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Interesting that all the monster stat blocks look to me humanoid. I wonder if this will be a trend, having more humanoid stat blocks in the setting books since so much of the Monster Manual was more setting generic.
They are but they are also reprinting basically every other player facing option from Rising here, so it makes sense. Especially with how radically different backgrounds have become.
One of them is likely the House Agent background from Rising. We know the Dragonmark backgrounds are called something like “Cannith Scion” or whatever, so the generic House Agent background for someone that works for the houses but isn’t a member seems likely.
considering that, my assumption...
Previews for this book begin this week. An article is filed on D&D Beyond covering the 4 revised species for the book (Warforged, Shifter, Changling, and Kalashtar).
https://www.dndbeyond.com/posts/2014-the-4-updated-species-in-eberron-forge-of-the
It’s the next article in number order and...
This is a shifter, specifically it is the same character seen in the Artillerist preview page. They wear the same exact outfit with the same facial markings, so this is her shifted form.
I fully don’t expect my random packets to be exactly correct. But if WotC wanted to they could make it pretty clean.
As for the FR book, I’m assuming a setting specific UA drop is more likely to have new options than UA drops for a possible everything book.
The Explorers Guide and Netherdeep were both published by WotC but through a licensing deal with Critical Role. None of the options have since be reprinted in other books because they can’t be.
The only time those options can be used by WotC is in Critical Role licensed products. It’s very...
And because I am already knee-deep in this, if we take away the subclasses they can't use (Wildmount) and the subclasses that are clearly not coming back (Death Cleric, Oathbreaker, Undying), this is the spread of subclasses (including the new options that have been added in UA's since 2024...