I'm still trying to figure out how to go through them. Depending on how I feel, we might go through some of their variants and lore when we get to Volo's.
We've talked about these races in relative depth in previous segments, so I'm not going to go through them again here. Elemental Evil, meanwhile, gives additional detail about the Aarakocra and Deep Gnome as playable races. exotic and have a lot more lore tied to them, so there's a lot more for me to actually talk about.Īs a brief side-note, Volo's Guide to Monsters also gives official stats and lore for playable versions of the lizardfolk, kobold, true orc, yuan-ti pureblood as well as all three goblinoid races (goblin, hobgoblin, bugbear). So, yeah, here we are, discussing a bunch of pretty interesting player character's races! And with these dudes, they're a lot more. I didn't put in the Eberron or Ravnica guidebook player's races 'cause I don't own those books in 5E, so I'll probably only cover them later on.
Because I kind of consider them to more or less be 'core' because all of the games I've been in feature these races heavily, we'll cover them more here. I understand why the basic Player's Handbook, it wants to make things as simple as possible without learning a lot of new words, just having a bunch of basic fantasy races, plus two outliers (dragonborn and tiefling) to not overwhelm anyone picking up D&D for the first time. And honestly, I've seen so many of these not-quite-classic-to-European-myth races show up in 5th Edition D&D campaigns, both ones I've participated in as well as ones I see online or whatever, that I completely forget that races like the Goliath and Aasimar aren't actually part of the 'basic' recommended core races. So in this segment of Reviewing D&D Monsters, I'm going to talk not just about the Appendix of the Monster Manual, but also a bunch of player races that are not included in either the Player's Handbook or the Monster Manual, but are elaborated on in-depth in Volo's Guide to Monsters and the Elemental Evil Player's Companion. I have a lot of words written up for the monsters in Volo's and Mordekainen's, but I kind of want to take a brief step back from D&D for the next couple of months or so. Happy new year to you all! This will actually be one of my last "Reviewing D&D Monsters" segment for a while.
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