And so that’s how the harengons came to be.” “But there’s something about rabbits that I guess is just too much to pass up.

“It turns out, actually, that any creature with an animal head is a pretty easy sell to our fans,” Perkins said. Likewise, the Unearthed Arcana playtest materials detailing an early version of harengons were a big hit. And I thought, OK, yeah, they’ll be fun monsters.”īut when concept art of those furry brigands was shared with the wider team, all anyone at the Wizards office could talk about was getting the chance to play one in-game. “He was sharing some of these images and talked about what if he could put a group of brigands in the adventure who were kind of like these little rabbit dickheads. “He liked that imagery so much, because the sort of aggressive bully and the gentle rabbit just do not go ,” Perkins said. But don’t expect to be wriggling through a keyhole any time soon. For the first time in 5th edition D&D, players can choose to be fairies - humanoid flying creatures that float in the air like Tinkerbell. One of the most eagerly anticipated new features in The Wild Beyond The Witchlight are the new options for character creation. “It sort of blends it all together, but gives the DM license to kind of lean one way or the other, to sort of give it the atmosphere that they know their players will respond to most.” “It’s not all whimsy, but it’s not all dark, Brothers Grimm,” Perkins said.

Their temperament and demeanor will help to give color and nuance to player-generated campaigns, and provide freedom and flexibility for Dungeon Masters. The Feywild is ruled by powerful creatures known as the Arch Fey, entities that have used the elasticity of the realm to carve out their own personal domains. But if you’re feeling happy and joyous, and you’re dancing around in the glade, you might find that the flowers in the glade seem to sway or dance with you that you can exert as a creature of the Feywild some influence over your environment.” If you’re feeling sad and you sit next to a rock in the Feywild, an expression of sadness might actually form in the rock or the clouds overhead might start to take the shape of a sad face. “The plane itself has almost a transformative quality,” Perkins said. Illustration: Nikki Dawes/Wizards of the Coast via Polygon

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