Meet the Owlin! D&D's Newest Race from Strixhaven: Curriculum of Chaos
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- Опубликовано: 14 июл 2024
- More birds? More birds.
The Owlin swoops in from its last appearance in the Folk of the Feywild and arrives on its own in Strixhaven: A Curriculum of Chaos!
Music: "Welcome Home" by Adrian von Zeigler
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0:00 Intro
0:22 Flavor Text!
0:51 The Old Owlin: Hsiao
1:23 Stats, Stats, Stats
3:26 Strixhaven vs. Unearthed Arcana
4:00 Is Owlin Best Bird?
#DnD #Strixhaven #5e #Owlin 
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Now we make Duolingo (Let just say Level 10)
Start as a Small Owlin. (Common +1)
Start with Sage Background (+2)
It's a Ranger (It hunts you when you don't finish your homework :))
Choose Favored Enemy Humans and British (Elvish)
Choose Deft Explorer: Canny (+2) and get Stealth as expertise
Level 3: Gloom Stalker (Can Hide besides you without knowing it)
Level 4 pick Linguist (+3)
Level 5 pick pass without a trace as a spell
Level 6 favored enemy (+1)
Level 7 Knowledge domain Cleric (+2) It knows ALL THINGS about you
Level 8 to 10 mastermind rogue (+2)
15 Languages
+19 to stealth (Pass without a Trace)
Invisible in the dark
xD I love it!
there is no escape
It's actually a very playable build too.
Actually 15 ADDITIONAL languages on top of common for a total of 16, as the rogue gives thieves’ cant as well
"you missed a lesson! You know what happens now..."
Owlin + Path of the Beast Barbarian = a pseudo Owlbear...sign me up!!!
Wait a sec, this is amazing xD
@@WintryRPG I just love the idea of the Path of the Beast Barbarian, it's so customizable. I have so many PC ideas for this subclass that if I were to play them all, they'd all still feel different.
If Plasmoids become playable, I'd run it as it's Form of the Beast would be the bones of animals it ate that hadn't dissolved yet (use a skull for a bite attack, ribs to make claws, etc.)
Hexblood - you were an experiment of a Hag working on Troll Regeneration. Performs a heart transplant on your PC and implants a troll heart, but due to a lack of "development", discards your PC as a failed experiment...only when your PC goes into a Rage, it awakens the Troll Heart and it activates Troll like mutations (which they are know for) and can go into levels of body horror by growing extra limbs for the claw attack, the trolls head grows out of your shoulder and now you get to RP your PC's horror and interactions as they level up. Maybe make the Troll look like a mass/tumor out of combat where it talks to the PC.
I got a ton of them but now pseudo Owlbear it towards the top of my list. Apologies for the long ramble. Great video as always and can't wait to see what you work on next. Hope you have a blessed day!
@@callmeb.o.b.824 dinosaurs, enough said
I made this as a Path of Giants Barbarian.
One thing to consider with the Owlin is that while out of the gate "equal to walking speed" sounds worse than "50 feet", it's also much easier to crank your flying speed up to ridiculous extents if you want to. The vast majority of speed-increasing effects in the game affect either any and all of your speeds, or only your walking speed, meaning that while Aarakocra's flight can't benefit from the latter, an Owlin's can. This opens up a wide range of additional options, a notable example being Boots of Speed, to the extent that I've always personally considered "equal to walking speed" much stronger than an explicit speed; you start at a lower base point and it's easy to stay there, but you also have far more avenues by which you can exceed what would be possible with an explicit speed if you choose to go that route.
I mean, plus, for the purposes that make innate flight busted, any flight speed of at least 15 is pretty much sufficient. Enough to get out of reach or jump range. More than that only starts to matter when flight is more of a universal mechanic.
Owlin Monk
I feel like flying races would be a lot less controversial if they had gliding at level 1, and then full flight at level 3 or 5
even then, flight should take concentration. Taking damage while flying should have a chance of making you fall.
@@lordilluminati5836 I'd actually disagree with that. Non-magical flight wouldn't necessarily carry fall risks for the flyer any more than simply walking would carry trip risks. Limiting flight, the way Starfinder does, may be a better way of balancing non-magical flight: You can't fly straight up, instead you ascend at an angle, flying up costs more movement, and hovering requires a check
Telling me that getting struck by lightning bolt or arrow should not make you possibly fall? Its take effort to fly non-magically.
