D&D (2024) D&D species article

[Chaosmancer]

Tieflings are kind of more magical in the sense that there are two new types of Tieflings with different magics. Not taking a side just saying.

Well then I will just counter that tieflings are less magical because now there are only three types of Tieflings with magic, instead of 11 of them (PHB Base, Baalzebul, Dispater, Fierna, Glasya, Levistus, Mammon, Mephistopheles, Devil's Tongue, Hellfire, and Zariel)

 

[Chaosmancer]

What what?

Elves got no more spells
Tieflings got more spells
Gnomes goet more spells
Dragonborn got magic wings!
Dwarves got Tremorsense
Aasimar was added and their magic made more versatile
Goliath got Giant magic and can go to large size
Orcs went from Dash as bonus action to to X uses of Dash+THP. And had its bigness removed.

So I stand by my statement

It's less that every species has spells and more that every nonhuman species is now more overtly magical and have less leaned to their natural biology.

No just Big race. No just tough race. No just fast race.

Tieflings did not get more spells. If you are counting the fact that there are no 3 lineages of Tieflings, then I will point out that there used to be eleven lineages of tieflings so now they have fewer spells. Dragonborn kept the magical wings from Fizban's, they also didn't get the magical immunity or the paralyzing breath which is why many people have demanded they be completely reprinted from Fizbans. Aasimar being added doesn't mean that Aasimar got more magical.

Seriously, if your argument is that there are too many fantasy species with supernatural coding to them in your fantasy game, I don't know what to tell you. Play human like always I guess, or Orc since they are not supernatural.

 

[Minigiant]

Seriously, if your argument is that there are too many fantasy species with supernatural coding to them in your fantasy game, I don't know what to tell you. Play human like always I guess, or Orc since they are not supernatural

My argument is there's too many blatant and over the top fantasy species with supernatural coding.

You can't have a species that is fantastically strong or fantastically smart or fantastically swift or have fantastic eyes.

Nope. They gotta shapeshift, cast spells, or grow magic wings.

Can't a species just be super strong so everything in their society is super heavy?


Why can't orcs just be mini Hulks like EVERY other fantasy (except Tolkien).

 

[Corinnguard]

Tieflings are kind of more magical in the sense that there are two new types of Tieflings with different magics. Not taking a side just saying.

Which makes them more appealing than their Aasimar counterparts.

 

[Charlaquin]

Perception (I cant think of a reference to heightened sense − the opposite comes to mind)

 

[Henadic Theologian]

Well then I will just counter that tieflings are less magical because now there are only three types of Tieflings with magic, instead of 11 of them (PHB Base, Baalzebul, Dispater, Fierna, Glasya, Levistus, Mammon, Mephistopheles, Devil's Tongue, Hellfire, and Zariel)

These new 3 only replace the base 2014 Tiefling in the rules, not the rest, although the SCAG Variants might mix different with the new Tiefling.

 

[Aldarc]

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[Parmandur]

These new 3 only replace the base 2014 Tiefling in the rules, not the rest, although the SCAG Variants might mix different with the new Tiefling.

But more on point, each of the Tiefling options is neither more nor less magical than the 2014 base Tieflings: more equally magical options simply means "no more magical".

 

[Micah Sweet]

My argument is there's too many blatant and over the top fantasy species with supernatural coding.

You can't have a species that is fantastically strong or fantastically smart or fantastically swift or have fantastic eyes.

Nope. They gotta shapeshift, cast spells, or grow magic wings.

Can't a species just be super strong so everything in their society is super heavy?


Why can't orcs just be mini Hulks like EVERY other fantasy (except Tolkien).

Because that's not what WotC thinks people want, and they are a weather vane of public opinion.

 

[CreamCloud0]

Because that's not what WotC thinks people want, and they are a weather vane of public opinion.

Well they’re a weather vane I wouldn’t trust to inform me of the weather if these are their readings.