Summary

• Many intriguing D&D species, like Wilden, Gnoll, and Lupin, aren't yet playable in 5e.
• Wilden are Fey-like plant people, while Gnolls are fiendish and Lupins are wolf-like.
• Unique species like Elan, Shardmind, and Asherati offer diverse abilities and characteristics if added.

168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Dungeons & Dragons provides a myriad of ways to customize your characters. While your class provides many of your character's core abilities, a 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:character's species can help provide additio🎀nal flavor and shape their background while also providing additional utility in combat.

While D&D's Fifth Edition is filled with many great species option𓃲s, there are many others that have been featured in previous editions of D&D but have yet to be made playable in Fifth Edition. So, we're going to examine several of these absent species and see what they 🐼could potentially bring to the table if added to Fifth Edition.

Updated September 22, 2024, by Jon Eakin: Dungeons & Dragons Fifth Edition has had a life cycle like no other, marked most notably by 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:the 2024 rules update and the official partnering of third-party content. This means that more Species are available to players than ever before, but there are still some notable exceptions. We've updated this list by removing entries which have become playable and adding a few more that have yet to become available.

8 Wilden

Not Garden Variety

Wilden were first introduced in Fourth Edition and unfortunꦿately haven't appeared since. Humanoids from the Feywild, Wilden were plant-like people constructed from bark and vines. That role is somewhat filledꩵ by Warforged now, but in a different way.

While Warforged are artificial creatures, Wilden were more akin to Fey creatures like Dryads thanꦍ anything else, providing a completely different flavour to their characterization.

7 Gnoll

Don't Laugh

One of the most💎 commonly homebrewed playable species for Fifth Edition has been the Gnoll. Players just can't get enough of these cackling hyena people. It's almost laughable that there still hasn't been an official version.

It does make sense with the shift in approach to Gnoll lore, however. They are treated less like hyena humanoids, described as the spawn of the demon lord Yeenoghu. They're as close to being 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:classified a Fiend as a Humanoid can get. That 𒊎makes them not being playable make sense, but it also only makes them more interesting.

6 Lupin

Bark At The Moon

In D&D's Fifth Edition, Tabaxi are an incredibly popular cat-like species that are noted for their incredible mobility. Despite ꩲthe popularity of the feline Tabaxi, Fifth𝕴 Edition has yet to include a canine species, and this is not due to the lack of a pre-existing option.

Appearing in Volume One of the Dragon Compendium of D&D's 3.5 edition, Lupin are a wolf-like people that despite their werewolf-like appearance, are known for their ability to hunt lycanthropes. A species that values community, Lupin were a semi-nomadic people known to live in close-knit tribes, putting a major emphasis on trust and loyalty to others. Within the context of gameplay, Lupin not൲ably had access to improved senses as well as the ability to deal additional damage to lycanthropes.

5 𝓰 Spirit Folk ꦍ

One With Nature

Another species originating from D&D's 3.5 e⛄dition, Spirit Folk are a people who descend from both humans and ♔various types of nature spirits.

Similar to Genasi who tote differing traits based upon the type of G🌱enie that influenced their ancestry, a Spirit Folk come in a variety of forms such as Mount, River, and Sea Spirit Folk. Visually quite similar to humans, Spirit Folk were regarded for their inherent connection to the forces of nature around them.

4 Elan

Psychically Enhanced

Appearing in the Expanded Psionics Handbook of D&D 3.5 edition, Xephs are a species that has access to latent psionic capabilities. Much like the ancestries presented in Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft, an Elan isn't necessarily born, rather, one is created fro🔯m an already living human. Created when a council of Elan aim to bestow another creature with their psionic🐓 power in what is far from an easy process.

Unlike other species, ൩not only do Elan not require sleep, but they are also capable of living indefinitely unless they're killed in battle. When playing an Elan, a player could utilize psionic power to reduce damage taken or even to prevent the need to eat for a day.

3 Shardmind

Crystal Coded

Shardmind were a species introduced in the third Player's Handbook of D&D's Fourth Edition. They were a people wh♊ose bodies were made of gem-like shards. With origins within the Astral Sea, Shardminds are effectively pieces of a living gate that was once present within the Astral Plane.

Telepathic beings that don't require food or oxygen, Shardminds are known as beings of logic and intellect, while being somewhat emotionally distant. Uniquely, if a Shardminꦉd is killed, a new Shardmind is created elsewhere within the multiverse. In gameplay, a Shardmind offered many great features such as the ability to communicate telepathically, and the a🗹bility to teleport via their Shard Swarm ability.

2 Asherati

Sand Swimmers

Appearing in the Sandstorm expansion of D&D's 3.5 edition, the Asherati are a people that were most commonly found within deserts and⛎ other arid climates.

Asherati are capable of easily traversing sands through their ability to quickly swim through it as though it were water. Though they appeared quite visually similar to hairless humans, an Asherati was capable of making its skin emit a warm glow. Though Asherati were known to form villages and societies, they were a notably quiet pe🐷ople known to take retreats of self-reflection within solitude.

1 Buomman

Fight Song

Printed within the Planar Handbook of 3.5 edition, was a species native to the Astral Pla😼ne. Referred to as "moaning monks," while Buommans are capable of learning and understanding other languages, they notably choose to only speak in their native♌ tongue: a language made up entirely of song.

Buommans are known to have songs for nearly any occasion from eating t💖o sleeping, as well as songs for a wide 😼variety of other actions and concepts. This lack of traditional languages such as common actually impacted the Buomman species mechanically, as a Buomman would take various penalties if they broke their vow against traditional speech.