@@Milenos it's as likely to make a flyer fall as it is to make a runner fall
@@somewelshguy5388 I mean, getting shot when running your gonna fall. As for flying, if you see how bird or anything fly, when they hit or get hit by something, they don't stay up much.
Owlin went from magic affinity bird to sneaky aarakocra
Feels so generic now :c
Damn, the ritual Detect Magic was so interesting and a large part of why I loved the race so much, I'm honestly sad by the removal.
There are now enough flyers in the game that you could make a full party of flyers without using the same race twice.
_Ace combat music starts_
I’d love to see a fully aerial combat encounter, that sounds so wild and fun
There are enough furry creatures now you could make the Star Fox team with legit stats and races.
You're entering a Danger Zone here
Why do I hear latin chatting in the background?
@@ArkaSaurusRex218Better question why the sky orange all of a sudden
"A race that is bound to turn some heads."
I see what you did there, well done. Lol
Another great video! I'm a big fan of the Owlin, they don't get a ton but what they do get is super powerful. Definitely the best bird in my eyes now, primarily due to Aarocockra only living 30 years and Kenku being difficult to roleplay lol.
A viable main quest for both is to find a druid to reincarnate them into a better race. Not really the case for owl.
It should be noted that the Owlin are a Strixhaven specific race, from an MTG setting, so the light lore and lack if magic-vision might have to do with that.
We started a Icewind Dale campaign the week this book came out and we have an Owlin Rogue in the party. It is really hard to overstate how strong the combination of flying and stealth on a snow owl humanoid has been in our game so far.
Owls are my favorite birds I just find their big eyes adorable and I've done a few Aarakocra flavored as owls now I'm glad there's a proper owlfolk race.
“Almost boringly plain and practical”.
Quite a fitting summarization. They really nuked my beautiful Owlfolk, where’s the justice?! Hoot-Hoot. 🦉
eh, they have a tendency to do that. they did it with the warforged too, and their thing wasnt even close to busted. Warforged used to have 1-2 tools actually engineered into their body, giving them a guaranteed proficiency in it.
they are still way more interesting than Aaracocra - they dont even get darkvision and their only + is 50ft flying
Aarakocra are worse humans that can fly, Owlin are way better - getting a skill proficiency, superior darkvision
Variant winged teifling from swordcoast is also a flying option Dms may want to check as a flying alternative, but Owlins pretty cool.
I have two of them in my team. I don't know if it was in book or we homebrew but we decided that they can wear medium armour and still fly. Something of they have stronger bones and bat wings so.... welp someting like that.
@@Asderuki it's from a book, sword coast adventure and ya they can wear up to medium armor so completly legal. Though a lot of Dms will outlaw all flying Characters.
taking away the nimble flight ability and requiring them to be in light armor or less to fly is fine but did they really have to get rid of magic sight. fairys gets both fairy fire and enlarge reduce for free a day. they couldn't have done the same for the owlin with detect magic.
Heck yeah! Top tier production.
Not a fan of the removal of the ritual spell. It definitely removed the uniqueness of the race and made it incredibly generic. Makes me wonder how stripped down the aarakocra will be next year after we receive the revised 30 races in the Multiverse book.
what do you even want to strip from them at this point - they only get flying and talons - and talons are useless if you not a str character or have any weapon on you.
And why would you play a Str Aarakocra?
You can see the changes made to all the races on Mordenkainen Presents Monsters of the Multiverse of 5etools right now, idk why or how they have them, but they do and the changes are pretty cool.
And of course, I get to play my Owlin Monk... Way of Shadows, so still the scout none the less.
Hey, I like your voice / music selection. You're channel vibe is chill and I love it
I'm currently working on a Owlin (small size) , Artificer (Alchemist) / Wizard (Order of Scibes) character. I love It!!! They are an amazing race to add to D&D!!!
