Critical Role Wildemount has new subraces and reprints a ton of others

[gyor]

how? They had a ton of races in the FRCS back in the day that aren’t core. This is evidence that Mercer has allowed people to pull from various D&D supplements to build characters and that they want the material in one place. It’s no different than Mordenkainen and Out of the Abyss both having Demon Lord stats.

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.

 

[Fenris-77]

All four living grognards are planning a protest march on Washington should Goblins be made a core race.

 

[gyor]

What is the 2nd place Genasi were printed? And have their stats been changed this time to bring their power level up to par?

Genasi are in Elemental Evil and The Princes of the Apocalypse! And mentioned, but no stats given in the Swordcoast Adventurer's Guide.

 

[gyor]

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]

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)

 

[gyor]

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)

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]

+1 wisdom
cast druidcraft, at 3rd level entangle 1/day, at 5th spike growth 1/day
Tracking the halfling is at disadvantage, can ignore difficult terrain for non-magical plants and undergrowth.

Hmm... definitely NOT what I was expecting from their subrace’s name.

 

[CapnZapp]

how?

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]

I'm never not going to be able to read that as Baconblood. They should also get a bonus to persuade, because really, who doesn't like bacon?

Vegans?


No offense intended towards those who don’t eat meat...

 

[Weiley31]

Considering I don't own the books where a number of said races came from, that's actually pretty handy for me when I nab this book.