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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Christian Hoffer" data-source="post: 9561726" data-attributes="member: 6926473">[ATTACH=full]393781[/ATTACH]The githyanki and githzerai are officially reclassified as aberrations in Dungeons & Dragons. In a video released today about the 2025 Monster Manual, D&D designers Jeremy Crawford and F. Wesley Schneider confirmed that the two classic D&D species are now being classified as aberrations. The reasoning given - the two gith species have been so transformed by living in the Astral Plane and Limbo, they've moved beyond being humanoids. Schneider also pointed out that the illithid's role in manipulating the gith also contributed to their new classification. The video notes that this isn't technically a new change - the Planescape book released in 2023 had several githzerai statblocks that had aberration classifications. The gith join a growing number <a href="https://www.enworld.org/threads/monster-manual-suggests-changes-are-coming-to-some-playable-species.709638/" target="_blank">of previously playable species</a> that have new classifications. The goblin, kobolds, and kenku have also had their creature classifications changed in the 2025 Monster Manual. While players can currently use the 2014 rules for making characters of those species, it will be interesting to see how these reclassifications affect the character-building rules regarding these species when they are eventually updated for 2024 rules.</blockquote>