Wow. You are... like, the most generous person. I'm not saying that your opinion is wrong, in fact, I wish I could be more like you. I personally despise this race, since it's really plain, literally being an arracrockra with a flightspeed tradeoff for stealth options. Hell, you don't even get stat differences to distinguish races now, so it's literally just that mechanically. Realistically, in the vast majority of campaigns, the only difference between the the two races in how they're treated is that the arrarcrokca will actually get MORE chances to have their backgrounds come into play occasionally, while the owlin only gets "does he eat rodents" jokes because there's like no lore for them to work with!
I appreciate the pun! ^_^ I'm a relative newb to flight, so I had no idea that Prone resulted in plummeting to the ground! Thanks for the awesome video!
So I created an owlin rogue for my friend's next campaign. I can't wait to steal EVERYTHING
Great video keep using the little icons for visuals like armor and speed. Love seeing that looks very pleasing!
Strixhaven: We have owl dudes!
Me: Cool, I dig owls, maybe I can make an owl ninja
Strixhaven: They have no strings flight!
Me: Welp, there goes that character. Into the bad kid box with you.
No strings flight?
@@bbgunp
Like, look at the Gem Dragonborn. It's not online at level 1 at all, and when it does come online, you activate it and get it for a few turns. That flight has strings, but those strings make it actually usable.
Then you look at the Aarakocra or this, and no sane DM is going to let you run it if the campaign isn't starting at 5th+ level.
Thank you for making this video, not only i've found a race that i REALLY wanna play but also i'm happy to see that they changed the class to make it a lot more balnaced. Also, i didn't knew about the old ones, that's neat to know, thanks!
Whenever I play a owlin I play as a order of scribes wizard owlin it’s really funny flying in the air and dropping some force balls
Oh great. Another flying race that can't use heavy armor for no good reason. Seriously, why is WotC so afraid of having STR builds fly? Using a Longbow or even Eldritch Blast while flying is far more overpowered than using a sword and flying.
Most tables ban flying races anyway, so it shouldn't really matter.
Perhaps to prevent grapple dropping?
@@ARatherDapperTapir Grapple Builds aren't the same thing as heavy armor STR builds. You want to be a Barbarian and/or Bard to get that sweet advantage and/or expertise to your grapple checks if you are doing that kind of thing. Both of which are perfectly fine to do in light armor.
@@Varatho true, was simply proposing a possible connection
Great video 👍🏼
Owlin dhampir fathomless warlock w/ mobile feat. I HAVE ALL OF THE MOVEMENTS
Great content, you earned a subscriber.
This race is super cool! I'm really pumped
I miss Racial Ability Bonuses. I don't mind the new system where we can reassign them depending on the character we're making, but I would like to know what the average member of the race usually leans towards.
For the Owlin I would suggest the average member of their race receive +1 Dexterity +2 Intelligence or Wisdom. They are more Sages and Scholars than combatants so their mental scores would defiantly be higher than the physical ones.
I approve of the lower Flying Speed since they can fly silently since they are also Proficient in Stealth as well, not the most graceful of flyers but they can swoop down on a target silently if needed.
I've seen them in action on the Unexpectables run of Strixhaven. So freakin kyot.
I couldn't be happier, this seems like the first flying race I'd allow in my games, and i love them aesthetically.
So i can be smol and less annoying to DM's. I take that very happily.
Keep in mind too that if their fly speed equals their walking speed, an owlin monk can eventually become an even faster flyer than an aarokocra due to unarmored movement. That wouldn't be until 14th level but still... that's pretty insane.
Unless said monk took the mobile feat. Then you'd have a 50' movement on the ground or in the air at 4th level and be able to use that since your opponents wouldn't get opportunity attacks when you hit them and moved.
playing a Circle of dreams Druid Owlin, it just feels so thematically correct.
It's sad they denied the Artificer, Cleric, Fighter, Paladin and Ranger the abilty to fly :( and that we no longer have slow fall or Detect magic.
They didn't, you just need to wear light armor. ~70% of the enemies in game cannot hit you in the air and Dexterity based Fighter, Paladin, or Ranger is totally doable with casters just using ranged. I understand the removal of Detect Magic but taking away Slow Fall was kind of silly.
