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 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.

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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[Zaukrie]

a multiverse campaign/adventure path that takes you to very different worlds seems like fun.

I'm writing one. The world is being eaten by something, the gods are fighting it and delaying the world's end, while agents go thru unstable gates to find a new world. Some nations are helping each other, some are not. Who has found a new world? Can the heroes find one, and if they can, can they get people the before the world ends? I mean, this might also be a novel. What I like about this is you can create weird one shot world's.

 

[Laurefindel]

So many retroactively Fey races! The devs must really love the Feywild. Given the multiplanar bent they're pursuing, you'd think they would want to use for their one origin point for their lore retcons.

The Feywild allows for an extra planar origin that isn’t in the outer planes (i.e. the morally-aligned domains of the gods) or the inner planes (with strong elemental overtones). It’s also morally neutral with a positive or at least innocent feel, unlike its shadowfell counterparts that has a more sinister overtone.

it’s a safe design ground for WotC

 

[Enevhar Aldarion]

Brining inline all their properties. Easier to connect Faerun to Planescape to Crit Role to Magic the Gathering. The last 2 being very important to WotC Im sure.

Critical Role is not their property. After the upcoming adventure, anything new will come from CR's own publisher, Darrington Press.

 

[Scribe]

The Feywild allows for an extra planar origin that isn’t in the outer planes (i.e. the morally-aligned domains of the gods) or the inner planes (with strong elemental overtones). It’s also morally neutral with a positive or at least innocent feel, unlike its shadowfell counterparts that has a more sinister overtone.

it’s a safe design ground for WotC

And it has those 'old world' roots.

Thinking on this further.

1. I am curious how Gods will be handled.
2. I'm curious how Planes will be handled.
3. I'm probably not interested in a multiverse focus, at all.

 

[darjr]

Critical Role is not their property. After the upcoming adventure, anything new will come from CR's own publisher, Darrington Press.

It would be my guess. Have you seen an announcement?

 

[HammerMan]

I'm writing one. The world is being eaten by something, the gods are fighting it and delaying the world's end, while agents go thru unstable gates to find a new world. Some nations are helping each other, some are not. Who has found a new world? Can the heroes find one, and if they can, can they get people the before the world ends? I mean, this might also be a novel. What I like about this is you can create weird one shot world's.

sounds cool

 

[Sir Brennen]

infinite earths is a comic idea from way back...

It's been an idea in physics for a very long time, too. When that cat did/didn't die in the box

 

[Enevhar Aldarion]

It would be my guess. Have you seen an announcement?

If it was not the last book in whatever deal CR has with WotC, wouldn't Tal'Dorei Reborn have been published by WotC also?

 

[darjr]

If it was not the last book in whatever deal CR has with WotC, wouldn't Tal'Dorei Reborn have been published by WotC also?

That’s a good guess, sure.

 

[Oofta]

I'm glad that they seem to be moving away from "everything is FR". It's about time, it will be interesting to see how they introduce realm hopping.

As far as goblins, they've always had a fey origin in my campaign and my PCs have met them in my version of the feywild. Those goblins are tricksters and sneaky, like many of the fey not really good or evil. Long ago some proto-goblins came to the mortal realm and some followed a dark path of tricksters and their practical jokes became cruel when they decided to follow Maglubiyet. Others followed Garl Glittergold and followed their goodly light hearted nature and became gnomes. Both races are frequently inventors and craftsmen of sometimes overly complex inventions.

In any case I'll be interested to see what comes next. I'm sure I'll like some of it and dislike some as always.