What changed for species in the 2024 D&D rules

This compares the mechanical fields — the ones that change how something behaves at the table. It deliberately does not report that the wording changed: the 2024 SRD rewrote almost every spell description into a new format, so “the text is different” is true of nearly everything and tells you nothing.

A field is skipped where either edition leaves it blank, because that is a gap in the source data rather than a change to the game.

New in 2024 (2)

• Goliath
• Orc

In 2014 but not 2024 (6)

Absent from the 2024 SRD. That is not the same as removed from the game — the SRD is a subset of what the books publish.

• Half-Elf
• Half-Orc
• High Elf
• Hill Dwarf
• Lightfoot
• Rock Gnome