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Most humanoids are pretty easy to convert over, there's not too many with problematic abilities that can't be handled with the ol' 'here's a single spell or passive'. S'why there's such a huge industry on just doing up (my favourite is the one that just adds in desmodus again. Those random bat...

No? There's plenty of reasons. Heck, it even makes a good reward for doing things in-game as its an overall meta reward with long lasting consequences, showing their changes to the world Players helped lizardfolk in a quest? Cool, they can roll lizardfolk next time they need to roll a new race...

I mean, depends on the ability. Dragonborn had their breath weapon and they were the weakest race in the game because of it for the longest time. Aarakocra on the other hand, well. Depends on your take on how strong flying is Generally speaking each race has its one little gimmick ability that...

Hardly. You can value each thing on its impact to the overall world I doubt there is going to be much impact to your overall world to say "Yeah some lizardman took up adventuring after you guys helped them" and letting them roll up that lizardman, if your characters have already ran into...

I mean, if this was the reason I'd be raising some eyebrows because it doesn't make sense? Like, it doesn't even lead into the other one Firstly, if you have a Middle Eastern theme then why would Rakshasha be coming up in the first place? Middle East is, y'know. Djinn territory. In our world...

My 'introduction to D&D' path starts in Warcraft 3. So you can imagine the shock when I come over the D&D side and people say "Orcs aren't playable. They're always evil" as a setting feature when I've come from basically the trend setter for 'yeah orcs can be good, its the individual people who...

I would wonder if it also comes to the systems being used. Because I've never had an in person game, I've always been dependant on computer based tabletops. So, yeah, given my history isn't running into people (I don't even have a local game store) but instead scouring through promoted campaign...

7.5 million is a pretty strong number, certainly doing laps around halflings And no, I don't think its surprising. But with people insisting "Oh, gotta stick with the stock ones", having tieflings and dragonborn so thoroughly demolishing halflings is showing, yeah, no, new races absolutely...

Of course they're going to get expectations from BG3, why wouldn't they? This is the biggest entry point they've had since the original Baldurs Gate. "Hey here's Dungeons and Dragons on your computer, featuring all of the famous Dungeons and Dragons things around. Look, squid people and flying...

Greyhawk is far more kitchen sink than FR and official rules for it included Barsoom encounter tables and everyone's favourite crashed spaceship up in the Barrier Mountains. The kitchen sink is in this game's blood. Even Ravenloft is just a kitchen sink of horror pastiches and references to 70s...

The most famous D&D things at the moment, absolute pathways to it, are Baldurs Gate 3 and Critical Role BG3 features Githyanki who, let's be brutally honest, are not anywhere close to a stock simple race, very heavily in marketing and trailers, and Dragonborn especially have their whole thing...

I mean. You're playing Dungeons and Dragons. People are going to assume some things exist in the setting simply because that's D&D stock knowledge and is such D&D stock knowledge it even transfers to D&D adjacent properties like Pathfinder or Warcraft. "There is an elemental plane where...

I mean, if you're playing a Dungeons and Dragons universe those things probably exist somewhere as NPCs and could theoretically be around. Harengon are from another dimension so that's an easy in or out depending on the Feywild/Plane of Faerie being around, Plasmoids are from space, Firbolgs are...

I mean, good luck to you. I'll be off in a world that actually uses the lot of what D&D has Like. I made a grippili model for Neverwinter Nights and it was so well liked that a completely different set of people adjusted it so it could wear armor they were so taken with it. That's the sort of...

And I might take other people with me to find a different game. Folks talk. If I'm not playing, other people who considered your game might walk as well because they wanted to play with me specifically. Or because I find another game they'd be interested in playing. To say nothing if some...

Save 'em in a back pocket for elsewhere Real life comes before gaming. If your schedule doesn't allow, it doesn't allow

Hardly. I'm using the barely expanded rules of the game. At worst I'm adding a bit of garnish to the meal. I'm adding some sauce to the sausages. I like barbeque sauce, but other people can grab mustard, tomato, whatever, whereas the original idea is banning all sauces eternally. Tortles were...

We're talking a legacy Dungeons and Dragons race that's been around since before I was born, we're not talking Blades in the Dark. If I knew obscure Blades in the Dark sources of playable races since before I was born, sure, whatever Don't you reductio ad absurdum me on this one. We're talking...

The main benefit of being a tortle is being a turtle guy. like. It doesn't even matter what the stats are. "Being a turtle guy" is the niche. Playing a dwarf in armor does not satisfactorily fill the 'being a turtle' goal I gotta be honest, if you're worried about people picking races for...

They were one of the first things to inspire the idea of playable dragon people as later developments of them made them very player associated also to say nothing of orcs being long playable by that point