D&D (2024) How's the adoption of the new Goliath types going?

[Paul Farquhar]

Hence, I desire someone to flesh them out a bit, provide a template for people to work from, so as to make starting easier.

Why not, like do it yourself? That’s the best way to fit them into your world.

Or if someone wants to play one, let them do it (then take notes and steal the credit).

 

[Paul Farquhar]

To me that's a big sticking point, because it suggests the different goliath types don't interbreed, which is exactly the sort of thing I thought they were moving away from.

Why so? The rules say goliaths can develop 5 different abilities, they don’t say there are 5 different types of Goliath.

There is no reason to suppose full size giants don’t interbreed for that matter. The product of giants interbreeding with different types of giant is a potential Goliath origin story.

 

[Corinnguard]

Even though Monsters of the Multiverse where the Genasi last appeared is more 2024 compatible than other books, I think the Genasi are going to need more of a reformatting. They'd probably be written as just 1 species with lineage options, like Elves, Gnomes, Tieflings and Goliaths have been written. But I think that would leave room for more than the 4 core types of Genasi, though I'm still very 2e-biased in my view of things with Quasi-elements, but it could be the 4 elements + necrotic and radiant, with the idea that Lightning, Salt, Ash, Dust and others just fit into 6 general types.

4e had it where the Genasi were just a single race that was capable of manifesting each of the five elements (air, earth, fire, lightning and water) thanks to their time living in the Elemental Chaos. They were born manifesting one element at first but could learn how to manifest another element given enough time. However, the process of switching from one element to another was considered painful as they were literally recreating themselves into that second element.

I had it where the Para-Genasi and Quasi-Genasi were the result of where their genie ancestors lived on their respective elemental plane. For instance, I had it where an Efreet living in the Cinder Wastes of the Elemental Plane of Fire was more likely to have Ash Genasi descendants instead of Fire Genasi.

Fire
Sea of Fire- Fire Genasi
Cinder Wastes- Ash Genasi
Fountains of Creation- Magma Genasi

Earth
The Furnaces- Metal Genasi
City of Jewels- Crystal Genasi

And so forth

I believe they first popped up in Races of Stone

Correct.

 

[TorgoTheWhite]

I like how the results of hybridization can be so unpredictable. Usually diversity coming together creates some sort of advantage but it rarely results as predicted... That's why I love spontaneity and chaos in their background. 2 giant things couple?.... and the results is.... pint-sized? But strong in a different way.

Also, I like plants so much because of the whole quad-donor genome that some of them have

 

[Mind of tempest]

Why not, like do it yourself? That’s the best way to fit them into your world.

Or if someone wants to play one, let them do it (then take notes and steal the credit).

Not all of us are that gifted, besides the juices are not following right now.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

Not all of us are that gifted, besides the juices are not following right now.

Plenty of ideas just chucked out into this thread, if you made a thread asking for ideas you would get a whole heap more.