None of it matters as they are just going to be banned at every table anyway since they can fly. :P
@@larstollefsen1236 meanwhile I'm gonna enjoy my Ownkin Warrior :)
I don't see why you put Artificer in there. Three of the four subclasses have nothing to do with armour, and even Armourer doesn't restrict you to only Heavy: it's just a platform for Infusions at that point, and you can use your Infiltrator advantage for something other than negating disadvantage. A flying Artillarist or Battle Smith is frankly terrifying
@@SilentSooYun Medium Armor, do see your point as enough dex = Light armor > Medium Armor (unless you get the scale armor)
@@Artemisthemp Also take into account that an Armorer can don or doff their armour in a single action, so you can still be a flying scout AND a ground tank with a little foresight
Thanks for the look at our new Fether bois Winter ^•^
I am currently playing an Owlin Wizard in a campaign and I adore him so much, he is a dapper guy from the Silverquill Academy of Strixhaven 🥰🦉
I absolutely love the Owlin race. There are about 12 Owlin characters in my roster. LOL In fact, I just made an Owlin, College of Lore (Bard). So, now I can play as a bard "Barred Owl".
Not big into the book, but I like owls the artwork is excellent. Cute yet stern.
Thanks for the mention of the Hsiao from Tall Tales of the Wee Folk. I wish that WoTC had gone more in that direction. Hsiao didn't have arms, and used dexterous feet to manipulate and use items. It think that would have balanced the flying ability better, although would have pigeon-holed them into spellcasters.
They kinda had to stick to how owlins in Strixhaven are though, since this *is* a Strixhaven book after all.
I’d give owlfolk a boost in non-combat features, like even better vision, a perception bonus, and double proficiency in stealth (to offset the armor limitation). Perfect for wilderness situations, and for druids, wild rogues and rangers.
i love owlin gaming, i use ranger with it and i get sharpshooter as my first feat, becoming a stealth sniper with a longbow
Owlin+Divination Wizard{Oracle} = All-Seeing Sage
Love you wintry
In my opinion this race would work great for the rogue and monk
S tier race
Owlin Chronolurgy Wizard named Dr. Who-ot
I'm making a small Owlin Rune Knight Unarmed Fighter who takes the form of an Owlbear (not the stats of it though) when invoking Giants Might to grow large.
I just rolled up an Owlin. I'm going to make him a fighter/rogue and mix Arcane Archer with Assassin. I'm imagining a character that at medium levels can just shoot a small handful of really powerful arrows, but almost always get the rouge's sneak attack bonus while hiding from a safe distance for standard attacks. Lots of hiding as my bonus action while zipping around at a comfortable height and staying out of melee whenever possible.
120 ft dark vision, medium size, and free stealth proficiency is a lot of value on a character with +3 ASI. Having flight on top that puts them way over the top. The difference between 30 ft and 50 ft flying speed is often inconsequential considering that 75% of the monsters in DND do not have a ranged attack. All you really need to do is get off the ground in most cases.
I really like the idea of an owlin PC as a player. I think owls are adorable and quirky and yet fierce, which is a great starting point for an adventurer. But I would have to ban all flying races if I were DMing a module. I mostly do homebrews, and I homebrew almost all monsters to have some sort of ranged attack option. This does a pretty good job of balancing flying races and also things like polearm master/sentinel shenanigans into balance. But I do have to question if WotC understands their own game with the introduction of another flying race and the spell silvery barbs with this book.
I love the birds, and owls especially, I just find little to do with this race, Granted I stick to races that have unique gameplay like Kobolds, Hobgoblins, and Goblins. This dose feel like alot of "That's nice" rather than something build defining.
Side note: any player wanting to play this race know that the size pick is most likely coming from the fact that most owl species have a huge size difference between males and females, with female nest sentinels towering in size and mass over the more faster hunting males.
As for size, you can pick small, and ride on your party members, cower your arms with wings, and you're just a large owl-familiar. Possible advantage of riding others - you can, potentially, short rest on the move (cofeelock anyone?). And once the fight starts - "birdie" takes up and goes "brrrt" (quicken - EB + EB).
I really like your art! Do you draw it yourself or do you have an artist you commission?
Owlin Dhampir are preeeeeety good
Considering the most recent nerf to Aarakocra, the Owlin is actually better with that amazing darkvision and stealth. As a rogue or monk (in which case you take mobile and can move at 50' on land or air at 4th level), they are pretty darn good.
