The also rans...

[Andor]

Which of the various setting specific races do you think deserve a place in 5e?

I'll try not to miss any, but I'm working off the top of my head.

Note that I'm leaving out Illumians, Azurins, Dragonborn and their ilk as they were never setting specific.

 

[BobTheNob]

I wish I could have voted for the ThriKreen more than once. There is not other insect based race and they are just so darn cool thematically. But thats just personnel biase, I can imagine saying that for most settings they are inappropriate.

I just love em too much. Fun to play, especially a female constantly on the lookup for mates to eat.

 

[SeRiAlExPeRiMeNtS]

All but the kender.

 

[Kinak]

My understanding is that the tiefling are in already (word is every race that's ever been in the first PHB for an edition is in).

But, if they're in, I'd much rather they go back to a more general fluff (mention the possibility they're demonblooded or from an ancient empire or cursed or whatever other options they come up with). With them taking a more general role, it'd be nice to have the aasimar in as their opposite number.

I'm not really attached to races, though. They could go from adding all of those or clear down to just humans. It wouldn't really much impact on if I end up playing 5e.

Cheers!
Kinak

 

[hafrogman]

Which of the various setting specific races do you think deserve a place in 5e?

Depends on what you mean by place.

As much as I'd like it, we can't include everything in the (first?) PHB. So yeah, dividing out the setting specific races is probably the first step. Not the races that have only existed in one setting, but rather the races that lose something of their nature when divorced from their assumed surroundings.

Mul are a great example. I love Mul, but they're very much linked to Athasian dwarves and the Dark Sun world. Taking them away from those elements and giving them as half-human/half-standard-dwarf seems . . . odd.

Take away a Giff's gun? It loses something.

Some others might work better as sub-races, themes or backgrounds. . . kender, gully dwarves, tieflings and aasimar.

Others should be in pretty quick at least. Elan if psionics are going to be core, Thri-kreen, Shifters are another interesting one that work anywhere that has lycanthropes.

I wish I could have voted for the ThriKreen more than once. There is not other insect based race and they are just so darn cool thematically. But thats just personnel biase, I can imagine saying that for most settings they are inappropriate.

I also believe that they exist in at least two settings already, yes? FR and Dark Sun.

 

[OmegaMan950]

I picked tieflings only because they're probably the most well known of the races, even outside 4E, and because they've had a lot of appearences in other campaigns other than their home (planescape) compared to the others. Saying that, I've got a soft spot for Giff and never found them goofy, repeating xbows akimbo is just as good for them as a flintlock for low tech worlds.

I wish I could have voted for the ThriKreen more than once. There is not other insect based race and they are just so darn cool thematically. But thats just personnel biase, I can imagine saying that for most settings they are inappropriate.

Thri-Kreen are pretty neat too, groups I've been in have used the stats but labelled them Aspis for non Dark Sun games. Roughly the same bug confused by the fleshy people and their ways

 

[Mishihari Lord]

All but the kender.

They're my all time favorite race.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Changelings?

 

[Li Shenron]

I voted none. I think 5e core should be setting-generic as much as possible, like all pre-4e.

I would definitely tolerate Tiefling and Aasimar, but that's exactly because IMHO they are not really setting-specific. The majority of settings have a place for characters with heavenly or infernal blood, although not necessarily a "race".

 

[Daven]

I voted for kender. I would be nice to get them as a sub-race of halflings. And so doing, many people that are angry at lastly halfling "kenderization", could breath a little and get their preferite hobbit-halflings back.