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

[Yaarel]

Magic and dragons etc.

Is DNA a thing in 5E? Previous editions are chock full of hybrid beings.

Most creatures of the Material Plane have DNA, namely flesh and blood, including Tieflings.

 

[Micah Sweet]

Tieflings arent a miltispecies. They are a new species originating from humans altered by fiend magic.

No they aren't. They're the result of fiendish interbreeding at some point in the character's genetic lineage.

 

[Incenjucar]

Most creatures of the Material Plane have DNA, namely flesh and blood, including Tieflings.

Is this in the DMG?

 

[Yaarel]

No they aren't. They're the result of fiendish interbreeding at some point in the character's genetic lineage.

The fiends are like angels - there is no flesh nor blood. There is no "breeding" in a biological sense.

 

[Incenjucar]

The fiends are like angels - there is no flesh nor blood. There is no "breeding" in a biological sense.

Okay, what page is that on?

 

[Corinnguard]

The fiends are like angels - there is no flesh nor blood. There is no "breeding" in a biological sense.

So the fiends and the angels aren't going to try out this 'sex' thing they've heard so much about? They're going to be so disappointed...

 

[LuisCarlos17f]

This is fantasy, but we could say planetouched species, sentient and not, are organic bodies with some planar quantic particles within their DNA. Without a genetic code, they couldn't breed a new generation. My own question is how half-dragons are possible when we are talking about species with a different number of pair of cromosomes.

We are talking about D&D creatures.

About the tienflings the bloodline of Glasya may be more dangerous you can imagine. I don't mean in the battlefield, but when she is an adult but she may seems too young. NSFW fanart and those things.

I wonder if a gynoid autognome is possible, to look like a housemaid to clean the house, but also as "company in the night". If somebody wanted to sell merchandising about cyber-waifu..

What about the spellcales from 3.5 "Races of Dragon"? If you add a couple of horns they would be like tielflig's cousins with scales, and more "family-friendly". In 3.5 Dragon Magic there were several "dracontouched bloodlines".

I would bet we will be see the "ardlings" as PC specie. The idea isn't so bad, althought the traits could be retouched. Those family-friendly cute furries are too good to sell toys and other products.

I miss the psionic races. The incarnum races could suffer some little reborn. Those spikes in arms or back aren't too practical really.

 

[Corinnguard]

This is fantasy, but we could say planetouched species, sentient and not, are organic bodies with some planar quantic particles within their DNA. Without a genetic code, they couldn't breed a new generation. My own question is how half-dragons are possible when we are talking about species with a different number of pair of cromosomes.

Fizban's Treasury of Dragons mentions six ways a Half-Dragon could come into existence. Only one of them involves having sex with a polymorphed dragon.

 

[QuentinGeorge]

This is fantasy, but we could say planetouched species, sentient and not, are organic bodies with some planar quantic particles within their DNA. Without a genetic code, they couldn't breed a new generation. My own question is how half-dragons are possible when we are talking about species with a different number of pair of cromosomes.

We are talking about D&D creatures.

About the tienflings the bloodline of Glasya may be more dangerous you can imagine. I don't mean in the battlefield, but when she is an adult but she may seems too young. NSFW fanart and those things.

I wonder if a gynoid autognome is possible, to look like a housemaid to clean the house, but also as "company in the night". If somebody wanted to sell merchandising about cyber-waifu..

What about the spellcales from 3.5 "Races of Dragon"? If you add a couple of horns they would be like tielflig's cousins with scales, and more "family-friendly". In 3.5 Dragon Magic there were several "dracontouched bloodlines".

I would bet we will be see the "ardlings" as PC specie. The idea isn't so bad, althought the traits could be retouched. Those family-friendly cute furries are too good to sell toys and other products.

I miss the psionic races. The incarnum races could suffer some little reborn. Those spikes in arms or back aren't too practical really.

 

[Remathilis]

If we are to expect that a Plasmoid and a Tabaxi are able to have children, just as well as a Dragonborn and a Dwarf, and every other nonsense combination in between, then yes, there 'must' be a unique result of a Tiefling and anything else.

Not that I actually agree, I think its absolutely nonsensical (Tortle and Harengon?! sure!) but that's the logical conclusion we are heading towards.

Or, we accept that Half Elf and Half Orc stand apart, have history and context, and a special status due to those things.

Well that's the dirty, underlying thing that has been danced around all thread, isn't it?

There has been a trend in millennial and gen Z fantasy for interspecies love, sex, and procreation. Sometimes it requires magical intervention (Tal'dorei says as much). If you go to places where they discuss their OCs, you will see species intermixing is fairly prevalent. And not just the pretty races either, I've seen more than a few half-goblins! It's not just D&D of course, (I pointed out a canonical Star Wars character who is a union of human and twilek) and I absolutely believe this is an extension of the march of "love of love" thinking that is the core of many discussions of race, gender, and sexual orientation. Plus, there are more than a few video games that have latched onto the idea of interspecies scrumping, BG3 pretty recently.

In short, the wave is very much that two sentient beings can fall in love despite biological differences and procreate, because with magic/science/the Force/whatever, all things are possible.

Which is the problem with presenting half elf and half orc as separate from other species mixing is to tacitly imply they are "acceptable" pairings in the games rules, and somewhat to imply that other options are frowned upon. It's what the game does now; you are at the mercy of your DM to allow a given combo to exist and what kind of stats it will produce, unless your choice is a human/elf or human/orc, then the game has blessed those unions with unique species traits and deemed them explicitly allowed.

The issue I've seen here (and I'm not focusing on you exclusively here, but a lot of people in this thread) is that you are making that judgment call. Half-elf is an acceptable combo and worthy of unique stats in the PHB, tabaxi-plasmoid is a bad combo, a joke and should be left to the DM to determine if it is allowed. (With more than a hint that you yourself would not allow it). Those two pairings are not equal, one set is good and the other is bad.

That's the kind of language WotC explicitly wants to avoid, and unfortunately that means half-elves and half-orcs lose their privileged status as the acceptable hybrids. It's a generational thing that WotC is going to want to get ahead of.