I usually play owlfolk wizard fighter multiclass
What about a reborn owlin rouge 🤔, haha might have to give that a shot
Gosh they really are circling the drain now...
Remember my friends, while on it's own the Owlin may be boring- it's what you do with the character and their purpose.
"Hello, I am Flammul Berryflake, I am your friendly neighborhood Owlin who makes goodberries and sells it as a cereal brand! Come get some ... and to those of you who wish to harm my farms- well, have you ever heard of a Druid that is under the Circle of the Moon?"
Essentially another cosmetic skin like its D&Ds trend nowadays. Barely any lore, generic stats and the bare minimum of differentiation to call it 'unique'. The fact its just another "human with animal traits" is icing on the cake.
What does the goggles of night do for owlin? 60 more ft?
The owlin for a campaign I'm involved in (steampunk kind of like piltover) is a 36 year old scam artist everywhere she lives just seems to burn down including the university she was a tutor at . I'm planning on making her either a wizard or artificer so she can use a flamethrower or fireball in combat, she is a massive eccentric with a concerning lack of regard for safety
Like if they were gonna nerf it that hard they may as well not reléase it tbh
:D
I’m new to dnd so feel free to correct me if I’m wrong but I think I see a way that an owlins flight speed beats an aarakocras.
Basically an aarakocras has a flight speed 50ft regardless of movement speed but since an owlins flight speed is equal to its movement speed, if you were to take a class like monk you could increase the flight speed all the way up to 60ft or even 70ft if you take the mobile feat as well.
sort of correct! Mobile and Unarmored Movement (Monk) increase 'Speed' in general, so it would also improve Aarakocra's flying speed. Movement bonuses that uniquely improve walking speed (which are rarer) would improve an owlin's fly speed as well.
@@WintryRPG ah I see that makes a lot of sense actually. Thanks for taking the time to let me know, I really appreciate it.
They seem a bit OP.
Give up 20 feet of fly speed and gain 120 feet of dark vision..... oh yes the Aarokocra is just sooooooo broken with its just 50 feet of fly speed and no other race traits...
Oh look, another amazing race in UA that immediately got "OP" stamped on it (it wasn't), and now it's boring.
I am so tired of the D&D community overreacting and asking for everything to be nerfed...
I mean, it was pretty OP. To make a fair comparison, I just take the Aarakocra. Aarakocras only Race gimmick was its flight cause lets be real, who cares about the talons. In that regard, the "Owlfolk" was just simply Aarakocra+ it got the fly mechanic and, free unlimited detect magic and *Darkvision* and a fucking good one at that. Just comparing the 2 Birds, the Aarakocra has flight and the Owlfolk just had more. I believe that's called power creep. Not saying other races are not busted, but in a mechanical view it was just bad. That same problem still persists with these changes they are just the better Bird (Btw. Melee's being the only ones benefiting from the fly speed of Aaracokra can not really make Strength builds, so thats that.) No hate by the way. Just my observation. No harsh feelings. ^^ I think the problem is more that Aarakocra is just bad now that I think about it xD
@@dontlewdthesploot5979 Aarakocra get *50* feet of flight. The UA owlin was still inferior to the aarakocra.
@@pibb2474 Well no, the Dark Vision is better...
@@dontlewdthesploot5979 unlimited detect magic, but it’s only a ritual spell, so it takes 10 minutes longer to cast. In an urgent situation, there’s no time for that, and if they’re trying to cast it, the DM can totally throw out an encounter to interrupt it. Simply calling it “unlimited detect magic” doesn’t clarify what’s really happening, since a level 1 wizard can do the exact same thing, but that’s not considered busted. That’s just how ritual spells work: no spell slot is consumed, with the drawback that it takes longer.
"I fly 30 feet into the air, making me immune to half of the monsters in the book, without spending any resources or using any action economy. I am not OP because one other race can do the same thing but 50 feet."
Does a feat like mobile increase both walking speed and flying speed?
For the owlin, yes, because an owlin’s flight speed is equal to their walking speed.
@@Jp138233 I could see an Owlin making a good monk, especially if you add the Mobile feat.
