D&D (2024) I have a Monster Manual. AMA!

[pukunui]

As I have a player that has recently been cursed with Lycanthropy, how does the curse of lycanthropy function in this new edition?

Shockingly, it doesn't! They have no damage immunity and no regeneration!

Is there a special, in-game name for lizardfolk who forge powerful bonds with the Elemental Plane of Earth?

The description makes it sound like Humanoid lizardfolk and Elemental lizardfolk are living side-by-side in the same culture, with the latter group as a specialized variety of the former group. I'm going to be rather disappointed if the book doesn't tell us what (general) lizardfolk call the (Elemental) lizardfolk living in their midst. I'll be equally disappointed if the in-game name is "Elemental lizardfolk."

No, there is no special name for them. What I posted above is the everything the book says about lizardfolk.

I suspect that WotC has kept lore to a minimum in the core rulebooks so that it can be fleshed out in each setting book without necessarily contradicting what's in the core books.

 

[Fremouwski]

Shockingly, it doesn't! They have no damage immunity and no regeneration!

So there is nothing in the new MM describing what happens if a PC is cursed with Lycanthropy?

 

[Nadan]

Shockingly, it doesn't! They have no damage immunity and no regeneration!

They have almost double the DPR to make up. To be honest the old were-creature have terrible stat that most power budget got eat up by that immunity.

So there is nothing in the new MM describing what happens if a PC is cursed with Lycanthropy?

If the cursed target drops to 0 Hit Points, it instead becomes a were-creature under the DM’s control and has 10 Hit Points. No more "playable" were PC

 

[Fremouwski]

If the cursed target drops to 0 Hit Points, it instead becomes a were-creature under the DM’s control and has 10 Hit Points. No more "playable" were PC

That is a bit disappointing to be honest, as I was hoping for a bit more guidelines on how to deal with PCs having the curse and making it an interesting part of the ongoing game. I know the previous MM had some guidelines for this, but I always found them a big vague..

Seems I have to make (or find) some homebrew rules for this then..

Thank you for your response!

 

[Micah Sweet]

But it did. Elves could not be priests. That had implications. Did Correlon show up and grant elves access to divine magic? Was it like Dragonlance where the elf gods showed up and elves found divine power? Were elves atheist before that?

I suppose it never came up. Elves had a pantheon they believed in and worshipped forever, so they certainly weren't atheists. I assumed their cultures expressed that belief somehow. Letting them be priests in the rules didn't change anything. If someone in my 1e game wanted to play an elf cleric I would have let them.

But keep trying to catch me.

 

[Micah Sweet]

I mean D&D has been retconning its past since the 70s. Just look at the history of the Nine Hells. Zariel was supposed to be the first ruler of Avernus and now she's only been a devil for a couple centuries.

All the previous rulers of Avernus and the other Hells still happened. That's history. I don't see a problem there.

 

[Chaltab]

All the previous rulers of Avernus and the other Hells still happened. That's history. I don't see a problem there.

I dunno, changing the whole story bothers me a lot more than things that could just be explained as misinterpretations or new developments. There's no way to reconcile the backstory of Descent into Avernus with previous lore other to say that Zariel fell millions of years ago, ascended and became a Solar again, and then fell again.

Here's what the 2024 MM's entry on Lizardfolk says:

Since you also have a copy: how's the Marilith art? Does it include a male marilith like they did with hags, dryads, and medusae?

 

[Nadan]

Since you also have a copy: how's the Marilith art? Does it include a male marilith like they did with hags, dryads, and medusae?

Kind of? Devils and demons except erinyes in new MM don't really have observable gender feature anymore.

 

[Chaltab]

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Okay I kind of hate that one.

 

[pukunui]

Kind of? Devil and demons except erinyes in new MM don't really have observable gender feature anymore.

I think you mean the incubus/succubus. I suppose you could say the erinyes could be a male but it's hard to tell.

And one more time: "erinyes" is plural. The singular is "erinys". I don't know how / when that got confused in D&D, but I wish they'd correct it!