D&D 5E Volo's Guide will be available for Roll20
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Over a 130 stated tokens. There are only nearly a hundred monsters in the book, so doing the math and assuming that the rest of the tokens are not variations of monsters which appear to be in the Bestariary section according to previews, then the rest of the tokens are likely player races which suggests over 30 player races. I could be wrong, but that's my hypothethis, i could be over or under.
LordEntrails
Hero
I would love that many playable races, but I doubt it. Maybe 15, one male one female each. But I doubt even that many, maybe ten. .
My theory maybe flawed, but the races chapter is still one of three in the book, so the races will likely be alot more then 15, and I think they will be organized by relative commonality or something like that. Even if each race got 3 pages, times that by 10 races and you only get 30 pages, way to small for 1 of three chapters. Even at 15 races that's still just 45 pages. Its not like D&D has a shortage of possible races within its history to offer.
Minium 20 races, maxium 50 is my guess, even if my theory is flawed I'd say 30 is the most likely.
We know about Goliths, Aasimar, Goblins, Orcs, Kenku, Tritons, Tabaxi, Firbolgs so far. Some other guesses, Hobgoblins, Bugbears, Flinds, Shadar Kai, ThriKreens, Aarakocroka, Genasi (hopeful done righr this time), Reverants, Shardminds, Shifters, Vryloka, Satyrs, Nymphs/Hamadyrads, Kobolds, Yaun-Ti Purebloods, Bullywugs, Dusklings, Changelings, Kar-Lanan, Killoren/Wilden, Bladelings, Uldra. 30 possiblities right there, and there there are lot more possiblies out there.
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Parmandur
Book-Friend, he/him
Well, we know from the Fantasy Grounds photo that there are six digital stat blocks for Kobold Dragonshields, a generic and five chromotic types. So who knows, bit the chapter cannot be more than thirty pages, based on the known page numbers thus far. Many races will likely be on the table, no more than a dozen detailed, and probably fewer than that.
LordEntrails
Hero
There certainly is no shortage of potential races.
But I wouldn't count the Kobold Dragonshields and Kobold Inventor each as there own race. I would look at them more like racial classes, (i.e. a elven fighter is the same race as a elven rogue). Just look at the first two sentences of the KD, "A kobold dragonshield is a champion of its race. Almost all dragonshields begin life as normal kobolds..."
But I wouldn't count the Kobold Dragonshields and Kobold Inventor each as there own race. I would look at them more like racial classes, (i.e. a elven fighter is the same race as a elven rogue). Just look at the first two sentences of the KD, "A kobold dragonshield is a champion of its race. Almost all dragonshields begin life as normal kobolds..."
Parmandur
Book-Friend, he/him
Well, no; but the question on the (virtual) table (top) is, how do 96 stat blocks in chapter three generate over 130 tokens for stats in Roll20? Kobold Dragonshield is probably just one of 96 in the book, but 6 of 130+ in the digital application.
LordEntrails
Hero
I think the earlier assumption that none of the tokens are for the beasts in chapter 3 is wrong.
Please break it down for me, how do we know it can't be more then thirty pages based on the numbers we've seen. For chapter 1 the last page number we seen is 83 I believe the first page we see for Chapter 3 is for the Gaurth, at page 125. Firbolg is page 107 and Goliath is page 108.
Never I count 42 pages between 83 and 125, and 83 isn't the last page in Chapter 1 and page 125 isn't the first page in Chapter 3 so your liky roughly right. Wish we could get the table of contents, so we have some idea of what were paying for.
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