D&D (2024) Humanoids in the MM...

[Micah Sweet]

I don’t know if they will straight up remove the Orc Warrior, Eye of Gruumsh and Warchief. I imagine they would keep them for backwards compatibility.

Same with the Drow and Duregar.

They didn't keep all the orc statblocks in Volo's.

 

[Micah Sweet]

Im just hoping Gnomes are fey

Elves aren't. Why would gnomes be?

 

[MonsterEnvy]

They didn't keep all the orc statblocks in Volo's.

Those stat blocks were not used in various adventures.

 

[dave2008]

I could see the Yuan-Ti Pureblood, Grimlock, and Gith becoming Aberrations or Abominations, potentially.

Abominations are not a thing in 5e, unless they are making a comeback with the 5e24 rules

 

[dave2008]

Elves aren't. Why would gnomes be?

Why can hope without any real reason your hope will come true. I always hope armor with damage reduction will become part of the core rules (among other things), even though I know that will never be the case!

 

[Micah Sweet]

Those stat blocks were not used in various adventures.

Ah. Forgot about their nigh-obsessive adventure path focus. Fair enough.

 

[FitzTheRuke]

I don’t know if they will straight up remove the Orc Warrior, Eye of Gruumsh and Warchief. I imagine they would keep them for backwards compatibility.

Same with the Drow and Duregar.

I think that they're just going to be careful not to call the Orc Warrior simply "Orc". And that goes for all of the sentient species. It may have been simple (and I think that was the real reason for the usage) but calling something "goblin", "orc", or even "bugbear" instead of something like "goblin raider", "orc warrior", or "bugbear ambusher" just seems... reductive to a modern eye.

It makes the game "sound" more 4e - but that's because it was was something that they'd solved in 4e, and it wasn't for no reason.

 

[Micah Sweet]

Why can hope without any real reason your hope will come true. I always hope armor with damage reduction will become part of the core rules (among other things), even though I know that will never be the case!

I too am quite fond of DR, but I'd rather do it myself then see WotC make some version of it I don't really like but that nonetheless soft-locks every other publisher for 5e from making one.

 

[Micah Sweet]

I think that they're just going to be careful not to call the Orc Warrior simply "Orc". And that goes for all of the sentient species. It may have been simple (and I think that was the real reason for the usage) but calling something "goblin", "orc", or even "bugbear" instead of something like "goblin raider", "orc warrior", or "bugbear ambusher" just seems... reductive to a modern eye.

It makes the game "sound" more 4e - but that's because it was was something that they'd solved in 4e, and it wasn't for no reason.

Although I doubt 4e did for the same reasons 5.5 might.

 

[Parmandur]

Abominations are not a thing in 5e, unless they are making a comeback with the 5e24 rules

D'oh, 3E brain strikes again!