@@alanschaub147 Definitely. That type of flexible mobility really plays into monk’s strengths
Love these dudes. Im currently playing a cleric owlin. Inflict wounds can be pretty OP when you realize owlin are tall af so their Wing span is huge, so they can touch someone from 6-8ft away
Edit: I was playing an owl-folk
no
@@jsamue12 yes?
Aaracocra don't actually have arms sepparate from their wings, do they? I think these are better.
...okay, fine, 5e player race Aaracocra are different, sure. Wierd change though.
I whish that they'd reintroduce negatives. I feel like something should balance out the brokeness of being able to fly...
"Avian" just means "bird," so "avian alternative to the Aarakocra" doesn't make much sense.
I miss the Magic Sight feature. I thought it was really cool.
Ngl I was disappointed in this race. They got rid of the best things that made this race good in the UA, rather than just editing it so it wasnt as OP.
"not broken" yes it is.. it has a flying speed. It being slower than an aarakocra doesn't change how ridiculously strong that is.
A house rule for any DM‘s that want to allow following races but don’t want to break their combat encounters.
Disallow those players from making ranged attacks while flying. I homebrew it so bird folk wings are part of their arms so they can’t aim a bow or spell properly well in flight.
An alternative would be disadvantage instead of simply not allowing it but it doesn't do anything against save dc spells
or...hear me out now you give the enemy bows and not nerf the pc
@@TrenchCoatDingo Yeah, personally I don't ban flying races (nor do I nerf them), but I was offering an alternative to the other commenter
@@TrenchCoatDingo I don’t consider it a Nerf if they know that when they choose the race, and if they really wanna use a bow they can fly away land and then shoot.
And discussing this I just thought about it and it doesn’t solve the problem, because you could shoot and then fly back up. I’ll have to keep thinking on this
Or just… don’t have every encounter take place in an empty field…
I love the callout to the hsiao, but the owlin and the hsiao are decidedly different. About the only thing they have in common is being owls.
I would've liked to see the Darkvision trimmed from 90 to 60 feet instead of buffed to 120, because as you said, this makes them the only race to get Superior Darkvision with no drawbacks. That is probably my biggest point of contention with the changes from UA to print. I was okay that they nixed the in-flight reaction because that's just something that all flying PCs should be able to do, and they could've made it _detect magic_ 1/long rest instead of at-will-but-ritual-only if people were really bugging about the power.
You could literally stick the in-book traits on any genetic birdperson and I'd believe it. Nothing about this makes them special in the right way, and it's saddening.
A lot of valid complaints in the comments, but I feel like rather than outright nerfing flight because its OP, they should stop giving flying races arms AND wings, and simply let players work around the complications of having arms that are also wings. It really makes no sense that their flight speed is identical to the basic movement speed of every terrestrial race in the game. You would be the slowest flying creature in existence. Flying is supposed to be fast, and this limitation is clownish and unrealistic in the extreme. Make them fast, make them mobile, and make them figure out how difficult it is to cast a spell or fire a bow when your arms are 100% dedicated to stopping you from becoming a messy smear on the ground. The only redeeming thing they did was limit flight to light armour, though I feel some nuance could have been squeezed in there as well.
Still believe that flying races should take a -1 to ac when flying because wings are out and not armored
Races right now are really lackluster. Not from their design but their lore. Really would have liked a bit more understanding on their culture and background. The magic vision wouldn’t have been a bad addition - Firbolgs got this and invisibly. 🤷🏻♂️
Tbf, this is from the MTG setting Strixhaven, and to my knowledge they don't have magic vision, and the world outside of the school of Strixhaven is mostly unknown.
Is it just me or have the last few races WotC released feel very meh. I remember thinking when the gothic lineages came out that WotC really nailed it. Some weren't the best but they still oozed flavor and cool mechanics. Dhampir being able to walk on walls and get a cool natural weapon that could give bonuses to rolls or heal them. The Hexblood getting the ability to choose what stat they used to cast spells, AND if they were a spell caster they could cast said spells with their spell slots (also they could rip off parts of themselves to talk to others and spy on people). But the newest races feel so bland. Not bad, just bland. Like if I play them I'm not going to feel underpowered, but not getting any ribbon abilitys or page of new lore makes it feel like im just choosing a stat block with some fluff and not a fleshed out race. I'm definitely not going to feel inspired to use my abilities as creatively as some of the other races and lineages. But I don't know, maybe that's just me.
