D&D 5E D&D's official twitter feed is giving previews of art and contents from Monsters of the Multiverse

[Weiley31]

Pretty much what I expected in the Races being in there. Not complaining.

 

[Levistus's_Leviathan]

For those that don't want to have to watch the video, the 30ish confirmed races for the book are as follows:

1. Aarakocra
2. Aasimar
3. Bugbear
4. Centaur
5. Changeling
6. Deep Gnome (Svirfneblin)
7. Duergar
8. Eladrin
9. Fairy
10. Firbolg
11. Air Genasi
12. Earth Genasi
13. Fire Genasi
14. Water Genasi
15. Githyanki
16. Githzerai
17. Goblin
18. Goliath
19. Harengon
20. Hobgoblin
21. Kenku
22. Kobold
23. Lizardfolk
24. Minotaur
25. Orc
26. Satyr
27. Sea Elf
28. Shadar-Kai
29. Shifter
30. Tabaxi
31. Tortle
32. Triton
33. Yuan-Ti (strangely, it doesn't say "Pureblood" on this section)

That's mostly what I was expecting it to be. There's a few surprises (Fairy and Harengon), and there's no Locathah or Grung in it (or the 8 Tiefling subraces), but it's more or less just the races (and subraces that are now becoming full races) from Volo's Guide to Monsters and Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes put in this book in an updated format. Genasi got some buffs, from what I heard, too.

Edit: I forgot to mention, it appears that none of the races that previously got Sunlight Sensitivity will have it from now on. (Duergar in this book, but probably not Drow, either, in the upcoming reprint of the PHB.)

 

[pukunui]

Are they completely doing away with the concept of subrace, or are they just doing that here so you don’t have to refer back to the base race in the PHB?

Making supplementary subraces their own race could simply be so they present the whole package in one place.

Aasimar and shifter both have subraces in their existing forms, for instance, but I don’t see them listed separately like the different genasi are. Do they no longer have subraces?

 

[Remathilis]

So, there are Shifters and Changelings, but not Warforged or Kalashtar (just like I predicted!)

Changeling but not kalshatar also.

 

[Weiley31]

And that is a great house rule I'm adding to PC Kobolds in my 5E games when I DM.

 

[Remathilis]

Are they completely doing away with the concept of subrace, or are they just doing that here so you don’t have to refer back to the base race in the PHB?

Making supplementary subraces their own race could simply be so they present the whole package in one place.

Aasimar and shifter both have subraces in their existing dorms, for instance, but I don’t see them listed separately like the different genasi are. Do they no long have subraces?

Looks like subraces are gone as a mechanic. They will be separate races that count as parent races.

 

[overgeeked]

Eladrin teleport is now proficiency bonus times per long rest.

 

[Weiley31]

I wonder if the Shadar-Kai got changed in anyway.

 

[pukunui]

Looks like subraces are gone as a mechanic. They will be separate races that count as parent races.

Huh. I wonder why. And what has happened to the aasimar and shifter subraces?

 

[Weiley31]

Also: If the Duergar don't get the Dwarven racial traits, does that mean Shadar-Kai lose out on Fey Ancestry? I mean I was never big on having them as Elves either, but from a background lore perspective, it made sense that they had it since they were the results of Shadowfell fey and the Raven Queen's followers "mingling" together.