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I am not so sure about some people getting thrown off by the gem dragons since they too are color-coded. The linnorms otoh aren't color-coded, at least the ones in PF1's many bestiaries aren't color-coded. I haven't seen the ones in D&D yet.

The Mind Goblins, aka the Blue, are a psionic variant of Goblin. https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Blue_(goblinoid)

For anyone who ever wanted to play a Blue Goblin in 5e:

It says so right here in their contract with WoTC. "We, the Kobolds, of the Kobold Liberation Front declare that we're dragons."

I just find it a bit odd that the Dragonborn species weren't given any legacies like the Elves and Tieflings in order to really distinguish them from each other. While their breath weapons and resistance sort of do that, you don't see any signature traits that could distinguish, say, a Gold, a...

Like signature traits for each kind of Dragonborn in order to make them into actual subspecies?

Or you had Two-Weapon Fighting as your Fighting Style.

True. I think the only class that didn't have this problem for Dragonborn characters was the Fighter class because they could use Action Surge for their breath weapon.

They were a bit underwhelming back then. Fixed ASIs, a breath weapon and a resistance associated with the damage type of your breath weapon. Breath weapon use was limited to one use/long rest. The Fizban version of the Dragonborn was somewhat better than the 2014 version. Floating ASIs, a...

More like a Martial-Spellcaster divide. For several editions of D&D, the Ranger has straddled the line between being a martial class and a spellcasting class.

I wonder how long we'll have to wait for the Genasi to debut in 5.5 and what they'll look like compared to the 5.5 Aasimar and the 5.5 Tiefling.

This might be why EN Publishing made their Ranger more martial. They might have wanted a Ranger that relied more on skill and their training.

They would have been more appealing if they had access to the entire Ranger spell list and could prepare a number of spells/long rest. The A5e Ranger swapped out spells for combat maneuvers spread across 5 degrees.

I've been playing a 2014 Ranger since January 2023 and have relied more on the class's martial side than its' ability to cast spells.

It's a matter of perspective. While you might not see magic as being mundane, how does the character you play in an adventure see it? If the character is in a low magic setting, magic might still have that fantastical edge to it like it does in RL. But in a high magic setting, it could be...

Pathfinder has the Kobolds being color-coded. https://www.d20pfsrd.com/RACES/OTHER-RACES/FEATURED-RACES/ARG-KOBOLD/#kobold_scale_coloration

4e originally had the Dragonborn not resembling the dragons in terms of colors, and there was no sure way to know what kind of breath weapon they had (until they used it). The association between color and breath weapon for Dragonborn is a 5e thing. 4e was also the edition where WoTC tried to...

If we somehow found ourselves transported into a fantasy setting, things like magic and dragons would seem fantastical to us. However, to someone who grew up and lived in a fantasy setting, the stuff we consider fantastical would be seen as 'mundane' by them. ;) A fantasy Ranger would see...

There are two likely sources of inspiration for Laser Llama's Shifter, both of which were made for 1st edition Pathfinder. One version was created by the people at Paizo, the other by Legendary Games. https://www.d20pfsrd.com/classes/base-classes/shifter The PF1 shifter has archetypes that...

True, an A5e Fighter could pick up a proficiency in any two combat traditions at 1st level, including the ones that an A5e Ranger can likewise become proficient in. But they can't lose their subclass any more than a 5.0 or a 5.5 Fighter could. And if someone did decide to role-play an A5e...