Forgotten Realms + PHB2 races

[CapnZapp]

The Player's Guide added a few racial feats such as "Gold Dwarf Pride" and "Moon Elf Resilience" as a 4E nod to the old sub-races of that campaign world.

How about Devas and Gnomes? Anyone know if WotC will update the FR set of racial feats to include the new PHB2 races?

 

[Nymrohd]

Well apart from gnomes, which do have subraces in FR, the rest of the new races don't (technically half-orcs can be half-mountain or half-grey orc but even in 3E we never got different stats or anything for them).

 

[CapnZapp]

Yeah, but I'm thinking this is a new edition. If they have said all the races will be fully realized in all the game worlds, it figures they would offer campaign-specific "subrace" feats for all of them...

Why otherwise have dragonborn FR-specific feats?

But you have a point, they're not "subrace" feats for all races. Dragonborn aren't divided into "dragonfoes" and formerly "shackled"...

So the answer is "not yet", no?

 

[Jack Colby]

Forgotten Realms is last year's campaign world, and was designed for last year's races. This year has new races and will have a new world for them!

 

[Bold or Stupid]

The FR players guide has a section that covers other races that includes some of the PH2 races, and was in fact the first spoiler on Deva.

 

[Wraith Form]

Forgotten Realms is last year's campaign world, and was designed for last year's races. This year has new races and will have a new world for them!

In other words, "God, that is so 2008."

 

[Henrix]

They've also stated that they want to have fewer subraces, not more.

 

[Mustrum_Ridcully]

They've also stated that they want to have fewer subraces, not more.

At the moment, this just seems to mean that a subrace doesn't get a full racial write-up with new stat modifiers - but racial feats still seem to be fine.

For Devas, I could imagine that they might have racial feats that describe their angelic heritage. There might be a "Deva of Valor" feat or something like that.