Its not just Wildemount, its the broader trend, if a race keeps popping up in books, multiple settings its a sign that its a core race. Goblins were a core race for most MtG settings, so now that they are getting the D&D treatment it makes sense to add them to the PHB, especially since they are playable in Forgotten Realms, Eberron, Exandia, and other more traditional D&D settings. I'd also add Aasimar and Genasi to the PHB.
Critical Role Wildemount has new subraces and reprints a ton of others
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Its not just Wildemount, its the broader trend, if a race keeps popping up in books, multiple settings its a sign that its a core race. Goblins were a core race for most MtG settings, so now that they are getting the D&D treatment it makes sense to add them to the PHB, especially since they are playable in Forgotten Realms, Eberron, Exandia, and other more traditional D&D settings. I'd also add Aasimar and Genasi to the PHB.
Genasi are in Elemental Evil and The Princes of the Apocalypse! And mentioned, but no stats given in the Swordcoast Adventurer's Guide.
All four living grognards are planning a protest march on Washington should Goblins be made a core race.
Hopefully it will be streamed on youtube so we all get a chance to laugh at them!
Tales and Chronicles
Jewel of the North, formerly know as vincegetorix
I wish in the next PHB (lets say for an eventual 5e: Game of the Year Edition) they would divise the races as such instead of common/uncommon:
Prime Cultures
Monstrous Cultures
Planetouched Cultures (no grid filling: just add a note that a tiefling could also be a Fey'ri or a Tanharuk, for example)
Prime Cultures
Monstrous Cultures
Planetouched Cultures (no grid filling: just add a note that a tiefling could also be a Fey'ri or a Tanharuk, for example)
I've been thinking for awhile that they should do an expanded edition of the PHB, not 5.5e exactly, but more add a few more core races to it, the the subclasses from XGTE, and a few more things.
Bitbrain
ORC (Open RPG) horde ally
Hmm... definitely NOT what I was expecting from their subrace’s name.
CapnZapp
Legend
Simple.
Just go back in time to summer 2014 and make WotC decide to add 16 pages or so to the PHB.
Or, if you feel that's infeasible, how about adding enough rules to the monster entries (of Goblins etc) in the MM and simply rule those races are "core legit" too!
Bitbrain
ORC (Open RPG) horde ally
All four living grognards are planning a protest march on Washington should Goblins be made a core race.
Actually, it's 10 of us. But no more than 10 because we're all at risk and the feds are saying to limit groups to less than 10.
Sadras
Legend
Like Sacrocanct says it will be 10 but it won't be a march, the inclusion of goblins as a playable race in the PHB is such an inflammatory issue that it will likely incite a cough assault until the matter is resolved adequately.
vpuigdoller
Adventurer
They used Eberron version.
bedir than
Hero
This is a good reminder for everyone that the vast majority of those that play D&D are in this boat
That's not strictly true. When a new Grognard enters the order, one Grognard is chosen to become The Great Neckbeard, who must fight the existing Great Neckbeard in ritual combat. The loser is cast out and becomes a simple curmudgeon, losing their Grognard powers.
JUST LIKE OLD SCHOOL DRUIDS!!
vpuigdoller
Adventurer
Sadly that's not the case for all subclasses like in the gods' section they point you to book and page where the mentioned domains are contained, for example, the arcana domain and the order domains in which they point you to two different books.
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dave2008
Legend
But I already have the PHB and XGTE!
Urriak Uruk
Gaming is fun, and fun is for everyone
I've said it before, but I'll say it again; it does not make good business sense for Wizard's to make a 5.5 PHB, or a new PHB that is the same as the current one but adds a bunch of stuff (and by 5.5 PHB I don't mean a book like Xanathar's).
It is both way easier to reprint these races in new books, and way more profitable.
It is both way easier to reprint these races in new books, and way more profitable.
Not only that, i think there would be backlash to a "GOTY Edition" PHB, especially by recent purchasers.
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