in the DMG, and ban it in my games.

Or put the options in the mix and match least, at a lower rate than what the 'real' species get.

I will just be grateful for my inability to visualize things well when a player talks about their Thri-kreen and Halfling parents' home life...

 

[Scribe]

I will just be grateful for my inability to visualize things well when a player talks about their Thri-kreen and Halfling parents' home life...

Yeah, makes about as much sense as an Plasmoid + Tabaxi.

 

[Shardstone]

As someone who is mixed raced, I can say, half-elf was one of my favorite races, but I've always wanted a more expansive racial mixing system. It's really lazy on WotC's part to not provide this when it's 100% possible, and its possible to do in a streamlined way too.

 

[SkidAce]

I really can't see any way to make a hybrid system that isn't widely unbalanced, short or "redo every race from scratch with an eye towards interchangablilty". So I guess we balance each combo separately.

I feel like we leave the classic hybrids in, i.e. half-elf, half-orc...and let the DM figure out any other combos that come up in/for their world.

Kinda sounds like what it used to be huh?

 

[Clint_L]

"Half-whatever" language is not going to be in the game for broader reasons. That ship has sailed, along with "race." The times are changing, and WotC doesn't need the controversy. If you want those specific words, you are going to have to home-brew them, because you aren't going to see them in the new books. Or just keep using the current books if you prefer.

 

[Remathilis]

I feel like we leave the classic hybrids in, i.e. half-elf, half-orc...and let the DM figure out any other combos that come up in/for their world.

Kinda sounds like what it used to be huh?

Sure. Right back to the "only certain combos are acceptable" default.

 

[Remathilis]

As an interesting aside: Ahsoka had an appearance by Jacen Syndulla; a half-human/half-twilek child, who looks and acts completely human aside from green hair. There is no hybridization aside from minor physical coloration elements, and if he were to be statted out I'd wager he would use the human species trait and not the twilek ones.

Make of that what you will.

 

[SkidAce]

Sure. Right back to the "only certain combos are acceptable" default.

I hope I'm not confusing the issue, but I'm not implying that anything is "non-acceptable", merely saying the the rules can handle the most common things, unique or rare things/rules should be up to the DM.