D&D (2024) Video previews for 2024 Players Handbook begin 6/18~

[Parmandur]

Not Genasi to complete the Planetouched Hat Trick?

If they do Goblins, I hope its Gobliniods, with Goblin, Hobgoblin, and Bugbear Lineages (with the Lineages setting the size).

Genasi are a decent possibility, too

 

[mellored]

Went to the D&D channel & rehit the notification button.

Anyways hopefully in the first video we get answers to how and why Aasimar snuck in there, and if there are anymore other unexpected races in the PHB and if Dwarves and Halflings got their subtypes back or not. Curious to see what feats and Backgrounds made it in, like any new ones?

They tried to do Ardling as a divine race, presumably opposite of Tiefling, but that failed to get anywhere.

So Aasimar is the other divine race i guess.

 

[MonsterEnvy]

I don’t think Gith or Goblins in the PHB.

 

[Veltharis ap Rylix]

I wouldn't be against goblins making it into the PHB, but if that were going to happen, I expect we'd have heard about it a long time ago.

 

[Kobold Avenger]

Not Genasi to complete the Planetouched Hat Trick?

If they do Goblins, I hope its Gobliniods, with Goblin, Hobgoblin, and Bugbear Lineages (with the Lineages setting the size).

Goblins, Hobgoblins and Bugbears are so different from each other mechanically, I don't think they can be presented as a single species writeup.

 

[Parmandur]

I don’t think Gith or Goblins in the PHB.

Bit of a long shot, but the Aasamir were a surprise, too. The Foth got a big brand boost in BG3, and Goblins have been printed in nearly every 5E Setting, so bringing then into the PHB would make sense.

I wouldn't be against goblins making it into the PHB, but if that were going to happen, I expect we'd have heard about it a long time ago.

Not necessarily. We just learned about the Aasamir very randomly and lately.

 

[Remathilis]

Goblins, Hobgoblins and Bugbears are so different from each other mechanically, I don't think they can be presented as a single species writeup.

Shush. This is Enworld, where we will cram as many distinct options as we can into a single thing. Next week, we'll discuss how dwarves, gnomes, halflings and kender should all be on species with each lineage determining your starting cantrip...

 

[Veltharis ap Rylix]

Not necessarily. We just learned about the Aasamir very randomly and lately.

I mean, yes, but the intent to have some form of celestial planetouched in the PHB was apparent in the very first playtest UA.

It just took them a while work out whether that would be in the form of the ardling or the aasimar, and there was a lengthy gap in the middle where we were left to assume the answer was "neither".

 

[Parmandur]

I mean, yes, but the intent to have some form of celestial planetouched in the PHB was apparent in the very first playtest UA.

It just took them a while work out whether that would be in the form of the ardling or the aasimar, and there was a lengthy gap in the middle where we were left to assume the answer was "neither".

Mayne, maybe not. It's a longshot, just throwing the possibility out there. Goblin got reprinted as a PC option like 6 times in the past 10 years.

 

[Veltharis ap Rylix]

Mayne, maybe not. It's a longshot, just throwing the possibility out there. Goblin got reprinted as a PC option like 6 times in the past 10 years.

To be sure. Of the various ideas floated, goblins seem like the most likely to make it in. They're fairly prominent in fiction, they've been shifting toward a less inherently villainous portrayal for years in the same way orcs have, they fill a kind of "visual niche" that isn't really covered by the other small species options in the PHB, and so on.

I don't think we need the full suite of goblinoids - bugbears and hobgoblins, while distinct in their own ways, would step on the orc's toes - and options like gith and genasi, while certainly appreciated by many of us, are nonetheless a bit too niche for the PHB, in my mind, particularly when we start considering matters of page space.

There has to be a cutoff at some point, and the current suite of species options is probably pushing up against the upper bounds already.