You Can Playtest One D&D’s First New Race And Rule Changes In The Newest Unearthed Arcana

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Dungeons & Dragons is giving us our first taste of its next edition, One D&D, in the first of a series of “Playtest Packet” Unearthed Arcana.

Much like the Unearthed Arcana for Fifth Edition, these Playtest Packets will introduce aspects of One D&D’s rules changes ahead of its full roll-out in 2024. For this first taste of One D&D, we’ll be able to play with the reworked Tiefling and Human player races, as well as the brand-new Ardlings, which opens up all kinds of beast folk options for your character.

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Revealed at Wizards Presents by lead rules designer Jeremy Crawford, “Character Origins” is freely available through D&D Beyond, and gives us a better look at the changes to player races, and will be further built upon throughout playtesting over the next year.

The first big change in Character Origins is for the Tieflings, who are being massively expanded with three ‘legacies. Infernal Tieflings are the same Tieflings we’ve been playing in Fifth Edition, while Abyssal and Cthonic Tieflings have ties to different ‘lower planes’ and may appear as anything from more demonic and animalistic to more zombified, depending on their legacy. Each legacy has its own innate damage resistances and magics.

One of the bigger (or smaller) changes is several races from the Player’s Handbook, like Tieflings and Humans, being given similar size options to those introduced in Monsters of the Multiverse. For instance, Tieflings and Humans can both come in Medium or Small sizes now, rather than the standard Medium they were in older editions.

While Tieflings are humanoids with ties to the lower planes, Character Origins is introducing a new playable