The whole languge option is weak, they normally don't have anything really unique. Like Owlin should know Aurin or Sylvan upon common yet it's like common and pick one for a lot of these races which doesn't make sense. Like how the Astral Elf doesn't know Elven by default.
They want race to just be flavor and not have a lot of mechanics behind it.
@@HSuper_Lee eww but that's boring and still keeps a nasty lean on V-Humans being better overall.
@@ExeErdna Agreed. But WotC seems the think that giving race a lot of substantial mechanical variation would be a horrible mistake.
@@HSuper_Lee Nerfed effects or getting War Caster, Fey Touched, and pretty much any of the half-feats with V-Human
Like with the new Strixhaven background you can be V-Human and get basically two feats at level one. They gotta let some races rock Owlin being about to ritual cast detect magic and roll to recover from falling while in flight isn't that strong.
With how the community always calls flight OP at low levels, I'm surprised that the two races that had it in the UA still have it.
Of course I've given up on D&D as a whole at this point. There doesn't seem to be any solid framework in the design. And the community is toxic as hell. They've made races so bland the features could be slapped onto a Human with little effort.
Ah, I can see from your comment that you haven't read the multiverse UA. :D
@@RasmusVJS I have read it, but the mechanics are bland. That and the race descriptions are mostly just physical with very little substance other than minor stereotypes connected to the animal.
@@Olimar92 Really? Gliding monkeys, victorian hippos, telepathic mantises and living oozes are bland and stereotypical?
@@RasmusVJS What else will we ever get about them? My comment was referring to the Feywild UA though.
We don't know anything more about the Hadozee other than they are apes with skin flaps. Giff were given the dumbest joke on the internet and their traits don't reflect who they are said to be.
Like I said, we are only given a description of the body and something stereotypical about the creature they're based on. Only difference in the Multiverse UA is that the options were in D&D previously.
Defend this garbage all you want, I just watch these things to pass the time. I stopped playing D&D a long time ago.
As much as I love the statblock, the owlin to me seems like the biggest disappointment in terms of playable races due to the lack of. . . anything. No lore, no flavor, no culture, the only thing they have going for them lore wise is a pun. Maybe if they leaned into that 2E owl lore it could be something interesting, but as it is, the only reason for its inclusion is to serve as a Harry Potter reference in a book that's nothing but a big Harry Potter reference.
I HATE that the Aarocockra only live 30 years, that's so mean (and potentially creepy; if a 4 year old character is romantic/sexual with a MUCH older humanoid; even a human...)
It also makes no sense learning skills and language takes time! Birds that are intelligent also have closer to human lifespans in the real world, such as parrots!
Don't get me started on how EVERYONE hates the Tortole lifespan. I personally have changed that one on most worlds to equivalent to dwarves and on other worlds equivalent to elves. Feels better and more plausible! Look at real tortoise lifespans!!!
100 year or human equivalent lifespans should be the minimum for playable races and I think extreem caution should betaken when a shorter lifespan is given (say to orcs or goblins)
I have these lifespans vary world to world.
One world I'm running on right now has the dragonborn have longer than human lifespans that vary by scale type. With blue being 300 years and Gold being 800 (for example) and I have the dragons on this world have different lifespans too gold being among the longest.
Yes PCs are in a dangerous line of work but shorter than human lifespans always feel mean and icky to me.
I tend to run Aven and ban Aaracockra. Human equivalent lifespan is much better!
I don't know if its just me but I always homebrew this and care a LOT about this and the verisimilitude and worldbuilding lifespans indicate!
Yeah... Tortle and Aarakokra lifespans in particular are actually low enough that they might actually come up in a campaign. And unless your DM is cool with your Tortle's kid rolling up as the exact class and level as their parent, it kinda sucks.
That said, it is QUITE amusing to tell someone rolling up a Tortle or Aarakocra for the first time that their character is already dead.
don't the Aarakocra have owls already. All predator birds and parrots ? and cranes i believe so every bird ?