We can at least thank the internet for giving us playable purple worms.

This “Monstrous Races” mod is the sort of wonderful thing that, back in D&D days of yore, would exist as a titanic document in some far-flung basement, only to be enjoyed by a handful of players. To play a banshee, or an undead spirit of a female elf, Kamstra recommends that players covet beautiful objects and remain within five kilometres of anywhere the banshee lived while alive. This is helpful, since basilisks don’t have hands, rendering them incapable of holding a sword. To play a basilisk, for example, players can attempt to petrify a creature with their gaze as an action. It’s hard to wrap a plot around a rag-tag team of dire bats and oozes, and it’s hard to make sure a party’s stats are balanced when it contains both a faerie dragon and a mastiff.Ĭreator Tyler Kamstra’s new 283-page homebrew mod “Monstrous Races” offers ways for players to embody any of D&D‘s monsters using stats, role-playing notes and everything else you’d expect to see listed next to the “Human” race in the D&D Player’s Handbook.

Most dungeon masters won’t let players stray too far from that model.

D&d playable monster races