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A fecund race, orcs often breed with other humanoid creatures. Known crossbreeds include: Half-orcs: These orc-human crossbreeds are most often born in as the unfortunate byproduct of raids in border areas between human and orc cultures. Despite rejection from both sides of their heritage, many half-orcs achieve renown.
The first playtest document removed the option of distinct rules for half-elves and half-orcs and replaced it with rules for mixed parentage where a player selects mechanical traits from one parent's race and has the choice of how their character visually appears with characteristics of both parents. [18] [19] [20]
Hoffer, for ComicBook, highlighted that Explorer's Guide to Wildemount reuses the Orc race stats from Eberron: Rising From the Last War rather than the stats originally published in Volo's Guide to Monsters. Some of the differences include not having an intelligence stat penalty and the "Menacing" trait.
Monsters of the Multiverse was included on Kotaku's 2022 "The 10 Best Tabletop Roleplaying Books Of 2022" list — Claire Jackson commented that both the updated monsters and player race options make Monsters of the Multiverse a contender for "fourth core book". Jackson wrote that the player races is where the book "really earns its place.
6 additional 'monstrous' character traits are given in brief, including the iconic goblin, kobold and orc for groups that want to explore less conventional character types. [2] Chapter 3: Bestiary Over 100 new monsters complete with game statistics and lore including the froghemoth, the neogi, and the vargouille. [2] Appendixes [2] A: Assorted ...
Viktor Coble listed Xanthar's Guide To Everything as #8 on CBR's 2021 "D&D: 10 Best Supplemental Handbooks" list, stating that "unlike a lot of the other books in 5e, it is a lot more versatile. Not only does it have the feeling of a campaign plot hook, but it also offers a lot of new subclasses, spells, and tools for new ways to play and ...
Duergar racial traits; History of the Dwarf/Duergar war, relations with dragons and more; Chapter 4: Gith and Their Endless War Githyanki and Githzerai racial traits; Wars, history, culture and more; Chapter 5: Halflings and Gnomes Deep Gnome racial traits; Halfling lifestyle, mythology and more; Gnome locales, gods and more; Chapter 6: Bestiary
Multiple critics highlighted the anticipation of new racial rules after Wizards of the Coast's announcement in June 2020 that the company would make substantive changes to character creation. [ 8 ] [ 17 ] [ 21 ] [ 22 ] Jeffrey Parkin, for Polygon , wrote: "The most important and intriguing announcement about Tasha’s Cauldron is a new and ...