Micah Sweet
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D&D General Race Has No Mechanics. What do you play?
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TaranTheWanderer
Legend
Well, as some people pointed out, appearance should be more than cosmetics and should have mechanics attached to them. I think the description of tiefling lets you choose to have horns. Lore-wise, they reveal a character’s infernal heritage so the appearance would play a role in some scenes.
TaranTheWanderer
Legend
Tiefling is just an example. I’m curious where the line is.
Scribe
Legend
"I know it when I see it." lol
I mean its subjective right? When you have people honestly tell you that Dwarves should be able to be as agile as Elves, that Halflings should be able to be as strong as Goliath, its all up to the individual.
jmartkdr2
Hero
Under OP's hypothetical: 5.I mean, whats the DC for a Centaur to climb a rope?
Sticky hooves a la My Little Pony is my best narrative explanation, though.
Edit to add: in 5e, RAW, same as anyone else, but they need to spend a long time to do it: they climb at 1/5th speed, not 1/2, so climbing a 20' rope would require 100' of movement - at least two whole turns (unless you're a monk or something.)
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Maxperson
Morkus from Orkus
Pre3e
Corinnguard
Hero
Especially now that 2024 D&D allows you to play as one of three Tiefling lineages- Infernal, Abyssal and Cthonic. So, in terms of lore, you can now role-play a Tiefling who is the descendant of a devil, demon or daemon (I prefer daemon over yugoloth
). The three D's. As for the mechanics, each lineage comes with different resistance types and spell-like abilities to further set them apart. I am hoping that the 2024 Aasimar will get the same treatment as their Tiefling counterparts.
Voadam
Legend
It often does not get to that level of specificity but it gets mentioned that centaurs have difficulty in underground settings when you get PC stats and a decent discussion of them as a race. Specifics have often been left for a DM ruling.
Basic D&D's PC 1 Creature Crucible Tall Tales of the Wee Folk:
2e Complete Book of Humanoids under Special Disadvantages:
In 3.0 Savage Species does not mention it in their column of PC class stats or the two paragraphs of racial discussion.
In 3.5 the Monster Manual does not mention it either in their centaurs as PCs section of their stat block.
My understanding is that in 5e, as referenced in a post above, when they get PC stats (in Theros?) they are made medium and can climb but have penalties when doing so. There was a long thread about it at the time. This seems to allow centaurs to act in typical adventures similar to other PCs in ways that purely narratively you might not expect them to be able to while still having a little mechanical impact.
Voadam
Legend
For Minotaurs the horn stuff has varied in D&D.
I played a Minotaur fighter out of the 1e Dragonlance Adventures book and they have horns but no horn attack. It still felt like playing a Dragonlance Minotaur to me.
In the 3.5 Dragonlance Campaign Setting they get a natural attack with their horns as a PC race.
I played a Minotaur fighter out of the 1e Dragonlance Adventures book and they have horns but no horn attack. It still felt like playing a Dragonlance Minotaur to me.
In the 3.5 Dragonlance Campaign Setting they get a natural attack with their horns as a PC race.
Corinnguard
Hero
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