D&D 5E D&D Lore Changes: Multiversal Focus & Fey Goblins of Prehistory

WotC's Jeremy Crawford revealed a couple of the lore changes in Monsters of the Multiverse. The big shift is toward the multiverse as the game's main perspective rather than a specific setting. The game is shifting towards a multiversal focus, with a variety of worlds and settings. Universe-spanning mythical story beats, such as deep lore on goblinoids going back to 1st Edition, and the gods...

WotC's Jeremy Crawford revealed a couple of the lore changes in Monsters of the Multiverse.
  • The big shift is toward the multiverse as the game's main perspective rather than a specific setting. The game is shifting towards a multiversal focus, with a variety of worlds and settings.
  • Universe-spanning mythical story beats, such as deep lore on goblinoids going back to 1st Edition, and the gods they had before Maglubiyet. Prior to Magulbiyet unifying them, goblinoids were folk of the feywild in keeping with 'real-world' folklore.
  • Changelings aren't just Eberron, but they've been everywhere -- you just don't necessarily know it. Their origin is also in the realm of the fey.
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D&D 5E - A Compilation of all the Race Changes in Monsters of the Multiverse

Over on Reddit, user KingJackel went through the video leak which came out a few days ago and manually compiled a list of all the changes to races in the book. The changes are quite extensive, with only the fairy and harengon remaining unchanged. The book contains 33 races in total, compiled and...
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Henadic Theologian

Legend
RoughCoronet0 said:
I mean, the Feywild Races UA ended up being split between 3 different books (Beyond the Witchlight for the Fairy and Harengon, Strixhaven for the Owlin, and Monsters of the Multiverse for the Hobgoblin.

So I don’t think it’s too far of a stretch to think they could be play testing ideas for both Spelljammer and Planescape. Maybe even Dark Sun (taking Thri-keen into consideration). Ultimately we won’t know until the other announced campaign books are revealed.
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Exactly. I'm looking forward to D&D live were the settings for this year will likely be announced if not sooner. We might also learn if the classic setting and new settings for next year are safe yet from being cancelled and maybe the revisit in 2024 to.
 

Maxperson

Maxperson

Morkus from Orkus
Henadic Theologian said:
My bet is UA Astral Elves = Aborean Elves for Planescape. Astral Elves feel like a Cross between Elves and Aasimar. The mixture of light/radiant damage and healing themes from Aasimar with Elf traits like Trance.
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That's a possibility, but the lore for astral elves is very specifically astral in nature. Did the stealth wrong lore in for the other stealth jobs, or just move those races to another product. If the latter, then I don't think that they are going to be arborean elves for planescape. The astral is a travel plane and fits right in with a Planejammer type setting.
 


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Erdric Dragin

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I find it humorous that every update/change to D&D in the future is automatically considered "better than before" by all the diehard loyalists or the new people.

Newsflash, not every progress is a step forward. There's so many aspects of D&D 5e that's worse than previous editions.

I'm just waiting for the day the DMs Guild finally allows content creators to write books of other editions. At least Paizo was smart and allowed Pathfinder Infinite to allow creators to write either 1e or 2e products.

That way everyone is happy playing in their own editions and edition lore and also receiving new content for their edition. And WotC makes an even larger profit
 


Alzrius

Alzrius

The EN World kitten
Erdric Dragin said:
Newsflash, not every progress is a step forward. There's so many aspects of D&D 5e that's worse than previous editions.
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That's one of the things I consider most frustrating of all, particularly when aspects of previous editions which had been discarded are later added back in. It's one thing to reinvent the wheel; it's another to discard the wheel in favor of a square, then later come back and say "we're improving on the square by making it round!"

I mean, adding "typically" to monster alignments? We had that back in 3E with the always/usually/often qualifiers!
Erdric Dragin said:
I'm just waiting for the day the DMs Guild finally allows content creators to write books of other editions. At least Paizo was smart and allowed Pathfinder Infinite to allow creators to write either 1e or 2e products.

That way everyone is happy playing in their own editions and edition lore and also receiving new content for their edition. And WotC makes an even larger profit
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I take it back. That's the most frustrating thing of all. Why not do this? If they're worried about causing confusion on the DM's Guild website by having products for every edition, just have OneBookShelf make a different storefront for pre-5E fan-produced products. Call it the Old School Rchive (see what I did there?) or something, and there's really no downside.
 

pukunui

pukunui

Legend
QuentinGeorge said:
There was no common origin for elves from Toril, Oerth and Krynn until 5E decided to make one, which then puts a big steaming crater in all of Dragonlance's tightly coupled history.
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This is from 2e’s Complete Book of Elves (1992):

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EDIT: As an aside, I didn’t realise that Taladas had been part of the DL setting so early on. I had previously thought it was a 3e addition.
 
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