D&D 5E Legends & Lore 8/4/14: Here Comes the Player's Handbook

[ZombieRoboNinja]

Hi-

what races will be in the PHB, I know Elf, Human, Dwarf and Hobbit will be in there, will the 1/2 orc be in there too?

Scott

Yes. Also gnomes, half-elves, dragonborn, and tieflings.

 

[evilbob]

Hi-

what races will be in the PHB, I know Elf, Human, Dwarf and Hobbit will be in there, will the 1/2 orc be in there too?

Scott

There's a thread with all the known info in one place, including races:

www.enworld.org/forum/showthread.php?357371-How-much-of-the-PHB-have-we-seen-Maybe-more-than-you-think!

 

[Bumamgar]

Sorry, I used the word support to mean content, but the way you worded it is better.

Given that there hasn't been any new 4e content for quite some time now, and WotC isn't going to be generating any more official 4e content, I'm not surprised that there would be no new content for DDI.

I was a bit saddened that they aren't going to be wrapping the 5e online tools into the DDI umbrella, but rather farming it out to a 3rd party. While I don't mind having a 3rd party do the work, I assume at some point Dungeon and Dragon (the magazines) will come back for 5e. When they do, it would be very nice to have access to the magazines and the online tools through a single subscription (ie: DDI) rather than having to deal with that all separately.

 

[fanboy2000]

Not so much Wizards of the Coast as Wizards Off the Coast.

don't forget to tip your waitress!

 

[sgtscott658]

Yes. Also gnomes, half-elves, dragonborn, and tieflings.

Blah, Wizards had to include the munchkin player races Dragonborn and Tieflings which are not appropriate for my Greyhawk campaign. But everything else is kind of. Thankfully theres alot I like about 5E, it is I think an improved version of 3E and loses the superhero mentality of 4E. I did play 4E a couple of times and it felt like more of a superheros game then D&D. Anyway I think this edition hits the right spot for me and I think for many others.


Scott

 

[Truename]

Blah, Wizards had to include the munchkin player races Dragonborn and Tieflings which are not appropriate for my Greyhawk campaign. But everything else is kind of. Thankfully theres alot I like about 5E, it is I think an improved version of 3E and loses the superhero mentality of 4E. I did play 4E a couple of times and it felt like more of a superheros game then D&D. Anyway I think this edition hits the right spot for me and I think for many others.

Welcome to ENWorld! You should know that we don't appreciate this sort of edition warring here... try to find a way to express yourself that doesn't involve putting down what other people like. As my kids' kindergarten teacher says, "Don't yuck someone else's yum." Like this:

Blah, Wizards had to include Dragonborn and Tieflings which are not appropriate for my Greyhawk campaign. But everything else is kind of. Thankfully theres alot I like about 5E, it is I think an improved version of 3E. Anyway I think this edition hits the right spot for me and I think for many others.

Thanks!

 

[I'm A Banana]

Shouldn't be the Fraternity of Order, not Unity of Order?

I made an active choice to try and "de-male-default-ify" the faction names. Godsmen, Fraternity of Order, and Dustmen, while pretty evocative and solidly Brit-esque, are prone to getting eye-rolls in some of my groups for implying a sausage-fest amongst its members.

So Godsflesh, the Unity of Order, and the Dust are what my players know them as.

Me too i think you did and also like the bariaur race

IDK if you saw Mike gave you props on twitter:

Thanks, man! Inspires me to actually write up the info for the other races.

 

[the Jester]

I made an active choice to try and "de-male-default-ify" the faction names. Godsmen, Fraternity of Order, and Dustmen, while pretty evocative and solidly Brit-esque, are prone to getting eye-rolls in some of my groups for implying a sausage-fest amongst its members.

So Godsflesh, the Unity of Order, and the Dust are what my players know them as.

I like this. In my game, I address this by having groups with both 'masculine' and 'feminine' names, such as the Grey Brotherhood and the Sorority of the Seven Veils. And sometimes the head of a masculine group is female (the Grandmother of Assassins was head of the Grey Brotherhood). A lot of it comes down to in-game cultural elements.

 

[Iosue]

Welcome to ENWorld! You should know that we don't appreciate this sort of edition warring here... try to find a way to express yourself that doesn't involve putting down what other people like. As my kids' kindergarten teacher says, "Don't yuck someone else's yum."

Sometimes I feel like Bucho from Desperado.

"It's one thing if you can't find some class or race that you like to play. I can understand that. What I can't understand is how you let classes and races you aren't interested in even bother you! Now you page through the PHB. You see some class or race you don't like, you turn the page and move on. How hard is that, huh?"

 

[I'm A Banana]

I like this. In my game, I address this by having groups with both 'masculine' and 'feminine' names, such as the Grey Brotherhood and the Sorority of the Seven Veils. And sometimes the head of a masculine group is female (the Grandmother of Assassins was head of the Grey Brotherhood). A lot of it comes down to in-game cultural elements.

Yeah, I don't think it's BAD to keep it masculine, just not something I wanted to deal with IMC.

One that I particularly struggled with is the Godsmen. In that it employs the multiple meanings of "men" as both "things that are not gods" (men vs. gods, man is mortal, etc.) and "people who responsible for the associated noun" (used in Dustmen, but also in Firemen and Policemen and other jobs), but I didn't just want to be "Godsmen and Godswomen" and focus on the gender of it. Not TOTALLY content with Godsflesh, but it's OK.